By Mary on Dec 18, 2009 in notes from the trenches | 3 Comments
I went to the cell phone store yesterday because I had an hour to spare after a meeting got canceled, and because I was a year overdue for an upgrade, and because sometimes a lady simply needs to upgrade herself. Now, as a few of you know from tedious personal experience, I don’t do casual [...]
By Mary on Sep 1, 2009 in notes from the trenches, the meaning of christmas, ugh | 1 Comment
Here’s a tip for formal summer funeral wear: Find a black cotton dress with long sleeves that roll up and button themselves into short sleeves so you can stay cool in the muggy transitions between funeral home and church and cemetary, warm in the over-air-conditioned country club where the buffet luncheon takes place. I found [...]
By Mary on Aug 17, 2009 in a worthy ponder, killer trees?!, notes from the trenches, politricks | 0 Comments
Earlier today I posted this Sarah Palin tribute video over at Indecision, and yes I watched the whole thing, sober, before breakfast, because that’s just the kind of dedication I bring to my job. Something about the video seemed strange yet familiar, aside from Sarah Palin talking, but I couldn’t put my finger on it [...]
By Mary on Jun 19, 2009 in a worthy ponder, cheap distraction, notes from the trenches, politricks, ugh | 3 Comments
Obviously — obviously — I saw and bookmarked the WaPo “where is he now” story on John Edwards. And obviously (obviously!) I made mental note of the money quote:
Yet as he spends his days in his family’s mansion on the outskirts of Chapel Hill, N.C., Edwards can’t help but fret about how Washington and the [...]
By Mary on May 29, 2009 in notes from the trenches, report from the field | 1 Comment
This is what happens when well-intentioned people write about my homeland.
The Kennebec Café, named after the Kennebec river, is located in Fairfield (pop. 6,573, mostly blue collar families and the occasional moose) and also serves adjacent Waterville (pop. 15,605, including the 2,000 barefooted students of Colby College).
I can’t remember the last time a moose wandered [...]
By Mary on May 5, 2009 in killer trees?!, notes from the trenches, reading | 3 Comments
This sentence was just a lose-lose situation from the outset, comma-wise.
Via the local paper, obvs.
By Mary on Apr 28, 2009 in notes from the trenches, politricks | 0 Comments
Arlen Specter did a thing! This thing! Okay, this thing. Sorry, no time for jokes! Hurry hurry! Reax! Get in front! We need an angle! Gotta own the morning! Also the afternoon and the evening and that eerie time when you can’t fall asleep and the sunrise is precisely three hours away! (That is the [...]
By Mary on Apr 11, 2009 in notes from the trenches | 0 Comments
I can still tell you how to subway from 6th Ave. and 13th St. to Clinton Hill.
I still can’t remember how to parallel park.
This time next year these things will probably be reversed.
By Mary on Mar 25, 2009 in cheap distraction, notes from the trenches | 1 Comment
Y’all, I’m tired to the bone so I’m just going to be lazy and put up this here video from Funny or Die.
Related: once upon a time I helped start a film festival. Tomorrow evening I’m introducing a movie at another film festival, on behalf of my film festival. That should be fun and also [...]