It's a problem that most people would not give a second thought. I have a couch frame. A very old couch frame. A couch that I slept on as a child - then was given to me when I moved out of the house. That puts at least 40 years on the thing right there.
I have no space for the thing. Some of the s - springs are broken. The frame itself is solid as the day it was made. The cushions are yuk and worn. I will never fix it myself - I don't have the tools or the know how. I can't throw it away. I do not know the reason. I just can't.
So, here is the dialog going on in my head about this relic. This dialog has been running in my head for 2 days straight, like it is on a loop.
The couch is old and needs repair. With repair it would be a great couch.
I can't repair it by myself. Too much work and I don't know how to do that stuff.
Even if it was repaired I would have no place to put it.
Maybe I could put it outside and use it out there.
Seems like a waste to have something repaired only to put it outside in the elements.
Maybe I could take it a part and use parts of it for something else.
Like what?
I don't know.
Seems like a waste, though. I can't just throw it away. The frame is still pretty decent.
It's strong, sure, but it's old and needs too much work! The couch is older than you are!
I don't like the idea of it going in the landfill. Maybe I could grow a vine on the frame.
You won't.
I would like to fix it.
And put it where?
But if it were repaired it would be a great couch...
This couch is driving me mad.
Are you celebrating Cinco de Mayo?
No. I don't have to celebrate every holiday sponsored and promoted by the Beer Industry.
I just saw this ad on my vox and I have to wonder what in the hell I said that would conjure up an ad like this. The mention of kd lang and Vanity Fair should have at least brought out an L-Word or Project Catwalk ad...
Are these guys REALLY bears? My idea of a bear is totally different. These guys just look plain old gay to me.
In my day a bear was a hefty and hairy fellow of a certain age, not a buff and manicured 24 year old.
As you can see in my next photo, I have captured a lovely moment of two bears enjoying a drag show. Drag shows are not their usual habitat, I know, but once in awhile you can get lucky and capture them in the wild yet somewhat out of their element. Although these two look adorably comfortable.
Miley Cirus has issued an apology for a "racy" Vanity Fair photo shoot with legendary photographer Annie Liebovitz. Considering the photograph is just of Miley's back, do you think this apology is necessary?
It's as scandalous as we make it.
Annie Liebovitz is an artist, these photos weren't taken during a Girls Gone Wild spring break - pie faced hillbilly edition.
I don't think celebrities have to apologize for anything but murder and bad acting. Did you hear that Ben Affleck?
I would not be able to pick this Cyrus girl out of a line up. I've seen her once (on the Oscars) and I thought she looked like a Chelsea Clinton doppleganger. Call me back when her moon grows some cheekbones.
She is no Lindsey Lohan, who could easily be the next Anne Margerate if she wasn't such a fuck up. By the way, I do not care that I am spelling these names incorrectly.
So who should be explaining this? Her mamma and mullet wearing twit of a father.
Parents...if you are having a hard time explaining to your kids why Hanna Banana is half nekkid in Vanity Fair ask yourself this:
1. Why the hell is my preteen looking at Vanity Fair?
2. How did I allow my child to get so immersed in TV role models and pop culture icon bullshit?
3. Should I take this as a sign and just stop buying in to the hype, maybe turn off the TV once in awhile?
It's SHOW BUSINESS, baby...what do you really expect?
But no, she should not apologize for modeling. She should apologize for the billion dollars her machine has raked in - is she really WORTH it. And parents should stop funding her paycheck...it's obscene. Every time you see her mug on a product and you buy it...ugh, I can't even go on...
Vertigo. Ever had it? It SUCKS.
I started having dizzy spells in my 30's. I'm no doctor, but I figured that maybe all those shows and nightclubs and blow dryers did something to my inner earness. It surely has something to do with that constant ringing...
