over already?

Excuse me, but where the fuck did November go? I got one crisp October day and suddenly it’s The Holiday Season and everything’s covered in twinkly lights. Don’t get me wrong, I like twinkly lights, but the lack of an autumn is a tad worrisome. Even a California autumn lasts longer than a week. Maybe [...]

who needs kids? i’m a teacher

For the past two weeks I’ve picked up a some extra hours by working what I dubbed (and what is now unofficially called) the Super PM class. This is a class that runs from 4 until 6pm, after regular afternoon classes end. My class the first week consisted of one student, and this week there [...]

pay no attention to the reality tv watcher

I’m damn disappointed that Heather got voted off Top Model this week. She’s been the weekly viewer favorite every single damn week. Why is Mushroom Head — sorry, Saleisha — still in the running and not tall, sexy, smoldery, glamorous Heather? Whatevs, ANTM. Damn.

so close

I have a bad habit of creating useless examples for my class. The problem is I keep seeing good pop-culture references and, of course, none of them have heard of them.
Like when I was trying to explain the word “ridges,” as in the ridges on an elephants trunk (don’t ask how we got there) and [...]

i’m a sucker for accents

Last week’s episode of Weeds was awesome, for a few reasons. First of all, they had the line “she of the magical house-earning pussy”. Secondly, ever since I saw a lot of Freddy Rodriguez in Planet Terror, and then Hard Times, and then Ugly Betty, I started having a thing for Latino gangsters. Not in [...]

rawr rawr rawr, no one understands you, she-bear!

So much pie. Oh my god.
So as I’ve mentioned before, my parents live in the hills. And yet, there are no hill folk. Ukiah has more than enough crazy town folk and hitchhikers, so the crazy actually tends to stay out of the hills. Or if they live in the hills, they keep to [...]

i need to stop wincing when i smile

It’s always fun to see the phrases people were searching on google that inevitably lead them here. I seem to get a lot of “cocksucker in French”, Weakerthans lyrics, and “leprosy to tune of yesterday”. Yesterday someone seached for “what the fuck is a kindle,” and I like to think that I was able to [...]

act like a cat

First, watch this:

Then, watch the translated version:

pumpkin

‘Nuff said.

all i have left are photos and a scar

Pumpkin is my sister’s cat. When he was a kitten we kept him in a large enclosure in our closet (it was a huge closet, don’t freak). When he was around a year old he would sleep curled around my head at night. That’s probably the last time he and I were nice to each [...]