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Every year this giant spider greets travelers along Market Street in Kirkland… …and this year some dedicated, mysterious people have been decorating the cow and coyote sculpture in downtown Kirkland for every holiday. I don’t celebrate the devil and dead things part of Halloween, but I admire the creativity that the cow and coyote’s costumers have. Stay […]
Read More Spiders & SculpturesThere is a meeting room where I work in which its Miami Vice color scheme, fuzzy lighting, and muffled acoustics combine to create an overpowering snooze-inducing effect. When I sit down in this room, I soon find myself squinting and taking shallow, hamster-like breaths as a wave of sleepiness froths over me. It doesn’t matter […]
Read More Head DancingIn honor of Spokane’s Bigfoot sighting, http://www.inlander.com/spokane/blog-3342-video-spokane-river-bigfoot-sighting_.html, I’m putting this June 9, 2010 post on the front page for a bit. It details my own experience with Bigfoot. It’s possible that the Bigfoots… Bigfeet? Sasquatches– in Eastern Washington are more excited about this than we are. They’re probably sitting around a laptop slapping each other […]
Read More Bigfoot in Never Never LandMay 25th is Towel Day. Have your towels readily available and display them proudly! http://www.towelday.org/ A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of […]
Read More Happy Towel Day!Remember the song Blue by Eiffel 65? I can’t get it out of my head after seeing this Philip Treacy fascinator (or hat? canoe?) arriving at the Royal Wedding. Was it his inspiration?
Read More I’m Blue, a daba dee aba da…HEEEREE WE ARE! BORN TO BE CHEFS WE MAKE SAUCES OF THE UNIVERSE (duh dun, dun dun, dun dun) Here WE belong Fighting for the rice milk– We have to make prosciutto for you all! In the privacy of my own car and kitchen, I am a rock star. Aren’t you? This culinary take on […]
Read More Kitchen DancingMarch 9th is National Panic Day. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. This is not about the legitimate anxiety disorders or mental illnesses that people suffer from. This is about panic in general. It’s okay to panic today. I am panicking because I did something really stupid while doing yard work and had to ask for help.
Read More AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHWhile studying the concept of reactance in a psychology class this week, I came across this cartoon in my textbook. I can’t stop snickering about it. This is like the “No Zipping The Zip Ties” sign in Archie McPhee’s that always gives me a strong desire to start zipping the zip ties. Must… zip… the […]
Read More ReactanceIf you have decided to purchase a back inverter– congratulations! You are acquiring one of the greatest inventions in the history of our warmongering bipedal race. Back inverters rank right up there with the telephone, TV, and memory foam dog beds. Before using your back inverter, you must be sure to properly locate the device […]
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