mandarin category archives
“rare buddhist flower found under nun’s washing machine”
Wednesday 3 March 2010 | 2 cookies in the jar
Which may edge out “Woman, Trapped, Survives on Moisture” as best headline ever. This via Mandarin—a little human-interest story that made my MONTH. Three THOUSAND years. Holy holy-flower, that’s…that’s rare, is what that is. Kind of like me posts. For simple reasons, some previously given, some new: 1) weekend head cold that has slyly shifted [...]
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is this thing still on? or, my marxist-feminist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard; or, 25 cosas más aléatoires
Tuesday 10 February 2009 | 11 cookies in the jar
1. None of these will be in any particular order, so you can just park that linear, sequential part of your brain for the time being. Keep calm and carry on! 2. It turns out that Valium, when cautiously abused as a muscle relaxant, is really great for back spasms. Holy BENZO is it great. [...]
for mandarin—v. important!
Monday 15 December 2008 | 4 cookies in the jar
“How Not to Get Hit by Cars” (via attorney/bard scoplaw)
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oneiric
Thursday 14 August 2008 | 4 cookies in the jar
In my dream, I want Mandarin to fight me—physically fight me. She, understandably, does not want to do this: she’s taken vows of non-violence, she protests; she’s not even mad at me, she certainly doesn’t want to hit me. So I taunt her into it, following her from room to room verbally goading her, until [...]
why we love mandarin
Saturday 5 April 2008 | 4 cookies in the jar
Eustace told me that people tended to romanticize his lifestyle. Because when people first ask him what he does for a living, he invariably replies, “I live in the woods.” Then people get all dreamy and say, “Ah! The woods! The woods! I love the woods!” as if Eustace spends his days sipping the dew [...]
sonora desert museum mammals (especially for mandarin)
Wednesday 31 October 2007 | someone left a cookie
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trying to catch up an old college friend
Friday 21 September 2007 | 4 cookies in the jar
It’s always revelatory to me to see what I leave out, what I choose to include. Maybe not so engrossing for my readers, but here’s the illustrated précis anyway (with most as thumbnails cos I got carried away uploading pictures). And now I betake me back to bed, where the menstrual faeries are slowly and [...]
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tiny lizard (more bithuthday)
Thursday 26 July 2007 | someone left a cookie
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hipy papy bithuthday! to mandarin
Wednesday 25 July 2007 | someone left a cookie
Especially for her jour de naissance, I provide these highly irrelevant and inappropriate but very Mandarin birthday pictures of my parents’ new kitten Pepper, recently found in the middle of the two-lane blacktop in pouring rain, with a mockingbird dive-bombing her head. I don’t know how long after this ordeal these portraits were taken, but [...]
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umpteenth letter to mandarin
Saturday 23 June 2007 | I like a cookie
Dear one! It’s Saturday afternoon and Pride Week in San Francisco and you are off marching around, waving your feather boa, possibly wearing silver eyeshadow. The Brujo is in the other room napping and I am trying to type quietly. I would probably leave you a voicemail were it not for the aforementioned napping—but I [...]
