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Category Archives: WTF

The yellow brick road

I realized that even when the artists whose blogs I follow don’t write about their art, I still appreciate knowing what’s going on in their lives. So here:
I am heading into the last week of finals for this quarter’s Medical Assisting classes, and today was the first day in a while I got [...]

Don’t tell me real poems can’t start with “WTF”

In keeping with my tradition of posting strange things during finals week
(because I never post strange things otherwise)
here is a poem I wrote last week. It is called “Cork”.

WTF: I dreamed about cork last night.
I saw how it forms naturally,
and what it looks like before it is carved.
It falls from pine trees
in the [...]

It’s electric!

I was looking through the Flickr Commons for something (which I could not find), but ended up finding another thing which is so much better:

I mean, let’s be honest here. The photo above is probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. The experimentee even reminds me of Jack Nicholson in One [...]

French dragées

Do you remember those little silver-coated sugar balls you used to be able to get for decorating baked goods? I thought those were so awesome as a kid. They were sparkly, and made of sugar, and they said “do not eat” on the container.
I just found out their official name– they are “silver [...]

Today has been too long

Whenever I try to come up with an analogy, it usually involves poop. I don’t really know why, but I think poop might be my spirit animal. Also, I was raised by my father, who swears like a sailor, so blame him. (And my spirit animal.)
The above was supposed to somehow segue [...]

Recipe: leaves and curds

Here at the Beemouse Institute, we have ramped up R&D in our Food Research Division (FRD) lately.

FRD came up with a recipe they call “leaves and curds.”

Brew loose-leaf tea
Add cream
Wait for curds to float to top
Decide if you’re going to waste a cup of tea or just drink the damn thing

It is possible for the [...]

Uh… cocktail rings

You know, I’ve found that making stupid Amazon Associates widgets, much like window shopping for domains that I will never buy, is a great way to blow off some steam. (Will someone please register magickpony.com?)
Frustrated with the way things are going at work? Just make a gallery of ridiculous cocktail rings. I [...]