tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-128194 2011-04-06T10:54:36-04:00 The near-daily soapboxy discourses of a domestic goddess in the making, as she tries to break away from Samsara (or dirty dishes, whatever comes first) TypePad Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily RotationStop by the site sometime, will ya? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452484f69e2014e8634e7ff970d 2011-02-20T21:17:31-05:00 2011-02-20T21:21:42-05:00 Madame Meow™ Forty-Three/ThreeSityFive: Tangled, originally uploaded by Madame Meow. What is there not to love about a city filled with idealists? A city molded in marble and cool granite, shaped by utopia and good intentions, pushed around by the ignoramuses but championed by those who love it so. A city...<br/> <br/> Read on at http://madamemeow.com<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9NMzwQ90RDs:5Ut4-aFteBc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9NMzwQ90RDs:5Ut4-aFteBc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=9NMzwQ90RDs:5Ut4-aFteBc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9NMzwQ90RDs:5Ut4-aFteBc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=9NMzwQ90RDs:5Ut4-aFteBc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9NMzwQ90RDs:5Ut4-aFteBc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=9NMzwQ90RDs:5Ut4-aFteBc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9NMzwQ90RDs:5Ut4-aFteBc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm/~4/9NMzwQ90RDs" height="1" width="1"/> http://madamemeow.typepad.com/daily_dose/2011/02/a-federal-city.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452484f69e20148c7f88228970c 2011-01-24T22:24:35-05:00 2011-01-24T22:24:35-05:00 Madame Meow™ Coffee and Gum, originally uploaded by Madame Meow. The problem with our increasingly connected world is that it gets increasingly and exponentially harder to keep your attention long enough to get to the end of this post. This is part of the reason I picked this picture, because I know you're...<br/> <br/> Read on at http://madamemeow.com<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=AZsYIJQw_HU:Qoms5NjSivM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=AZsYIJQw_HU:Qoms5NjSivM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=AZsYIJQw_HU:Qoms5NjSivM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=AZsYIJQw_HU:Qoms5NjSivM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=AZsYIJQw_HU:Qoms5NjSivM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=AZsYIJQw_HU:Qoms5NjSivM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=AZsYIJQw_HU:Qoms5NjSivM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=AZsYIJQw_HU:Qoms5NjSivM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm/~4/AZsYIJQw_HU" height="1" width="1"/> http://madamemeow.typepad.com/daily_dose/2011/01/made-ya-look.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452484f69e20147e1cc09ba970b 2011-01-20T22:50:24-05:00 2011-01-20T22:50:24-05:00 Madame Meow™ We're more than twenty days into 2011 and I hadn't felt the need to blog. Okay, well, I HAD felt the need to blog, but I just hadn't done it. There is that whole "failed marriage" specter which is kind of clinging to me like a very large and sad cobweb, and which makes it hard to be completely...<br/> <br/> Read on at http://madamemeow.com<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9_GeY4Zd4Ck:XEppw6uhjpg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9_GeY4Zd4Ck:XEppw6uhjpg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=9_GeY4Zd4Ck:XEppw6uhjpg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9_GeY4Zd4Ck:XEppw6uhjpg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=9_GeY4Zd4Ck:XEppw6uhjpg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9_GeY4Zd4Ck:XEppw6uhjpg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=9_GeY4Zd4Ck:XEppw6uhjpg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9_GeY4Zd4Ck:XEppw6uhjpg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm/~4/9_GeY4Zd4Ck" height="1" width="1"/> http://madamemeow.typepad.com/daily_dose/2011/01/beginning-and-end.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452484f69e20147e0980bff970b 2010-12-11T16:37:05-05:00 2010-12-11T16:43:46-05:00 Madame Meow™ Topsy-Turvy (Day three hundred thirty-five, originally uploaded by Madame Meow. Normally I change the name of the post from the original Flickr picture name. However, allow me a STET-type mulligan here. You may have noticed that, 1. Now all my posts come with pictures, 2. I've somehow started using...<br/> <br/> Read on at http://madamemeow.com<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9JkGr4loXk4:a6D32otYI28:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9JkGr4loXk4:a6D32otYI28:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=9JkGr4loXk4:a6D32otYI28:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9JkGr4loXk4:a6D32otYI28:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=9JkGr4loXk4:a6D32otYI28:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9JkGr4loXk4:a6D32otYI28:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=9JkGr4loXk4:a6D32otYI28:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=9JkGr4loXk4:a6D32otYI28:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm/~4/9JkGr4loXk4" height="1" width="1"/> http://madamemeow.typepad.com/daily_dose/2010/12/topsy-turvy-day-three-hundred-thirty-five.