I bought Rice Dream dairy alternative (milk substitute) today, though I'm not sure I dare drink it, still less use it in porridge. On the back of the carton there's a recipe for "'Cafe' au lait", with ingredients: rice milk, cereal coffee-substitute, and cocoa powder (optional); simmer Rice Dream, put cereal coffee in mug, add non-milk while ( Read more... )

MTV Flux (which is like MTV1 back when it showed pop videos) is having an Avril Lavigne day. I've watched it for about an hour while doing housework, and so far I've seen artists from Bowling For Soup to JoJo, but no sign of the lovable Canadian popstrel at all. And surely Fountains of Wayne's Stacy's Mom is antithetical to all Avril stands for, ( Read more... )

Heroic horse halted cow's attack.

Terry Castle: Travels with my mom. Santa Fe, polymer clay, scrapbooking, rubber stamp shops, jackalopes, Agnes Martin, Georgia O'Keeffe, bored Native Americans, lesbians, top ten great female artists, mother-daughter bonding ( Read more... )

Sometimes I do worry that my constant desperate drive for the weekend is leading to me wasting about 5/7ths of my life. But then the weekend comes and I sit around doing nothing and it all evens out. And I'm out for dinner with my mother tonight, oh joy. Painful questions ahoy. For every girl and boy. Etc. I'm having to miss interesting- ( Read more... )

Last night's dream was full of life-and-death drama and a race against time. Even if none of those things strictly involved me. It also bore even less resemblance than usual to my actual domestic arrangements. It seems that in this dream I had just announced that I was gay and my little brother (who unlike my real little brother was only 3 or 4 ( Read more... )