http://www.poundy.com the weblog home of Wendy McClure Thu, 08 May 2008 04:11:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So about a month ago I quietly snuck away for another two weeks of Writey Camp to work on something. (Okay, there is a book. At least one book and maybe another book.) I guess I didn't say much about it (the book, and the maybe-other book) because I didn't ... http://www.poundy.com/2008/05/07/oh-i-know/ I continue to hear gnashing of teeth over this whole Sweet Valley Size business, but a week later I've come to the conclusion that it's nothing more than a bullshit Size 4 sack of stupid provocation, a crazy flack stunt to rid the Wakefield twins of their misty nostalgic associations ... http://www.poundy.com/2008/04/04/freaky-fragment-friday/ I did not mean this to be a hiatus. I just got through the first weekend of Kurosawa Fest, which is the latest installment of this thing my boyfriend does wherein he collects a director's complete works and then watches them all according to a rigid schedule in a multi-weekend ... http://www.poundy.com/2008/03/28/sweet-valley-fresh-hell/ BEHOLD the awesomeness that a Google image search on "Pisces" bringeth forth. (3/29: After two weeks I had to put that picture behind a link, because as awesome as it was, it was starting to really bug me and hurt my brain.) And this is exactly how I plan to spend ... http://www.poundy.com/2008/03/13/random-events-could-occur/ The sickness is a thing of the past, but the 15,000-word-long freelance project I took on for February is still in the present, at least for a couple more days. Maybe by then it will be spring and the world's surface will return to normal again, and it'll be just ... http://www.poundy.com/2008/03/04/oh-i-guess-this-is-just-a-list-of-stuff-i-hate/ 1.) I am almost not sick anymore! I bet if I sleep another sixteen hours tonight I will have this thing licked. I haven't been outside for four days, save for three hours on Saturday when we went to see There Will Be Blood, an experience which did ... http://www.poundy.com/2008/02/18/follow-ups-in-case-you-care/ Chills, aches and fever mean flu, right? Or malaria? I have one of those. Last night we alarmed the nice folks at the Ukranian Village bingo game by leaving right before the final big cover-all game for the grand prize. Two very concerned people stopped us to ask us ... http://www.poundy.com/2008/02/15/fever-specials-and-daily-dreams/ Last night I was looking at vintage valentines online and I could not stop myself from grabbling this one and giving it creepy new captions. Sorry! If you're looking for the single girl valentines I did a few years back, you can see them here, and I also just dug ... http://www.poundy.com/2008/02/14/smooch-and-all-that/ I'm trying to feel just a little tiny speck of pity for this guy, who appears to have no friends, or at least no friends who support his efforts to run an anonymous and patently derivative humor website containing misspelled fake news stories, satire, and cooter jokes—or, at the very, ... http://www.poundy.com/2008/02/07/and-by-fat-chicks-he-means-pretty-much-everyone/ This morning on the drive to work we were stopped at the light at Kedzie and Peterson. Just as the light was turning green there was this kid, like this high school kid, in front of the car—he was still crossing, moving slowly through the crosswalk. He wasn't scared of ... http://www.poundy.com/2008/01/31/0817-am-from-txt/