Little stray book, oh how you have delivered. Possibly to the point of pandering to my tastes, but so few authors know the way into my heart and my bookshelves is via Hamlet quotes and ravens that I doubt any pandering was intentional. (Here follows blockquotes from Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus! You . . . you knew that was coming, right? I ( Read more... )

Over the course of the past few hours, I have discovered a jaunty concept album about cricket, listened to songs about dating croquet-playing girls, randomly networked with the be-dreadlocked clerk at the natural food store about a cabaret gig that she djs, was offered a number of other business opportunities that I'm not sure how I feel about yet ( Read more... )

Topics Covered Today At The Car Dealership:

• rare and vintage coin collecting
• the local beat for scifi conventions and the like
• history classes and the frightening gaps in knowledge in Today's Youth
• coupon collecting
• tall ships sailing the ports of the Great Lakes

Would you like to see something that Is Not Hats? I suspect you would, especially if you know what I know and that the future is very likely to be filled with hats ( Read more... )

O murky slate blue Rowan Bamboo Tape in my yarn stash [#716 Storm], it is soon to be summer. And you still don't know what you want to be. But have we finally figured it out? Is this right? Is this what you want to be when you grow up?


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See, there's a reason that I wouldn't have chosen this city to host a big-ass, highly publicized, professional outdoor ice hockey game. And that is because we essentially get two winters here, one in December and a more brutal one in February, with some manner of thaw occurring at the beginning of January ( Read more... )

Also in the continuing luscious produce theme: our sweet local organic CSA now has amazing tomatoes.

Dude, I have never seen anyone so cheerful to provide me with supplemental tomatoes. It is craaaaazy. (We had this discussion at the market last month: there are days where you have just under the number of tomatoes for a recipe and need one more ( Read more... )

On the list of Things I Do Not Need To Do Today is 'Make a beret pattern to accompany the spats.'

Head, please to be meeting desk now.

You may blame this on Madelinetosh's new Poet Society tam, which is actually a lot cleverer than my current thought process.On my list of Actual Thing To Do Today is 'Find a cucumber-melon soup recipe that does ( Read more... )

At the moment I'm a bit of a puddle of goo. This may have to do with one of the following things, separately or in combination:

• The Warehouse 13 S2 premiere yesterday. While I'm not crazy about their handling of race*, the way the show deals with gender issues is really coming along well. Time Will Tell demonstrated that in the past year, the ( Read more... )

Man, it's hot. Especially if you're made of the stuff of sweaters. Thank heavens for the advent of industrial fans.


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