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Tell Laura I Loathe Her

April 30th, 2008

Perhaps it was the mood I was in this morning, but Mark Morford’s column on our docile, soulless mannequin of a First Lady made me laugh out loud several times.
By the way, if Hilary gets elected will Bill be referred to as the First Man? I always wondered that.

Wall Art at Home

March 28th, 2008

Due to not having a car (fuel pump gave out), I was housebound for much of this week. Yesterday I took my camera and photographed various pieces of wall art around the house. The pics were assembled in a flickr set creatively titled Wall Art at Home. Most pieces have a little background info on […]

Weekly Mishmash: March 2-8

March 9th, 2008

A very Asian week at Chez Scrubbles:
Various - Cafe Apres-midi Meets Disney. A surprise midweek package from Amazon.com contained this — a gift from the fabulous Julie, who shares my interest in pricey import CDs compiled by Toru Hashimoto. Created for a Japanese chain of coffee houses, Hashimoto cherry picks a blend of the mellow […]

Weekly Mishmash: February 24-March 1

March 2nd, 2008

Art School Confidential (2006). I had high hopes for this one, since I enjoyed Terry Zwygoff and Daniel Clowes’ Ghost World and the setting might echo my own college art school experience. It was a shade below okay, having some good observations amid a bunch of frustrating elements. I’ve encountered many teachers like the one […]

Weekly Mishmash: February 17-23

February 24th, 2008

Starting today, I’m going to do a little roundup of the movies, books, music and whatever else I’ve digested over the previous week. Here we go!
The African Queen (1951) Bogie and Kate, leeches and tsetse flies. This is one of those rare classic movies that I’d never seen before due to the fact that it’s […]

Wednesday Photo Spectacular!

February 20th, 2008

It’s becoming apparent that this weblog has been suffering a bit of neglect lately, but hopefully I can put a Band Aid (similar to the one I got today for a tetanus shot) on that with these marvy photo-based links:

Most Important: Newsweek’s slide show Losing Our Lakes demonstrates how global warming is contributing to lowering […]

Freshness & Quality

February 1st, 2008

Talk about ephemera from the past… a recent eBay purchase arrived stored in this ancient looking plastic bag:

The cent sign and area for a handwritten price tells me it’s not recent, and based on the groovy flowers and lower case “fresh” lettering I’d say it’s from the ’70s. I vaguely remember bags like this (possibly […]

Electile Disfunction

January 18th, 2008

Jeff of Tin Man fame shares his thoughts on voting in the N.Y. Democratic presidential primary. Like Jeff, it’s also my first time voting in my state’s primary and I’m taking it very seriously. The ballot arrived in the mail this week and now it’s time to do some serious homework on the candidates (For […]

It’s All About Me

December 28th, 2007

Because I’m a total narcissist at heart, I love to troll the web to find out when and for what reason people might be reading scrubbles.net. Two such occurrences happened this month that deserve mentioning here. First off is Julie Jackson’s interview with Indie Fixx, in which she sweetly mentioned this very weblog as one […]

The Exciting Home of 1999, Today!

December 21st, 2007

Strange and neat — 1999 A.D. is a 1967 industrial film projecting what family life in the future might be like. A fascinating, low budget version of the future that includes Wink Martindale, that is. I wish I could see the entire film, but right now we’ll have to make do with the three clips […]

Most Frugalicious Office Christmas Party Ever

December 19th, 2007

This clip of the Promises, Promises cast performing “Turkey Lurkey Time” on The Ed Sullivan Show, circa 1968, has got to be the grooviest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Dig that energetic choreography! Michael Bennett was the greatest. Via Plastic Pumpkins, who correctly notes that “if you didn’t love and adore that number […]

I Love Junk!

December 14th, 2007

I came across My So Called Strife through a random Google search and it became a regular read, mainly because the guy who runs it has a great eye for kitsch and finds the coolest things at thrift stores ‘n stuff. Check out his recent used booksale finds and eclectic miscellany. Next time I’m thrifting […]

Snacks on a Plane

November 11th, 2007

The wonderful Christopher sent me a link to the self-explanatory world of AirlineMeals.net. I submitted the meal from our recent Delta flight between Phoenix and Atlanta to the site’s administrator. It wasn’t a meal per se, but a snack of rosemary crackers, fancy cheese spread, raisins and a large shortbread cookie all packaged in a […]

Key West with Matt & Christopher

October 14th, 2007

Well, it took a week, but the little website I made documenting our trip to Key West is finished. What else is there to say about the trip? It was enjoyable, despite the hot and muggy weather (I brought a pair of jeans but never wore them). The island is about as laid back and […]

Peel Me a Grape

September 11th, 2007

Another weird thing: every time I hear the name “General Petraeus” on the news it reminds me of Rome, the TV series.

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