Archive for June, 2009

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

The purpose of order

As some of you already know, this blog started as a chronicle of Nerdmeyr’s adventures in the Midwest. After keeping the blog for several years, she graciously allowed me to piggyback on her fame and write my own esoteric posts that consisted mainly of cultural criticism.
One summer day, I hit upon the idea of giving [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Cartography, Housekeeping by k

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Bear Gently, So Gently, the Roughly Made Bier

A plotz of greasy black dust
a partially ground-out wing
Or, if its too late,
(for you, certainly) (but for me, also)
irradiating droplets of blood
like pollack gone mad
It didn’t have to be this way
This enervating tango of buzzing and near misses.
We could have been friends.
Well, if not friends,
Acquaintances, then.
Acquaintances who share a love of the trees
slagging sideways with [...]

3 Comments » - Posted in Displays by nerdmeyr

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

All-Natty Mosquito Repellent

My limbs are looking more chewed-up than a bacon-flavored dog bone, thanks to the blood-thirsty fiends who have absolutely no regard or care as to my relative happiness out-of-doors.
Mosquito Lemon-aid
Compliments of Jerry Baker.
1 cup lemon-scented ammonia
1 cup lemon-scented dish soap
Put the mixture in a hose-end sprayer and spray all over the yard – grass, walls, [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Housekeeping by nerdmeyr

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Not To Beat a Dead Horse, but….

…a sign that you might want to rethink an issue is that Dick Cheney …err….comes out and agrees with you on it.
Cheney backs gay marriage, calls it a state issue
I guess the gay daughter card finally got played. Or maybe Cheney’s having some sort of delusional episode? He also says he still thinks that [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Cabinet of curios by nerdmeyr