The “hero of the moment” is Steven Slater, the Jet Blue flight attendant who cussed at a passenger and exited the plane via the emergency chute. He did nothing heroic of course. It would have been more heroic to rise above the situation, to keep on working in spite of all the crap he had [...]

Feasting Utensils – Very cool. I wouldn’t actually use them, of course, but they would look great hanging on the wall. Vintage chocolate ads – Yummy! Mind your manners – Tokyo subway posters. Important note: stuff from the 70′s is NOT “vintage”. I remember the 70′s. And to call 80′s stuff vintage… well, now you’re [...]

Houses are one of my things. When I was about 12 or so I wanted to be an architect but I’m bad at math and can’t draw. For a while I thought it might be fun to be a real estate agent and get to look at houses all day but then I realized they [...]

You know… for some reason this strikes me as a bit creepy. Most of my photos on Flickr have fewer than 20 views but this one has 61. I’m imagining creepy foot fetishists getting off on looking at my feet and I’m thinking about deleting this one. I think next time I want to show [...]

Flamenconut’s Flickr Photostream consists of a lot of delightful old children’s book illustrations. I saw this adorable tea party on Beautiful Century.

Andrej Dugan is an interesting artist. I like this still life. A few of his paintings are quite weird, and of course I like weirdness. I find The Dream extremely interesting for some reason.

I bookmarked Kate’s gallery at Deviant Art some time ago and forgot about it. I like these pleasant, soothing floral and pastoral scenes. Here’s one of my favorites. Whenever I see a road in a painting I always want to walk down it to see what’s up ahead. Na zakrecie by ~KateArtGallery on deviantART I [...]

Here’s a list of science fiction writers on Twitter and another Twitter list of writers, editors, reviewers and wanna-be writers. I don’t recognize many of the names on the second list but if you want to follow more people who are into sci-fi, there you go.

I was going to post about something I saw on Spleenville and then I saw something else there so I’m just going to cram them both together in the same post. First thing is the Twitter Fail Blog. I’m sure there’s a lot of material for that! The first thing I saw was this post [...]

As of today, Monday, August 9th, 2010, I am the mother of a 30 year old! One or both of us must have gotten caught in some kind of time anomaly because I’m not much older than that myself. Very soon after Number One Son was born it became clear that he was a genius. [...]

This one is new to me.

And so we do what is possible rather than what we would like — here This just in: Apple recently contacted ENCOM to see if they can borrow the shrink ray for Steve Jobs’ ego. — there The quest for airplay usually results in something that sounds like everything else on the playlist, just so [...]

Neato Coolville – A blog featuring neato cool stuff, especially, vintage advertising and packaging, illustrations, and pop culture history. A Momentary Taste of Being – A nice literature blog. Annoying technical issue: scrolling is a bit odd, doesn’t quite work right. I Want a New Left – a reasonable left of center political blog with [...]

When I was looking for pictures of Victorian houses yesterday I came across the Pine Tree Quilt Shoppe. They have a limited selection of fabrics compared to most other online stores but still some nice stuff and the prices are very reasonable. Just one real complaint so far – the “larger view” is not large [...]

Last night there was one very small thunderstorm about fifty miles away from us so naturally our electricity went out. So we went to a movie. There are several new movies that look really, really good but unfortunately most of them are not showing at the local movie theater. We saw Despicable Me in 3-D. [...]

Updated LeeAnn linked to this awesome steampunk house. I’ve seen some of the pictures before and wanted to see more. My dream house would be a replica of a huge Victorian in the town where I grew up. (They tore it down and built a parking lot sometime in the 70′s) It had a turret [...]

Here’s another list of 100 science fiction books. It’s almost completely different from the other list. I’m not going to do the “bold it if you’ve read it” thing with this one because there are so few that I’ve read. (How embarrassing!) There are a few that were on the other list – Babel-17, The [...]

This must be why they invented the Internet. Found at Look! A Baby Wolf!.

For a number of years I’ve been bored with police/detective shows and haven’t been watching them but two relatively new shows have me hooked. The Good Guys (Fox) is about a pair of Dallas police detectives: Dan Stark (Bradley Whitford) is the incorrigible veteran cop; Jack Bailey (Colin Hanks) is young, intelligent and up on [...]

I took these with my husband’s waterproof Vivitar. It usually doesn’t take very good pictures. They always look a little washed out but these, taken between 7:30 and 8:30 Saturday evening, turned out surprisingly good, I think. This is the Blue Creek area on Lake Oologah. That’s our boat in the lower left corner of [...]