Archive for the ‘ pics ’ Category
…waking up at 1:00 A.M. to retrieve a cotton ball that your child has inexplicably inserted in her nose. Apparently she did this many hours ago and it took this long to become painful. Pulling it out was also painful in that she was screaming. Actually this served to remind me how fortunate I am not to [ READ MORE ]
We just got back yesterday from a Disneyland trip with my folks. Daphne had an amazingly good time, as expected. Holly has put up some pictures from the trip, and I posted a few from the road by uploading to Flickr directly from my phone; these were then captured automatically by my tumblelog. We were [ READ MORE ]
Via Boing Boing, there’s quite the little internet kerfluffle over this figurine of Mary Jane, the lead female character in the Spider-Man series: Ok, so, that’s breathtakingly sexist. I get why people are upset by this. But why are longtime comics fans especially upset by this? In what way is the sexism here different from [ READ MORE ]
This post will contain no politics. Thank goodness. Item one: I have never found the Bond films compelling enough to watch under any but the most casual of circumstances, e.g., when I’m home sick and nothing else is on T.V. but soaps and daytime talk shows. So I’m surprised to find myself looking forward to [ READ MORE ]
For some more tornado-gawking, try this slideshow. [ READ MORE ]
I am kind of a pitiful cook in general, but I like to try. Here are a few pics of a cake I made for my birthday last week (yes, I made my own cake, because I wanted to). I was inspired by my sister Chrys who emailed some photos of her own crepe cake, [ READ MORE ]
I was trailing Daphne through the toy section of some department store today when a song playing on the P.A. tickled the back of my brain. I dismissed it as something I had heard but didn’t really recognize. It refused to quit, though, and hours later I found myself determining to look the [ READ MORE ]