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The
Cursing Mommy
Today I fondly recall the New Yorker's
Ian Frazier's delightful ongoing series about a
tightly wound stay-at-home mother, "The
Cursing Mommy," who consistently includes
the Bush Administration into her tirades of
profanity, despite it now being years after
Bush's ignominious
departure—so she always has my sympathy. For
easy reading, I've put up her last three
articles, "Easy Cocktails from the Cursing
Mommy," "The Cursing Mommy Cooks
Italian," and "Rx from the Cursing
Mommy," all in one place, with their
illustrations, here.
posted May 29, 2010, 11:31 amPainted
my roof white
When I found out it would be 90º in
April—not that there's anything wrong with the climate or anything—last Sunday I
decided to paint my flat black asphalt
roof white. Using a 5-gallon bucket of
good quality white oil-based primer, two 18"
3/8"-nap rollers, an 18" yoke, a roller
extension pole, and an 18" paint tray
($164), I hauled all the stuff up a ladder onto
the roof—carrying a 5-gallon bucket of paint
up a ladder should really be a two-guy job—I
managed to get the roof painted by 4:30 pm and
still have time to have some beers with my
friends. See here for a little photo essay.
posted April 5, 2010, 7:14 pm
Because
you should
Because you should know about the light
bulbs in my apartment, I bring you... my official light bulb layout plan. I assure you, dear readers, that
without this, your knowledge about how I live
would be insufficient. So I invite you to click
on the small light bulb graphic up there on the
right, and see for yourself how I've transformed
my apartment into a haven of energy efficiency,
while still keeping those comforting halogen
lightbulbs in strategic locations (compact
fluorescent bulbs, I have found, do emit a very
quiet humming—very quiet, but nonetheless
loud enough to disturb my quiet studying by the
kitchen windows).
posted February 7, 2010, 11:43 am
For entries posted prior to
2010, I invite you to my archive.
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