Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General, My So-Called Life on May 9th, 2008
Bonnie Raitt:
I knew something happened; she’d left messages almost every night this week after I’d gone to bed. (She always forgets about the time zone difference.) And tonight, she told me: Her boyfriend had dumped her and her heart was broken.
I listened. She told me he wanted her to move to back to Norway with [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on May 7th, 2008
I have a history with squirrels. I don’t like ‘em. Nope. They’re not cute, I don’t want them anywhere near me.
Now they’re in my walls. They seem to follow me wherever I go, and now they’re in the walls of my new abode. They make loud, skittering noises, and I hurt my hands from pounding [...]
Posted in Arts & Music, My So-Called Life on May 3rd, 2008
So I ask Kenn Kweder where I should take my new guitar to get the neck set up. (I’m teaching myself to play slide.) He recommends two different places, so I go to the one that’s closest - DiPinto Guitars on Girard Avenue.
Cool place. Lots of dirty fucking music hippies sitting around, checking out the [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on May 1st, 2008
I’ve been smelling something bad in my apartment for about a week, but my sinuses are so bad, I couldn’t pin down the origin. (I was hoping it wasn’t a dead mouse.)
So I stopped tonight to pick up some groceries after work, and when I got home, I put them on the kitchen chairs to [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Apr 30th, 2008
One of my readers emailed me last week to ask if I wanted his old Strat.
As longtime readers know, I’ve been mourning the loss of my lovely black Fender Stratocaster since it was sold during the Great Recession of Post-9/11. So I jumped at the chance.
It arrived today and I’m already in love [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Apr 25th, 2008
Picked up my new car tonight. (It looks just like this, only without the kayak and the dog. And the bikes.) It’s a ‘98 Subaru Forester, and I’m buying it on the installment plan from a friend who’s moving to New England.
The ride home was quite delightful (even if I did have to drive through [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life, Recession Depression on Apr 25th, 2008
Duncan points out that this could be a harbinger of serious trouble:
CHICAGO — Hundreds of thousands of utility customers are at risk of disconnections as the sagging economy drives up the number of past-due home heating bills and the amounts owed, utility companies in cold-weather states say.
Xcel Energy says 17%-19% of its 1.1 million Minnesota [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Apr 24th, 2008
It was really hot, so I turned the AC on when I went to bed last night (since I can’t open the window and let in all the killer pollen). I still woke up this morning with puffy, throbbing sinuses on both sides. I already cleaned the filter, so I don’t know what else I [...]
Posted in Class War, My So-Called Life on Apr 18th, 2008
I went to get my hair cut last night, and my cutter and I got to talking about politics. Guess who my tattooed, heavily-pierced stylist supports?
Hillary Clinton.
“Every time I pick up Rolling Stone, it’s Obama this, Obama that,” he said. (He’s also a musician.) “I mean, what the fuck? People I know keep wanting to [...]
Posted in Fuck the Poor, My So-Called Life on Apr 18th, 2008
After doing my taxes Tuesday, it looks like my refund is enough to cover the taxes I still owe on my unemployment compensation from 2000. (Which means I’ll never see it, but that’s okay. It’s one big monkey off my back.)
That was the ultimate Republican slam against the working class. It was thanks to Ronald [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Apr 17th, 2008
It was hot in the living room last night, so I turned on the ceiling fan as I watched that dumbass excuse for a debate.
Have I mentioned it’s been a long time since I had a ceiling fan? Because if it hadn’t been so long, I would have remembered the First Law of Allergies: [...]
Posted in Arts & Music, Blogosphere, My So-Called Life on Apr 12th, 2008
For my dear friends Maya and Jim, who were just married in the Virgin Islands:
Posted in My So-Called Life on Apr 12th, 2008
Not my fucking day. Since it’s so hot, I decided to make iced tea and went into one of my kitchen cabinets looking for large tea bags. I knocked down a bottle of steak sauce which shattered, sending shards of glass and steak sauce everywhere. It also got all over my clothes, which will probably [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Apr 12th, 2008
It’s been pretty warm the past few days here (74 yesterday), which makes it too damned hot to sleep. I haven’t gotten around to putting my air conditioner in yet so, as much as I know from years of experience that I simply can’t sleep with the windows open, last night I… slept with the [...]
