I've decided to celebrate Colorado's co-distinction as the skinniest state AND the largest beer producer in the nation with a semi-solid margarita made of tequila, lard, buttermilk, beer and sugar. Put down your bikes, shed your crampons, renounce your gym memberships and and join me, Colorado. Join me.

c/o Natalie Dee, the same artist who brought you (and me) the beloved hot dog eating hot dog painting seen in locales from Manhattan to Denver:

Yeah. That's all I got.
TGIASHORTWEEK.

The second installation of Pecha Kucha is scheduled for Monday, July 14th at the Buntport. I'll be flying back from Massachusetts that night, so am sad to say I'll miss it. Less sad to say I won't be presenting again, but...alas...this fear of public speaking thing I've had since delivering a speech at my high school graduation seems to be here to stay. I can handle about a five-person crowd but anything over that and I stop breathing, which I've read can be harmful.

(If only this said Mariah Carey...)

Kate O'Connor on Flickr

Via my love for you is a stampede of horses.

Suspenseful, compelling, luscious...Grazie Argento!

So, after a few moments of looking through the dreadful/boring options, I decided I wanted a kid-friendly, cabin-appropriate, nature-appreciative theme. Yeah, it was between that and a rococo, Louis XIV, bejeweled bidet handle kind of vibe. Potato, potahto.

Behold what alighted:

Marimekko Kaiku Shower Curtain from Finn Style. (A look previously drooled over here.)

The next step was way easy, finding a small bath mat that matched the curtain:

Pottery Barn Classic Bath Rug in Clover Green. (That's the one on the far bottom right. I've got quite the eye for color, no?)

And then, it was on to the walls. I think we'll probably go for white or cream and let the curtain be the star, but I still wanted to add something on them to bring some pattern to that side of the room. And wallpapering is not - nor ever will be - my renovation forte. Even after my mom recommended I just drink Mai Tais during the application, which apparently is how she and my Nana redid vast portions of our house. Mai Tais? Check. Wallpaper paste and pattern aligning frustration? Pass.

So, I settled on some sweet little bird wall graphics:

Fly Away Wall Graphic in Ash from Etsy seller ellynelly (Note: the "Ash" is a dark gray. Again, color + me = fistpound.)

These also work to alleviate my bird-guilt over housing, feeding and caring for a multi-fanged killer. Win-win.

Sportblock (3-24 lbs.), $129 plus $29 shipping

"..how are you we're fine beautiful day I went back to the government tell the just well after pulling over the whole, wine rack on top of me last night mountain broke a bottle of flowers and got a few bruises, but apparently survive and I was telling the drummer colleges why this unusual bruise on my leg and she says, how old are you so listen. I discovered that I wrist amount has 2 versions of our town or my town whatever is you know that great song she wrote, fantastic song, on you to and one of them is was sitting around with Mary Black and name is Lou Harrison someone's living room and doing it and the other is her just singing it and the sound quality on her just individual thing is so wonderful plus they print the words out and as you know as you probably know, the worse or absolutely incredible, so epp I'm it's just like there's so many, great things don't you too and you just kind of discover, you know by following a trail and I hadn't. I've got an Irish demand CD, but it doesn't - I don't think have our town on it and somewhat if you would do me a favor, if you don't know that's they'll listen to it so we can talk about it and if you do go listen to it you've big old earlier, OK now I'm going to go over and play with my cats so I have to prioritize and get off the phone with humans, love you oh here's real good news in case Matt hadn't told you Donnie was accepted it sent Johnson Annapolis so is he said now I don't have to apply that 12 or 15 schools make sure I get in one you know I can apply to the you know 5 or so that I'm really interested in and relax you know, so that was great news, love you so much really like."

So, you know...the gist.

Via PR Week

HAHA! Global domination, suckas! My retail dreams can, in the words of Heather Jean, "eat a dick." For it's all about the Pentiums, to me.

In this Wednesday, June 18, 2008 hand out photo, nurses are seen, posing near a monument to enemas at Mashuk Akva-Term Sanatorium in the town of Zheleznovodsk, Russian Caucasus Mountains region. Alexander Kharchenko, director of the Russian spa says the world's first monument to enema treatments has been unveiled at the spa in the southern city of Zheleznovodsk. The bronze syringe bulb, weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels.

Via AP Photo

(Thanks, Matt!)

According to IMDB, it also stars Booger, who sadly doesn't make a cameo in the above. Clint Howard, though? Gotcha covered.

This is Promises, a Trakehner colt born just last week to Preglestar. He's been bringing my ma a lot of joy while she's sidelined with a broken (ouch!) rib (ouch!) and is, by all accounts, both an officer and a gentleman. As well as a full brother to her yearling colt Pharaoh.*

*All the Trakhehner babies have to have names beginning with the first letter of the dam's name. This is all well and good when it's "P" but was a bit tougher when the mare Upstart was pumping 'em out. The suggestion "Umbilicus" was rejected more times than I care to count.

The Colorado Relay Classic is a 24-hour+ 170-mile team relay race, and is Colorado's Premier Team Relay designed for athletes of all abilities. The 2008 Colorado Relay Classic will be held on September 12-13, 2008, going from Georgetown to Carbondale, Colorado. Runners leave from Georgetown between 6am and 12noon.

I just had one of those marathony shitsplosions just thinking about it. Especially the "athletes of all abilities" detail. And now I have to go change. That's all.

Jon Bon Jovi action figure, $14.99 at Newbury Comics

(Also good: Lost Boys "David" action figure and, of course, Chuck D)