Just As I Thought

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

They’re P.O.ed

This is a fascinating story, the kind of weird trivia that I love. John Kelly in the Washington Post reports on a town in Maryland that has two names: The town in question is about 150 miles from Washington, in Allegany  [more...]

On the Board

Attention must be paid

President Bush has been to Ohio 8 times. Senator Kerry has been there 18 times. They’re in a dead heat in that critical state. Wouldn’t it be funny if the entire election turns on one of the states they  [more...]

No Julia Child

Remember yesterday I said I was going to bake myself a key lime pie?
Well… I accidentally used evaporated milk instead of condensed milk.
It turned out really… wrong.

Rewriting the rules

It’s interesting how so many journalists are starting to come to grips with the Bush administration after years of keeping silent. They have started to write stories about administration activities that lots of us  [more...]

Lackluster

I dunno. I played around with the blog template for a couple of hours today, and just couldn’t come up with a design that I really liked. This is going to take a bit more work. I have a vision in my head, I just  [more...]