by Ryn Gargulinski | Jul 30, 2010 | Blogski Archives, column, danger, environment, gross stuff, health, life
Picnics are a prime time to get ants dancing in our pants – or flies breeding in our potato salad. One fine story involves a friend of my dad’s who bit into a hamburger only to find the squirming back end of a bumblebee. Another features a friend who spent a weekend...
by Ryn Gargulinski | Feb 10, 2010 | Blogski Archives, life
If we don’t eat, we die. Thus we are stuck going to the supermarket. This mundane chore is a bore for several reasons: the crowds, the crying children and the cost. I frequent supermarkets as infrequently as possible – like only when I’ve finally wrenched the last bag...
by Ryn Gargulinski | Nov 2, 2009 | art blogski, Blogski Archives, life
Pumpkins are great for a number of things that go far beyond Halloween. In fact, you can even kill a kid with one. Here are six ways of looking at these funky orange gourds: As artistic expression – Check out the artistry of some fabulously talented TC.com readers who...
by Ryn Gargulinski | Aug 12, 2009 | art blogski, Blogski Archives, gross stuff, life
It’s tough to be angry when you’re hooking up art as a prize for this week’s photo contest winner, someone who has always been supportive and kind. Congrats, AZMouse for the most creative scenarios on the tourist photo. Since AZMouse is an avid animal lover with two...
by Ryn Gargulinski | Jun 1, 2009 | Blogski Archives
A cucumber that mysteriously disappeared out of my Sunday evening grocery haul surfaced Monday morning, much worse for the wear. Seems my dog Saywer found the thing, who knows where, and likened it to a bone or chew toy. At least his mutilation of the cucumber was not...