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452484f69e20134896dc3f2970c 2010-11-22T10:12:32-05:00 2010-11-22T10:18:54-05:00 Madame Meow™ But You Should Have Heard What Was Coming Out of My Mouth (Day three hundred twenty-two), originally uploaded by Madame Meow. Just because something is trite, doesn't make it less of a sentiment or less of a truth. Yes, it's trite: said a million times before, sometimes inelegantly and mostly...<br/> <br/> Read on at http://madamemeow.com<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=74vV_ZlP9ug:aNsfVKeGlxY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=74vV_ZlP9ug:aNsfVKeGlxY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=74vV_ZlP9ug:aNsfVKeGlxY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=74vV_ZlP9ug:aNsfVKeGlxY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=74vV_ZlP9ug:aNsfVKeGlxY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=74vV_ZlP9ug:aNsfVKeGlxY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=74vV_ZlP9ug:aNsfVKeGlxY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=74vV_ZlP9ug:aNsfVKeGlxY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm/~4/74vV_ZlP9ug" height="1" width="1"/> http://madamemeow.typepad.com/daily_dose/2010/11/platitudinal.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452484f69e2013488f4b464970c 2010-11-13T14:21:42-05:00 2010-11-13T14:21:53-05:00 Madame Meow™ A tangled web of streets, leaning slightly in every direction. A spangle of names, some of which trigger primal memories. A third-world city, tucked in amongst the mountains. A wave of patched memories surges from deep inside, but crashes nowhere. It's been twenty years, but that time may as well...<br/> <br/> Read on at http://madamemeow.com<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=_Tx2vx3zeww:dXRpJi6m8ps:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=_Tx2vx3zeww:dXRpJi6m8ps:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=_Tx2vx3zeww:dXRpJi6m8ps:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=_Tx2vx3zeww:dXRpJi6m8ps:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=_Tx2vx3zeww:dXRpJi6m8ps:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=_Tx2vx3zeww:dXRpJi6m8ps:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=_Tx2vx3zeww:dXRpJi6m8ps:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=_Tx2vx3zeww:dXRpJi6m8ps:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm/~4/_Tx2vx3zeww" height="1" width="1"/> http://madamemeow.typepad.com/daily_dose/2010/11/blame-google-maps.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452484f69e20133f5bdc4de970b 2010-11-10T15:02:44-05:00 2010-11-10T15:04:37-05:00 Madame Meow™ A Tiny Crane (Day three hundred eleven), originally uploaded by Madame Meow. This is just a tiny reminder always to find something interesting where others see only garbage. Also, a reminder that sushi can save lives. We will not enter a discussion of how this statement is rendered invalid by the...<br/> <br/> Read on at http://madamemeow.com<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=2ctCK87HfPY:c7BszGE1K34:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=2ctCK87HfPY:c7BszGE1K34:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=2ctCK87HfPY:c7BszGE1K34:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=2ctCK87HfPY:c7BszGE1K34:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=2ctCK87HfPY:c7BszGE1K34:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=2ctCK87HfPY:c7BszGE1K34:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=2ctCK87HfPY:c7BszGE1K34:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=2ctCK87HfPY:c7BszGE1K34:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm/~4/2ctCK87HfPY" height="1" width="1"/> http://madamemeow.typepad.com/daily_dose/2010/11/craftiness.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452484f69e2013488a9fb0c970c 2010-11-02T19:32:06-04:00 2010-11-02T19:36:44-04:00 Madame Meow™ Precinct Eighty-Eight, originally uploaded by Madame Meow. I don't even know how to describe it, but today was one of the most thrilling days of my life. Today I had an interview for graduate school (*squee*), and sometimes I would become so incredibly excited that no voice would come out-- all...<br/> <br/> Read on at http://madamemeow.com<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=idRZeDTjaCM:EVY95JlC8tw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=idRZeDTjaCM:EVY95JlC8tw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=idRZeDTjaCM:EVY95JlC8tw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=idRZeDTjaCM:EVY95JlC8tw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=idRZeDTjaCM:EVY95JlC8tw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=idRZeDTjaCM:EVY95JlC8tw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?i=idRZeDTjaCM:EVY95JlC8tw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?a=idRZeDTjaCM:EVY95JlC8tw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADailyDoseOfZenSarcasm/~4/idRZeDTjaCM" height="1" width="1"/> http://madamemeow.typepad.com/daily_dose/2010/11/thrills.html