It's never too early to make your Thanksgiving travel reservations, especially if you're traveling by train; and the longer you wait the fewer your options and the pricier they may get. Book now ( Read more... )

... warm coffee to wash it down. And maybe some sweet corn ice cream to follow.

Thursday I took MegaBus to New York and bought ribbon for making rosette and armbands for the ATM morris kit at the amazing all-ribbon all-the-time Shindo, plus elastics at the similarly amazing Pacific Trimming (both an easy walk from Penn Station, for all y'all ( Read more... )

In my life trees are oaks, dogwoods, pines, etc., and bushes are hedges and shrubbery. The entire concept of walking up to a tree or bush and pulling something off and eating it is otherworldly and magical. Food growing in the ground or on a little food plant makes sense to me, but not these others. So Linvilla Orchard feels more like a fruit ( Read more... )

Early on, Michael J. Fox makes reference to having a "$6 haircut". Was that idiomatic for "a cheap haircut", "an average haircut", "a stylish haircut", "an expensive haircut"? (1985)$6 = (2008)$11.85 ( Read more... )

Watched Teen Wolf last night for the first time since I was about ten. It's pretty awful, just like I remembered, and sadly utterly unquotable. This is, however, a great movie for watching tipsy on schnapps! (... which I did not try at age ten!)

I spent much of the night trying to sort out the ambiguity of Lewis, which this review finally ( Read more... )

Outside: two marked police cruisers, one unmarked police cruiser, one fire department cruiser, and one fire department ambulance. Two doors down, an empty ambulance stretcher on the front walk. I saw the unmarked cruiser pull up and park in front of our house and went downstairs to see what was going on. While I was briefly outside, I saw an ( Read more... )

I had a sip of wine first thing this morning, a little after 6:00am. But I swear I'm not turning into Withnail ( Read more... )

Fourteen months of crappy cellular service was enough. I dropped AT&T with ten months still on the contract and returned to Verizon Wireless. So, my "technically it was a phone, but it never reliably placed or received phone calls" iphone is now essentially an ipod touch, which means it will keep doing all the things it has always done well (on ( Read more... )

Yesterday I walked out to my car and discovered someone had parked on the street blocking the driveway! This is a fairly quiet residential street which has parking on both sides and there were perhaps four cars parked on the entire block (every house has a driveway). There was a woman on the neighbor's front porch about to enter the house, and I ( Read more... )

In addition to my thought that signing Pedro Martinez is an incredibly bad decision by the Phillies, I'm sad for another odd reason: he's going to lose at least one game this season.

Right now, his career record is 214-99. Even if he's terrible this season, he'll still have an impressive career record. But it won't look so amazing, with three ( Read more... )