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I Bet Princess Kate Doesn’t Have to Deal With Dirty Gutters
I got back from Naples, Italy very late last Wednesday and I’m suffering from carb withdrawals. A pasta depression, if you will. For example, when I walk downstairs for breakfast in the mornings now, there is no artful display of delicious Italian pastries and nobody brings me a frothy cappuccino. There are no royal apartments…
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Holiday Shopping With a Bang
Despite having family and friends who are into hunting for both sport and sustenance, I am not a fan of guns. Like, at all. I’ve seen firsthand how guns can be used as weapons of intimidation in domestic abuse situations. There’s nothing that will cool your feelings on guns like seeing a supposed “head of…
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Friday Links: Sassy Cats See Buildings Shaped Like Food and/or Brains Edition
I’m frolicking in Naples, Italy right now, eating all of the thin crust pizza, and pasta, and creamy pastries, and just fried everything I can get my sticky little fingers on while my travel-buddy-for-life XFE actually works. Maybe the guys who make the expandable suitcase below could branch out into some expandable pants in time…
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Thanks, eHow
My man-panion-for-life and I were joking around the other day that we should get some of those temporary tattoos for the holidays — but like snarky custom ones. And, being the Vanderpump Rules fans that we are, we knew exactly what we wanted to get. That’s right, we’d like to show up at the parent’s…
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Poe Cooks Reality: Eggplant Parmigiana from Food Network’s “Best Thing…”
While it’s generally well known that I have a very handsome in-house personal-chef-for-life, I too, can combine raw ingredients into something passably edible. Or, at least not poisonous. (I just scoured this website for a picture of me cooking and found nothing. NOTHING. I was sure there was a picture of me stirring a pot…
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Friday Links: Old Pets with Norwegian Passports Flying in Restricted Airspaces Edition
Well played, Ellen and Portia. Well. Played. A male TV host wore the same suit every day for a year and no one noticed. I’ve conducted a similar experiment here at Poe Industries during this week’s artic asskicking. I’ve worn the same Uggs-yoga-pants-woolly-cardigan combo every day and so far, my co-worker and head of HR Petunia…
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Don’t Know How to Convey Your Annoyance Via Text? Go With a PoEmoji
FAKT: I have never used an emoji. I actually don’t even know how to. Are they on my phone somewhere? I am old and decrepit and have no idea. Maybe they’re housed on my Life Alert. I recently read that some new emojis are being considered and it got me thinking about which ones I…
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Fantasy v. Reality: Work Trips
My enamorado XFE has deserted me once again. OK, fine, that’s a bit dramatic, I suppose. He’s travelling for work this week. It’s actually been several months since XFE has been a work-road-warrior. I’d gotten pretty comfortable with him around all the time. Which is why it feels like total desertion. Of course, it doesn’t…
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Friday Links: Does This Blog Post Make My Butt Look Big (And/Or Shiny?) Edition
I was a bit light on posting this weekend. Mostly because I was transfixed by the comet landing. I just don’t get it. Why would anyone want to land on a comet? I don’t get space exploration in general. And don’t even get me started on this nonsense about commercial space travel. Or NASA funding.…
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Totally Random Search Terms – October Edition
Way back in the day, when thePoeLog was just a tiny little sentence fetus and Google played nicely with WordPress, we had a semi-regular feature called “Totally Random Search Terms that Brought Someone to thePoeLog.” This was inspired by a feature on WordPress that rounded up terms used in search engines like Yahoo, Google and…