Prosaic Paradise

On the way home from Leesburg today after getting a tattoo in a building that predates our house by a good 75 years at least (our house is a Victorian era building), my now-psychic iPod decided to give us a civil war song. While my hometown is in Virginia and I’ve lived my entire life […]

Yes, apparently my previous time spent with Doane and Rhodia pads was not enough to make me happy! A friend at work swapped me a Levenger pad for a Doane pocket notebook to test. So during a meeting with the tools at hand I jotted down some tests to see if I liked it. One […]

This week I decided to hit the bookshelves. This is something that will undoubtedly happen again as the weeks wear on and I find myself desperate for things to get rid of. In this particular case, if you don’t know, I’ve been in a book club for 8 years now in which we read about […]

This has certainly been a week of weirdness. For one thing, this is the longest Jack has left me alone in the house since we moved in. Sure, I often run off without him to do things he would find boring or what have you, but it doesn’t work the other way around, Jack being […]

This weekend I got to see one of my oldest friends Genie in the flesh. I love this, because sometimes the internet doesn’t cut it. Lately she’s been my independent blogging inspiration but this weekend she just got to be my friend. We talked shit about shit, which brought up relationships. Genie said something like: […]

I’ve been through a few mix discovery exercises, and today I thought of another one for you. I was listening to the Sadies’ Anna Leigh when I realized I would enjoy a mix of ghostly songs. I’ve got Split Enz’ more obvious Ghost Girl and one of my favorite Genesis songs, Home by the Sea […]

I have a box of candles. Some are smelly, some are not. Some are tapers, pillars, votives, etc. They’ve been collecting dust for 4 years. I promise I only lit the ones for this picture that had previously lit – there are plenty of unused. If you want them and you are local (not shippin’ […]

I was reminded this morning of the first realization I had that I would never, ever be a computer programmer.* Like many folks in the U.S. at the time, I was stunned to turn on my TV one day to see a totally computer-animated guy moving around appliances in a warehouse or something. Holy shit! […]

Last week’s Top Chef episode was one of the best I’ve seen. There was no histrionics, no jumping through hoops, just a good challenge about good food with what, to all appearances, was fair judging. (I get tired of the “you can’t win” style of judging on this show: i.e. “You were too creative” vs. […]

Last weekend I had to recruit an ally in the purging project. See, sometimes you let your closet accumulate things you are attached to, things that you are wearing in your head, but are not wearing in reality. At these times, you need someone to remind you WHY you’re not wearing them in reality and […]