It's Saturday night, and I just left an excruciatingly dull party. I walked in, and after sizing things up over about a half a glass of wine, promptly turned around and walked back out without so much as a goodbye. That's one of the advantages of being divorced. Besides, who needs to put up with that kind of nonsense after a long week at work? As soon as I got outside I discovered it was a lovely night for a drive. Would’ve been a marvelous night for a moondance too, if only all the planets and stars had been so aligned - one of the distinct disadvantages.
Sigh. All dressed up with no place to go, so I went grocery shopping. I could literally do this every night of the week; with 3 teenagers at my house, we always seem to need more food. Reminds me of when I was growing up and my Grandfather would baby-sit. My parents didn’t go out much, what with us 8 kids and all – but when they did it would be a 3 or 4 day lunge at an escape, and good old Gramps always took care of us for free. Having come over "on the boat" from Ireland in the 1920’s, the potato famine was never too far from his mind. At least, that’s the impression we always got because he would constantly yell at us that we were spoiled and ate too much. He actually rigged the refrigerator door so that he'd hear if one of us opened it and he’d come running into the kitchen and chase us out with his cane. Jesus.
But I digress. This is supposed to be about interesting websites I want to bring to you and well, I have a confession to make. I’ve become hopelessly hooked on one that I linked you to last time. Fake Steve (Jobs) is obviously someone who's speaking from an "insider at the plant" perspective and he's hilarious, addressing readers as "Apple Faithful" and ranting on and on about anyone who dares to smear his good name. I’ve become sort of a regular there. Jeez, like I really need another place to stop in and visit every day while I’m at work.
I’ve decided not to do 10 blog “quotes” anymore with this column. When you’re culling from the entire interweb (that’s what they call it on the Irish blogs) it’s too much reading and just, well, humor is very subjective anyway, especially on a blog. Besides, dear reader - now that we’ve built up a kind of unspoken trust between us – I’m trusting you'll find the humor I'm talking about. So without further ado let me give you this week’s featured blog recommendations from around the web:
Project Rungay - Project Runway from the gay perspective. Thanks, Maria Rundipi! (Maria actually won a contest on their site). These guys also run a sister website called Tom & Lorenzo, where they dish up the dirt on everything under the sun.
Speaking of lawyers, quite by accident I found an interesting law website too – with an even more interesting lawsuit and particularly funny commentary on it. Look for the case about the Manhattan bride suing the florist for not delivering just the right shade of burnt orange for her table centerpieces (the reception was at Cipriani’s;tres chic)
I stuck this one in because they're advertising for someone to do exactly what switters, E.B. Kelly and many others have been doing for ages. Check it out.
And since a job search might inevitably land you on Craigslist, check out a blog called craigslist curmudgeon for some interesting commentary about craigslist, redundant as that may sound.
Aren’t we always in the mood for Sophomoric humor? Just go to The Hatemonger's Quarterly and read a few freshman college essays.
And I don’t know why, maybe just because we all know someone like Andrew Cusack.
That’s a wrap, people. Keep those cards and letters coming, and see you in two weeks.
topazz first exploded on the art & literary scene in 2005 on Salon's, Slate’s, and DailyKos' discussion boards. Mother of four (ahem, 3 of whom are triplets), she has also been known to blog at topazz (with a zz).