Say Cheese

Hey, take a look over here. I've started a photo blog, where it is my intention to take at least one interesting and/or informative picture every day for at least a month. I'm trying to challenge myself to look around a little more and just generally pay attention. Goat mentioned something about the rose bush outside my apartment last week and I couldn't recall seeing a rose bush there. The next time I came home, sure enough, there it was, looking vaguely familiar about 6 inches away from the front gate. Been there all year.

Wonder what else I've missed.

Dancing Queens

Goat & I have been practicing some of our dance moves. I think we're pretty stylin' if I do say so myself. We've got it on video... check us out here (may take a minute - or three - to download... go get yourself a snack while you wait).

Fall Unflung

Despite much pleading, begging, and whining on my part, fall has still not arrived here in Southern California. Well, unless by "fall" you mean the season where the temperature stays the same but everybody gets allergies. We had one grey day and a slight drizzle, and now we're back up to 85 degrees. On the up-side, Becky D was here last weekend, taking a break from the snow in Colorado, and we got to spend a day at the beach. Blogger seems to be thwarting me from posting a picture today but Becky's got one up here (yes, I was wearing all my purchases from the day, no I did not think I looked cool like that).

Also, I'm taking suggestions for new hobbies. Something went awry with my back a month ago and while I nurse it back to health, Ultimate is out of the question (along with biking, hiking, running, or anything else that keeps me sane). The only requirements are that it cost no money, and not involve sitting, standing, picking things up, or bending over. Get your minds out of the gutter and let me know what I should do with my time.

I have the facts and I'm voting maybe

Every year I have such good intentions of voting. Really. I have this little person sitting on my shoulder, we'll call him Voting Victor, that reminds me how lucky I am to have the opportunity, because people in other places in the world walk 20 miles and wait in line for three days just to speak their mind. Me? I just have to check some boxes on an absentee ballot that already arrived, walk 20 feet to the mailbox, and tell the government my every wish. Well, except for that one about the bathtub full of chocolate pudding. I mean, I could tell them that one, but it would be a write-in I suppose, since I didn't see it on the ballot anywhere. Then again, there was that year when my absentee ballot arrived in Chinese, maybe the Pudding Prop was on that one.

Anyhow, as I said, I always psych myself up to vote, because voting is important!, and part of my civic duty, and all that... but then the voters guide arrives in the mail, and this little person on my other shoulder, we'll call her Fuhggetaboudit Fergie, starts wailing and screaming as soon as I open it up. I mean really, can't the thing have a few comics, an entertainment section, maybe a sudoku stuck in there somewhere? It's so boring I lose the will to vote before I've made it through the first rebuttal of the argument against Prop 1 about whether or not they should pass a law allowing them to rewrite an amendment to the ratified code index veto adding a $0.25 tax to Q-tips to fund field trips for inner-city vegans.

the boobies edition

I was just thinking the other day how lucky breast cancer is. I mean, it's got the most edgy-but-still-socially-appropriate appeal, as evidenced by recent campaigns. First there were Save the Ta-Tas t-shirts donating to breast cancer research (I do not recommend, however, typing in "www.tatas.com" while trying to find them online). Now there's the Feel Your Boobies campaign to promote breast self-exams.

Poor colon cancer. It's never gonna get that kind of exposure. Especially now that Katie Couric's a "real" journalist. Then again, with the rise of colon hydrotherapy as the frou-frou celebrity treatment-du-jour here in LA, maybe people will be wearing colonoscopy-themed pants soon. What will they say?