Prosaic Paradise

Heya! This one’s for the locals. I keep meaning to remind folks to check out Girls Rock DC and get the volunteer app and fill it out! Even if you couldn’t volunteer for the whole week, there are part time jobs, pre-camp things to do, and totally non-musical things that need to get done to […]

1. What author do you own the most books by? Terry Pratchett or Martha Grimes, by virtue of either’s prolificness. 2. What book do you own the most copies of? Handling Sin by Michael Malone. If you were my friend in 1997/8 I likely gave you a copy, since for Christmas I bought a box […]

…at least for this week. I’ve been stressed, so planning, pictures and stuff for a post has been cast aside! But tonight’s last minute entry comes to you via valuing action over perfection. See, I got it in my mind that getting rid of shit had to be done a certain way and perfectly captured […]

I was out sick today from work. Thus I was able to take full advantage of the fact that my Sunbuster Shelter arrived from LLBean. It protects from UV rays, and I know that won’t help me in the living room and all, but I really wanted to practice setting it up. Immediately. So now […]

So I was really psyched at the advent of “Vitamin Water 10”, the low calorie version of one of my favorite drinks. I’ve read science back and forth on the health value of the original, and people are always decrying the sugar. Well no more! So thus I found myself delighted to see several flavor […]

Last week I signed up with a gym again for the first time in a decade. Last time went really poorly and they got lots of my money and I never went. This time I have a buddy and a better grasp of time management and money management and far less invested in what other […]

Have you ever had a blocking item on your to-do list? An item that seems so big that you don’t want to start it or can’t envision starting it, or an item so overdue that you feel shame when you think about it? And then the net result is that you don’t want to look […]

I tend to be a little militant about going off the beaten path and liking movies that no one else likes. (The Ice Storm, About Schmidt) I also tend to be turned off of movies that everyone else likes, which is really reactionary and dumb. But as faults go, that’s pretty small right? Well for […]

I finally threw caution to the wind. I finally broke up with my steady er, phone service. I finally was fully seduced by what many call the jesusphone. I just spent all night syncing music to it… ratcheting back from being able to have all my music is hard. I already slapped 12g on there […]

I’ve been holding on to some fun stuff as the semester rolls on, making my brain useless. But let me break the silence! Quo Vadis Marketing VP and embracer of Web 2.0 Karen offered some J. Herbin inks for bloggers to review a while back and I jumped at the chance! I’d just purchased a […]