January 2012
24 posts
“We’re gonna die. And I won’t have had a nap.”
– Liv, of the ever-darkening (greenish?) sky
“Bujak lived in the twentieth century. And the one day the twentieth century, a...”
– Martin Amis’ Bujak and the Strong Force or God’s Dice
Etta James’ Seven Day Fool
http://americancensorship.org/ →
Amazon Commitment Issues conquered by books and kitchenwares. (Shocking.) / Conflict of Interests still going strong despite (fueled by?) all of the outside incredulity and tsk-tsking. / I am literally living off of whole fruit and bacon cheeseburgers right now, and it’s kind of amazing. I cannot recommend the Petrol Station highly enough. / I signed up for a 6:30a yoga class/haven’t...
“You know how you cycle through drinks & you get tired of them? … but...”
– ASF, on rum and pinot
I swear there are other things going on in my life aside from Downton Abbey. They’re just not as important right now.
An amazon.com gift card is simultaneously the most clever and most evil thing. I now have a wish list full of things I’ve been wanting forever and things I didn’t even know I wanted. Examples: Gourmet’s book of Italian recipes, a Diptyque myrrhe candle, a Silpat half sheet, a gold Nixon watch, and Muppet Treasure Island. Still considering the addition of a pocket knife, the...
“… All this has an inexplicable charm for me, perhaps because I no longer...”
– Nikolai Gogol’s Old World Landowners
Taste. →
“I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in...”
– Iris Apfel, of plastic surgery
December 2011
16 posts
“I’m a hardcore green activist now, man. Have some more cheese.”
– ‘Nico’
“Frederick Douglass only has to tell me once.”
– ?uestlove, of hairspray
Fifteen days left in December/two thousand eleven. The war in Iraq is over, but we seem to still be in Afghanistan & Pakistan, so, you know, only kind of over, I guess. Nine years is a lot of time and not very much time. Everyone seems weirded out by the anticlimax. (I wish I knew a better word/term for ‘weirded out,’ but the thesaurus offers no help/is too extreme) I have a lot of...
Gift Dragon slain. Now for a lot of knitting.
It’s really hard to stop the Christmas Shopping.
Additionally my allergies are killing me & our tree looks like gold exploded all over it (this is magical when the tree is lit // tacky/ugly as sin otherwise). Happy Holidays.
Dubai Bunny Jacket + Fresh Fraser Fir + Christmas Pandora + ½ Day at Work in the Name of Margaritas + Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters = Helloooo, December
& now to fluff & decorate the Tree; finish up Christmas shopping; get everything wrapped & spray-painted; find an Advent calendar; make sausage & mushroom swirls; look into gingerbread house-making/look into gingerbread house...
November 2011
13 posts
“Trickeration??!?”
– Janet, of ESPN’s interpretive American English
So, I know that since I’m already Christmas shopping and everything that this should have sunk in sooner, but in planning out my week I realised I need to buy a case of prosecco and bake a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving tonight and it hit me: The Holidays are Here.
Quick.
“… and Un, Deux, Trois cats sank.”
– Liv, of French kittens.
WatchThey’re doing so well with the video lately.
“People are doing fine reading one space.”
– Farhad Manjoo, arguing typing reflexes with Terry Gross