It’s almost Christmas and I’m sitting in the exercise room. It used to be my brother Michael’s room. Then I think it was the sewing room, but now the room that used to be my room is the sewing room, unless John’s old room is now the sewing room. AtContinue Reading
Just in case you haven’t seen this yet, here is a link to a lame attempt to make us feel sympathy for somebody who donated to California’s Proposition 8. The editorial is extremely manipulative — right from the headline."A life thrown into turmoil by $100 donation for Prop. 8" —Continue Reading
(Slightly updated for World Dracula Day 2020-May-26) Many years ago — (Before Anne Rice had written so much post-Interview stuff I didn’t enjoy, and I like to imagine, in some alternate reality where she wrote only one book and that book was Interview with the Vampire, that she would haveContinue Reading
Saw Twilight over the weekend. It was better than syphilis. I’m also pretty sure it was better than a couple of the movies in the previews, Bride Wars and Confessions of a Shopaholic, both of which made me sort of want to shoot someone in the face. Twilight is frequentlyContinue Reading
I didn’t intend to do NaNoWriMo this year until about October 28, when an idea suddenly popped into my head. This idea was an actual plot sketch for an idea that I’ve been kicking around for a couple of years, which never got much beyond the premise: “Beach Reading,” anContinue Reading
I was thinking about titling this post "adventures in stomach flu" but then I found out stomach flu doesn’t exist. So, that thing that rendered me unable to do anything for two days other than re-read large portions of the last three Harry Potter books, and unable to eat anythingContinue Reading
I have a weird quirk to my personality, where I believe in failure, but have a hard time believing in success. Failure is always real — knife-in-the-gut real. But success? Surreal. Kind of distant and fuzzy, like it’s a dream I’m having and I’m going to eventually wake up. ThisContinue Reading
Paul and I are hosting trivia tonight at The Honeymoon meadery (and cider-y) in Bellingham. Come and prove that you’re smarter than we are.Continue Reading
Grr. My no-LJ-memes rule is colliding against my deeply held moral views. Because I happen to be a chick married legally and all to a dude, this does apply to me: ———– Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you’re in a non-same-sex marriage, and you don’t want it “protected”Continue Reading
Because otherwise we can’t go to Tales of the Cocktail. Which, I think I have seen mentioned before — maybe in chefcdb‘s blog — but I don’t think I realized it was an annual event. Anyway, I ran into it when I was researching falernum recipes. Falernum is a flavorContinue Reading
Or, why, sometimes it might be better just to not touch anything. So, our Halloween party decorations are in a storage closet. This storage closet also contains occasional-use items like camping equipment, as well as a great many boxes of “I don’t think I can just throw this out, andContinue Reading
Today I just became aware of perhaps the strangest of the strange Obama rumors traveling through the email-o-sphere: that Obama had been employing Voodoo against McCain, which causes him to writhe around and grimace uncontrollably. I just want to set the record straight here. Yes, there is voodoo being employedContinue Reading