From the monthly archives:

May 2013

by kara on May 12, 2013

America, land of the free, where clearly clinically insane people can put shit like this up on their lawns and not immediately get hauled off for a psychiatric evaluation.

Why it’s Nancy Grace’s Fault.

by kara on May 12, 2013

The regrettably late Court TV was a TV experiment way ahead of its time. What seemed a grotesque spectacle in 1994 with the thoroughly televised trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, has become a permanent state of being in the criminal courts. I was one of the idiots sucked in by the theatrics and the polarized emotions that […]

Ben. Gah. Zee.

by kara on May 8, 2013

Remember that these are the same ghouls who called the Newtown victims and their families “props” when the scandalous background check law was up for a vote. Darrell – car thief and arsonist – Issa and the rest of his ilk are basically using the deaths of Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone […]

Asshole Neighbor UPDATE

by kara on May 8, 2013

I have to take my shed down. Can you please tweet me your suggestions as to how to enact (harmless) revenge on my neighbor? I am thinking something of the order of replacing the lovely, modernist shed I had built with some sort of unsightly and very very very very large flag? Or something involving […]

from atlantic wire by Dashiell Bennett and Philip Bump n a bizarre television and spatial anomaly on CNN this morning, the blanket coverage of two true-crime stories led two news anchors to conduct an odd “satellite” interview from the very same parking lot, background traffic and all. The two suspects are Ashleigh Banfield of CNN and Nancy […]

Who Knew?

by kara on May 4, 2013

I totally would have wanted one when I was 9, along with that pony.

by kara on May 4, 2013

I love these 2 guys.

by kara on May 4, 2013

Here come the little guys

by kara on May 4, 2013

  I’m unapologetic in my love of jockeys. For you, maybe the horse is the thing. The jockeys are weird  – miniature, enigmatic humans in baggy knickers and candy colored silks. Scoffed at for their size, these humans are freaks of flexibility and endurance, shrewd tacticians with finely tuned internal clocks and almost spooky sensorial […]