A Few Heck of a Guy Moments With Lady Lawanda

June 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm · DrHGuy · No Comments

The Blog and The Lady

It is hardly surprising that thoughts of Lady Lawanda have dominated my thoughts since her death yesterday morning.¹ In hopes of transforming this obsession into a shared joyful remembrance, I’ve put together a few Heck of a Guy blog references to the charismatic, lovely, and beloved Lawanda.

Teach Your Children Well

Lady Lawanda was, in fact, the primary author of Teaching The Children A Lesson, a lesson plan so impressive that I dared publish it as a post.

Portraits of a Lady

The Heck Of A Guy’s Image According To Google, a post on graphics from this blog that earned high rankings on Google, features not one but two photos of Lawanda.

Excerpt #1:

Eliciting high rankings for graphics from a blog with a limited (but high-class) readership and few incoming links from reputable sites does call for quite specific search terms, but, to use an extreme example, seeing a mug shot of the irresistible Lawanda, costumed as a goatee-wearing construction worker, show up as #1 of 1400 results for “Teacher Lawanda,” #3 of 44,900 for “disguised teacher,” #5 of 60,200 for “disguise teacher” and #1 of 1370 results for “Lawanda Disguise.” is wonderfully gratifying.² The caption is a nice bonus.

Excerpt #2:

Yep, pictured on the right in that graphic are the often emulated but never duplicated Lawanda and Hippie With Tiara, who were indeed instrumental in preparing – and consuming – that night’s batch of the chocolate vodka elixir. This same photo, incidentally, is the second graphic on the second page of the search results for the more general “Chocolate Vodka.” And, if one enters “Melted Chocolate Vodka” in the Google Image Search, this portrait of our heroines holds the #1 ranking.

Lawanda’s Bestest Christmas

Returning readers may recall that the last two holiday seasons have featured Lady Lawanda’s Christmas Gift to Heck of a Guy Readers in the form of Wishing You The Bestest Of Christmases.

The Road to the Final Four Won’t Be The Same

Item #7 from 10 Things I Like About The NCAA Basketball Tournament is this excerpt:

7. Enlightenment

I have had the honor and privilege of facilitating the inconceivable LaWanda’s entry into the spiritual realm of basketball understanding. I’ve watched over her as she has discovered the quintessential purity and joyfulness that is the pick and roll, as she grasped the nuances of the over & back rule, and as she incorporated into her core intellectual processes the key strengths and weaknesses of the full court press.

The Posts About Health

Earlier posts addressing Lady L’s health problems include

The first two of these illness-related posts showcase specific songs while the third features, of course, a tattoo.

Lady Lawanda was also quite taken by the patient compliance ideas she found at my AlignMap site and, in fact, regularly promoted those principles and AlignMap to the many healthcare professionals with whom she came into contact. She also snapped this photo of a sign in a doctors’ office she visited.

That sign was the foundation of the post, Another Approach To Compliance. The tone of the piece can be extrapolated from this excerpt from the opening:

Welcome To Dr. Friendly’s Office
Captured during a doctor’s appointment by the patient, an admirably camera-ready friend, the sign in the above photo is an exemplar of everyday clinical office practices that are incongruent with the highly promoted and almost universally endorsed patient-centric approach (which is apparently interwoven with but not identical to patient empowerment) held by some to be the key to enhancing adherence to treatment.

It’s also evil on so many levels that I find it difficult to decide which I find most offensive.

Nonetheless, I’m willing to give it a shot.

It’s Good To Be The Queen

Lawanda was also the photojournalist for the surprisingly popular The Heartland Spa Photodocumentary, which included the following evidence of the Clothes Fairy Effect:

While there were no confirmed sightings of the Clothes Fairy, Lawanda did capture the actual results of her exertions. The guest simply deposits the dirty clothing on the heart-shaped mat, thusly,