Right. New rules. I'm posting every Wednesday morning whether I have something brilliant to say or not. Otherwise the situation is just going to get ridiculous. I've started writing dozens of posts over the past couple weeks, but stopped before finishing or posting them because they didn't seem interesting enough. As if I've got some incredibly ( Read more... )

1. To Londoners: Anyone got contacts in the posh foodie world? My very dear friend Diana is moving to London this summer (her partner got a lectureship at UCL) - she's a sommelier/wine buyer with many years experience in the industry in Boston and she needs a job. Any suggestions much appreciated ( Read more... )

Oops! I just realised that the last post I made here was before leaving for New York. Close to a month ago. Just to clarify: I am still alive and I did actually come back from New York (unwillingly). And then I went to San Fransisco. And I eventually came back from there too (also with great regret). And then I caught a cold. Or it might be ( Read more... )

So just by way of keeping my status as a dork of the first order in good standing, let me share with you what I've spent my Sunday morning doing. I watched Gladiator last night for probably the 6th or 7th time. I know it well enough that I can recite much of the English dialog right along with the actors. But for whatever reason, it suddenly hit me ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure that after a week away from eljay I ought to have *something* to say. But other than a long discursion on the delights of sitting in my bathrobe and fuzzy slippers with a cup of coffee in my hand and a soft, cuddly kitty in my lap? I got nothing ( Read more... )

ONE: There was a whole hour of new Scrubs on my television set last night, and lo, it was magnificent. I laughed so hard I spilled beer on my dog. Heee ( Read more... )

Heeeee. cathybites is spamming me with Supernatural pics and she doesn't even know she's doing it! I have my google desktop sidebar's 'photos' component set to show me pics from users on my flist as well as my flickr contacts and my own pic folders, and apparently it's really keen on Jared Padalecki and the other one that cee likes ( Read more... )

I mentally compose posts all the time, I just never have time to sit down and write them out, much less the time it would take to reply to comments ( Read more... )

So I'm watching 'Men With Brooms', the cute little curling movie Paul Gross made. And I'm thinking, gosh, this is about the most Canadian movie in the history of the entire world. And then they play a Tragically Hip tune and I know I'm right. And then I see it. On the face of the actress playing the dumb blonde. It's a smile I recognize although I ( Read more... )