Ugh. Normally I’d post a picture at the top of my entry, but I don’t even want to look at those things. So as you’ll recall from my last post, I ripped an “onion” out of the ground and ate it. Obviously I’m still alive, but those jerk-wad plants are poisonous! I had a very read more
Remember how I found a bunch of sweet onion flowers plus some big-momma onions and then I destroyed half their population? Well today I uprooted one and ate it. Then I thought about what I did. Then I spent two hours Google searching things like, “Identify edible plants” and “Poisonous onions.” I did find a read more
You may remember this casualty from our recent coverage of the Great Onion Massacre of 2012. After receiving several* letters from the concerned public, we followed up with poor Mr. Onion, and we’re please to inform you that Mr. Onion is in recovery and doing fine. * Zero
Went backyard mushroom hunting with my camera phone yesterday. As you’ll recall from my last post, some misguided rainwater turned my property into a rot-swamp. The interesting array of fungus kind of makes up for the mosquito surge that followed. Kinda. Here are the first dudes I found under the porch last week. They read more
Ashley and I stopped by a local community garden to pick up some sprouts for charity, and now, three weeks later I have a vegetable garden, two flower gardens, three fruit trees, and a pond*. Ashley was sharing the passenger seat of my car with her new fig tree when I said, “Hey, you got read more
2012 is starting out with two new (girl) crushes. First? Total badass and women’s health advocate: Senator Janet Howell. She not only has epic hair and a sassy mouth — EXACTLY what I look for in a girl crush — she also has totally sweet legislative powers, which will no doubt come in handy as I read more
With SOPA protests in full-swing, I’ve more time on my hands than usual. Most of my favorite sites have gone black. (And good for them!) I especially liked McSweeny’s approach. Of course, with Wikipedia dark, I was left with only these facts on hand (and what’s available on IMDB) when a friend presented a (most reasonable) question: read more
Ready for another cat fact? First, answer me this riddle: how are Siamese cats like hypercolor T-shirts? Siamese cats are cream-colored in the parts of their body where they have more fat, i.e., heat insulation, and brown on their ears, muzzle, paws, and tail where their body temperature is lower. This is due to a read more
…but some say a certain Mr. Bunny got a little too wound up.
2007 was a great year for me. I spent pretty much every day at Epoch, mostly drawing. It was also my first year with Aaron, and his first year of drumming in a spazzy free jazz/surf rock band called Plutonium Farmers . While Plutonium Farmers was busy rocking, I was busy creating a little fantasy read more
Aren’t they adorable? I guess this blog was kind of lagging in the creep factor, so I decided to creep it up a notch with the marriage of ice cream Ashley Moreno and Reggie Watts… what’s wrong with me? *Sigh* P.S., the Reggie art is an official poster for a festival he’s doing. You can read more
Over the holidays I visited my boyfriend’s family out in Forney, TX, a farm town turned Dallas suburb. It is extremely flat, no landscape to speak of, unless you consider cleared fields of plowed dirt landscape. Farms are occasionally interrupted by a housing development filled with big, ranch-style houses “from the $160′s.” Most people commute read more
I recently got my mom to do psychic readings of some of my favorite songs. Being Greek and pretty religious, she has very little pop-culture exposure, so it’s always fascinating to me to hear how current music affects her. Here is what she said: “It’s working” by MGMT Out of sync, out of place, but read more
No, it’s not poop. Ashley and I made this very silly Christmas-themed game for your enjoyment. If you guess what’s in every stocking on the first try, please let us know so we can congratulate you for your impressive level of dorkiness. Anyway Click the image below to play (in Firefox, Chrome, or Safari):
Today it was 55 degrees in Austin. Holy crap! FREEEZING!! I mean, I have a house. I could turn on the heater. But I haven’t used it yet this year, and I don’t like the smell the heater makes the first time you use it. Instead, I spent last night in full sweat pants and read more
Mermaids Today I watched the movie Mermaids with Cher, Wynona Ryder, and Christina Richie for the first time. It was good. I laughed, I cried. Aaron made fun of me. In one scene of the movie, Wynona’s character says in passing that St. Perpetua turned into a man and stepped on the head of the read more
How to make veggie burger patties I invented a beetloaf recipe last spring when the farm-to-your-door thingie I was subscribed to brought me tons of beets for several weeks (I guess the drought was hard on the other vegetables). I don’t remember exactly what I did back then, but today I used the same basic read more
When I came home from work Thursday evening, Aaron was on his way out. I will never forget the words he spoke from the door, “Gotta show tonight. Tomorrow is trash day. Take out the trash.” “Okay,” I said, and then he disappeared (quite ominously). For the next couple hours I sat on the couch, read more
