Monthly Archives: April 2011

216. Talkin’ Jive

Octo-honky chick (tha’s Octo-woman to ya’, dude) is tryin’ t’help daughta’ Gretchen figure out how t’do some rap on de Beatitudes fo’ some presentashun at ha’ church. Lop some boogie. In so’s hangin’, ah’ realized dat mah’ rappin’ delivery be … Continue reading

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215. God’s Floor Show

Attention: This is a test of your analytical skills. Please study each of the images on this slideshow sent our way from Linda Lewis.  I would like to know: (1) if your favorites are the same as mine, (2) are … Continue reading

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214. Gretchen’s Mission Possible

When most people deliver a new baby, they can’t wait to send around photos of their new-born treasure – the bouncing baby, the tiny star of the show, like a little heaven-sent cherub. Not my babies though.  This is how … Continue reading

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213. Global Cooling

In case you haven’t read my nephew Tim Fitzpatrick’s interesting commentary on yesterday’s blob, please read and memorize it.  There was never a  truer word spoken. As for the demise of his treasured broccoli sprouts, please send him a Mass … Continue reading

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212. Spring is Sprung, Sort of

Hooray!  The weatherman said this morning that we’re going to get a brief respite from the steady rain, cold damp air, avalanches, floods and mudslides.  Starting Thursday.  I can’t wait. I’ve been saving this to get us ready.  Friend Linda … Continue reading

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211. Getting Along on a Shoestring

Serving as a systems analyst during my data processing years, most of my cohorts assumed I got my training in college learning about computers.  Little did they know.  It started a lot earlier than that. Boiling it down and forgetting … Continue reading

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210. Spell-bound

You know you’re getting old when you can still remember how kids used to communicate in English instead of text-speak. Text-speak is described as a combination of reduced punctuation, phonetic spelling, leaving out vowels and replacing some vowel sounds with … Continue reading

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209. Strip-Tease

This is about my parking strip.  Totally nude.  Since last November, 2010. If you read Blob #24, you already know more than you wanted to know about the bumps and grinds that got the parking strip to where it was … Continue reading

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208. Stand-up Comedy by Olivia

Hewwo. I am Owivia Kathewine Bush and today I am fwee yeaws owd. My Gweat Gweat Aunt Octo-woman asked me to wite this bwob fow hew today, because she wants you to heaw how I tawk. She says I tawk … Continue reading

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207. Important Notice

We are sorry to inform you that there will be no postings to this blog until further notice. The author of the blog, known only as “Octo-woman”, is in the King County jail, awaiting arraignment on Friday, April 1.  She … Continue reading

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