Happy Halloween, everybody. Coming home from my mom’s I saw a couple kids (with parents) walking around Uptown in costume. I think I like this holiday so much because it’s mainly for kids. When I was younger, I loved the holiday. I lived about four blocks off of River Road growing up. It’s a beautiful […]
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PSA: Turn your clocks back, kids. It’s Daylight Savings time. I have a story. It’s lame, but it’s a story. Due to various… dicey things going down at work, we’ve had our accountants in full time. And last week I needed to talk to one of them, so I popped my head in the door. […]
Today at work was crazy. I’m going to break my rule and write about a work incident. First, the backstory: I work for a fitness publisher. Boss #2 is one of the authors of said fitness books. We have a website with a forum that I moderate. Well, not really. If I moderated it, half […]
Wilco is in town tonight. I am not there. D’oh. Once they started playing auditoriums I stopped going altogether. Cake was in town over the weekend. Didn’t go to that either. I just can’t bring myself to go to shows alone. I know it’s wussified, but I feel stupid. The only show I went to […]
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 […]