Entries Tagged as 'There is no five'
Questions I’ve been asked by my sisters today via text message
1. What color was the house in Goonies?
2. Is it led or lead as in “He led the discussion” (I had to get Peabo’s help on that one)
3. What are the names of the peppers they put in the Papa John’s pizza box?
P.S. Remember how I am totally in love with David Gates? In the [...]
Things that are too dangerous according to Nolan age 4
1. Tornadoes
2. Sliding down the slide on your feet
3. Sucking Legos in and out
4. Crossing the street without hanging on to hands
Cranky gets an education, a list
Things I learned from watching most of the 832-part History of Rock and Roll on VH1 Classics:
1. The song “Carrie Ann” was written about Marianne Faithful.
2. “Do You Believe in Magic” came out in like 1965 and not in about 1985 like I had always assumed, also the band who sings it, The Lovin’ Spoonful [...]
Things that are making me a little sad tonight, a follow up list to the last one
That there doesn’t seem to be any sort of ready-made, easy to eat chocolate in this entire house
This weird lip zit I can’t seem to stop touching
That I have no idea what in the hell Tubular Bells are, nor have I ever seen “The Exorcist”
That I am so tired that I cannot fire back an [...]
Things that make me a little sad
1. Being dressed by 10 a.m.
2. Having to wait until tomorrow to listen to the ‘Mats reissues
3. The guilt I have for not wanting to get a job anytime soon
4. Al, the cutest girl on Earth™, moving to ND
D. fives
6. Missing the great MNSpeak outage and all the speculation therein
7. Having to make my own [...]
Three confessions on a Friday
1. I watch a lot of The N because they play Dawson’s Creek every morning at like 4. What I kinda dig about The N is that they play music videos between shows. At least I think they do. Whenever I watch a TIVO’d episode of Dawson’s Creek there are always videos tacked on to [...]
Read moreI felt a real connection with the Rock of Love 2 season finale
Some how, I’m not exactly sure how, I made it through the Rock of Love 2 Season Finale without having a heart attack. There were a few times where I thought the lethal combination of joy and anticipation would kill me, but I made it through.
If you haven’t watched the episode STOP RIGHT HERE, because [...]
Things that have been proclaimed as boring by Nolan, a list before 9 a.m.
The Magic School Bus
Checking e-mail
The Smurfs
Making breakfast
Dude Weather
Monster Trucks
Watching TV in general
Listening to music
Tumbling Dice by The Rolling Stones
Me
My house
Things that are apparently not boring because it has occupied him for roughly seven minutes? Putting the camera in the camera case and then taking it out and then putting it back.
Read moreFour reasons I could really use a sugar daddy
1. So I don’t have to work and can spend all my time talking about writing but not actually writing short stories.
2. To hire me an assistant to submit all the short stories I won’t be writing and to make me some popcorn.
3. He could use his money to hire an evil scientist who will [...]
A complete accounting of stuff I brought home from the office
1 Desk Lamp
1 baseball cap
2 bottles of lotion
3 Superman Action Figures
1 Picture of my niece and nephews
1 candle from Space 150
2 Thesauri
2 pairs of headphones
1 iPod charger
2 Burnt Sienna Crayons
7 Red pens
1 Brachiosaurus
13 empty software boxes (one of each product I wrote the box for)
1 box of 12 Blue Highlighters [these came from H, our [...]
Some thoughts for this Saturday
Getting up after 11, even though you stayed up after 3 reading The Learners is a good way to ruin the day. You spend the whole day in some sort of funk-like malaise with no drive to do anything but sit in your La-Z-Grrl and watch “The Big Chill” which you’d never seen before this [...]
Read moreA selection of topics from this morning’s co-worker coffee klatch
How my mom voted for Jerry Brown in the Wisconsin primary back in 2000
If Tim Russert’s makeup artist is given actual creative direction to make him look disheveled
Whether Leinie’s Red is the superior Leinie’s (it’s not)
Lloyd Bentson and James Stockdale
Pete Meyers and how he made me fall in love with him by using the word [...]
Things I learned while watching Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream’
1. It might take me an entire day but I am capable of watching a four-hour documentary about Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
2. If you gave me $25 right now I probably couldn’t name more than six Tom Petty songs. However, I managed to sing along to every song included in this damn movie.
3. After [...]
State of the State of the Union
Today was so busy that I almost forgot to watch the State of the Union. Thankfully, Sister #2 reminded me that it was on. In case you too were busy here’s what you missed.
Ted Kennedy napped through the entire thing, sitting next to his BFF Barack
Bush and Cheney showed their support of photography and the [...]
Not sure what to be the most embarrassed about
1. That I turned off CNN’s post-debate debrief in favor of
2. An old episode of Who’s the Boss (I’m actually working on my online portfolio, so I’m doing something productive and just needed background noise) where I immediately
3. Recognized Sam’s date for the dance as Ralphie from A Christmas Story, and at the dance
4. They [...]
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