I came across an interesting premise in blogging while reading Susannah Conway’s beautiful blog today. Dust off a few various and sundry posts, then highlight one from another blogger you admire. Susannah’s done so, and, if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to do the same. In particular, I’m trotting out the following (and bending the [...]
I hate a lot of things. Besides the obvious things like Speidi, sex offenders, and people who do bad things to children, puppies and/or trees; I hate lots of random things too. So for lack of a more productive use of this Toolbag Wednesday, I’ve compiled a list for you, which also makes this the [...]
I haven’t posted in a week. I’ve been stewing over something that I’m not exactly sure how to appropriately articulate, and lo and behold it has to do with another one of my friends. There we sat, discussing a friend of a friend and the outlandish lengths she’s gone to in order to meet “someone,” [...]
When I was in 6th grade, my English class and I received a writing assignment to author a “fan letter” to a celebrity of our choosing. I happened to choose Geena Davis (whatever happened to her anyway?) because I’d just seen A League of Their Own and even though I really fucking hate baseball (including [...]
After the snarkfest that was my earlier post this week (thank you Internets for the healthy debate), I’ve decided rather than add to it, I’ll leave you instead with a recap of the Toolbaggery of 2009. Note: Toolbag Wednesdays 1-16 (circa 2008) can be found under “toolbaggery” and include such gems as After-the-Fact Boys, [Expletive] Blagojevich, [...]
I’m still uncertain how this whole Twitter thing works, but I thought it was about time I got with the program. If only for the coupons and promo codes, right? Or to learn about untimely deaths like Brittany Murphy’s. About that, can I just say what the hell? Yeah, so now I’m twittering (@nicnarrates). Which, [...]
Every $1 donated on Feeding America’s web site (formerly America’s Second Harvest) will send 9 pounds of groceries to a family in need. Or for just $5, you’ll be donating 10 bags of groceries. Google is the shit, but next time you need to do a search online, why not try GoodSearch instead? Every search you make [...]
