Verbal Remedy

Verbal Remedy
Location
Del Mar, California,
Birthday
January 18
Title
Keyboarder of Things, Snapper of Pics, She-Lord of Perpetual Nattering
Company
Can't get enough.
Bio
I was born. I continue to live. Everything in between's either been blogged already or doesn't warrant mention.

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Sometimes the universe just aligns, you know? Take, for instance, a week or so ago when my Facebook friend Susan Yee, an amazingly talented wedding photographer, updated her status and asked, "Does anybody in town cook?"

Oh, Hell Yeah.

Turns out Susan wants to branch out into food photography--not ju… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 2, 2010 5:13PM

A Healthcare CEO In Haiti

I've been sitting on very itchy hands for the past ten days or so, wanting desperately to share emails we've been getting from our CEO. I really wanted to post them for Jane Smithie's awesome idea, Good New Sunday.

Today, the wall between "intranet" and "internet" officially came down, and I… Read full post »

Yawn.

Another day, another study purporting to tell us that a modern miracle of engineering designed to support a human body part could actually be...dangerous.

Shhh....don't look now, but Things You Put On Your Body Are Trying To Harm You.

Again.

I am speaking, of course, of a recen… Read full post »

JANUARY 27, 2010 9:09PM

LiveCommenting The State of The Union

I don't have the energy to liveblog, but let's keep running comments going for anybody who wants to say OMG WTF WTG, OK?

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Hey, everybody! Come on in! Kick your shoes off. Grab a beer, wine, or soft drink. Join me as I proudly walk you through...the Momdominium!
oldkitchen
beforedemolition 
This. This is what was there in the first place. Couldn't stand it. Cooked in that for 3 years when
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JANUARY 19, 2010 6:33PM

Who(m) Would Jesus Shoot?

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Image: http://www.motivelab.com/wp-content/postimages/who-would-jesus-shoot.jpg 

Sometimes, you know, you're just cruising along as the day goes by, sitting next to your boss in a long, dry meeting, trying to see if there are any exit polls coming out of Massachussets, and you stumb… Read full post »

 


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This is a substantially revised re-post of something I originally wrote in 2003. The last time I posted it here (270 years ago in OS terms) it was in jest. This time around, it's in earnest. If you read it the first time around, thanks and never mind...


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Boys, you may just want to click out of this post right now. It's gonna get bloody graphic. And I don't mean "bloody" in the British sense of the word.

 

tampon1

 

 

So here's the thing, girlfriends.

I, like many of you, grew up reading Are You There God?Read full post »

DECEMBER 23, 2009 8:14PM

Cat's Colo(u)r Challenge: Wine

WINE
It cannot be coincidence that visually, wine and lifeblood are practically identical.
It stains my teeth black, not red.
Sometimes the nose alone is enough to make me tipsy.
It doesn't have to be expensive to be good. 
Once we moved across the country with a literalRead full post »

Verbal went to San Francisco for the weekeend, and all you got was this lousy photo post...



The angelic Sandra Stephens, hostess extraordinaire

 


Verbal, Lonnie Lazar, and Sandra about to descend on a tree-lighting party at a very, very cool home...

 


Just SOME of the… Read full post »

DECEMBER 8, 2009 6:53PM

The Suggestion Box Is Open

pagan baby  

A Receipt for Your Own Pagan Baby: Image Source "To The Manner Born"

Pagan Babies 

There aren't a lot of warm, fuzzy, fond memories of the 8 years I spent in Catholic school clanging around in my head. (Oh, sure, that's where I learned all the fundamentals of the… Read full post »

Editor’s Pick
NOVEMBER 30, 2009 2:23PM

On My Brother's 40th Birthday

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Image: Getty Images

Aw. A brother and sister holding hands by the beach. Isn't that adorable?

It was never like that picture with you and me, Bro. 


We didn't have the kind of brother-sister relationship you see on TV. We didn't borrow our script from the Brady Bunch or Ei… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 21, 2009 1:09PM

An Old Friend and Superman on YouTube

 

 

 

Y'ever wonder what happened to some of those brilliant, quirky people you've met in your life? Joe Camhi is one of those guys for me.

