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.

Welcome to Cair Paravel

Despite the heavy-handed marketing as a Christian film, I watched “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” last night. I was pleasantly surprised. Everything I’d seen about this film, from the vaunted  [more...]

On the Board

And with no opposable thumbs

What does this say about my mental state and intelligence level: I just got a spam message from “Diego,” and my first thought — for almost two entire seconds — was, “oh, a message from my  [more...]

Mysterious voices

I lay in bed, watching a little tv and listening to the roar and groans of the dishwasher until I started to doze off. I turned off the tv and settled in to sleep, drifting in and out, and then heard it: people talking  [more...]

Sweet night, sour morning

I am hung over this morning. Well, it was Easter yesterday, and it seemed like tradition to indulge a bit last night as I watched Leo McGarry’s funeral. I had some SweeTart Jelly Beans. As my aunt says, these are  [more...]

Less is more, more or less

I’ve been looking at the floorplans for the townhouse condos being built a few blocks from my house. It makes me a bit jealous, since the low end of that development is a 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath townhouse with 1127  [more...]