Wednesday I sat up in bed and found myself in the middle of a cerebral cyclone. I spent the rest of the day on the couch. The only thing that got me off the couch was bathroom breaks. I even had the husband retrieve a bucket...just in case. I can't remember when I have had a dizzy spell that bad. Usually it's just a fleeting spin that lasts about 20 seconds when I hold my head just right. Wednesday's attack was all stealth and all day.
The only reason why any of this matters is because this is the week of the Artists in Our Midst event. Thursday night was the preview show. There was no way in hell I was going to be able to attend if I was ghostlier white than usual and barfing in a trash bin.
Luckily Thursday rolled around and the spin went back to the kind that only happened when I tilted my head in a certain direction.
Today is the first day of the open studio tour. I have to be at John Taylor's place in about an hour. On a scale of 1 - 10 I am a 2 in dizziness and about a 30 in nervousness.
What do you do EVERY day to take care of the earth's environment? What could you do more of?
Less PLASTIC.
I am trying to make myself more aware of wasteful packaging and stay clear of those products. It's hard, because so many things are just overly packaged. What can you do?
Would it matter to the folks at Oil of Olay if I stopped buying face creams that are packaged like they contain gold and the tears of Jesus? I love the Olay product, but they are at the top of the ridiculously wasteful packaging heap. I stopped buying their Regenerist and Definity line over a year ago because of the packaging. The packaging can't even be reused as a pencil holder or anything. At least with the L'eggs egg the kids could make crafts...
And I want to edit this and say something about reusing. I make the remark that at least with the L'eggs eggs the kids could make a craft. That is great, but then what do you have? A plastic piece of crap that even if it lasts 40 years, some day it will make it's way to the dump. It is great to reuse things, as long as you remember that reusing it does not make the plastic more bio degradable. When you scoop that poop into the bag and throw the bag away, it is still a bag in the landfill, only with hermetically sealed poo in it. How many times should we re-use something so that we get it's environmental worth?
BACK TO OLAY
Olay keeps coming up with new and innovative ways to use more packaging and disposable plastic crap. I saw the latest product last night and I just got angry...
New Olay Regenerist 14 Day Skin Intervention
You'll love Regenerist 14 Day Skin Intervention because you will experience a skin turnaround in just 2 weeks. Included are 14 individual anti-aging treatments for an intensive intervention to your normal skincare routine.
Fourteen plastic throw away tubes packaged in a plastic tray housed in a cardboard box!
I do not care if the plastic is of the recycling kind, which it may or may not be, that is too much packaging! I would really like to try this product - but I can't and feel good about it. They couldn't have put that goo in one or two (I think it is a two part system) big tubes?
I wonder how much less Olay would cost if the packaging wasn't so grand? How much more product could I get?
I would like to see more people concerned about wasteful packaging. It might not matter to Oil of Olay if I stop buying their products because of the packaging - but if you add half a million other boycotters maybe it might mean $omething.
I saw something the other night about wildlife mistaking our plastic garbage as food. The wasting carcass of an albatross showed that the poor thing had eaten a toothbrush handle, bottle caps, and other bits of plastic. Wake up world!
Have you ever experienced road rage?
Submitted by Question of the Day.
Suuuuurrre. Just about every time I drive.
There was this one time...
I used to do freelance work as a clown, mostly for merchant or commercial gigs. Dress up in the costume enough and it just feels like a uniform or regular clothes.
I was driving to meet my clown accomplice when some doink in a fancy bronze coloured car slides in front of me, almost taking my front end with him. He cuts me off for no reason! The traffic wasn't heavy and he did not take the exit. Long story short I blast the horn, make a grrrr face and flip the bird. Then I catch a glimpse of myself in my rear view mirror and remember I am in full clown gear.
I look to my left and a guy in a pick up is beside me laughing his ass off.
Honk Honk!
If you could travel back in time, which era would you visit and why?
The Renaissance. I would go back just long enough to see if everyone smelled as bad as I think they probably did.
What's holding you back from your dream job?
Submitted by Question of the Day.
The desire to work.
