I have been v.v. busy socializing and scribbling the past few days, so although I've thought about updating, I just haven't managed it. Alas! And now that I have time, thoughts seem to have dispersed ( Read more... )

WARNING: Please do not adjust your television computer monitor. There is no reason or connection between the five things I wish to note, no pattern or rhyme. (I am saving my coherence for my original project.)

Anyhoo --

Thing the First:
So The Sartorialist has moved to his very own site, which is searchable.
There are ten photos of Simone. Yes ( Read more... )

As it says on the tin -- twelve days since last post, twelve things ( Read more... )

A note before we start: am v.v. slow to adopt new things. V.v.v. slow. Molasses has time for a brisk run around the block and a cooldown before I change my ways ( Read more... )

In no particular order:

5) Last night I watched (only ten years late) the 1999/2000 Britcom film Maybe Baby, starring Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Teh MacFadyen (as a shouty, pompous BBC controller), Adrian Lester, Tom Hollander et al, including cameos by Emma Thompson as a crazy New Age friend and Rowan Atkinson as a gynecologist. With that ( Read more... )

In between my other pressing activities of late -- work, more work, more work still, trying to get back in the exercise groove, obsessing about writing projects, and making travel arrangements for a small holy pilgrimage to the high desert next month -- I have been weeding ( Read more... )

This week has been an exercise in running running running up that hill, and sliding down every other step. But we continue, we carry on, we persevere ( Read more... )

O woe, o weariness, o excess of color. ("O tempora, o mores," too. Which has nothing to do with the topic of my post, but I've been thinking of it anyway ( Read more... )

Hullo, it's Friday already! How did that happen ( Read more... )

Yesterday was odd. Or rather, my experience of the day was odd: if one believes in an objective reality, the day might have been perfectly baseline normal. But for me ( Read more... )