Category: opinions (big book of)
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Things That Aren’t Cool: Evil Elmos, NASA
What with some presidential candidates publicly taking aim at Big Bird, Sesame Street has been in the news a lot lately. And never one to miss an opportunity, those media whores over at NASA are trying to elbow their way into the limelight. Again. (I’m looking at you, Mars Rover guy, with your Mohawk and…
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Somebody Must Have Broken Rule Number One
I’ll admit it – yesterday’s post kind of sucked. I definitely phoned it in. Which is a real shame because it was my boyfriend-in-training XFE’s birthday and well, he deserved better. But, in my defense (and when am I not a bit defensive?), the post sucked because it was written in the midst of fighting.…
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I Hear the Dengue Fever is Hot for Spring 2013
Like K-Stew and R-Patt’s relationship, bubonic plague is back y’all! *Can we please take a moment to thank the US Weekly editor/gods that we’ve all made it past that time of national crisis? I’m talking about the Twi-Breakup, obviously. Not the bubonic plague. That appears to be here to stay. Like Lindsay Lohan and drunk…
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Beavers, Preppers and Chelsea Handler
Oh crap. The beavers are at it again. From the Washington Post: The beaver leapt out of the water and onto the dock and was seen acting aggressively and chasing the children, police said. An animal control officer responded to the scene, cleared the area and shot the beaver, police said. Leapt out of the…
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Don’t Be That Guy: The Finance Department
As a writer, I work in the communications division of my organization. We’re very spread out, mostly along the second floor of our building. Although, our poor copy editor is on the fifth floor, which makes for very interesting walkabouts during the editing process. Anyway, by some weird twist of assigned seating fate, I sit…
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I Live With Kanye West, and You Can Too
I am, it goes without saying, an incredibly lucky girl (well, for something that goes without saying, I’m about to spend a couple of hundred words saying it). I’m lucky for many reasons—my naturally curly hair being one of them—but perhaps I’m most lucky for having my personal chauffeur-chef-stylist-interior decorator-banker XFE in my life to…
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Backup Plan in Case Blogging Doesn’t Make Me Rich: Entrepreneur
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my future. I share the dream of most Americans in that someday I want to boss people around, have them do my bidding while they make me great sums of money on which I can lounge all day in a chinchilla bikini. What I’m saying is, I’d make…
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So, It’s Shark Week.
I can tell by the keyword searches that are bringing folks to thePoeLog that the worldwide Interwebs audience is breathless with anticipation to hear my thoughts on Shark Week. The keyword searches this week have consistently been shark related (well, except for a very odd and brief divergence into Kate Gosselin territory in which someone…
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Does Anyone Know How I Can Subscribe to ‘Less?’
This is what I came home to today: Act my age? What the hell does that mean? I’m 40. What am I supposed to be acting like? Seriously? What is a 40 year old supposed to be acting like? As far as I know, I am in fact acting my age. As a marketing ploy,…
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I Tried Not To Snort When I Saw the Word “Inspiring”
Hello! I’m back from the Coast of Riches (eh, my Spanish is a bit rusty). What did I miss? Wimbledon’s still rained out, right? TomKat’s still going strong, correct? Well, surely Magic Mike won out at the box office this week? (If not, then emotionally-available and ambitious male strippers everywhere were ROBBED.) I have a…