Month: August 2005
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I’m tempted to get the Snook a Utilikilt just so I could wear it… (Link courtesy of Jeff.)
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This history of ranch dressing is missing a sentence or two: In 1997, Chicago-native Kelly McMahon started a new trend and simultaneously nearly bankrupted the Chili’s franchise in South Bend, Indiana: She requested ranch dressing with her complimentary nacho chips. Friends who sampled this concoction realized it was so good that there was no need…
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I was just happily working away on the website when the office phone rang. “I need you to COME UPSTAIRS NOW!” said Rae. I sprang to my feet. Usually this means that someone dodgy is in the store and the girls are worried we’re going to get robbed. I grabbed Albert and we sprinted up…
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Oh good grief. CouchCam caught me mid-cough. Now that‘s attractive.
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Okay, once you’ve looked at my Gleewarts photos, now you can look at other people’s. I clicked through hundreds of photos to find the few that featured our group: Amy and Rob sleeping. Me with Hedwig. Me and the Snook. Fire dancing hippies. (Look for us between the red and yellow flags.) Sirius the Insane.…
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At long last, my Gleewarts Express photos are now online! Laugh with delight as wizards and witches gather before you. Tremble in suspense as the Snook grapples with live snakes. Wee in your pants at the sight of a Marauding Mancho. Go on, I dare you.
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A few days ago I read this editorial at the Sun-Times about Dove’s new advertising campaign in the US. As they don’t seem to have launched the campaign in Oz, I’d heard nothing about it. Apparently they’re using “real women” instead of emaciated model types. Based on the comments Wendy mentioned in her article, I…
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I’m gonna be a supermodel…This past weekend Amy and I finally got off our asses and decided to prepare our entry for the Knitty 2006 Calendar Contest. The idea is that you send in a photograph of yourself wearing an item from Knitty. We figured that the two of us in our matching Cheesylove vests…
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Unleash your inner Jackson Pollack. How cool is that? Took me a few seconds to figure out what to do. (Link courtesy of Zesmerelda.)
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Eileen’s blog has been around less than a week and she’s already created a signature meme for herself: the Awkward Friday Photo. She’s amassed a collection of bad teenage photos and she’s doling them out one per week. This week it’s the shuddering horror of a “braided frontal tail.” (The sad thing is, given the…