Prosaic Paradise

You know I am desperate for friendly weather when I: go out on my front porch with a chair stay out there for an hour in 45 degree weather with the neighbor kids constantly getting almost run over or sworn at See, my front porch is pretty much arm’s length from the actual road. If […]

It’s probably no surprise at all that in the past week I have been watching more TV than anyone ever should. In case you were wondering, it is really hard on the soul. Unfortunately the world of books hasn’t been doing me any more favors, and it’s been hard to even hold a book up, […]

I was cast back to two very vivid childhood memories very suddenly today while thinking, sadly, about TV. But, there it is, a part of my own history and my family history, a significant amount of TV watching. On MamaPop we have the question: What’s appointment TV for you? What do you watch in real […]

I seem to be getting both in equal measure, but that still means I’m having success. This week I signed myself up for a photography workshop led by Me Ra Koh. I knew as soon as I saw the announcement on her web site that she was coming to DC, that I was going to […]

Another week, another episode of SYTYCD, another night of ear-ringing from Mary Murphy’s screaming. Is it getting more gratuitous, or am I just putting on my rose-colored glasses when I look to the past? People seem to be knocking Toni Basil out there on the internets, and I don’t actually get why. She was full […]

I have been taking my one light of new live television over the past … well it’s only been a week, but it’s So You Think You Can Dance season! I never, ever thought I would be a fan, I never was a dancer as a kid, never really wanted to be one (except there […]

I haven’t been talking about it too much, I think, but I have been overtaken with obsession with the show NCIS. I’ve even made Jack, the least jealous boyfriend on the entire planet, jealous briefly by having a spiffy McGee wallpaper designed by some photoshop-savvy teenager set up on the laptop for weeks now. In […]

It’s rare that you ask someone to cut your hair and they do exactly what you want stylishly and accurately, in a way you can maintain. Very, very rare. But I waited long enough and my patience was rewarded. This was my hair before. This is what I asked for – a kind of a […]

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. […]

Today I watched a little bit of football. So did half the country, sure. Of course for me it’s something I might do once a year. If I’m around football fans, I’ll watch it, if I’m not, I tend not to seek it out. The teams I like are Miami and Tampa Bay, so the […]