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Thrift Store Male Objectification!

2012-02-23T14:09:00.001-08:00

Another one that's a little too saucy for Hello Giggles, but Bad Cholla sent me a picture of this epic poster for sale in a local thrift store: Although...really...a woman's touch? Won't any touch at all do, really?

Call for Thrift Store Finds!

2012-02-20T16:15:00.000-08:00

I'm putting out a call for weird and funny things that you've found at thrift stores! This one couldn't go on Hello Giggles, but I present it as an outtake for you all: The Blanket With The Inappropriate Towers on It That Do Not Make Me Think of Towers:

Everything I love comes together in an explosion of unicorns farting rainbows

2012-02-19T14:51:00.000-08:00

Lately, it's like the world is designing things especially for me (magical thinking? what's that?). Joel McHale reflects on Supernatural: As The Onion AV Club puts it: you just don't get stuff like this on any other show: “You're saying an octopus did this?” a Winchester asked the medical examiner. “Not just any octopus,” the guy replied. Later, once the brothers were beginning to get

I'm not crying, it's just raining on my face.

2012-02-13T15:33:00.000-08:00

I volunteer at the Poetry Center once a week (and now teach there! for a little while!); among the numerous lovely things about this is that I can read from their complete collection of literary journals. I took a stack of Fairy Tale Reviews to my desk today and was happily reading. In the grand female tradition, I get strangely weepy at certain times of the month; usually a feeling of great

Tragic Lost Opportunity for more 30 Rock clips

2012-02-08T20:52:00.000-08:00

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate...ack! When posting about my party below, I completely forgot to include this 30 Rock clip, which sums up my attitude to entertaining: I like to pretend I'm wild and crazy, but really I'm a bit like this: Normally, my food preparation is like this: Which is not to say that I don't have talents: Not these kind: Oh my god, where are my

Holiday Party So Late Holidays So Over

2012-02-06T15:51:00.000-08:00

It's time for another installment of Laura Takes Pictures of Stuff, Does Not Post Them for a Long Time! Back in the holidays, me n' the roomie had a Holiday Party. The theme was, bring any weird food or drink that your family always makes around the Holidays. Like, is there a certain jello salad your grandma always makes? Bring it! Before the party, I got a few anxious queries about what

Dreamy/Inappropriate

2012-01-30T20:02:00.000-08:00

My roommate made this recipe for Dream Cake. And it's one of the few recipes I've seen (keep in mind, again, I did not make it) where it came out looking as pretty as the pictures on the recipe promised! Dreamy... (we called it "Dream Pie" as she made it in a pie dish, but it strikes me now that "dream pie" sounds vaguely dirty ["my roommate's delicious dream pie!"] ). For the

Supernatural 7.4 Recap: Ghost Cars Not Scary; Everyone Feels Guilty, Except Sam

2012-01-28T09:32:00.000-08:00

If there's one thing I've learned from watching Supernatural -- and never let it be said that time spent watching this show has not taught me anything useful -- it's that haunted cars are not scary. Arguably the worst Supernatural episode ever (Yeah, yeah, I know) is "Route 666" from Season 1, in which the villain is a racist truck. Yes, a ghost truck. A ghost truck that is racist. A racist

tl; dr intro to Supernatural recap

2012-01-27T17:45:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I've been totally failing at recapping Supernatural. Why? Well... Chuck is my spirit animal. And you know what's really hard? Recapping. It takes for frickin' ever. So my deepest appreciation goes to those who've put time and effort in writing recaps that I enjoy. It's a lot of work! Especially when one has ambivalent feelings about a season. I've talked about my feelings

Meagan-y Meagan Eats!

2012-01-25T23:25:00.000-08:00

So tonight I was determined to cook with ingredients we actually had in the house (as opposed to my usual "I can totally make this! I have all the ingredients...oh. I guess I need to go out and get star anise. And shitake mushrooms. And bok choy. But other than that, I can totally just whip it together. Right after I figure out how to use the food processor. Oh, and coriander seeds. Need those

I Want to Call This Post "The Mysterious Case of Sherlock Holmes and His Many Adaptations" but I Also Sort of Hate Myself for Wanting to Call it That

2012-01-18T21:29:00.000-08:00

So writing this made me think about how much I love all things Sherlock Holmes -- from the original stories, to the Jeremy Brett TV show...wait. Hold up. Before I go any further, I've just got to blow a few minds. Jeremy Brett played Sherlock Holmes on a well-known BBC adaptation of the stories from the 80s-90s. He was awesome and weird. He looked like this: He was a bit dark.

