I wrote a random rant yesterday, and decided it was too boring to post. I wrote a random rant today, and decided it was too boring to post. So I deleted a bunch of crap and condensed them to bring you the most ranty goodness I possibly could. It’s most likely still rather boring: It […]
We did another shoot for the cookbook today. Which required us to make Easter eggs. I haven’t made Easter eggs in years. Since Easter is nowhere near we had no way of picking up an Easter egg kit with those little tabby things for the color. So Heathrow and I went online to find a […]
RANDOM MUSIC STORY by CLAIRE: Two acquaintances of mine went to school at West High in Uptown. One was the drummer for a band, Dumpster Juice. And they both lived on Cedar Lake, one of the many lakes in south Minneapolis. So one weekend, the band had a show in his mother’s garage. Before the […]
I went shopping today. People should really stop me from going shopping. Here’s the damage: Groceries (too boring to list) CDs: Ike Reilly, Cake, Westerberg’s Folker Patina: ring, lip junk DVDs: Keen Eddie (!!!!), Homicide Season 5 (!!!!) Unnamed political candidate’s merchandise I keep going back and forth, but I’ve made my decision: I will […]
It is approximately 5 hours from the day of my birth. I have mixed feelings about that which I won’t go into it. I will, however, tell a random story: In the middle of the night, some 27 years ago, my mother’s water broke. She rolled over and shook my father awake. He groggily woke […]
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I just thought of a random story. My officemate is the queen of misheard lyrics. I’ve often thought that I should write them down for posterity. My absolutely favorite misheard lyric occurred a few months ago. We were listening to the radio and Counting Crows’ cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” came on. Partway […]
A continuance of random week. You’ve been warned. They didn’t use my hand and horseshoe shot in the cookbook. So Heathrow and I had to go throw horseshoes to redo the shot. She pretended to be throwing and I was just out of the shot a few feet from the pole thingie throwing them. It […]
In writing earlier about my hand modeling gig, I am reminded of the fact that I have been in some dozen books as a hand model. And I found one of them. It’s all about Biblical love stories. This unique in the sense that my body is actually in the shots, not just my hands. […]
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So, as you may or may not know, in honor of my impending birthday, I am dedicating this rant to all things random. Today’s installment: My random job. The day started like any other: it sucked. But 2:00 in the afternoon found me throwing horseshoes over and over again so our photographer could get an […]
Hm. Instead of random words, I am going to post random images. Oh c’mon people. It’ll be fun! RANDOM IMAGES by CLAIRE My mom’s china (see above) is famous. It’s featured in one of the cookbooks I prattle on about. The shot’s rather traditional, but it turned out nice. Say hi to Clarus the Dogcow. […]
As you probably don’t know, I check my website stats daily. I look at the searches people are finding me with, I check to see what sites/forums are linking to me, and I ferret out Hotlinking punters. I also like to see what the numbers are like. Last month I reached an all-time high of […]
Friday I had a goal. It was brilliant, I tell you. I wanted to create and hone the most exceedingly random rant I could possibly come up with. The idea was good. It was sound. And it was do-able. I even thought up some random things to write about on the way home. Most rants […]
Another installment of the poorly named Music and/or Storybook Thursday and/or Friday. Today is Storybook Thursday. Unfortunately I can’t think of a good story, so I’ll tell a bad one instead. If you don’t come here for the minty fresh stories, skip it. As some of you may or may not know, we have been […]
I’m completely embarrassed. I went out for a cigarette and randomly standing there, I heard a song playing in a backyard across the alley. I wasn’t sure if it was a recording or someone playing, so I kinda wandered over to see what the deal was. Turns out someone was playing in his backyard. I […]
Willy from Real World just said, and I quote, “But the Mall of America is the coolest. I used to work there.” Willy, I liked you, but the honeymoon period is over. We used to (okay, I still do) call that monstrosity the Sprawl of America. I hate that place. It is sick and wrong […]
On my way home tonight, I was going through a residential area and saw something in the middle of the road. So I stopped abruptly. It was a baby bunny. Just a little thing. And it wasn’t moving. Meaning it was caught in my headlights. I wasn’t sure what to do. I honked my horn […]
This is incredibly long. Skip it if you get bored easily. I went to Lund’s on Saturday and was paying for groceries when I noticed my bagger-guy was singing to himself softly. Bottom line: if you sing out loud ever, I like you. Music is like breathing to me. I don’t usually have baggers help […]
There’s an investigation about Minneapolis cops due to a new book that’s out. And their expert is a Normandale prof. I’m sorry, but if your college is made fun of in Fargo, you should probably realize that it isn’t considered all that scholarly of an institution. […]
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Random personal thing I don’t usually post: I’ve been having an extremely stressful life as of late. Which casual readers may have heard mention of a time or two. I was going to post why, but I have changed my mind. Y’all don’t really need to hear about my personal crap. To sum up, I’m […]
CHIP AND KIM WON! CHIP AND KIM WON! CHIP AND KIM WON! COLIN AND CHRISTY LOST! COLIN AND CHRISTY LOST! COLIN AND CHRISTY LOST! I have never been so satisfied with an Amazing Race ending ever. Amanda was convinced that Colin and Christy would pull it off. But no. Chip and Kim deserve it. They […]
Watching the Emmys. Out of the corner of my eye I think I caught two men kiss, with one of them going up to accept an Emmy. The award is for best director[?] and he says: “Thanks to my husband, Mark… Someday you will hopefully make an honest husband out of me.” Can you believe […]