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Southern Discomfort / I had also considered “Scotch and Prune Juice” started by vmarinelli
Square One / Questionable genius started by vmarinelli
Wonder started by vmarinelli
Digging through old photos tonight and found this. Does not seem possible that this is the teenager, eight years ago, all thrilled about this backyard frog.
Oral fixation (not that kind, pervs) started by vmarinelli
Now that I’m a few days into serious work on a story (notes toward which may be found here), I find myself reverting to an old habit: breaking up the intensity by jumping up every so often, wandering aimlessly through the house until, inevitably, I find myself in the kitchen. Then I end up eating [...]
A minor marital vignette started by vmarinelli
[L: Me with newly red-ified hair; R: shadow of husband taking picture. One of our stranger portraits together.]
Proof my husband hates me:
He recorded “Bait Shop,” starring Bill Engvall and Billy Ray Cyrus, on the DVR.
Proof my husband loves me:
Only five minutes into its playback, even he had to acknowledge
Proof my husband hates me:
He recorded “Bait Shop,” starring Bill Engvall and Billy Ray Cyrus, on the DVR.
Proof my husband loves me:
Only five minutes into its playback, even he had to acknowledge
See if I don’t started by vmarinelli
Last night, after hanging for awhile at Randy’s, my husband dropped his cell phone from his motorcycle, while going (he claims1) 65 mph. Evidently, after paying a toll on the Powhite Parkway, he’d forgotten to re-attach the Velcro strap of the bag in which both his change and his phone had been stored, so a [...]
There is something funny about watching this podcast download… started by vmarinelli
…while I am battling insomnia.
If you are in Richmond (especially Lakeside), please keep your eyes open for this cat started by vmarinelli
My Allie, my sweet tortoiseshell of love, is missing. Last seen on Lakeside Avenue.
If you see her, please email me at vmarinelli@gmail.com. (You can put “cat” in subject line, and it will automatically forward as a text message to my phone, so I’ll be able to respond quickly). Or, of course, call the number [...]
If you see her, please email me at vmarinelli@gmail.com. (You can put “cat” in subject line, and it will automatically forward as a text message to my phone, so I’ll be able to respond quickly). Or, of course, call the number [...]
My only explanation for this photograph is that I was sixteen at the time started by vmarinelli
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Fish Face, ca. 1987, originally uploaded by vmarinelli.
Hey folks. As you can tell, I’ve been a tad ambivalent about the blogging thing lately.
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Fish Face, ca. 1987, originally uploaded by vmarinelli.
Hey folks. As you can tell, I’ve been a tad ambivalent about the blogging thing lately.
Wreckage of an other than historical and/or metaphorical variety started by vmarinelli
Earlier this evening, as we were driving home from a visit to my in-laws, I thought it would be funny if I posted this pathetic but true-to-life tip on Twitter:
Lifehack: Can’t afford repairs needed to pass inspection? Make sure you have washer fluid. Pass cop, wash windshield, sticker date obscured!
Within about ten minutes of sending [...]
Lifehack: Can’t afford repairs needed to pass inspection? Make sure you have washer fluid. Pass cop, wash windshield, sticker date obscured!
Within about ten minutes of sending [...]
Olympia’s queer history, as rediscovered in my underwear drawer started by vmarinelli
Found in the farthest corner my underwear drawer, amid the ruins of the recently excavated bedroom (as we’ve been in the process of moving to the more-spacious rental next door): my shirt from Olympia, Washington’s first ever Queer Pride march (of which I was a primary organizer) in 1991. We put the damn thing together [...]
Rat! Torturing my brain! started by vmarinelli
Last night, the second we’ve spent at the rental next door (we have until mid-month to give up the keys to this one), I had a fairly unnerving experience. I was cold, and my extra-warm comforter that has seen me through more than a decade of love and trauma was in the dryer. Probably, I’d [...]
74 Things I Didn’t Post to Twitter started by vmarinelli
It’s been a weird week. Sunday, I saw what was, perhaps, the best show of my entire life: The National (playing, as it were, at the Richmond venue called The National). That show deserves its own post (delayed though it may be), but what I want to convey here, as efficiently as possible, is what [...]
Variations on a theme of independence started by vmarinelli
Yesterday, the ever snarkful (& smart, so, what - can I now invent ’smarkful’ in addition to ’snarkful,’ also not an actual word?) Simon Goetz offered the following, um, pearl of wisdom with regard to incipient Fourth of July celebrations:
Guys are prematurely shooting their colorful loads of Freedom all over the sky’s face. It’s scary [...]
Guys are prematurely shooting their colorful loads of Freedom all over the sky’s face. It’s scary [...]
My incredibly sophisticated book classification system started by vmarinelli
So, as I have griped previously (no surprise that it should be in a post concerning a specific book), we are moving. Yes, it is only to the house next door (same landlord, has a bit more space, better insulation, etc.), but damn is it ever stressful right now. Particularly for me as I try [...]
