Quoting, for truth, long after the fact, my own Twitter feed. (Feel free to let me know if you ever do anything more hubristic than this.)

people on bicycles sometimes make mistakes. i don't think that's any reason to go calling anyone a dumb bitch.

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You guys I have a volunteer gig petting bunnies. I'm just back from the bunny farm. Seriously: petting bunnies. Amazing.

(oh look a public post. Hi, we're mostly friends-only here, come say hello if you want in.)

I have this thing about mandolins. It has been a long time coming, unlike my other new preoccupation, the furry one, which ambushed me under cover of darkness. First I thought it was way awesome when Amy Ray held her own on a mandolin on top of an electric guitar and later declared that she didn't know how to play "Maggie May" and she really needed ( Read more... )

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Herman is on Myspace. This is the best news I've heard all day.

For fans of my last sweater, I forgot I took a picture from the front and a 3/4 view. They're on Flickr.

( more sweatering under here )

There was going to be a picture here of me in the purple sweater I finished last week, except, uh, now I'm blocking it for a third time and therefore it's wet and pinned to the daybed in my living room. This, instead, is a picture of the rather silly sweater I finished a couple of weeks ago.


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Thanks to a weird combination of extenuating circumstances (who the hell just loses a bottle of salad dressing? me) and cravings, I'm eating a bowl of arugula, flat-leaf parsley, roasted beet slices, and avocado chunks, with ground-up sesame seeds and salt, olive oil, and lemon juice on top. I wouldn't feed it to anybody else, but it makes the ( Read more... )

I meant to make up this recipe a year ago but never got around to it. I had to wait for late summer/early fall to come around again, really, because only about now is it both possible to get decent peaches (argh, Michigan) and cool enough for baking. I like fruity quick breads in the fall; I made apple bread last week.

( ginger peach oatmeal bread )