Horrible developments in the Odonata Paddock at the Twisty Bungalow have forced me to flee for my life.
Because I’ve got flooding, a bathroom full of raw sewage, broken water pipes, irate neighbors, and a plumber named Dudly, I will be away from my desk today, enjoying the hospitality of friends who are not afflicted with […]
Archive for May, 2007
Hey, you’ll never guess what I just did! Because I am always so up-to-the-minute with high technology, I have implemented I Blame the Patriarchy: The Message Board [Beta] with a cheesy Windows-looking interface! I have no idea how to work it yet, but go on over and wreck the place. Leave suggestions. Make up profiles. […]
After the Twistolution, ‘hamburger’ will have more meaning than ‘woman’. Burger and onion rings at Phil’s Ice House, North Austin. May 2007.
Yesterday I asked yew-all what the word ‘woman’ means. Thanks to those of you who answered; it was sporting of you, considering that I had just posted a curmudgeonly amendment to the Comment-o-festo consisting […]
Define this
Published May 29th, 2007 in Keep your bias off my gender, Blogulation and Morsel Institute. 187 CommentsOne of the juicy morsels I et yesterday while not reading the blog comments: a multi-cultivar tomato salad with fried goat cheese and about 36 different herbs, made by my sibling Tidy, who, to the undiluted satisfaction of the Faster family palates, has been watching that smarmy Napa dude on The Food Channel.
i have a […]
Thyreocorid bug of the week
Published May 26th, 2007 in Keep your bias off my gender, Mass Media and Varmint Center. 482 CommentsCorimelaena sp. The Twisty Hemiptera Department, May 26, 2007.
I adjourned to the bug paddock to snap this foto after throwing a copy of Newsweek across the room. It’s the May 21 issue, the one with a picture of a baby on the front. The baby is wearing a half pink, half blue wunzy. “The Mystery […]
Having heard that I am the world’s foremost authority on genius 10-year-old girls attending high school, Blamer S recounts her disheartening tale:
Twisty,
I’m sending this in your direction, not so much because I expect you to break off photographing wonders of Austin wildlife to read my issues, but because even being in the cybervicinity of a […]
The De Anza case: men really hate drunk teenage girls
Published May 24th, 2007 in Men Hate You and Mass Media. 286 CommentsThe scope of this foul ‘De Anza rape allegations case’ initially caused my obstreperal lobe to throw both its claws in the air, exclaim “That’s it!“, bundle a few provisions in a bindle, and take to the rails. This morning, unexpectedly, it came shuffling back, bruised but vociferant, clutching in its tentacles a slew of […]
Sentimental blowfly photo of the week. Like so many of us, blowflies start life as carrion-gnawing maggots. Calliphora sp. May 22, North South Austin.
One of the aspects of blogging that is supposed to make the whole enterprise so revolutionary is the blogroll. This is a collection of links to other people’s blogs that you put […]
Yo, taqueau
Published May 22nd, 2007 in Keep your bias off my gender, Varmint Center and Austin. 218 CommentsSentimental butterfly photo of the week: Anthanassa texana, the Texan crescent. North South Austin, May 21, 2007.
I forgot, for a few days, that I have a blog. So many bugs to photograph, so many coffee shops to haunt. And let’s face it; is there really anything I can say about patriarchy that I haven’t already […]
This bag was no good because once I got a niece or two stuffed in there, there was hardly any room for a box of Altoids.
I spent a quarter of a century on a quest. That quest was for a partner in greatness. A decent shoulder bag.
“Say, this one looks pretty good,” I’d say, giving […]
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