May 2009
10 posts
argh
I really fucking hate my job today. the fact that pretty much every other museum is also broke, understaffed and saddled with an irritating Board does not make me feel better.
Guess What?
yogisarah:
I’ve become an asshole blogger!
I offend people on my blog ALL THE TIME.
that means people are reading it though!
I need an Iowa t-shirt, but which one? →
validation for being in my 30s and still wanting... →
programmers need to think like real people
Facebook and tumblr (and anything else with a “like this,” you can see how many websites I look at) need to add a “gag me” option to go along with “thumbs up” or “heart” or whatever. Think how useful it would be for all the stfumarried posts. the icon could be a Mr. Yuck. or a little spoon.
What the hell is wrong with people? Babies are... →
I was discussing dog names with one of my volunteers (because of the pet exhibit we just opened) and we were joking that worse than tons of yellow lab puppies being unimaginatively named Marley would be lots of little boys named Marley. We thought we were kidding!!
yogisarah:
“Debuting among the boys were Aaden (343), Chace (655), Marley (764) Kash (779) and Kymani (836). Beckham debuted at...
Mid-1990s Gay Dance Party
yogisarah:
I wish I could go to a mid-90s gay dance party every other day, or at least once a week. I think it would greatly improve my outlook on life.
I am working on an abitious Gay Dance Party playlist on my ipod. Yesterday, I found many CDs at the library (I can’t believe how much music they have at the STL library, by the way) to help me with this - New Order I didn’t already have, some...
April 2009
16 posts
late to the party
I finally heard an Animal Collective song yesterday (well, saw a video) and now I can’t get it out of my head and will have to run out and buy “Merriweather Post Pavillion” asap. I’m so behind the times! at least I’d heard of them, and not just because the album is named for someplace I’ve been. it’s tough trying to be a hipster at 34, it requires so...
TMI of the day
I am very tired of being sick. 2009 is like 6th grade all over again. I’ve been hushing people up at work when they mention the S.F. in my hearing since I’ll be convinced I have it.
that’s all. you may carry on.
“Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. suggested that the law might treat different...”
– (same NYT article)
Chief Justice Roberts, you are an idiot. Wait until your daughter is 13 and see how you feel about it then.
“Justice Stephen G. Breyer, for instance, said it struck him as “a logical thing”...”
– (from NYT article)
PERVERT!
teabag idiots antidote: sometimes people are just... →
please read a history book, fiscal conservatives
I realize I’m preaching to the choir (i.e. my one reader, hi Yogisarah) but I have the following issues with the “tea parties” - setting aside the fact that it’s not that hard to know that “tea bagging” means something a hell of a lot different, you morons at Fox News. Granted I am way oversimplifing the Revolution here, but not as much as Dick Armey is!
- The...
my new favorite person
is a 14 year old kid named Juan who picked, as his “fan programmer” choice on Turner Classic Movies, the fine Fred and Ginger movie “Swing Time.” Perhaps having Fred Astaire as your favorite movie star is a disadvantage in middle school, but I think you’re the coolest kid around, Juan!
wtf of the day
I thought that perhaps cafepress would have a cute archaeology-themed t-shirt or mug for my friend’s birthday. As I went from the home page to t-shirts to women’s shirts, every page it pulled up offered me a wide array of anti Obama images, even going so far as to insert “anti Obama” into the search box even though I am 100% positive I did not switch to an alternate...
vengeance is mine!
The pirates are “vowing revenge.” It seems to me that having three of your members (crew?) killed is just the cost of business, being pirates and all. What did they think would happen?
http://jezebel.com/5205749/more-on-hbos-grey-garden... →
she’s right, my first question IS “what the fuck happened to Little Edie’s hair?”
A birthday present just out of reach
Question of the day: How much of a pain in the butt would it be to upgrade to HBO for one evening?? the “Grey Gardens” movie is showing on my birthday, like it was meant just for me… but I don’t have premium cable. damn it!
I'm pretty sure I owned this skirt. →
but I don’t think I want to own it now.
It (1927)
This movie was kind of awesome. I don’t usually care overmuch for silent films but this one was pretty entertaining; I laughed more than I have at most recent “comedies.” Clara Bow was much better - funnier, more natural - than I thought. I was expecting more of a vamp, or maybe a strenuously “madcap” flapper. But since the only thing I’d seen her in was “Wings,” and that was at least 15 years...
I take back what I said about "Don't Fear the... →
yay, another radio station playing John Mayer! that’s what I needed!
Actually I never liked this dj, and I thought 94.7 played crappy “classics.” but that “boys of summer” song twice a day is better than KT Tunstall nine times a day.
Older than I've ever been
Last night the “classic rock” station played “Why Can’t I Be You,” which if I know my Cure, came out when I was in 8th grade. My first thought was, hey, they’re playing something that isn’t “Don’t Fear the Reaper”! Second thought: wait, how old am I? I know this comes to us all - someday the classic “rock” station will be...
An Open Letter to All the Yuppies Who Aren't...
