We've had rain the last couple of nights, and the peony bush two doors down is rather flattened because of it. But it is also circled with a halo of pink, from petals hammered off the blossoms above.

What an image. What sort of story would it belong in?

I gotta try this sometime... (may need to hunt down a cheap food processor, tho'.)

Middle Eastern Blood Orange Cake

(In French, with subtitles.)

Batman Deliverance

...Do gophers think lawnmowers are just REALLY inefficient grass-eaters?

http://seawitchery.tumblr.com/post/4070384205/i-started-out-clicking-strategically-and-by-the

I went out for milk this morning. There was a fire truck and a fire investigator van at the bottom of the block, which made me wonder, because the condo I'd heard trucks responding to -- and I went out on my deck to check this -- was at the top of the block. It was maybe fifteen or twenty minutes later, though, so I thought, "Maybe they're stopping ( Read more... )

I was out and about, doing errands today. The gophers were out, too.

I think all the snow confused their little rodent brains.

I'm writing a book review. No, I haven't finished the book yet. Yes, I hope I end up enjoying it. No, I don't expect to.

( So why the heck am I writing this thing now? )

I wanted to clean or throw out something in every room of my place. As expected, I am hopelessly behind on this, to the point where one might wonder whether I'm doing the resolution at all. BUT!!! I'm going to declare it still in place, because it's working as a sorta kinda motivation to do stuff ( Read more... )

Jeff Vandermeer on style. OH! Yesyesyesyesyes!

www.jeffvandermeer.com/2011/02/27/style-is-story-is-style/

h/t to Jay Lake and his Link Salad.