Yesterday afternoon we went to see Everything is Illuminated. If you haven’t read the book, you shouldn’t go see the movie. I think that if you read the book after you see the movie, you’ll be disappointed, in retrospect, by the movie, and that’s not really fair to the movie. What I’m saying is that …
I’m crabby about any number of things. About how my back hurts. About how John Roberts didn’t have to submit his essay questions to me. About my fat blood high cholesterol. About how hurricane aid was dropped in to Florida before Rita hit land and no such thing happed in Nawlins. About how even though …
About two days ago, I put my back out. I’m not sure how, I just know that I woke up and I couldn’t really move like I ought to be able to. My head was to heavy for my neck and it felt like someone was standing on my collar bones. This cheery state coincided …
I’m blogging for good, rather than my own aims, or, you know, evil. With that in mind, I have a favor to ask. I’m helping parse requests for help and posting them to the Hurricane Katrina Direct Relief project. If you’re a regular reader and have your own site, would you post a link to …
I read email first thing every morning while having coffee. It’s how I start my day so it was especially delightful to get a short note in my mailbox from neighbor R saying that she’d been admiring my work up at North Hill Bakery, even without knowing it was mine. An excellent start to the …
“We played Bumbershoot! They can’t take that away from us!” That was Hal, back in our rehearsal room where we stood waiting to hear if the show had been called due to – you guessed it – rain. We made it through four songs before the rain started really coming down. Then we made a …