It was one of those weekends in which my accomplishments didn’t quite live up to my ambitions. I have about four or five “intellectual” posts half written in my head, but so much kept going on that I didn’t get anything really, actually written. But I did take the time to write up this lame excuse. In…
Category: Blogging About Blogging
What I Am (Not) – Blogger Personality Exercise
I have been shying away from “thoughtful” posts lately, and also from finally filling out my About page although I need to, but I don’t want you to think that I haven’t been thinking lately. Actually lately I’ve been thinking about why I blog and what I want this blog to be, and what kind…
Bloglovin Wants Me to Ask You to Follow Me
<a href=”http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/3382507/?claim=kttsmb6gywm”>Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> Here’s a picture of ponies I redid, halfway through the process, because I can’t stand a pictureless post.
I Love Them Now Don’t Give Them Special Treatment – In Praise of The Hairpin’s Girl Talk
Yesterday I discovered The Hairpin’s Girl Talk feature, starting with the Nathan Drake edition. I’m not a Nathan Drake super fan, but even before I read any others, I was pretty smitten with Girl Talk. Not because its video games + boys + intended for a female audience, which I guess is cool in…
The Perception of Beauty and Beastliness
“In your eyes, I perceive… both the look of a beauty and the look of a beast. Be mindful not to bring about your own end, my dear!” So says the Chrono Cross fortune teller to Kid, my favorite character in one of my favorite games. I thought about this quote every time after that when I felt…
Christmas Eve in Pictures
Yesterday, on Christmas Eve, I took a photo every hour, for every hour I was awake. I was hoping to capture the story of the day, and interested in seeing if the pictures would tell me anything about my day that I didn’t already know. In the end, I found out that my day is…
Welcome to my Time Warp, Have a Hot Pumpkin Chocolate
I have so many things in my backlog that I have given up on ever posting, due to the lack of immediacy I’m left with after having let them sit so long. But I’ve decided to give up-to-the-minute-ness the finger, and start posting the backlog anyway, timeliness be damned. In the interest of that, here’s…
Rika Confesses to Almost All of It 