Month: March 2004

  • Friday Five

    Friday Five:

    1. If you owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
    I’d probably run something like a steakhouse, where you’d get lots of really good homestyle food. I’m thinking burgers, sandwiches, mac-and-cheese, big slabs of meat, the whole works. Basically the kind of stuff I like to eat. The Snook would concoct appropriate homebrews to go with everything.

    2. If you owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
    My own crafty things, of course! Plus wool and paints and buttons and glue and everything you need to make beautiful fun things. Oh, except for that scrapbooking crap. I hate that.

    3. If you wrote a book, what genre would it be?
    Probably a “humorous” memoir. Actually I’d just cheat and bind together a load of posts from this site. I’m lazy and my writerly aspirations pretty much died in grade school.

    4. If you ran a school, what would you teach?
    Knitting! Incidentally, I’m meeting with the Tapestry Craft folks later this week to discuss teaching a class for them this winter. Beyond that, I’d probably want to teach something in the English/Drama/Speech area. Those were always my favorites in school. Or some kind of “Pop Culture Appreciation” course. That would be fun.

    5. If you recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
    Mid-90’s riot grrrl alterna-pop a la Belly, Juliana Hatfield, or the Breeders. I’m just waiting for the grunge revival!

  • The Cult of Diet Coke

    The Cult of Diet Coke. I myself am a hopeless addict. I actually paid $2.70 for a friggin’ 600mL bottle the other day because I needed the fix and that damn price-gouging gas station was the only supplier in the area. It infuriates me, especially since Coles always has the two-liter bottles on sale for, like, $1.75. But society deems it not “cool” to lug around two liters of your favorite soda, so I must pay for the “convenience” of having a smaller bottle. Such is the pain of the Diet Coke addict. (Link courtesy of not martha.)

  • Ick.

    Damn, you know what’s difficult? Wiping a cat’s ass. I’m starting to see the wisdom of owning a pet before you reproduce. You need to get acclimatized to all the disgusting stuff that goes along with caring for another lifeform.

  • Blog survey results

    Blog Survey: Expectations of Privacy and Accountability. I wondered why I hadn’t heard about this until I saw the dates and realized I was up at Camp Creative around then. Anyway, nothing too startling in those results. I was surprised to see the male-female ratio though. Somehow I thought there were more girls doing this blogging thing. I wonder if the percentages would have changed if “journalers” had been included as well…

  • Holy crap!

    Holy crap! My Dad just e-mailed to let me know that someone is currently shooting a movie in Goshen, Indiana. He said he heard it stars Liv Tyler, and his wife Cindy ran into “that guy from ConAir” at a coffee shop. A little research by me… and Boom! Steve Buscemi is filming a movie with Liv Tyler in my hometown! Isn’t that cool? Apparently they’re using a couple other Indiana locations too.

  • Toys of the 80’s

    Toys of the 80’s. That’s a huge time suck if ever I saw one. I spent half the day reminiscing about Popples and Puffalumps and Care Bears.

  • Best Pictures of 2003

    Snookums’s Link Of the Day: Best Pictures of 2003. “There’s one in there from South Bend!”

  • Oscar Sock Monkeys

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    I’ve finally managed to finish this year’s prize monkeys for the Oscar Contest. Pretty cute, huh? That’s 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place from left to right there. Please be patient, winners. I promise I’ll have them in the mail this weekend!

  • Nike Women’s Classic

    The date for this year’s Nike Women’s Classic has been posted: June 20th. That’s just over thirteen weeks away. As I’ve run the 5K the past two years, I’m wondering if I should stick with that and try to improve my pace or challenge myself to complete the 10K. What do you guys think? Any particular good, tried-and-true training programs? I should be meeting with my personal trainer sometime in the next two weeks so I’ll check with him and see what he recommends.

  • She’s kind of froggy…

    Cat Frog“New fashion of this Spring! It’s gonna hit big! She’s kind of froggy…”

    Oh. My. God. (No, that’s no my cat.) I love the Japanese. Check out this page of costumes for cats. The descriptions are as funny as the pictures. What kind of person dresses their cat up as “Anne of Green Gables”? I do like the “gentleman’s” shirt and tie though. It’s “the least that handsome boy needs.” And don’t forget to give you cat a “hub” afterwards!