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Archive for May 2002

teeming erotic scrimmage

I am actually in a pretty good mood (today's Weather Word is MELLOW), but it amuses me to pretend to be cranky. And that shouldn't freak anyone out too badly, since I often am cranky. However, I hope that when I am cranky, I am cranky in a funny, good-natured way and not in a […]

californication

MIMI SMARTYPANTS WENT TO CALIFORNIA AND ALL SHE BROUGHT YOU WAS THIS LOUSY UPDATEFirst: hi. And a question: Did Popeye belong to any particular navy or was he more of a freelance sailor man? It's been bugging me.EXTRANEOUS SAN DIEGO ANECDOTE: When I arrived I did the usual hotel room thing of bouncing on the […]

single occupancy

IN WHICH I WANDER AROUND SAN DIEGO There are palm trees here. And mountains. And fish tacos, and no one is afraid of the very idea of a “fish taco,” because we are very near the ocean so the fish is not like several months old as it would be in Chicago. I am sorry […]

transmembrane conductance regulator

Weather Word for today = LUSCIOUS. Oh my.I was having a bit of a rough time this morning, some misplaced despair and whatnot (this was probably self-evident by my mawkish moaning and head-petting shoutout in the last entry), but then I checked the smartypants stats and was somewhat cheered: because it turns out that, through […]

in the cloakroom it smells so nice

Today I had popcorn and dried cranberries for lunch and I thought: oh my god I could make a festive holiday garland! (I really did think it just like that, too, in breathless Valley-Girl-speak. ) But I couldn't find a needle and thread in the office so I gave up. There are literally piles of […]

who ate the last piece of pie? Alan Greenspan did.

ALL THE BEST PRACTICAL JOKES INVOLVE AMPUTATIONThe arm-attaching twin thing is a hoax. But it's such a snazzy hoax, and such a good read, that I don't really mind. Thanks to an e-mail buddy for pointing out its hoax-ness. I am still slightly surprised that BME would allow the page to stay up without splashing […]

office supplies get me hot

RIGHT NOW1. Yodel me once, yodel me twice: I am encouraged/alarmed by the overwhelming—nay, clamorous—outpouring of e-mail support for me to wear a fancy red cowgirl outfit. 2. Also via e-mail: a spam-sender is offering me 72 hours of free unlimited psychic advice. I say you and I snort a bunch of speed, stay up, […]

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