Today, for the second time in my life, I got a pedicure ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a terribly wet, cold, and windy day - a day meant for snuggling up indoors with a mug of tea and a cookie and a good book, the quintessential New England November day. But Chris and I had dinner plans with friends, so we whipped out our winter outerwear for the first time this season, and braved the nasty weather to head down to ( Read more... )

List five things that have made you happy recently, then tag five people to do the same ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I saw the film "Knocked Up" and thought it particularly hilarious. When I told a new friend the other day that I enjoyed it, she seemed shocked, even though she hadn't seen it. "I heard it made a lot of feminists mad," she said ( Read more... )

I've read two things in the news recently that have made me despair of the future of the English language.

First, I read a story of a man who referred to being offended by "racial epitaphs." Um, unless he saw a racist tombstone, didn't he mean epithets?

Then, I read that Whoopi Goldberg, on The View, defended Michael Vick's dogfighting by saying ( Read more... )

Why can't cool stuff like this happen to me?

Then I could preserve it, sell it on E-Bay, and get rich quick. :)

For the past four years or so, the New York City subway has been participating in the Poetry in Motion program, posting poems in the buses and trains for people to ponder when they are wearily trekking to and from work. I find them very thought-provoking; here are two that I like quite a bit:

( A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux )

Poor guy.

As silly as it sounds, I have to applaud the guy, especially given that most people would probably turn a deaf ear if they heard a woman screaming for help (Kitty Genovese being a prime example). And if there had been a woman being hurt, far from being arrested this guy would be hailed as a hero ( Read more... )

I like how this article, describing how a Romanian Orthodox priest went about performing an exorcism, has to throw in that last bit about what the Vatican says, as if what the Vatican says about how to perform exorcisms has any effect on how Orthodoxy performs exorcisms ( Read more... )

Saw an interesting story today. . .

Don't even know what to say about this.