Colleen, we talked about this earlier this week. You can’t just go around assuming these mistakes are mistakes. I mean, this person could well have been in business for only 3 years — or for 40. You don’t know … Continue reading
The good news: it’s Friday. (For YOU, that is.) The bad news? All of this crap. You know, I joke about defacing things, and the whole red pen thing. But I don’t DO it very often. In this case, … Continue reading
Colleen cheerfully wrote, “A little Etsy find for you!” Yiiiiikes. To me, the “yikes” is more about the conviction with which this is written. I will admit — nay, I willofferthe fact preemptively — that I am not good … Continue reading
Y’all, RPB is contagious. It’s a fever. And the only prescription… is more cowbell. Er, I mean, having your submission posted, so that you’re not the only one of your siblings who has yet to be anointed by the … Continue reading
For some reason I cannot fathom, a goodly number of my contributors and readers share an alma mater, which appears to be a fairly selective liberal arts college somewhere in the American wilderness. As such we’ve already had a … Continue reading
As always, I can mostly leave this post up to Reporter #1 herself. First, a picture from Johnston Ridge Observatory at Mt. St. Helens. The ants go marching one by one, hoorah, hoorah. The ants go marching one by … Continue reading
My husband and I have a funny story, in that way couples have stories that have become funny through time and retelling. It’s not about us, of course, but a completely hypothetical couple who isn’t us. At the time … Continue reading
Okay, this isn’t a done deal, but I’m pitching it here and now. It’ll be irreverent, hip, young — and all about the best typos in Buffalo! First among the many fine places you must visit in Buffalo is … Continue reading
Other than that, there’s not much to say about this one, which appeared on Reporter #1′s Facebook feed. Eeeeeeeee this one is like fingernails and chalkboards. (Youngsters: chalkboards were the whiteboards of my day, and uphill both ways in … Continue reading