A dollar bill, a baby bird, a prayer I can’t explain, and its answer which I won’t pretend to understand. started by vmarinelli
Walking my dog today, while feeling especially weighed down by impossible questions, I slipped back into a mode I haven’t much occupied in recent years: what can only be called prayer.
If asked to explain my faith, I could only tell you, entirely in earnest, that it is first and foremost inexplicable. (Because it’s faith.) And [...]
If asked to explain my faith, I could only tell you, entirely in earnest, that it is first and foremost inexplicable. (Because it’s faith.) And [...]
Daughters of our various riots started by vmarinelli
As anyone following me on Twitter will be all too keenly aware, I’ve been listening to an awful lot of The National lately.
So, I’ll understand if no one believes me, that the title of this post actually didn’t start out as a reference to Daughters Of the SoHo Riots, a track from their 2005 [...]
So, I’ll understand if no one believes me, that the title of this post actually didn’t start out as a reference to Daughters Of the SoHo Riots, a track from their 2005 [...]
File under “Bizarre Shit We Actually Own” started by vmarinelli
Folks, at the end of this month we will be, I’m afraid, moving.
Granted, it will only be next door, to a house owned by the same landlord (with marginally more room, so finally the girls will have separate rooms and, therefore, can hopefully avoid killing each other), so there will be no specific inconvenience or [...]
Granted, it will only be next door, to a house owned by the same landlord (with marginally more room, so finally the girls will have separate rooms and, therefore, can hopefully avoid killing each other), so there will be no specific inconvenience or [...]
“Mistakes Were Made”: On deception, in the absence of malice. started by vmarinelli
This morning I’m listening for a second time to a podcast I’d downloaded weeks ago, and hadn’t gotten around to playing the first time around until just yesterday. This is the broadcast for the habitually brilliant This American Life’s episode #354, “Mistakes Were Made,” which originally aired on April 18th of this year. You can [...]
The Eternal Sunshine of the “What the Fuck Are You Talking About?” Mind. started by vmarinelli
Tonight, I received an extraordinarily strange inquiry, via myspace (of all avenues):
My first reaction was to laugh. Really, I mean, what the hell was this dude talking about? And I posted this to Twitter:
Actual email rec’d: “I’m researching the ‘memory eraser’ drug propranolol & came across your comments.”
My first reaction was to laugh. Really, I mean, what the hell was this dude talking about? And I posted this to Twitter:
Actual email rec’d: “I’m researching the ‘memory eraser’ drug propranolol & came across your comments.”
This is my father started by vmarinelli
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Blurred portrait of my father with Edgar Allen Poe action figure in foreground, April 10, 2005, Ashland Coffee & Tea.
I have mixed feelings concerning writing about him, as well as not writing about him, beyond fragments sometimes embedded in photographs, infrequently shared.
Whatever. He’s my dad, and he gave me (among other things) a love [...]
Blurred portrait of my father with Edgar Allen Poe action figure in foreground, April 10, 2005, Ashland Coffee & Tea.
I have mixed feelings concerning writing about him, as well as not writing about him, beyond fragments sometimes embedded in photographs, infrequently shared.
Whatever. He’s my dad, and he gave me (among other things) a love [...]
Compare and Contrast started by vmarinelli
Some teenagers would kill to go to a Lamb of God show - never mind the luxury of VIP access and such, since we’re friends of the band members, in particular, vocalist Randy Blythe (as discussed recently) and guitarist Mark Morton (whom my husband has known since the seventies, and I’ve known since 1990). Here’s [...]
For those of you who had been curious about this ex of mine, “Lee.” started by vmarinelli
With Lee, some lake in Minnesota, August 1994. Click through to image on Flickr for explanatory notes.
Longtime readers (in my various blog incarnations) will be familiar with the name of “Lee,” the woman with whom I spent four years in hell Minnesota1. More recent readers can still access some of the backstory here; old entries [...]
Longtime readers (in my various blog incarnations) will be familiar with the name of “Lee,” the woman with whom I spent four years in hell Minnesota1. More recent readers can still access some of the backstory here; old entries [...]
Yesterday’s high point: this text message, sent from Paris. started by vmarinelli
From my pal D. Randall Blythe:
I am sitting outside in Paris @ cafe Les Deux Magots (waaaaay Hemingway!) having an espresso and getting ready to walk over to Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas’ house, then on to where Joyce wrote a good part of Ulysses. There’s your geek stuff for the day. XO, DRB
Can I [...]
I am sitting outside in Paris @ cafe Les Deux Magots (waaaaay Hemingway!) having an espresso and getting ready to walk over to Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas’ house, then on to where Joyce wrote a good part of Ulysses. There’s your geek stuff for the day. XO, DRB
Can I [...]
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