Dear besties, If there’s one thing I love, it’s a private bathroom. There’s nothing like being able to do your business without seeing someone’s Easy Spirit pumps dangling in the stall next to you (if the person in the stall next to you is the size of a third-grader, wearing cheap high-heels and sitting on [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 25, 2009
The King of Pop, Charlie’s Angel and the Big Bad Media Complex
Dear Besties, By now, no doubt everyone has heard of today’s duel celebrity deaths. Michael Jackson died of suspected cardiac arrest at 50 years old and Farrah Fawcett succumbed to anal cancer at age 62. You’d have to be living in a cave or the Arctic Circle not to have heard the news. The national [...]
June 22, 2009
Frodo in Penny Cluseshire Redux
Dear besties, Last week, I wrote a blog post for my new employer about a wee hobbit visiting our humble shire. I had gone for my usual three-hour lunch at my favorite Burlington eatery where I discovered that I had only just missed one Elijah Wood who was lunching at my lunch spot. Well, of [...]
June 9, 2009
Coffee, Tea or a Cafe Owner Who’s Not a Total Jagoff?
Dear Besties, If you asked me the question posed in the title of this genius little post, I would answer with a resounding “I’ll take a cafe owner who’s not a total jagoff.” Yes, I would rather have someone who appreciated my business than have a steaming mug of tea or a hot cup of [...]
June 7, 2009
Kids Today, or alternatively, Why I’m Never Having Any
Dear besties, Let’s bypass the whole “I’m sorry I haven’t written in a while” spiel. You and I both know I have more important things to do than write blog posts, like pick my toenail lint while waxing philosophical about geopolitics. And I know you have more important things to do than read what I [...]