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Archive for September, 2009

Orson!

30Sep09

You know it’s a strange twist of nature when you’re standing a few feet from a mother fucking panther, begging him to look at you.

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Old Biddies

30Sep09

Miss Lou – Freshman boys who think they are the Jonas Brothers. Another downfall of this generation.
Valancy Jane – Oye vey. Turn the hose on one and you’ll feel better.

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I cannot believe I’m admitting to any of this.

29Sep09

My friend Sally is in town, visiting from Australia. Isn’t she cute?

Totally adorable, right? Hold that image in your head ok? Because this post is about to take a big turn towards the terrifying.
Buckman joined Sally and I for dinner, and as it tends to go when girls get together, one story blended into another. [...]

Filed under: can't make this shit up, ew, horrible metaphors, shameless | 16 Comments

Nine pound bird is not a euphemism.

28Sep09

Valancy Jane and Buckman – *trying to get the attention of a Victoria Crowned Pigeon*
Buckman – “That one’s looking at you.”
Valancy Jane – *clucking noise* “Look at him, he’s coming closer!”
Victoria Crowned Pigeon – *coming closer*
Valancy Jane – “I don’t know what this noise means to him but it must mean something, look at the [...]

Filed under: I'm scared, actual conversations, birdies, can't make this shit up, oops, summer of buckman | 8 Comments

NOW who’s the nerd?

27Sep09

CT – *thumbing through what I still don’t think he realizes was the first comic book I’d ever seen the inside of* “Well then what did you do as a kid?”
Valancy Jane – “Read books with no pictures……”

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National Public Lands Day

27Sep09

Did you know that last Sat. was National Public Lands Day? And that all the national parks were free? And that there’s a national monument just a couple of miles from my apartment? And that they happened to be having a festival over the weekend?
Totally out of excuses for having never been there.
So Aurora and [...]

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I’m not even going to try to explain this.

26Sep09

Aurora – “Oh hey wifey, that guy was totally checking you out.”
Valancy Jane – “Well duh, I’m standing in the middle of the road, holding my pants in my hands.”

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I’ve been all about the pictures lately.

24Sep09

But tonight I took a walk and it was so lovely and I have no pictures to show for it. It was warm and dusky and the airplanes were taking off and doing their usual cresent moon trail around the city (and around the cresent moon) and a lot of Bachman Turner Overdrive came up on my iPhone’s shuffle [...]

Filed under: Life in Little Italy, city life, life is kind to me | 2 Comments