The phrase "fish out of water" was more or less invented for this guy from New York who crash-landed in the… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009 2:50PM

pant pant pant what in the hell am i doing pant pant pant

 

pavementrun  

Photo Source

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK

OK that's the starting siren so the crowd's gonna start moving at kind of a lurchy herky-jerky semi-walk-hop toward the starting line...cellphone set to stopwatch...

I know I can do this one faster than the one two weeks ago OUCH thanks fo… Read full post »

Pumpkin Gnocchi with Melted Leeks, Dill, and Gruyere  

pumpkingnocchi 

Image: http://mydailypumpkinrecipe.blogspot.com/2008/12/pumpkin-gnocchi.html

Today's The Great Pumpkin Cook-Off at work. I figured there'd be dozens of pies and cakes and breads and cookies, so I decided I'd tak… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 22, 2009 4:45PM

I don't care what you paid for it; it's worth crap now.

   2295sac995

Paid $2,999; Sacrifice only $995!

Really? You paid that much for...that?

Were you off your antipsychotics at the time?


Dear delusional (and frequently illiterate) Craigslisters,

I don't care how much you originally paid for the old, ugly, beaten-up, worn, frayed, crac… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 20, 2009 3:06PM

I Get Tired Just Reading Your Personal Ad

 liontaming

Image: www.liontaming.com. Really.

Running! Jumping! Boot Camp! Long-distance bicycling! Extreme weightlifting! Wall climbing!  Surfing! Sailing! Volleyball! Bungee jumping!  Paintball! Competitive log splitting! Elk wrestling!

Dear god.

Do single people my age rea… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 5, 2009 6:10PM

I'm Donning Black for Foodie Tuesday

gourmet 

R.I.P.

Gourmet Magazine, 1941-2009


Fare thee well, Gourmet.

Up until now, I've managed to observe the implosion of magazine after magazine (even though some of them were old favorites) with a certain cool, detached sense of inevitability.

It was simply a given that th/… Read full post »

rlp fireplace  

The fireplace isn't quite this nice...

After spending the last six to eight weeks receiving daily emails about condos I can actually afford (picture small, dark, and depressing, in a scary section of town) and even spending an entire brutally hot Saturday fruitlessl… Read full post »

 RoHS-Compliant-Electric-Guitar-Les-Paul-Style-

I listened to his new guitar suite last night. Saw he’d posted the music on Facebook and thought, oh my god, he’s composing again. Clicked in. Settled back. Closed my eyes. Let the music carry me.

In those… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 7:40PM

Why Do Leaves Change Color?

leaves  

  • To make peacocks jealous.
  • They just haven't been feeling like themselves lately and they wanted to spice it up a bit.
  • They have an unholy, self-destructive attraction to fire; this makes them feel closer to it. 
  • They secretly want to be butterflies.
  • They hope to bl/
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 2:41PM

The Beatles Rock Band: Two Days In

 beatlesrockband

number one

 Hello Goodbye: I'm #1! I'm #1! I'm #1!

OK, you're just going to have to trust me when I say that's me up there, highlighted in a rather inexplicable shade of pinkish-salmon. Me. That's my score. 

Yeah, I know, it doesn't say Verbal Remedy, it says Henway. That's… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 4:07PM

Consider...

  • A kitchen without a dishwasher is like a car without brakes.

 

  • Everything looks better when you wash and dry on the Delicate cycle.

 

  • The average American woman owns 28 lipsticks* and actually actually uses two.

 

  • Dog's got bad breath? He's hoarding a body somewhere. (As I found
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Remember when I told ya the Iz-Man was doing something really nutty and running across England, 30 miles per day?

He just finished the 33rd run.

And ended up running through this town.

Yes, it's a real place.

 :-)

I'm so depressed at the state of this nation, I… Read full post »


Man's Finger Bitten Off During Fight At Health Care Rally

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- A health care reform demonstration landed one man in the emergency room after part of his pinky finger was bitten off during a heated argument in Ventura County. 

Sheriff's Capt. Frank O'Hanlon says about 100 peoRead full post »