Toolbag Wednesday #9: The Bathroom Troll

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

It’s been a while since I’ve celebrated toolbaggery in the world, and this one’s long overdue. I give you: the Bathroom Troll.
Like that cartoon troll who hides under a bridge in some cracked out fairy tale, requesting a fee to cross and tricking princesses into all sorts of terribleness, this woman is more often than [...]

What's Up Down Under, Indeed

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

While bonding with my new couch over a marathon of Run’s House one lackadaisical Sunday, I found myself rewinding this commercial no less than 8 times in shocked glee to figure out just what the hell was going on there. I even slow-moed it, finally deciphering that it is in fact a pouch and not…something [...]

It's a Science Really

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Sheepishly, I admit I haven’t been posting much lately. That damn high school reunion came up (wore a deep blue-purple draped tube dress and bronzed sling-backs), I lost and somehow recovered my wallet and all the cash that was in it (!!!!), went to Charleston for the Fourth of July holiday (which proved ever so [...]

When Reading Pisses Me Off

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

So I’m reading this new book, Emily Giffin’s “Love the One You’re With,” and it makes me want to kick the main character, Ellen, in the head. For real.

It’s the kind of book one should be able to read with ease in three or four days given the time. It requires no thought whatsoever. And [...]