Blogging
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Sometimes I Read My Spam…
And I get gems like this, which kind of makes me wonder if this is a frustrated writer, making a living finding ways to get past spam filters so the stupid stock they are trying to get me to buy or whatever since I never actually GO to the sites, so maybe it’s something else entirely…anyway, some of this stuff is so bad it’s good, and here’s one damn fine example of that. Taken directly from a spam to my work email account, and only edited to remove the stock info. but I could go with you. He held onto one thought – she was going to lift him into…
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A Few Tings
(I say tings because I’m trying to affect a Guyanese accent…) 1st. My mom (aka, Maya’s Granny) wrote a post yesterday that really gave me a peek into growing up in the 50s, being a girl. I would say that this is her best writing so far…good stuff, and definitely worth the time. Check it out. And now that I mention it, today’s post isn’t shabby either…I wrote a quick post back in March about Feminism, and she gives it a more thorough treatment today. She’s on a roll. 😉 2nd. I’m guest blogging over at Birth Stories. My fellow ‘J’ blogger, Black Belt Mama started a new blog, and…
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Guest Blogging!
Hey Everyone, Py Korry (aka, Ted) has invited me to make a mix of six songs on his site! I pick the songs, according to his rules, then he mixes them and puts them online for your enjoyment. Check it out, and let us know what you think. Weekend fun!
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Friday Cat Blogging
This is Acidophilus, Ted’s cat. But this is pretty much the only view we ever got of her, because she was a feral cat. Ted, for those of you who don’t know us personally, is VERY allergic to cats. VERY. His eyes puff up like a boxer who has been hit in the face 3 too many times, his throat constricts, and asthma kicks in. And that’s from being in a room where a cat has been. I’ve never seen him actually have to deal with a real live cat. So, back when he lived on Fell St. in San Francisco, he lived on the 2nd (or was it 3rd?)…
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Thirteen Grammar Pet Peeves
Here is where I make everyone think I’m a big grammar snob. I don’t THINK I am, but maybe I’m wrong. I’m a horrible speller (though I promise to TRY to run spell check before publishing my posts from now on!), and I do not claim to have perfect grammar. I loves me a split infinitive from time to time, but it drives me crazy to read (or hear) certain mistakes over and over again. It’s careless, and I think people should take a little bit of care when they’re trying to communicate. Otherwise it distracts them from your meaning, and you’re not communicating well. Here are the ones that…
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Father Bob
The other day, I mentioned a poem by ee cummings, that was introduced to me by a teacher of mine, and I said I would tell you a bit about him someday. Well, today is the day. That teacher’s name was Bob Hanlon, and he was my Latin teacher, as well as my Composition in Literature teacher in High School. My first day of 9th grade, when I first saw him, all I could think was of the Beatles’ line, “I am the Walrus”, because he was kind of pale, kind of roundish, and had this big, walrus-like mustache. But the more I got to know him, the more I…
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Welcome to the World of Blogging!
Maya’s Granny, aka, my Mom, has decided to give this blogging thing a whirl, since she enjoys reading other peoples’ blogs so much. Go check her out. :)Â
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You Could Write a Book Full of the Stuff I Don’t Know…Make that a LIBRARY
I saw this on Ally Bean’s site, and thought I would give it a try. She rightly says that college was a long time ago, but really, I don’t think I ever knew the ones I missed. Sigh. Famous Monkey Challenge Quiz Your Final Quiz Score: 30 right out of a possible 60 The Monkey’s Final Score: 12 right out of 60 Well done, you have sent the monkey to his defeat. Your score is unquestionably higher, and thus the lowly monkey has been proven once again to be humankind’s intellectual inferior. Good work, however your score does leave room for improvement. We should like to see the human dominate…
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Calling All Dead Heads
Any Greatful Dead fans in the audience? Ted did an awesome interview, just for fun, with a HUGE Dead fan who works with him. I’m not a huge fan, but it’s fun to listen to someone who is, and hear what a smart guy who loves the music has to say. Go check it out. 🙂
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Ode to Vegan Lunchbox
Inspired by ‘Jennifershmoo” and her Vegan Lunchbox, and requested by Cherry, here is yesterday’s lunch. Maya takes her lunch every day to Girl Scout Camp, and I ordered one of the cool Bento Lunchboxes that Jennifershmoo turned me on to. We’re not vegan, so there’s dairy in here. Lunch is a homemade bean and cheese burrito, rolled like a wrap (with pineapple/mango salsa in case she wants it), apple/apricot sauce, grapes and cherries, and a Costco brownie bite that came with the lunch Cherry and I had at a new Japanese place near Kohls. Who ever heard of brownie bites at Japanese restaurants? Not me, but Maya will be glad,…
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Too Many Random Thoughts…
Better grab yourself a beverage and sit down, because I have way too much today, and I suspect it’s just going to spill out in a bunch of randomness. If I were to make a post of each one, and save them for future use, boy, I’d have a lot of posts ready, wouldn’t I? I could use them one by one when we go on vacation or something. But I have faith in my bloggareah, and that I’ll still have other things to tell you all in the future, so I’ll just spill it all now. Some of it is thoughtful and important, some is more of the ‘light…
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Please Stand By…
I’m working on a “Weekend Wrap Up”, but I have other things I have to do first…like feed the child, get dressed, take her to school, etc. Enjoy this picture while you wait. BTW, look closely, and yeah, there’s a parrot in there. *Picture courtesy of SFGate, Day in Pictures. Thanks to Maya’s Granny for telling me about it.
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Why I LOVE me an Angry Black Bitch Once in Awhile
Because I have this thought in the back of my head, which goes something like, “Why would we want a Constitutional Amendment outlawing Gay Marriage, which will be overturned someday when our ideas of Civil Rights are a bit more defined and humane, and when we have bigger fish to fry?”, and she writes this, which talks about so much more…about how our Congress is a bunch of mamby pamby asshats that worry too much about stupid shit and not enough about REAL issues. Like poverty. Like health care. Like education. Here’s a quote of her brilliance: “Tell me how a bitch prepares to look the desperate, denied, hungry and…
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13 Things I Love About France
I should have saved this post for July, I suppose, since the only time I’ve ever spent in France was on our Honeymoon, way back in July of 1993. But for some reason, I’m thinking of it now, so we’ll do 13 things I love about France today, and see what comes up in July. 🙂 La Perouse. Without question the best meal of my life. They eat whatever they want. (Although I find this book to be a bit disingenuous, since it talks about how French women don’t diet, don’t need to because they don’t overeat, they just enjoy their food…and then it talks about how to start off…
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What’s W doing at Mom 101’s Blog?
Looks like he took over for a few minutes and did a meme. Mom 101, I hope they didn’t ship you off to Gitmo while he worked on this! ‘Cause you know, it probably took him quite awhile!