I have two very good reasons for not taking pictures ( Read more... )

One of Seth's friends stumbled across this photo of Audrey Hepburn feeding champagne to her pet deer:


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I am gloriously writing without getting out of bed (or, in my case, air mattress). It feels so amazing to be lazy after working a grand total of 58 hours in the last week, including 19 in the last two days ( Read more... )

"Sure, I'll meet you at Lincoln Center in an hour in a dress and pearls."

There are times when I say something in conversation and realize how ridiculous my life is, and wonder how I got here. Last night was one of those times. A friend had an extra ticket to the Met[ropolitan Opera] last-minute, so I got to see Ariadne auf Naxos for free. It was ( Read more... )

Dear friends & strangers ( Read more... )

#1 - A guy wearing ridiculous goggles came in to the cafe today and told me I looked that I would be good at chess. "Thank you," I said. "What makes you say that?" He told me I looked like a famous chess player. "She wrote a book called Chess Bitch," he said, "but that's just to get your attention." I am pretty sure he may have been slightly insane ( Read more... )

I haven't been nearly so regular in my postings as I once was, due in part to a broken computer (since December 1st, the day after NaNoWriMo ended, strangely enough) and in part to a greater focus in my writing toward working on my book and sending out a few poems for potential publication (both of these primarily in November). However, as of today ( Read more... )

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." -Matt Groening

I love you guys. (See also: eating, drinking, hand turkeys, apple tarts.)

I really like cereal with milk, but I don't like drinking the milk after the cereal's been in it. So on some mornings when I've got the time, like this one, I keep adding more cereal to the milk until I eat all the milk along with the cereal without having to drink it.

I wonder if I am alone in this.

A couple of you have asked me for photos of my new apartment, and I finally got around to taking some.

The best part:


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