From the category archives:

What the What?

I’m very anxious today.  I think I’ll go and see the firemen this afternoon at Trader Joes, where they live.  Sometimes they live at Safeway, but mostly Trader Joes.  I know they live there, because they are there pretty much all the time and also, when I see them they never have a cart.  Once [...]

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Pregnant Ladies and People About to go to Jail

by tarastar on March 7, 2010

I took a look at my Google Analytics today and discovered the “keyword” feature, evidently a tracking of what people type into a search in order to  arrive at my site.  First it’s clear I should be writing about actual bed bugs.  Number one sounds like an S&M site, and I’m afraid to google it.  [...]

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It’s like Shakespeare, Only Drunker

by tarastar on February 13, 2010

I get a significant amount of spam comments to my blog.  They far outweigh the real comments, which hover somewhere around zero.  They are often poetic in a sort of lunatic fringe kind of way.  It’s like Engrish.  Or like poetry from space put through a translator.  So this is what I got today, as [...]

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Bunny Love

by tarastar on February 7, 2010

Does this ever happen to you?  You’re looking for say, a heart shaped fried egg mold, and you fall down a rabbit hole and end up nowhere you want to be?  This happened to me yesterday, in the Interwebs.  One second I was looking at guinea pig huts for our guinea pig, and the next [...]

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Unsexy Halloween

by tarastar on October 19, 2009

It’s possible I just haven’t been paying attention to Halloween costumes in the last couple of years.  My kids were younger.  The twins especially had no opinion on what costume they might wear and only last year did the light bulb go off about the miracle of trick or treating.  But in this year’s search [...]

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