Snow Mad

2012-01-15T21:48:00.000-08:00

When you live in Arizona, you don't see snow much. Or at all. When you encounter snow for the first time, it can be...well. A little overwhelming. I hiked Madera canyon today, with two friends who each have a cute dog (for stats, check this snazziness out). We got up high enough that there was still some snow on the mountain peaks. My friend's dog, Rupert, had...quite the reaction when

The Secret Miracle: Don't Be A Douche

2012-01-11T23:54:00.000-08:00

Okay, so as I mentioned, the $100 that I finally earned from folks clicking on the ads on this blog was used for a writing project--a deposit for a residency at the Prairie Center for the Arts where I'll be for a month-ish this summer (it's a key deposit--I'll get it back if I don't trash the place). So: your support here on my blog = time writing this summer. And once/if I get the $100 back,

My Show Wins

2012-01-07T15:30:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I'm obviously way behind in my Supernatural recaps, and my feelings about Season 7 have vacillated between and For starters, it turns out that this? This flowchart I made? Stupid show proved me totally wrong: Damn it writers, what's next? Sam is gonna sleep with a girl and she's gonna LIVE? STOP SCREWING WITH MY EXPECTATIONS. But...I have to say that Show came back

30 Rock: I want to go to there.

2012-01-03T16:11:00.000-08:00

I tried to find two clips from 30 Rock today for a Hello Giggles post: either the one where Liz Lemon is caught wearing a bathing suit as underwear or the one where she says, "I'm not sure you want to take advice from me on this. I ate a Three Musketeers bar for lunch and my bra is held together with tape." I could find neither, but I satisfactorily wasting time looking at 30 Rock clips and now

The Nervous Chef Nervously Returns: She's a Meagan!

2011-12-28T19:15:00.000-08:00

I wrote today on Hello Giggles about my waffling about secondhand fur and the issues therein. I mentioned my going-back-and-forth on the issue of eating meat, which I have only recently begun to cook with. However, after becoming a vegetarian recidivist, I moved in with a vegan. So, at home, I mostly cook vegan and eat vegan. Thus, no sooner did my lifestyle start to shift towards cooking meat

Reasons I Love This Blog Very Much

2011-12-12T10:09:00.000-08:00

The ads google is currently displaying by my blog are for Wayne's World merchandise. HOW DID THEY KNOW???? I finally made $100 dollars from ads on this blog (after several years of blogging), which I reinvested in another writing project (details to come!). So thank you, anyone who has read this blog and/or clicked on the ads. You are awesome; you enable my babbling here, and support my babbling

Narcissism Will Save You When You Forget Things

2011-12-10T12:53:00.001-08:00

I was invited to two parties last night: this is a situation that sounds awesome in theory, but is stressful in actuality. Inevitably a) at the first party, I'm worried I'll be too late for the next party/if it's worth it to leave and go to the next party; b) at the second party, I'm worried that I left the first party too early and seemed rude. You always end up wishing you could switch the

My shoulders hurt: Ow! Ow!

2011-12-04T12:07:00.001-08:00

Edited to add: Never, never will I be this lady. I know this. It's just that a writer is simply a reader who has been moved to emulation (thanks for the quote, Saul Bellow!). To continue: I went for a massage last week and experienced my usual mixed-emotions massage experience. This is because massage always feels so amazing, but there's a usually a blow to my self-esteem after the massage,

Edible Portmanteau

2011-11-27T21:18:00.001-08:00

I have a strange fondness for "foods that shouldn't be"; last Thanksgiving, I was all delighted because my parents made a Turducken. A friend of the family ate Thanksgiving with us and afterwards sent me and my mom a link to an article about the Turducken of desserts: the Cherpumple. "That sounds disgusting," my mom wrote back. "Disgustingly awesome!" I countered. So I've wanted to make

Strange Clouds 2: Old Pictures of All Soul's

2011-11-24T09:37:00.001-08:00

Edited to add some awesome videos from Jason! While I wait for my cherpumple to cool so that I can frost it, I thought I'd post some pictures from All Soul's. I hadn't been to the parade in years, and I had never dressed up. But thanks to my friend Natalie, who is actually artistically talented, I had access to lots of make-up and glitter and supplies. I looked at some examples of what

Hello, Hello Giggles

2011-11-23T09:30:00.001-08:00

Hello and welcome there, anyone reading this who came over from Hello Giggles. I have Julia Gazdag to thank for hooking me up there (the beautiful story of our meeting is documented here). Anyway, I'm writing a column there called "Adventures in Thrifting," in which I document (mis)adventures in the glorious seedy underbelly of secondhand shopping. My last column was about winter coats; I caused

Misha Collins is Awesome, and I am Surprisingly Emotional About It

2011-11-13T12:43:00.001-08:00

So, you know how the Fug Girls are recapping Ringer? (I find this interaction particularly awesome/sweet, I have to say). And I was like, "Oh cute! Cause I am trying to totally not failing at recapping Supernatural! CW cheese 4evah!" Well, then there's this news: Misha Collins is going to guest-star on Ringer. I have to say, I am totally happy that Misha Collins is, like,

Halloween Shenanigans: Strange Clouds

2011-11-05T12:51:00.000-07:00

So I actually put in some effort into Halloween this year -- me and Bad Cholla spent an afternoon at Savers creating Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding costumes. For those wondering if the costumes were a little outdated (Jason: "Timely. What you going to be next year? Judge Ito?"), they were originally conceived of for a roller skating party. But then--ironically--the Tonya Harding to my Nancy

Supernatural 7.02 and 7.03: Everything Was So Awesome and Then Everything Sucked

2011-10-27T01:02:00.000-07:00

Alrighty-roo, so obviously I'm waaaaay behind on Supernatural recaps. I'm going to do a compressed recap of 7.02 and 7.03, which is basically going to be a recap of just 7.02 because I REFUSE to do a full recap of the third episode. My reactions to the two episodes can be summed up by: Second episode, "Hello, Cruel World": Third episode, "The Girl Next Door": [This is a real