It's Marcello & my 5th wedding anniversary! Five years ago we got married in the party room in the apartment building where I was living at the time, Marcello braved the snow and ice to fly over and we have been happy ever since. London hellaciously busy and wet today, so staying in, but going out tomorrow when it's drier and easier to get around ( Read more... )

Taking it relatively easy today: laundry, some twitter action, grocery shopping as ever, and a short and sadly fruitless search for a cd tower (the BHF shop in Brixton had nothing, and I'm too tired to go elsewhere today). Seeing my doctor first thing next week about my cyst or whatever it might be on the top of my left side, above my rib; no ( Read more... )

I am finally, finally here, after some weeks of being either away or too tired to write - last week (from the 15th to the 20th) I was in Scotland with my husband. We stayed, as usual, at his mom's, who lives in a town about 45 minutes by bus outside of Glasgow; we arrived by train, got a taxi right outside the station and were mutually upset that ( Read more... )

Earlier this year I was contacted by the editor of review31 and was given carte blanche to pick any book I wanted to write about and wrote a review, which still has to be published as the book (Will Hermes' book on 70s NYC music scene) hasn't been published yet here in the UK - HOWEVER, the newish Jonathan Lethem book on Talking Heads' album Fear ( Read more... )

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And now it's about time I wrote in here: especially since spring is here, though I've been indoors all day, writing, reading, brooding about writing, cleaning, etc. (MSBWT, your friendly UK #2 blog, has just reached the 70s, and whew, 1970's going to be a whopper.) I am well; Marcello is well, taking Warfarin and going to the hospital every ( Read more... )

It seems like a whirlwind now but this is the news: Marcello had a mini-stroke on Saturday and is now recuperating in hospital. Luckily his speech and movement are fine and while he has yet to get up and move, things could have been much worse - at the time he was dizzy, had a headache and threw up a lot, but could still talk and I called an ( Read more... )

Typically I am late in posting this (and I'm late with cards, alas, but some are going out asap) but I hope you all had/are having/will have lovely holidays. As for me - I lost a tooth earlier this month (in two stages) and then went to see a dentist, who cheerily figured out all work outside of some kind of replacement & general cleaning would ( Read more... )

Yesterday Marcello & I were guest DJs at the Hangover Lounge and I am happy to say we had a great time and I thought I should post my set somewhere...so here it is ( Read more... )

About to go out to to minor chores (have already done laundry and started the long process of defrosting the freezer; doing it in stages as I can't unplug the darn thing). Book proposal slowly coming into focus; realize that unless I obsess over it & nothing else then it won't be as good as it could be, so the first thing is to figure out what I ( Read more... )