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Brrrrr.

admin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:43:06 +0000

It is ARSE ALL cold here in the tristate northeast and windy as all get-out. And by get-out, I mean do NOT, unless you are wearing one of my dad’s stylish freezer suits or are inside a tauntaun or are leaving the state altogether for warmer climes.

As I was writing her a birthday card, I just remembered that my friend lives in Canada. This momentarily cowed me; I should shut up, stop feeling sorry for my numb extremeties*, and stop dramatically adding more scarves to my neck. Back to my father, a man with a nuanced understanding of how to survive cold weather: stop bellyaching, and put on a sweater! Actually, he would probably say “everloving sweater.” You know these ex-sailors and their salty language.

*I had to look up the spelling (Wordpress, you were WRONG) and Google suggested Extremeties Quarterly. How can you not watch a show that goes to these lengths (har) to flesh out the story.

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:48:40 +0000

While the photo is hilarious, the story itself rides the fine line between just desserts and mean. As picketers go, this woman clearly meant to be helpful in her unsolicited condemnation.

Via BoingBoing.

NaBloPoMOFOS!!!

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:50:15 +0000

Happy November! We here at Sur le Pants are pleased to announce a fresh new look, thanks to the coding wizardry of KL Creative Design and an all-night vector binge in which I wrestled Illustrator CS3 to the floor and kicked it till it hollered.

I’m taking the opportunity to launch the newness and kick my own ass by participating once again in National Blog-Posting Month. Join it up, bitchez!

Does this count as a post? Can I stop now?

Current events, clips

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:57:48 +0000

1. Rice Bowl! Myanmar decides to overlook their law forbidding more than 5 people to gather in one place in order to support their first professional soccer league. While organized teams once had names like “Central Supply and Transport Depot” and “Forestry,” the new league teams now have proper club titles ending with “United.” The Man of the Match wins $500. WSJ piece and vid here.

2. Speaking of Myanmar, it has a new capital city, Naypyitaw, under which North Korea is building secret tunnels to smuggle leftover SCUD missiles. No worries, the Pentagon is “just watching.”

3. God save us from crazy Romanian truckers.

4. Let’s finish with a healthy workout.

Fun with chemistry

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:17:08 +0000

Think before you speak

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:03:48 +0000

1.Overheard comment at Mighty Girl’s blog:

Commentator during last weekend’s Preakness Stakes: “I had the pleasure of riding both his mother and his grandmother.”

2. I wish I had thought of this.

Brian & Eileen’s Wedding Music Video. from LOCKDOWN projects on Vimeo.

3. Ever suffered through an Olan Mills portrait session? Now you can laugh at others in awkward photo poses.

Waltzes

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:54:31 +0000

I won’t post the photo, because it belongs to Bad News Hughes, but this album is funny. They can’t possibly be ballroom dancers, can they? Are they my forebears?

Pope Twit IV

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:55:20 +0000

If the Holy Father was on Twitter, please God it would look like this.

rotfl

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:03:56 +0000

From the new book “No Regrets: The Best Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever.”
With a foreword by Tobias. Oh yeah.

Grace in Small Things, part II

admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:53:47 +0000

1. It’s Friday. ‘Nuff said.

2. I quit my job last week. In the middle of a recession. I have further courted bad voodoo by choosing Friday 13 as my last day. But it’s been the best two weeks of my 5 years here, because I’ve had uplifting lunches with people I genuinely like, a clear idea of my exit strategy, and a significantly brighter outlook. I may be violating an Obama trademark on this word, but I actually feel HOPEFUL.

3. March is the birthday month of everyone I know, so there are things to look forward to all over the place.

4. My sister is in England! I’m delighted that she has slipped the frigid bonds of a long February in western New York. It may not be summer there, but at least there are delightful accents to listen to. Plus, unlike her first visit there, it is no longer necessary to pretend she’s Canadian. Now, people all over the world are buttonholing* Americans and thanking them for our regime change.

5. Last night I spent a lovely 2 hours listening to Welshmen read their writings at the NY Public Library. Came away with the very moderate goals of learning Welsh, moving to Wales, writing several books, reading the Mabinogion, studying British history and buying all of Owen Sheers‘ books.

Lechyd Da!

*I first encountered this bafflingly innocent word in a jacket blurb on the back of Chaim Potok’s The Chosen. Doesn’t it sound dirty, though?