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Put on the tiaras!

It’s Oscar night. I get to sit in my tiara while sipping a smart cocktail and laughing at movie stars who dress even worse than me despite having fashion consultants.

Life doesn’t get much better.

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And now I need to whine some more

I feel like I’ve been sick all winter and I’m tired of it. Tired, I say. So, despite my love of winter and cold and snow, I must say at this point I want it to be warm and spring and sunshine in the hope that the warmth will finally kill the bugs that have taken up what seems like permanent residence in my respiratory system.

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Federal pork not pork when it goes to Alaska

We Alaskans like to think of ourselves as independent folk making our way through a wilderness the lower 48 cannot hope to understand. We don’t let the reality of the fact that the majority of us live in decidedly urban areas with all the amenities we could want at hand interfere with this image. We are the citizens of the Last Frontier and we don’t need the feds telling us what to do.

This message can sound odd in DC when, on the one hand, we proclaim ourselves independent pioneers taming the last great wilderness and, on the other hand,

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A truth I’ve learned

When I am sick with a miserable cold and cough, being chirpy and cheery on my blog is more hard work than it’s worth. So let’s just cut straight to the truth. I feel absolutely horrible and I want someone to invent a vaccines within the next ten minutes that they can give me in the next twenty minutes so I don’t have to feel this way anymore or ever in the future.

So why are you still reading this and wasting time? Go find this cure…. immediately!

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Is this really news?

A book by one of Sarah Palin’s close aides has been leaked to the media in which she is shown to be petty and malicious.

Yawn…. tell me something new.

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No, seriously….

There seems to have been a recent uptick in e-mails from Africa telling me I’ve got millions of dollars just waiting for me to access. And I have to wonder… who the hell still answers these e-mails? Seriously, how naive do you have to be after all these years to believe or even OPEN one of these spams? Yet someone must be answering them or they wouldn’t still keep coming, right?

As PT Barnum once said, there’s one born every minute.

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The Egg

Apparently some singer made her entrance to the Grammys inside an egg. Here’s what I want to know. How did she keep her gown from wrinkling while she was in there? If it was me, I’d come out looking like wrinkle city. What was her secret?

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Why is it…

that I seem to be physically incapable of taking a plane flight… no matter how short or how long… without coming back sick?

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