How awesome is it that there are people out there whose business it is to put up pages at misspelled URLs? I can never remember how to spell McMenamins, so every time I want to check a movie schedule I end up at some random page where I'm assaulted by pop-ups and weird attempts to get me to click on other links. Do people fall for these fake ass ( Read more... )

For those of you who have been dying to hear more about Maya, you can now add her RSS feed to your friends list by going here. Lucky you! Thanks jnnogen for being more techno-savvy than me ( Read more... )

I like to imagine myself having a Zen-like detachment from most personal belongings. Especially after losing my favorite hoodie in some stranger's car in SF a few years ago, I gave up on attaching myself to the inanimate realm. Or so I thought ( Read more... )

So I started another blog dedicated to me writing about the kid so that way those of you who don't want to read about her bodily functions can avoid those posts and stick instead with my incisive burrito reviews. The only thing is that I've sort of jumped on the ol' Blogger bandwagon with the other blog, with the intention that originally it was ( Read more... )

Could you have said it better than this? "[T]he Democratic Party -- grown putrid in some places and calcified in others, like an abandoned avocado . . . " If you can come up with a better, more colorful description, please send it my way. BTW- the above quote is from here.

I know I've complained about this before, but it bears repeating. Portland considers itself a food city. All the local rags talk about PDX like it's some sort of culinary mecca, particularly because you can't walk two blocks in this town without hitting some joint that proclaims to be a purveryor of local and sustainable foods. However, I'm ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I went to a job interview with a large nonprofit for a job as an "environmental advocate". They should have called a spade a spade and just said "lobbyist," but whatever. I was wary of the idea that it would involve leaving Maya for 40+ hours a week, which seems a terribly long time, but I'd been really excited about the prospect ( Read more... )

So my kid's great-grandmother (not my side of the family) sent her a precious moments angel stuffed doll for easter. The damn thing recites the lord's prayer in a little kid's voice, which, as you might guess, is pretty creepy. Maya took one look at it while it prayed and started bawling. I think I'm going to set the thing on fire ( Read more... )

This past week heralded the long-awaited return of Messrs Lowthan and Sorek, which rocks. However it also signals that we are one week closer to the departure of Mr. Paddock, which is very sad indeed. Saturday our garage sale to end all garage sales was cancelled because of persistent morning rain and the fact that it was to take place in my ( Read more... )

Well, the good news is that Maya technically slept through the night last night. Of course, "sleeping through the night" technically means sleeping 5 continuous hours when you're talking about babies. Yes, yes, I was thrilled that she slept from 7:30pm-12:30am. The bad news came shortly thereafter when she later refused to go back to sleep ( Read more... )