I like to make the music. Here is some. Pillowtalk – The musicians playing this tongue-in-cheek little number are all Bazaarvoice ladies: me on vocals and keys, Sarah Loyens on electric guitar and backup vocals, Blythe Bergoon on bass, and my favorite Ashley (she don’t work at BV anymore, but she is still my favorite read more
Dear y’all So I spent two days roaming around the glorious city of Prague in the Czech Republic. It was beautiful, cold, and beautiful. I am now back in London, but Prague gave me three stories to tell, which I’ve worked into this post: 1. “Please, have a boiled egg.” 2. How I wandered off read more
Alphonse Mucha is not only a Czech national hero, but largely responsible for the Nouveau aesthetic of the 1920s. He devoted the last 30 years of his life to his country, designing everything from the currency of the new Czech Republic to a stained glass window in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. His main focus, read more
Like you, I love to stitch old video games characters into scarves and hats because the pixelation looks so good in yarn. Today, I found a tool that will revolutionize how we pattern said crochet ideas. It’s called “Make Pixel Art!” Earlier, I used it to draw this: Goomba <3 @Sqwidy 4-ever! In the past, read more
Today, I’m torn about you. On the one hand, the popularity of The Avengers trailer might breathe new life into my campaign to put Thor-related mud flaps on every Jetta in the city. But on the other, I found out spiders, which I’ve been actively arching since 1982, just re-branded with a kinder, gentler image. Cungas?! That’s gonna read more
I recently discovered my new favorite online community, ColourLovers.com and my new favorite graphic designer, Rosalie409. Her repeating pattern designs are super sugar sweet. Here are a few of my favs: Cute and clever! My personal style is not nearly as cute or graphical. In fact, my #1 critique of my own work is that read more
Oh Wonder Woman and mythical beasts — will you ever get along?! I guess probably not — although it does make for a pretty sweet cover. Litsa’s sister recently found the gem to the left. It’s nice to see Diana’s softer side sometimes — especially if you’re sporting an extra head or two. (Or turn read more
When I was little I would sit in the closet and talk to my imaginary friend, Leah Sally Go. Years passed, and like most kids, my imagination moved on to other things. Then, in 2005, my imaginary friend came back, but she was a real person! She was pretty and talented and super creative (check read more
Just last month I put the finishing touches on album art for the Invincible Czars 1812 Overture.
Earlier in the Summer I had submitted a story called, “Destroying Angel” to Machine of Death Anthology Vol. 2. 35 of 2,600 stories will be selected October 31st, so I’ve yet to find out how I did. Even so, the project was incredibly inspiring, and I ended up drawing a lot as a result. Below read more
More Nottingham, Gromit? From my survey of two cities (London and Nottingham), I’ve concluded that England is a great place to be vegetarian. For one, all foods must be labeled, “Suitable for Vegetarians” if they are. One time I wrote an email to PETA asking them to please lobby for such a thing. They said, read more
Friday I took a train to Robin Hood’s ‘hood. To me, it looks like London, but with more plazas. Anyway, before I carry on too far, let me tell you first that OMG: prune Activia! Mind totally blown. I was sure to eat a whole lot of that before leaving for the Kings Cross and read more
Hi doods So I am in London for three weeks. Woo! I’m here on business, so all I’ve done so far is work, but I’m taking vacation next week, and I’ve been having fun even so. I know you are simply dying to hear an update, so here’s a mini one: They have rhubarb flavored read more
It’s October 2, 2011. For the past three days my team and I have subsided mostly on beer, salted meats, and ibuprofen. Resources are low. Temperatures are dropping. I’m out of Allegra. And I have one Emergen-C remaining. Concern? I feel puffy. Plus side? While breaking to construct a wee snowman out of mountain snow, read more
A geeky or clever use of yarn gets me every time. In particular, I love Nathan Vincent’s work. And while the thought of replicating those sculptures boggles my mind and makes my hands hurt, it’s not his skill and dedication that so amaze me. It’s more how each design is clever, but sincere, and beautiful, read more
It’s September 11, and if you’re like me, then you spent the day reflecting: on how tired you are of hearing about Burning Man. Hang on — I don’t mind if you drive an RV to the middle of a desert to join a band of naked, beer-bellied, male staff-spinners and a couple hundred dreadlocked read more
I don’t wanna birth nothin’; Don’t want no creature in my gut! Sure, babies are cute, but come on, “Birth” is a weird word. Birth, birth!
When I finished the Battlestar Galactica series, I had to fill the hole it left in my heart with something, so I chose to distract myself from my loss with an excellent book, “The Cat,” by Muriel Beadle, published in 1977. Beadle was one smart cookie. I love how fact-packed her book is; every sentence read more
