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 Fresh
fruit
Fresh Fruit, a local team of artists headed by a
talented drag queen who likes to dress as Julie
Andrews, examine the subtleties of Dorchester
living while adding vibrancy to the
'hood. Their work, while perhaps not entirely
politically correct, so far includes 19 other
videos of unalloyed truth and genius, like The
Sound of Music-inspired "Dorchester" ("Dorchester's alive /
With the sound of gunfire"), "Ebonics for Beginners" ("Repeat after me: 'I
axed you a question.'"), and "Boston Common Girl" ("The Eighties called,
they want their hair back."). More here.
posted August 24, 2010, 7:18 amThe
Cursing Mommy
Today I fondly recall the New Yorker's
Ian Frazier's delightful ongoing series about a
tightly wound stay-at-home mother, "The
Cursing Mommy," who consistently includes
the Bush Administration into her tirades of
profanity, despite it now being years after
Bush's ignominious
departure—so she always has my sympathy. For
easy reading, I've put up her last three
articles, "Easy Cocktails from the Cursing
Mommy," "The Cursing Mommy Cooks
Italian," and "Rx from the Cursing
Mommy," all in one place, with their
illustrations, here.
posted May 29, 2010, 11:31 am
Painted
my roof white
When I found out it would be 90º in
April—not that there's anything wrong with the climate or anything—last Sunday I
decided to paint my flat black asphalt
roof white. Using a 5-gallon bucket of
good quality white oil-based primer, two 18"
3/8"-nap rollers, an 18" yoke, a roller
extension pole, and an 18" paint tray
($164), I hauled all the stuff up a ladder onto
the roof—carrying a 5-gallon bucket of paint
up a ladder should really be a two-guy job—I
managed to get the roof painted by 4:30 pm6. See here for a little photo essay.
posted April 5, 2010, 7:14 pm
Light
bulbs
In the unlikely event you want to know about the light
bulbs in my apartment, I bring you... my official light bulb layout plan. I assure you, dear readers, that
without this, your knowledge about how I live
would be insufficient. So I invite you to click
on the small light bulb graphic up there on the
right, and see for yourself how I've transformed
my apartment into a haven of energy efficiency,
while still keeping those comforting halogen
lightbulbs in strategic locations (compact
fluorescent bulbs, I have found, do emit a very
quiet humming—very quiet, but nonetheless
loud enough to disturb my quiet studying by the
kitchen windows).
posted February 7, 2010, 11:43 am
For entries posted prior to
2010, I invite you to my archive.
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