April 2011
11 posts
Yeah, I'm Just A Girl
Not strictly true. I’m a grown woman. And I don’t much take offense at the term girl, because that means to me a joviality and lightness that I didn’t have when I was a girl, and it’s the inherently feminine part of me that I think about when I think about the “girly” aspects of myself. I’m tough, and cranky, but also sappy, sparkly, cruel, deeply...
No, I'm Not A Monarchist
So I’m old enough to have been a wee little impressionable girl when Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. It made a HUGE impression on me. It was intensely pagenty and huge and at the time seemed weird and romantic (and it didn’t take many years for me to think, “eww, he was old and she was a child and what a mess.”) And then my aunt and uncle ran off and eloped in...
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
I couldn’t add anything to that if I tried. I’m still there, I think, struggling between my taste and my talent and my output.
“You actually have cases of people being diagnosed with brain tumors only to find...”
– - Amy Stewart, talking about the pork tapeworm in a discussion with NPR about her new book, Wicked Bugs.
If there were ever such a way to get me to not eat bacon, this is clearly it.
***Josh, hate to break to you, but she notes that non-pork-eaters can also acquire these if people who eat pork...
When She Was Good, She Was Very Very Good
Things that are good, which are also bad:
1. I finished All Clear. It made me cry. And cry. And now I am done.
2. There is so MUCH tv out there to watch: The Killing, Game of Thrones, Treme, Doctor Who, Community, the whole part of the season of Drag Race I haven’t seen. It is bad because when will I ever watch all this? When?!?!?
3. Cats. Evil rotten peeing Siamese cats. Lazarus cats....
Stuck Between Stations
It used to be that I’d mourn the end of something - whether an era of my life, a relationship, whatever it was - with music directly from those moments. Whether that meant a slew of baudy Celtic ballads at the end of our junior year of college or a P.I.L. song that played when I started on a very bad road with a very bad boy that turned out very badly but still seemed like such a good idea....
“Terrifying Fact Number Two, is that I’ve just watched Matt Smith carrying a...”
– Steven Moffat, DWM Production Notes (via shakingtambourine)
This is too delightful. I wish I was this delightful. Mission for April: be more delightful.
(via nerd-gasms)
There’s something terrifyingly adorable about the image of Matt Smith nearly decapitating people with a guitar he may...
Nerds Are Going Big Time
There is a giant billboard on Fairfax Avenue, near Melrose I believe announcing the return of Doctor Who. There’s no imagery. Just the words “Doctor Who” and a tagline that I was too giddy to read as I commuted by.
My April is starting poorly on other fronts. At least I have something to look forward to in the midst of this month.
Cool Things I Heard on the Radio
I spend a lot of time listening to the radio during my commute. Sometimes that means podcasts of prior broadcasts, and sometimes it means actual real-time live radio from my local station. I know, crazypants.
I always learn something weird and wonderful. It’s such a strange experience sometimes, alone in the car, with this flood of information, and no one to turn to and discuss it with....
