Dying Baby Bird
This is not a pleasant story. and yet, this story is very me. and so I will tell this story as honestly as I possibly can. “Loooooooooooooooooooooorieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen?!” My grandmother was calling me from her back deck. I ran down the stairs and outside my aparment to find her leaning over the side. “Q.T. [the cat, Quintessential Thespian] has been bringing in more playthings.” Uh oh. “Yeaaah?” G: “Yesterday it was a dead cardinal and I had red feathers all over the kitchen floor.” L: {laugh} “Okay?” G: “Tonight it...
Read MoreSuspiro – Tale of Mortification
Mortification is the word of the day. My day had been planned out with a chart and everything. Super Academia. and then I got distracted. I missed the last of my buses, so I took the car and drove around campus trying to find metered parking (I don’t have a parking pass… not until January). I found metered parking across campus. Normally, not a problem. Today, two problems: 1) No bike. 2) The cats have hidden my shoes, and I had to run over to my apartment to find shoes… the only pair I found were some of my three inch heels. I love them, all of them, but they’re...
Read MoreThe 8-Point Buttshot Vehicle
I received a free car to replace my wrecked car. It’s so incredibly horrendous that I love it. There are eight key points that make it so monstrously awful. 1) It’s a pickup truck. 2) It’s hideous. 3 and 4) A former owner let his son use it. His son dealt drugs. Not wanting to enable this lifestyle, the father took the truck away from the son. As the father drove off, the son shot the truck with a shotgun. The truck bears the mark of the buckshot, and is thus called “buttshot”. 5) A former owner’s employee who drove the truck went grocery shopping. A...
Read MoreAbout Lorien
I vote as a libertarian influenced by Hayek and Burke, and I think as an anarchist guided by the biblical principles of liberty. I have fenced foil in a diaper-suit and run for political office in a skirt-suit, but my shoes were always fabulous. Both dreadful politics and inspiring design are likely to make me teary.
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