Posted in Astral Weather, My So-Called Life on Mar 20th, 2008
I forgot to note that today was the first day of spring, mostly because I was so happy they re-opened I-95 and my ride home was back to its normal 25 minutes. (It took me an hour and a half to get home the first night. Arggghh.)
Anyway, the insurance company on the floor down from [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Mar 18th, 2008
This morning, a contractor happened to be driving under I-95 near my part of the city and noticed a massive crack in one of the supporting pillars. (The pillar was scheduled for repair in June, and the inspector was there to see what equipment would be needed.)
The crack had widened considerably since the last inspection, [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Mar 16th, 2008
So I’m sitting in the diner, picking at the turkey platter and reading a book a friend had recommended, when I came upon this passage:
In another life, we range from thirty-three to fifty-four, we have jobs, responsibilities, families of our own. Here, we are just our father’s children again, vying for his attention, cracking jokes, [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Mar 6th, 2008
Up all night with an earache and it feels like the top of my head is going to blow off. Every day brings a new symptom. I get to see the new doctor this afternoon - oh joy.
Posted in My So-Called Life on Mar 3rd, 2008
Another bad night, even though yesterday was a lot better. Nothing quite like waking up in a pool of cold sweat, I always say!
Still breaking out into sweats and now I have a splitting sinus headache that’s from the flu, I can tell. I took off work again today but feel really bad about it [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Mar 2nd, 2008
Weird. I feel really light-headed, like I’m going to pass out - even when I’m sitting down.
I was thinking how bad it was for my ex-husband before he died. After he had his stem-cell transplant, he developed fever and chills that lasted six months. Even though he knew his liver was already compromised, he kept [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Mar 1st, 2008
Didn’t get much sleep last night. Woke up with chills about 2 a.m. and tried to make myself get out of bed to take some ibuprofen - that only took about 45 minutes. (Just as a point of interest, I took my temperature - 103 degrees.) Then I fired up a heating pad to put [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life, The Body Electric on Feb 29th, 2008
Lutton was nice enough to go get some chicken noodle soup for me, and I managed to eat some - which meant I could finally take some ibuprofen for the fever. (He said he had the same thing a few weeks ago and says it takes three days before you can function again.)
There goes the [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, My So-Called Life on Feb 29th, 2008
I’m so sick, I can barely move. If any of you kids have time to post, please do so.
Posted in Blogosphere, My So-Called Life on Feb 28th, 2008
Okay, kids, here’s the deal.
I can’t handle this anymore - at least, not in its present incarnation. It’s too time-consuming and distracting, and my mental, physical and financial health is suffering as a result.
I have to tell you: This election is making me crazy. If I come back, I’ll focus mostly on the congressional [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Feb 28th, 2008
So I told this story to Susie at lunch yesterday and she insisted I post it.
Today I went to court to have my name reverted to my maiden name before my wedding next month. “Why go to so much trouble,” you ask?
Simple: convenience.
In New Jersey, when you go to the DMV, you have to bring [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Feb 22nd, 2008
I have it on good authority that our Susie is having a lovely time without blogging. She’s even got a pitching injury already! I’m so proud.
Posted in Blogosphere, My So-Called Life on Feb 21st, 2008
I’m taking an extended leave of absence from the Peloponnesian wars.
In the meantime, feel free to enumerate the many ways in which this blog sucks.
Posted in Arts & Music, My So-Called Life on Feb 10th, 2008
I wanted to put up a video of “Michael from Mountains” for my son’s birthday today (because he’s named after the song) but I can’t find one. So I’m posting this, from the same Joni Mitchell album:
Posted in Arts & Music, My So-Called Life on Feb 7th, 2008
This is my way of letting you know I’m off someplace warm for the weekend. Posting will probably be more sporadic (that is, after all, the point of a vacation) but hopefully the kids on the bench will chime in while I’m gone:
Posted in My So-Called Life on Feb 7th, 2008
I never know when they’re going to hit, mostly because I only know some of the things that trigger them.
Last night I met a friend for dinner, and the bartender talked me into trying his “Pink Panther” cocktail. So I did, and didn’t think anything of it until I was headed home on I-95.
The light [...]
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