Oh god, do not eat here, if you value your tastebuds ( Read more... )

OkCupid has done something pretty awful. Under "Fun Stuff" there is now something called "FlagMod." If you click on it, you see the latest picture that's been flagged by anyone. You also see who flagged it, and what comments they left, and you are allowed to "vote" while the photo stays up. I'm not sure how or when they take it down, but the ( Read more... )

Migraine today, and a screwup at the pharmacy, which meant I had to beg and plead for one prescription to be filled. I had to leave without the other two. On the other hand, Kate found me a two-volume ørdbog (dictionary) when we went to pick up her bike. Cheap! Very cheap! And full-sized, which is better than anything UW has. Bastards. ( Read more... )

A book of essays by female writers about cats. Some of these were a little cute, but it was pretty snoozy. Nothing new here. Cats are cute, yes. Yawn. There was also a lot of warbling about how horrifying it is to be a single woman with cats. Whatever. (It was also noted that this isn't a problem with lesbians). Obviously the solution, if ( Read more... )

I found a book at the library yesterday called Other People's Dirt It is written by a housecleaner and is essentially a book of essays, exploring various aspects of cleaning for people. The strange intimacies, the things you discover about clients, her own feelings about being a housecleaner and why she does it. She talks about the Mexican ( Read more... )

I'd heard good things about Jeffrey Steingarten and his books have been on my to-read list for a while and when I saw It Must've Been Something I Ate at the library, I snatched it up. I'd thought it would be good, but I hadn't expected it to be so funny.

The San Dieguito River Valley is filled with polo fields and polo ponies, country clubs, ( Read more... )

I loved this one. A journalist discovered EATM, a community college degree for animal training, the only program of its kind in the U.S. and wrote a book about it. Most students who attend the two-year program already have college degrees.

Women have dominated the student body at EATM since the program opened it's doors in 1974. There has ( Read more... )

I never thought I'd enjoy Little Pink Raincoat, a memoir of relationships and clothes, more than Self-made Man, a recount of a lesbian's adventures in drag, but I did. Self-made Man was a hell of a lot more shallow, for one thing. Fatuous, even. It's all, "boo hoo, boys have it hard and I didn't know just how hard they had it, and maybe their ( Read more... )

Good, fun characters, slow, meandering plot.

I recently read the book Detective, and thought it was quite interesting. Kathy Burke was a detective just around the time things were really starting to change for women cops in NYC. She loved her job and rolled with the punches, but the punches just kept coming. I kept feeling the urge to be depressed about it, but she remained so upbeat ( Read more... )