Can “Cram It, Yuppies” be the new show on HGTV? Much as I enjoy “House Hunters,” if one more idiot announces that they “need” new appliances (because if it’s not stainless steel, it doesn’t actually function) or slaps their hand on a countertop larger than the one in my kitchen and says scornfully, “There is literally no counter space...
March 2009
15 posts
Dear hero in prison
Alas, T.I., the old you is in fact gone away - to jail. Will your incarceration be made more palatable if a 33 year old white girl from the suburbs finally caves and buys your album…? No? How about if I make a “Last of the famous international playboys” t-shirt in your honor? Unless someone on cafepress has already done it, of course. Stay steady chasing that paper, Tip!
Robert Palmer
oh, I did kind of guess, if I am accurately reading your successive posts. if it makes you feel better, it is now totally in my head and will be for days. I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong (besides allowing Robert Palmer songs to exist in your psyche, and who amongst us isn’t guilty of that?)
yogisarah:
I wish it was, that was a much better song (as far as Robert...
see, the people who are in these types of... →
the dream
facebook status updates I often wish I could post, but am too afraid of hurting someone’s feelings:
…is uninterested in your religious convictions.
…couldn’t care less about your impending birth.
…doesn’t think it’s appropriate to use facebook status updates as a way of disseminating highly personal information to your friends. use a telephone.
...
banshees (note forced connection to St. Patrick's...
That was two grumpy posts in a row, so it must be time for a non-hilarious post about my cats’ antics!
Bucca, the old girl, has a new trick: wailing like a banshee, or maybe like a Siamese cat (which she is not). I don’t know what this portends - hopefully not the traditional impending death - but it sounds dreadful. The first time I thought she was being attacked by a raccoon*. The...
“Bella, the main character in Twilight, is an avid reader of Austen novels, and...”
– Note to idiot cultural critics: DO NOT compare Austen characters to any in “Twilight.” THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.
stfuat
I enjoy Apartment Therapy but sometimes it pisses me off.
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/dc/tips/tips-detaching-yourself-rationally-from-your-books-washington-dc-061502
I have a lot (a lot) of books but I do also ”USE the public library,” thank you very much. How about more posts that help you fit in more books, or that celebrate the ways you can put books in any room? And no I...
I have to work this into the wedding exhibit... →
"This is bad," she opined.
I read a book last night that made me very sad. It was a mystery, part of a series, in a nice trade paperback format with a cute cover - all appearing pretty reputable. Is it wrong to expect a published book to have been edited? I mean there’s a reason I don’t read fanfic. Maybe it’s not wrong, just too optimistic. Some of the problems (and this is discounting the fact that...
avatar!
I’d forgotten I once made an “avatar” on one of those “now pick your hairstyle from amongst these bizarre options” sites, on a whim. Who knew it would someday come in handy? It was a long time ago; it’s possible that the yellow-eyed demon cat avatar-Alverda is clutching is supposed to be the departed Tiger, but it could be old girl Bucca too. I trend toward...
fight or flight
The little kitty… okay, you know, this is dumb; it’s not like anyone is going to stalk my cats, even if someone were reading this blog. Virginia Kitty does not like it when people come to my house. All her bad-ass behavior is evidently just a front; as soon as she hears someone besides my charming self, she runs and hides. If the Stranger Danger coincides with Meal Time, though, what...
The Ritual
And so begins another medicine week, chez Alverda. “Medicine week” sounds like some kind of Southwestern religious festival, but it just means that the old kitty has to take medicine Monday-Friday every other week, for the forseeable future. It’s been over a year now so it’s not terribly traumatic anymore - for one thing she has no sense of a viable hiding place so...
February 2009
22 posts
how to... format an exhibit label? anyone?
today I read sex advice by Susie Bright on Jezebel, and then fashion-essentials/dressmaking advice by Susie Bright on Craft. that woman has the coolest job ever. never mind that I’m entirely unqualified to advise on either of those things; I just with I could make my living advising women on awesome things I know a lot about.
"working near home keeps getting easier"
one of the volunteers is on the phone with her husband, trying to decide whether or not to put down their cat who’s in kidney failure. her daughter-in-law the vet is arguing strenuously against it. I hadn’t thought of this disadvantage to having a vet in the family. (although, my friend’s sister the vet is the one who told me to kill her dying pet mouse - I was mouse-sitting -...
not worth it
26: number of days this exhibit I’m busting my ass over is scheduled to be open to the public.
13: number of days it will be open to the public if we change the open hours.
0: amount of interest I currently have in continuing to bust my ass for 13 lousy days of exhibit.
1.5: days I have left to wait, seething with annoyance, before finding out if all this work I’ve already done is...
unfair
I finished a book this morning that had one of those nonsensically tragic endings that piss me off. for one thing, it’s undignified to sit on your couch on a Saturday morning sobbing into your Rice Chex. but the more I thought about it, the more annoyed I was with the author. so the protagonist had just had this wonderful epiphany - the death of her sister all those years ago did not, as...