1. moireach has previously made fun of me for demonstrating a Lost level devotion to clue-examination re: How I Met Your Mother, but: ( How I Met Your Mother speculation, not related to the identity of the titular character )

! Springsteen fans, here is a link to a local news channel’s grainy video of a 42-minute acoustic set at a Vote for Change Rally in Philadelphia this past weekend. Also, if anyone who knows more about extracting audio than I do could extract that audio (particularly the audio of “Thunder Road”), I would be in your debt ( Read more... )

1. We moved. Tolstoy wrote, “Happy moves are all alike; every unhappy move is unhappy in its own way.” Or maybe that wasn’t quite what he said, but you get what I’m saying. This move turned unhappy in its own way when J dropped the freakin’ television on her foot, and I had to spend five delirious and un-air conditioned hours cleaning our old ( Read more... )

1. I write to you from my summer home in the scenic Sonoma County wine country, and by that I mean my parents' house, where my younger brother is currently spending is annual 3/4ths of the year living with them rent-free, so I don't even get a bed, although I have been upgraded from the couch to an air mattress that only needs to be re-inflated ( Read more... )

three random links from my del.icio.us
[1] Nano Comes to Clifford Falls This is a sci-fi podcast reading of the titular short story from a new book by Nancy Kress that I haven't read, but this particular story is very tidily written and enjoyable.

[2] Borne Zambia flats in Peacock After all that hemming and hawing about whether those other teal ( Read more... )

we interupt our regularly scheduled broadcast of recipes that don't have measurements and bostoncentric sports bitching for the news that my much-beloved governor's 18-year-old daughter just came out as a lesbian. previously we have discussed how i love deval patrick (no seriously, i love him), and just when i thought i could not possibly love him ( Read more... )

two recipes
1. some people have mocked me for my overly-complicated summer salads, so here is one that i have eaten five out of the last seven nights that is also ( very simple )

six things i think that i think about whether people should cut-tag vitriolic political opinions ( Read more... )

if you are already feeling bummed out and sorry for yourself, i do not recommend getting caught in a rain storm without an umbrella and allowing "if she wants me" by belle and sebastian to come up on the shuffle of your portable electronic music device of choice. (triple threat of songs that, if i am feeling anything less than barney stinson levels ( Read more... )

with regard to a certain sporting event that happened this weekend, i -- oh, fuck it, i can't even. i was going to try and say something about boston sports fans, and how i know we look like assholes to the rest of the country, but you've gotta understand, every day most of us leave our rent-gouged apartments to slog through weather that's too cold ( Read more... )