171 visits

So, someone linked to my “LOL Palin” post, presumably just to see the graphic that I stole from Americablog (who probably took it from somewhere else, I forget), and I got 171 visits on Sunday!  Needless to say, my biggest day to date.  I was thinking, bring on the Stuff-White-People-Like style blog-to-book deal, I’m ready [...]

Introducing Daisy/ Pancake

Introducing Pot Luck’s new big sister, Daisy!  She was Pancake for a day or two, and I tend to prefer that, but Sarah and the girls (who picked her out from the pound) decided that this cat is too sweet and dignified for a name like Pancake.

Initially I resisted the idea of a second cat, [...]

Live-blogging the Presidential debate w/ kitten

9:12 p.m.  We hear noises upstairs (girls went to bed by 8:30).  We each stall and try to wait to see if the other guy will go deal with it.  Finally when the steps creak on the basement stairs I go and find the girls, who report that we didn’t snuggle on the couch on [...]

Flailing

COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations for example, with the Russians?
PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We do — it’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia — as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do [...]

LOL Palin

This (which I found on Americablog.com) is perfect, injecting into the already-inexplicable oddness of the lolcats meme all the madness of this moose-dressing, polar-bear-deregulating, press-conference-fleeing VP candidate.

There’s something about lolcats that weirds me out. Is it just idiotic, or is there something clever there? Is it simply the apotheosis of internet stupidity, or [...]

Between Santa and Hannah Montana

Age 4 3/4 (or whatever they are, almost five) is a transitional period, or so it would seem today.  First Iris handed me a “Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus Best of Both Worlds Concert” poster that I was supposed to put on their bedroom wall, after writing “Iris” in indelible marker on the poster.  This [...]

Netherland

So, about 4/5 of the way through The Savage Detectives I dropped it (do plan to go back to finish) for Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, which is kind of the polar opposite of Bolano: where The Savage Detectives is sprawling, wild, passionately raw, and multi-voiced, every small chapter introducing a brand new speaker, sometimes, with his [...]

Kitten Thinks of Nothing But Murder All Day

That’s a funny Onion t-shirt (I think it may originally have been a headline with no article, just a photo — brilliant).  It definitely evokes Pot Luck these days.  In other words, he is thriving: he’s a real tussling, pouncing, biting fighting kitty now.  He’s off the bottle and eats slightly diluted canned food in [...]

Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting!

Sarah and I have been reading Sandra Tsing Loh’s Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting!– sort of stealing it back and forth from one another. It’s actually laugh out loud funny (and it takes a lot to make this grumpy old man laugh OL as opposed to just doing a sort [...]

“We are the lost civilization”

The notoriously apolitical David Letterman on a lengthy rant about global warming.  Paul Shaffer’s inane little noises of assent add a surreal touch.  Here’s a partial transcript:
Until we get the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, we are screwed.  We are walking dead people.  We are the lost civilization.  You’re looking at us right here.  [...]