One night I decided to dress up for a hangfest at Sir and Pickle’s instead of just rolling on in wearing my yoga pants and my hair in a ponytail. This time, I opted for leggings, Daria boots, about eighteen shades of blue, three different star… Read More »HappiMess Style: A Look Book, Part 1
Props to Playmobil: Part 1 explored some of the neat things other people were doing with their Playmobil toys. Aside from Dramobil hijinx, here’s what I’ve been doing with my own!
Sometimes I incorporate them into practical solutions, like fixing the latch on the door:
One of my goals for November 2017 was to participate in NaNoWriMo for the first time in at least five years. The month is nearly over, but it’ll be awhile before my story is. Here are just a few reasons/excuses why: Writing fiction is more daunting… Read More »How to Work on Your Book Without Actually Writing It
When I first tried to meditate, I—like most people—found it really goddamn hard. To this day, it’s still difficult: Who are these magic meditative people who can make their mind go shh, who aren’t whisked away by every thought like a mental ski lift? To at… Read More »Imagination Land: The Coastline: Part 1
This week, let’s revisit the origins of HappiMess. Each piece paved the way to this very post! It’s history in the making, people, so grant your peepers the pleasure of getting their sweet fill of this virtual gallery featuring artwork from the Pre-HappiMess Era (i.e., 1987… Read More »The Humble Beginnings of HappiMess -OR- The Little Kid Art Gallery: Part 2
In high school, I was in an honors French class, but it was more silly than it was prestigious. The teacher—an extremely sweet woman who was rumored to be a drunk—was so chill that we spent the majority of class just going question by question… Read More »Le Mafia de Paris!: A French Comic Book
“Is this a ripoff of Yoshi’s Island?” — Honey Bear (YES!) In truth, I can only guess what Yoshi’s Island was like—it was for Nintendos more Super than the one my brother and I grew up with. Our Nintendo was hooked up to the TV at… Read More »Yoshi’s Jungle (for Nintendo)
Once upon a time, a.k.a., 2007, Pine Cone and I spent a ton of time chatting on AIM (i.e., the Facebook Messenger of its time). Usually these conversations would consist tortuous Would You Rather…? games (my Libran answer is always “It depends”), but on some occasions, we would… Read More »Official Rulebook to the Game of Placenta Party
In 2008, I started a short-lived blog titled Movies: Abridged, where I would post condensed scripts to the movies I watched. I don’t even remember watching half these movies, which isn’t surprising; I don’t remember key episodes of 30 Rock or Bob’s Burgers, and I’ve watched both those shows recently… Read More »Movies Abridged: Film Synopses for Busy People, Part 1
This post continues exploring my childhood masterpiece, Bird and Kitty (or whatever it was actually called). When we last left off, the series of short stories penned by my elementary-school self was intensifying in emotional depth, as demonstrated in the mean-girlsy plot of the following… Read More »The Adventures of Bird and Kitty: Part 2