Beth

  • Geek Conversations

    Co-worker: I’ve always wondered why Rogue doesn’t fly in the X-Men movies? Me: Do you want to know? Co-worker: Yes. Me: Are you SURE you really want to know? Co-worker: Tell me. Twenty minutes later after covering both the history of Rogue in the X-Men and a smidge of the alternate universe the Age of…

  • The Universe is Out to Get Me: And it’s Eyeing You, Too!

    Somewhere out there in the net is a beautiful post discussing the idea that the universe is inherently mean and is out to get you. Yes my friend, the universe has you in its sights and you’d better start running a little “z” pattern (which you really run not because it will help you escape…

  • I Can Has Cheezburger

    Somedays, I need a little I Can Has Cheezburger pick-me-up. From their archives…

  • Everything Happens for a Reason

    WARNING: Yes, every now and again you get an actual warning before a post because I can feel something very un-ladylike is about to spew forth from my fingers – it’s when my writing becomes less whatever it is and more about channeling Louis Black. In other words, I’m ANGRY and on the edge of…

  • Valentine’s Day

    So, I’m a day late, but yesterday I was sugaring up on Lindt chocolate (only to regret it later) and I couldn’t possibly focus on posting while chocolate was sitting on my desk staring me down. (It never blinks. Why doesn’t it blink?!?!) I spent some part of the day making mental lists of all…

  • Blog Housekeeping Notes

    Hi all! I’m about two whole minutes from slumping over in my chair for no real good reason – lack of oxygen, lack of iron, Sam slobbered all over my pillow and left big gross soppy wet spots on it leaving me with an untested pillow, plus it’s like what… the crack of 7pm. It’s…

  • Value

    A recent headline read “Nurse and Social Worker Among the Dead” and I had to wonder if I was supposed to be more upset because it was a nurse and a social worker versus a burger girl at the mall. Personally, if it were a place I frequented, I think I’d notice and miss the…

  • The Big Blue Mess

    I’m on vacation. Yes, a real bona fide vacation. A long over-due break from everything – this is where I sit in my robe, look around the house and occasionally attack something with Clorox for eyeing me funny (and flaunting its dirt). My last vacation was in May 2007 and the one before that was…

  • Empathy

    I have a condition – well, actually several and though I feel a little shy about presenting them in such a public forum, my hope is that some good will come of it. My conditions or issues or problems or whatever euphemism you want to apply to make yourself feel more comfortable usually manifest after…

  • Writer’s Strike Pluses

    Not everything about the writer’s strike is bad. Sure, some shows will be cut short, sure we’ll miss the old punch of late night talk shows, and then there’s award show season – the great thing about that is come this Sunday I won’t feel compelled to watch the Golden Globes and will not have…