Sunday parody
I wonder what the Shangri-Las thought of this satire of their “Leader of the Pack.”
Archive of entries posted on August 2013
It could be true, you know
You know how mattresses carry a “Do Not Remove” tag? There are hidden cemeteries full of people who ignored that warning.
Before and after
From this view you’d think there was no reason to renovate the bathroom. What it doesn’t show is the water stain at the back of the tub and the shower head so clogged it barely sprays at all. The toilet seat lid is obviously torn at its seam, but that in itself not enough to …
It’s been four years, so . . .
The last time the ice dispenser failed was four years ago, so I guess it’s about time. But I’d like to register a complaint: the first available time for a tech to get here to fix it is on Saturday, August 24. Two-plus weeks? Sheesh!
Media sellouts?
Charlie Pierce notices this little item in Politico: Sponsored by TransCanada, who sees North America’s whole energy picture.TransCanada invests billions in renewables, and is ready to build the Keystone XL pipeline. It’s energy from a trusted neighbor, operating under Alberta’s strict environmental policies, and studies show Keystone XL would have little effect on climate change. …
Marbled!
From Bathroom If you want to see more of the work, click the word “Bathroom” under that photo.
Nothing important today
Lessee, other than Major League Baseball suspending thirteen players for performance-enhancing drugs and one of them appealing, Jeff Bezos of Amazon buying The Washington Post, nineteen embassies and consulates around the world closed by the United States and the International Business Times buying the husk that is Newsweek from The Daily Beast, it was a …
Exciting Sunday
Clothes laundered yesterday, sheets today. Folded clothes and sheets, remade bed. Went to Target to look for an advertised 3-drawer wheeled cart and discovered it’s smaller than the one it would replace. Target trip not total loss: did find J D Robb’s latest paperback book Calculated in Death there. Thawed chicken for dinner. How was …
Dinner side dish
Good evening, our specials tonight include French Fries. Here is the raw material from which they will emerge. From Events
Constituent disservices indeed
A picture is indeed worth a thousand words: Yessiree, these people were elected to do what their district expects them to do. I doubt the majority of their constituents realized they’d be wasting $50 million of taxpayers’ money voting 40 times to repeal Obamacare.