Joshilyn Jackson's Blog, page 22
November 22, 2011
Friends Don't Let Friends Do pR0n.
Look here is a picture of a dog so beautiful he ought to be subverted into my dog posse. His name is COWBOY and he has screwed up eyes. One eye is blue and the other eye is half blue and half brown. It makes him look goofy and demented and beautiful, like David Bowie, if David Bowie had a bisected two-tone eye instead of them just being different colors. Still.
Cowboy is long and lanky like Bowie, and IF he wandered up to you with glitter paint eyelids, wearing platform shoes, you would...
November 18, 2011
The Advantages of Naughtiness and Bad Behavior
Look! Here is a picture of me with Deanna Raybourn who I met at the Dahlonega Lit Fest. She calls HER Best Beloveds "Dearest Chickens," and is crazy-fun, but, I am sad to report, she is an addicted sugar-smoker.
Yes, Virginia, those are CANDY cigarettes. But they do not look like candy cigarettes, do they. When people decided that maybe cigarettes killed you after all, they kept making candy cigs, but called them CANDY STICKS. Even STICK sounded too lung-murdering to feed to children...
November 15, 2011
Hey, Remember the FAQ?
Me neither!
I AM supposed to already HAVE one. I know that. The work is theoretically done.
You were THERE when we did it, remember? You Best of all Possible Beloveds helped me compile a list of questions. If any question sounded even remotely familiar, I assumed it was because they had been asked frequently, and I answered them. I know I did like…15 individual blog posts. The idea was to AT THE END, cut and paste them together and make an FAQ page.
So it would have been REALLY smart to...
November 9, 2011
Overheard
Scott and Maisy are watching A KNIGHT'S TALE. She is ALREADY scandalized by seeing Chaucer's buttocks. And then..this kiss happens. This verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry French kiss.
Maisy: Daddy, why are they opening and closing their mouths like that?
Scott: Sometimes, when a boy and a girl like each other very much—AND THEY HAVE DECIDED TO GET MARRIED —they kiss like that.
Heee. Daddies.
November 8, 2011
These Pictures are Worth Approximately 1/3rd to 1/2 of 13,567 Words
13,567 is the number of NEW WORDS I wrote while I was up on a tall tall mountain with Lydia, retreating. Those brave wild honking beautiful LOONS among you who are doing NaNoWriMo may now yawn, completely unimpressed, and say, "That's almost as many words as I effortlessly pooped out this morning before breakfast."
BUT FOR ME it was a big ol' hairy deal. Lydia got about 15K, so I hate her now, forever, ALAS, but this is us together soaking up glorious porch sunshine before I put her...
November 4, 2011
November 1, 2011
Halloween Redux
Sam was something undefined, but SCARY AS ALL GET OUT and moderately Steam Punk, if Steam Punk would be so kind as to make room for the possibility of enormous laser-guns. Maisy was a Heart-Sparkle-Diamond Glamour Witch. Those are not, by the way, orange contacts.That is just the natural, fiery gleam of CANDY AVARICE lighting her up from within.
Sam Trick-Or-Treated this year, even though LAST YEAR he was waaaay too grown up to be bothered with it. This year, it become retro-chic or...
October 27, 2011
The Zoo in Pictures, Part Two: ZOMGAH! IS BABY LIONS!
Yes. The zoo has baby lions.
Five of them, which WOW, that is a lot of baby lions in a single litter.
Some people might think I buried the lead, giving you giraffes when THE WHOLE TIME I secretly had baby lions.
But honestly? For me? The giraffes were the total win on smell alone. I love the sun-baked cheerful smell of a good ol' giant herbivore in the morning.
Giraffes smell like Horse + +, and they DO have velvety noses, thank you for asking, and the things on their head are not, as you...
October 25, 2011
The Zoo in Pictures, Part 1: Giraffes. Especially Gordon.
My sweet friend Patty Callahan Henry and her daughter Meghan used their awesomeness to get the COMPLETELY AMAZING Marcia (B-Ham's large mammal curator) to take me and Susan Rebecca White on a special ZOO TOUR in honor of Susan's Birthday and my existential angst ridden mid-life crisis. I have to tell you—this was the kindest thing. Maybe ever. Nothing soothes a troubled soul like making out with a giraffe. REALLY.
This is Gordon:
Gordon and I are using bamboo to re-enact that spaghetti scene f...
