Contemplating The Tinsels Of Old
We live in a world deprived of metal. Today, Christmas tree tinsel is made from toxic PVC vinyl. Bu…
Live-Blogging The Solstice Lunar Eclipse
12:50 am central time: Put on coat over fleece robe. Put on big furry hat. Walk outside and crane …
Burl Ives Event Stirs Trouble Anew in Small Maryland Town
Dispute over folksy troubador creates rancor in Peaksville, Maryland Peaksville, MD – A Christmast…
Don't You Want To Sing With Heino?
I have Germanic ancestry in my blood but I swear to god sometimes I don't understand the German…
When It's This Cold....
......Curse words sound mild as a church chat. Consuming fat feels virtuous and wise. Alcohol is m…
Is Your Hair Ready For Christmas?
Does your "do" say "I do mistletoe"? Does your upsweep make hearts leap? A bra…
Science Can Be Fun AND Easy!
I always found textbook explanations for autumn's changes too hard and sciencey. I want someth…
Julia, Slow Down!
One minute she's slipping the skins off the pearl onions, the next she's quartered the mush…
Burn Barrel
Holy smoke. This is the way I remember it. How ours looked, in the back yard, behind the elm tree, …
Two Yards of Tiger-Striped Fleece
craft stores swollen warts across the nation festering with glues, glitter, fun foam and bolts! so …
I Wanna Live In Robot Town
Oh, if only I could weld....the robots I might create. Random metals are a wonderful thing, when th…
Kerouac Haikus
And now it's time for more Haikus by Jack Kerouac The cow taking a big dreamy crap, turning t…
Day Of My Increasing Power
I went to Revocup today, since it's my birthday and ordered a LARGE soy chai latte. They have …
Ruby Or Iridescent Cough Drop?
This weekend it really felt like fall outside. So I was in the mood for this song, which to me, goe…
The Times They Are October'n
Ah, October, my favorite month. This morning I drove Annabelle to her Strings class. She is learnin…
Little Plates
Sunny Madrid The mother of one of Annabelle's friends just got back from a trip to Madrid, Spai…
Overheard At The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Artist's rendering of the Phoenix landing on Mars Found in cyberspace: a live chat log from the…
Dirty Water
This is one of my favorite songs from the 60's. We had the 45 when I was a kid. I listened to i…
Gleesome Gladness
Ninety-seven years ago today was the first day of the first "official" Kansas State Fai…
Dung Beetle
I am excited. Have you heard about the car that runs on turds? Actually, it runs on methane gas ge…
What Ambrose Bierce Thinks Of Custard
"A detestable substance produced by the malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow and the cook…
They Trust The Monkeys
Maybe the problem isn't that we have too many distractions in our lives, but that they aren'…
Whirling Danish
I want to open a coffee shop called The Whirling Danish. I would serve mystic pastries and coffee.…
Curious Jar of Floating Mystery
I wrestled with the question only briefly, as I sat waiting for the vet. Should I ask him about tha…
High Altitude Test Kitchen
What must it be like working in those high altitude test kitchens? When I see the High Altitude dir…
As Vichyssoise Season Winds Down
We nearly screamed for ice cream last Friday at the ice cream social held at Annabelle's school…
Bathroom Relics
You know how some people have ointment tubes and medicine jars in their bathroom cabinets that ha…
Doggie Gone It
This morning before work I had to drop our pooch off at Camp Bow Wow for boarding, because my plane…
Espresso Martini
Last Saturday night the girls and I went out to hear Roger play with CoCo Trio at the Intercontinen…
Trampled Underfoot
We nearly were. Roger and I went out Tuesday night to hear a blues band that he's heard people …
Excellent Junkyard Egyptian West-Bottomed Patty-Melted Weekend
Last Friday evening Roger and I went to the Nelson to see the new Egyptian exhibit. We saw an actua…
High On Chai
I just found out about this place yesterday. They opened a few weeks ago. I can't wait to try i…
Mony At Large
The sun is high and I've been getting out. That's what summer's all about. On July 8th …
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Hi I'm Simone, my nickname is Mony and I create Monybaloney -- cartoons, videos, ramblings, etc...made from mechanically separated suspect meats. Welcome to my blog, where pandeMONYum ensues!
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Best beer for these dark, frigid nights (and days!) is Northern Lights IPA from Free State Brewery, based in Lawrence, …
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr Day
You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting t…
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When Drew Carey was interviewed on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS, he shared surprising revelations gleaned from his host…
Mystery Stone
I enountered this large-ass stone sitting in a weird place. (Another anomaly found on one of my morning walks, like the…
I Embrace Lard
Yes, this is a jar full of lard. Honest-to-goodness lard, from a farm. In this winter of my discontent, I am going with…
Griping About the Cold
I know it's not even February yet but I feel entitled to bitch about this bitch-ass cold. We've had day after d…
