As I write this I’m watching Homicide “Night of the Dead Living”. Great episode. Ah, with Tergesen in it. He showed up on a semi-regular basis until he got shot and went blind. Munch to Bolander: “Your partner Mitch. Has sex with goats.” Anyway, in preparation for doing taxes this year (or should I say […]
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AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy crap, why didn’t I know this. I was checking sites linking to me and inadvertantly came across the fact that The Sleuth channel has picked up Homicide and is rerunning it—it looks like—every night. That is just insanely cool. Back when CourtTV ran it, I’d watch it every night (I think it was […]
I deleted my story about screwing up at work and replaced it with a story that—upon rereading—makes me sound like a klepto. Heh. I swear I’m neither. And in a semi-related story I grabbed a t-shirt to wear today and it was an anvil drop shirt from a few years ago. So I repaid my […]
I swear to god something has got to go right for people in my life soon. ‘Cause right now shit ain’t goin’ so hot for anybody. In other news, a lunch meeting on Sunday turned into me wandering around Gardner Hardware for a couple hours. Which is actually more interesting than it sounds. I’d never […]
Yay for Happy Claire! I resolved to start leaving my part time job early on a more regular basis so I could get some work done during the afternoon. And as I was driving home I got that happy feeling in the pit of my stomach that I used to get when I worked from […]
Every ounce of creativity—literary or graphical—is just plain gone. I went into tantrum mode and threw my laptop across the room in a fit of pique. Which shattered everywhere. I’ve been sweeping up the pieces all evening. I have no idea how I’m going to get my files off my hard drive now. So years […]
Wangler: Happy New Year, motherfuckers! Schillinger: Eat me, you little prick. Gotta love Oz. C’mon, ‘fess up. Who woke up with a strange person in their bed? It’s a New Years tradition. Actually that never happened to me. It happened to past roommates of mine though. I have pictures. Me? I tended to wake up […]
I wrote like eight rants yesterday (which I’ve been doing a lot lately) and I realized on the way home that I had no idea what incarnation I ended up posting. It’s like reading my rant for the first time! Oh what a feeling! […]
Ever feel just pretty ignorant? I’m a stupid white girl. And tonight reminded me of that. Anyone else know that Native Americans occupied Alcatraz island for over a year and a half out of principle? I sure didn’t. And I have a BA in history. I thought I knew a bit about history. Totally wrong. […]
Today? Odds and Ends Sunday. Yesterday was my high school reunion. As curious as I was to go and see who was doing what, I passed. At this point in my life, I just didn’t want to. Which is totally selfish, I know. You know, I was thinking about the “semi slamming into” story and […]
Winter has descended upon the city. How do most people deal with it? Winter sports! Sledding, skiing, bobsledding, snowboarding, snowshoeing, jumping into freezing waters for a quick swim… But the real Winter sport? Driving. It’s a bitch. Actually, it can be fun. If you’re on a road with no traffic and no parked cars, slipping […]
It’s actually a little after Thanksgiving, but I didn’t get home until midnight. So this is my semi-post Thanksgiving post… or rant. On the way to help my mom prepare stuffing and green beans, the local NPR radio station was having a Thanksgiving theme. And they played Golden Smog’s Pecan Pie. Awesome. For the record, […]
I told my boss about being freaked out by the running guys last night and she just looked at me like I was a complete wuss. Maybe I just over react about things like that. I cut out early to go home and take a nap, since I still feel like complete crap. I got […]
Crappy day, really. I can’t believe it’s Thanksgiving this week. I am so not ready for the holidays. I have to make a Closed for Thanksgiving sign and all I can come up with is “Closed in Observance of the Attempted Genocide of the Native Americans” or “Closed for the Day-After-Thanksgiving Sales.” And although those […]
Has anyone else noticed the dirth of newstype people who are now blogging? I mean like within the last month it seems like every news station reporter and newspaper writer now have one. And they’re all mentioning it constantly. Like, “For more on how XYZ felt after interviewing a woman with 100 pets in her […]
Welcome to the first day of snow in Minneapolis. I hate snow. In theory it’s wonderful, but in practice it’s a pain in the ass. Snow in Minnesota is rather different than when I was a kid. We used to have snowfalls of maybe four feet. The kind of snow where I’d watch my parents […]
Sundays. I never could get the hang of Sundays. Some are good and some are bad. This one’s bad. Although I’m working today, so at least I can say I’m making money. Wait a minute! I knew I was forgetting something. My very first ever rant reader has a birthday today. Today? Tomorrow? I know […]
A 2021 update: Found this story cleaning up my rants (deleting the really bad/boring ones mainly). I didn’t name any names at the time (and won’t now exactly), but all the businesses are gone now. The print shop closed years ago, and both the precinct where the officers came from and the nightclub around the […]
Yeah I don’t have a rant today. Fuck the world. Oh, I’m not all that grumpy really. Just… ready to move on. So my predecessor was in today. I’m not sure how I feel about that. I mean, I didn’t really talk to him. What am I supposed to say? “I’m Claire, the reason they […]
Weird. It was Election Day today and my financial planner won public office. So how focused is she on my money? I’ve got to give her respect for having a float every year in the Gay/Lesbian Pride parade however. I used to live downtown and would sit on my balcony and watch the parade and […]
I still haven’t dropped off my rent check. I always forget. I really am about to do some actual work (I had family duties earlier today). But I thought I’d just chime in with today’s update from the planet. I finally got around to reading this week’s Savage Love and found a disturbing fact about […]