Category Archives: Humor

Facebook Won’t Eat Your Kittens

Posted on August 17, 2011 by P. Kirby

Stuff you can count on. The swallows returning to Capistrano. Taxes. Death. And someone on Facebook having a meltdown over privacy controls. OMG! Facebook has changed its settings again. Now, it can steal your children and sell them into slavery.” … Continue reading →

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I Feed My Muse True Blood

Posted on August 10, 2011 by P. Kirby

The only problem with watching True Blood via Netflix is that it leaves me feeling like the slow kid in class.  Everybody else has moved on to lesson four, while I’m still stuck in lesson three.  That is, I’m still … Continue reading →

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Who Is That Masked Horse?

Posted on August 5, 2011 by P. Kirby

“STOP DIGGING!” What my neighbors hear every morning from May to October. Summer and Fall are the seasons of flies.  This year, thanks (sort of) to a short and very unusual span of below zero temperatures, the fly hordes didn’t … Continue reading →

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Truth in Advertising

Posted on August 4, 2011 by P. Kirby

You know you’ve been at a job too long when the simple act of getting up, going outside and getting the mail becomes a kind of deliverance from the excruciating pain of ennui poisoning.*  I slog across the asphalt parking … Continue reading →

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Will There Be Laundry Involved?

Posted on August 3, 2011 by P. Kirby

In a lovely change from the adverts for manroot fertilizer, I get this in my inbox. (It somehow sneaked past my spam filters.) Doris wants a “true relationship and partner.” Dear Doris, As a rule i make a Point not … Continue reading →

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Buy My Book, So I Can Afford Pest Control

Posted on July 3, 2011 by P. Kirby

A study in lunacy, Kirby-style. Saturday morning and I’m staring at dirty dishes from breakfast and inventing excuses for not washing them– “It’s against my religion; dish soap causes cancer; dishes come cleaner if food is allowed to set.” I … Continue reading →

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Skyline

Posted on April 29, 2011 by P. Kirby

Recap, not a review, because it is so eye-rapingly bad. Starts off okay.  Glowy, alien plasma zooms down into L.A. and starts giving all the beautiful people the worst case of varicose veins ever. Several hours earlier… Generic blond, Elaine, … Continue reading →

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Of Aliens, Site Updates and Paper Books

Posted on April 22, 2011 by P. Kirby

The couple that’s in pain together … So my beloved and I awoke this morning with the same kink our neck.  Neither one of us can turn our head to the left. My husband, hearing that I had the same … Continue reading →

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Plastic Prince Marries Plastic Bride

Posted on April 20, 2011 by P. Kirby

The royal wedding and all things regarding the nuptials are a perfect substitute for Ambien. Anyone who knows me, or who’s sniffed around this blog, shouldn’t be surprise by my utter disinterest in a multimillion dollar, faux, fairy tale wedding. … Continue reading →

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You Gorgeous, Golden-Eyed Bastard

Posted on April 8, 2011 by P. Kirby

As always, I’m late to the party.  Today is International Raistlin Majere Day! Had I known, I would’ve donned my best red cloak for the morning dog walk with the greyhound. And alas, this is Friday, my day off, so … Continue reading →

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