apropos of anything

Over at Velcrometer, M. Giant does a “Humpblog” on Wednesdays (Hump Day, for those not in the know) wherein he kludges together several unrelated subjects into one big blog. It’s a handy device to talk about all the things that don’t really make a blog unto themselves, but in my case it would probably only [...]

The “ish” because it wasn’t the wedding so much as our final destination (also known as “home”) that was doing its best monsoon impression. Because of the vigorous typhoon sweeping over Atlanta, we were stuck in the not-so-lovely Ft. Lauderdale airport until such time as the Hartsfield ground crew deemed it safe for us to [...]

Really, y’all, I am so confounded I don’t know what to do or where to turn. I am completely kerflummexed, far more than Miss Cornelia ever was.
Here’s what I don’t understand, see. Does our Congress, the body whose members we regularly elect to represent us and make decisions on our behalf in exchange for prestige, [...]

Last night Mansoor and two of his UNC friends arrived in Atlanta for the first half of their spring break. They specifically told me not to make anything for them, that they’d eat out and manage and I should not cook.
Well, of course I ignored that completely because if there’s one thing I’ve learned from [...]

Disembodied fingers clutching a bloody something, even. I’m sure it tastes great (rumor has it everything at Chocolate and Zucchini is divine), but seriously. Ew.

A note before I begin: The Truman Show is playing on TBS in the background as I write (I’m a sucker for background noise, and Truman is a reasonably good movie), but at this exact moment, the network is airing a promo for The Real Gilligan’s Island 2. Somewhere near the Georgia/South Carolina border, Ivan [...]

Last night, I had to stop by the halal meat store to pick up some ground beef, and my favorite Al-Madina being both closed and well out of my way, I stopped off at the new store that’s opened on Roswell Road, a mere two miles from my house. It’s very convenient, so if [...]

Cover art for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Let’s hope this one is better than the last one. Which is not to say I didn’t like the last one. I did, but it wasn’t as good as the volumes before it, particularly Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which remains my favorite Harry Potter [...]

You would think I, who watched the pilot episode of Desperate Housewives the first time it aired, would know better than to leave a candle burning when I went to sleep.
Thank God my house didn’t burn down.

Back in December, my DVD player choked on my Gilmore Girls disc, thereby rendering itself useless as anything other than a space-filler in my entertainment center. Today, I finally did something about it. Or rather, Ken and Ivan did.
It began with the Great Screwdriver Hunt because of course I’d brought in the DVD player but [...]