Rush Limbaugh recently denounced Motor Trend for picking the Chevrolet Volt as its 2011 Car of the Year. I don’t follow Limbaugh’s show, because it hurts my vision to roll my eyes that much in one sitting. Still, when I heard he was against the Volt, it really irked me. For one thing, Rush got his facts all wrong. He made a big deal about how none of the cars have sold, for example. Well, buddy, that’s because none are for sale, yet! (See what I mean about the eye rolling?) Today, however, I read Motor Trend‘s open letter to…
Month: December 2010
Got a women’s fashion catalog in the mail today that features a ‘boyfriend couture’ section. This is clothing modeled after men’s wear, stuff like: boyfriend jeans, boyfriend sweaters, and a whole bunch of boyfriend T shirts. I guess it all springs from the tendency chicks have of wearing their mate’s clothing. You know, like that scene in so many rom coms, when the girl walks in the room wearing her boyfriend’s shirt – and little else. (Here’s a cute one of Audrey Hepburn, for instance.) Isn’t it funny how females in our culture can cross-dress and no one bats an…
I was gonna keep on trucking, but having no trucking license, I have decided to keep on blogging, instead. I signed up for NaBloPoMo again mainly because this December’s theme is zeitgeist. I adore that word. It has German roots, zeit means time and geist means ghost – as in poltergeist, y’know, which is literally a noisy ghost. I visited Germany once and realized that if a word wasn’t in my dictionary, I could often figure it out if I broke the word in pieces and looked up each chunk separately. The German language is modular, like Legos. English reminds…
At breakfast today my boyfriend said, “Did I ever tell you about the special pen NASA developed so that astronauts could write in space?” I told him I already knew about the Space Pen, ‘cuz I’d seen it advertised in the back of my dad’s Popular Mechanics magazines as a kid. (I also wanted a spy camera, and one of those hovercraft kits they advertised. I could easily imagine flying over the wheat fields behind our house in a hovercraft – so cool!) “The Russians faced the same problem with their space program,” my boyfriend continued, unwittingly interrupting my wheat…