Listening to Cat Power makes me want to wear winged eye liner, shop at vintage stores and smoke two packs a day-- but unfortunately that's not very original.

I love vintage stuff.   I love mid-century modernism, nostalgia and reconstructed decorative pieces.  I watch French New Wave and Wong Kar Wai films because it's eye candy.  J. and I were ( Read more... )

 Ok...here's the thing about working for a nonprofit in an economic downturn.

Good news: I still have a job.
Bad news: I am getting a 25% salary cut.

*sigh*

I'm glad I applied to grad school.

A very touching story about the George Foreman grill, and Foreman's personal story about growing up hungry.   If you are doing well, please consider donating some time or money to your local homeless shelter.

http://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ME&showDate=08-Oct-2004&segNum=4&NPRMediaPref=WM

Professionally, things are ---let's just say---tenuous.  I'm not sure what's going to happen a year from now, or even six months from now. Everything is so up in the air and the economy is really terrible.  I mean, for god's sake, the LA MOCA might not even exist next year.  After over 50 years' worth of collecting, scholarship, and paving the way ( Read more... )

I stumbled upon a transcript of Anna Quindlen's commencement speech on my graduating year. Here's a piece of it. She is referring to the Dao de Jing ( Read more... )

From a LifeScience article: (http://www.livescience.com/health/060227_happiness_keys.htmlRead more... )

Below is a very interesting quote from Marjorie Valbrun about mothers and daughters and feminism ( Read more... )

Go here, it's worth a read ( Read more... )

My co-worker sent me an email about this yesterday ( Read more... )

Ok, so total egg in the face moment. My boss was asked me if there is a central authority of English grammar and I said, "No, but most scholars refer to the Oxford English Dictionary as a resource because it has a thorough account of entomology."

...as opposed to etymology'Cause you know, there sure are a lot of insect studying in the OED and ( Read more... )