Category: Miscellaneous Mockery

I’m direct and honest. Not by choice, nor by nature. In my youth, all the boys complained I wasn’t open and honest enough. Then in my 30s I got one too many lesions and I found myself blurting my truth uncontrollably. I’m not mad about it anymore, because other people love it. But, being honest…

The average financial settlement for the Coldwater Creek radiation contamination appears to take nine months to arrive. They give precedence to people who actively have cancer, naturally. Or they say they do. I think. Really hard to believe that they did such a lousy job disposing of radioactive waste (put it in metal barrels and…

Speaking of vacation … This Almost-finished Wild Animal Park is very close by. And per the 1 minute and 20 second mark in the video below, there are going to be “glamping” cabins. Check out the Glamping cabins made of chipboard, right? That’s going to stand up against a charging rhino, right? But seriously, this…

You know, there’s always been something wrong with the perspective on the New Orleans mausoleums. And the colors are dead. It is missing all kinds of contrast and detail. This is what it is supposed to be: See? It’s just lifeless. Time to fix that.

Other places I visited on vacation: Robie House Stunning. Completely sated my Frank Lloyd Wright appetite. I didn’t need to see Oak Park or anything else. I don’t know why the foot of the sofa leg has a CURVE in it. So out of place. Museum of Surgery Loved this place (except for the spot…

I love boutique hotels, and of all the boutique hotels I have frequented, this, by far, was the boutiquiest. Sometimes boutique just means small. That’s fine with me. I don’t like paying extra for air. But this hotel had a theme and it doubled down on that theme, which was art and science. There were…

This is one stall out of many in the basement bathroom at my hotel in Chicago. Every one of the stalls had a point. Perhaps this is where the point skills are practiced; or where sloppy pointers are disciplined.

I hoped to see the lions outside the Art Institute dressed in Chicago gear after the Sox won the Wild Card but evidently Chicago has been burned before. (Sick Chicago joke.) I will have to settle for this.

Look at this brickwork on the fireplace in the Robie House. Look how wide those bricks are. Now look in the bottom left corner between the yellow stucco column and the plain cement mantelpiece, below the mantel but above the rust colored cushion. Do you see the vertical bit of mortar that shows where two…

Yesterday, the universe made me smile. I’d had a bad day. The water taxi was good, but I got very lost in Chinatown trying to find the EL after a squabbling phone call with Gary. Evidently, the universe sensed that I was having a bad day. The hotel has upped their toilet paper point game.…