Kari Neumeyer

Western I love these little dudes. They’re part of a sculpture called “Feats of Strength,” and I think they look like turtles without shells. When it’s nice out, I eat lunch with them.

Finale season You know you’re over a show when you can’t be bothered to set an old-fashioned VCR on another TV when there’s a programming conflict. (My TiVo only gets one show at a time, but Rob has a DVR in another room and like, we have several VCRs between us, and at least oneContinue reading

Beauty way to go While eating my burrito al fresco, I observed, without turning my head: 3 white flouncy skirts1 white mini skirt (denim)4 white capri pants1 white pair of those culotte pants that everyone has this season Guess white is in. Question: Is it better to have a visible panty line showing that youContinue reading

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Tokyo, June 17, 1991 Kendo is the most fun thing in the world. We wore the official robes with the armor and everything. The boys teaching me were so cute! The sticks aren’t very difficult to use. You do this swinging motion and whack the opponent on his side and it makes this great sound.Continue reading

Teen angst bullshit During recent trips home (to my Mom’s), I discovered letters and journals from an extremely painful period of my life. Which, at the time, I thought was the best time of my life. High school. And freshman year of college, actually. The letters that I wrote to my then-boyfriend, and apparently neverContinue reading

The pandemic begins So I’m feeling a little under the weather. I’m perfectly capable of doing my job of sitting at my computer and writing, but when I stand up or try to have a conversation, I feel sort of foggy. Out of concern that I might wake up tomorrow feeling worse, I started plottingContinue reading

Thank you, Ted Casablanca “Why didn’t Tom Cruise listen to his pro-advisers, who were telling him to stay home and act like he cared more about new daughter Suri’s feeding schedule than he did doing press for Mission: Impossible III? Getting out there and doing bad breakdancing on cable TV was not the best messageContinue reading

Rhymes with citrus Hot damn does an orange taste good when one’s throat has that pre-cold scratchiness. Flew to So. Cal during each of the previous two weekends, which seems to have taxed my immune system, even though I took Airborne. Probably should have taken more. Have had several marginally blog-worthy thoughts during past fewContinue reading

Donde esta la sirena? I used to have these great drinking glasses. I may well have blogged about them before. They had Mexican tarot cards on them: La Sirena, La Luna, La Rosa, El Diablo, El Mano, El Corazon… I systematically broke one every time I moved and a couple of times in between. IContinue reading