Posted on December 18th, 2011 by Karen
Hello! Is anyone out there? We are all (using the word “we” loosely to mean “just me”, of course) gearing up for a new and gripping and oh-so-romantic season of The Bachelor in early January. Consider this me just cracking my knuckles in preparation, barring the fact that I never crack my knuckles and if [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2011 by Karen
Oh, man. ABC, you are KILLING ME THIS SEASON. Let’s not even talk abut this episode, let’s talk instead about how Brad and Wes were apparently sharing a girlfriend. Because US Magazine (or someone) says that she and Brad were together (off and on!) for eight years, and yet she and Wes were [...]
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Posted on January 1st, 2011 by Karen
Well, HELLO there, little spuddlets! It’s time to dust off the old blog once again because The Bachelor, season God Knows What, starts on Monday and I’ll have to remember my passwords and how to use WordPress in time to closely analyze Brad Womack and ask again and again, “WTF?” Exciting, isn’t it? [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2010 by Karen
Posted on May 14th, 2010 by Karen
I’m sure you all remember last year when Wading Pool Season began and I tried to siphon my previous year’s wading pool using a sawed off piece of garden hose and accidentally drank a big, giant Slurpee sized gulp of SLIME AND BACTERIA and HOLY HELL I’M NOT LYING WHEN I SAY THAT I CAN [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Karen
Last Saturday, my friend Martha Ralph was killed when a stolen Honda cut her off on the Malahat. She was on a motorcycle driven by her long-time boyfriend, Larry Machnee. They didn’t have a chance. He died on the scene and she died later that day in hospital. When I found out, [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2009 by Karen
OK, I know The Bachelorette is long since over and no one should care anymore about these people, and frankly, I don’t much care about them either and you’d think I would, having spent so much time typing about them. But I don’t. And yet, I’m sort of lying. Because whenever I see an article [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Karen
Some terrible things have happened this week in the blogosphere, though these things happened in the real sphere, in real life. I feel both like I ought not to write about them because there are so many who were closer to these people and their losses that on one level, I feel like it’s not [...]
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Posted on January 18th, 2009 by Karen
It’s not my idea, it’s someone else’s, but I love it and it will force me to come here and write at least something, some small thing, every day. Thanks, Schmutzie. Five things, that’s all it is. Five things that have graced my life. Five good things. More info here. Hey, we all need a [...]
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