I’ve always liked Valentine’s Day, so much so that in second grade, I wrote, produced and directed a play regarding Valentine’s Day’s provenance. If you are picturing a bunch of second-graders running around in togas, you’ve got it about right.
I continued to enjoy Valentine’s Day until February 14th, 1996. I had a crush– we’ll call [...]
Exciting news out of Costa Rica today: they elected their first woman president!
To be honest, I’m not crazy about all of Laura Chinchilla’s politics, but it is heartening to see another woman become a head of state. She gets to join Michelle Bachelet (president of Chile) and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (president of Argentina) in [...]
I finally read The Catcher in the Rye. It was awesome, although I’m a teensy bit worried by how much I relate to Holden Caulfield. The whole world is full of “phonies” though, isn’t it?
Make these brownies. Die happy. If you are a vegan though, don’t bother clicking. It will only break your heart.
If you have [...]
Anybody else have recurring dreams?
I graduated from high school a semester early. It didn’t do me a whole lot of good because here I am seven years later, still college degree-less (but so close!). Anyway, I believe this, the graduating early, is what has led to the recurring dream that has haunted me [...]
I went to La Petite Creperie for breakfast and IT WAS CLOSED. So you know what that means.
It means I’m still hungry. I missed the most important meal of the day and it’s all the Creperie’s fault. I also missed lunch, the second most important meal of the day, but that’s just because I was busy [...]
I love the Internet. I do. I also hate it. Sometimes it’s like the equivalent of the junior high bathroom wall. Somebody writes that so-and-so is a slut and pretty soon it’s all anybody at Mears (worst two years of my life) can talk about.
Here’s my point: think before you hit “publish”. Don’t make shit up. [...]
I know I’m a little late to this party, but I watched this movie the other night and loved it.
John Kraskinski and Maya Rudolph are adorable and charming and so sweet your teeth will hurt. Allison Janney and Jim Gaffigan play two incredibly awful, incredibly hilarious parents. My love for Maggie Gyllenhaal is reinforced. In short, [...]
This is how I’ve been feeling lately:
It is worth noting that any and all good deeds I may perform are part of an effort to build up enough good karma to be reborn as a sloth or cat in my next life. I realize that animals are technically a step down the continuum, but I feel [...]
“They don’t watch television.”
I heard a record scratch in my brain. “Ugh. What do they talk about?”
It was a serious question. I really don’t understand how people that don’t watch television relate to their fellow human beings. How does one function in society whilst disconnected from the cultural touchstone that is television?
Seed and Sprout
There are [...]
Haiti as we knew it is gone. Hundreds of thousands of people are thought dead, and hundreds of thousands have survived and are suffering. This is a country that has been plagued by inequality, disease, starvation, natural disasters, poverty, political instability, you name it. The people of Haiti are so poor that many are obliged to [...]
