A year ago this weekend, I woke up late and shuffled into my office with a mug of the fragrant and wonderful coffee Doug had made and checked my email, flipped through my RSS feed. It was a cool mid-September weekend morning, and I was feeling pretty good about things in the main. I was […]

girl 1: would u take us for a ride on your BMW?
BMW-driver: even to the end of the world!
soldier: hey, i’d like to drown some vodka, girls!
girl 1: just a second!
girl 2: where do you live?
soldier: right here- daytime at work, and at night in the clubs!
girl 1: which work???
soldier: contract of course!
blonde girl: contract?? […]

Saturday evening, d. and I went to P.A.’s Lounge to see Travels. They were great, despite Mona Elliott’s admission that she had food poisoning. Not as dramatic as her previous band, Victory at Sea, but the songs were beautiful and she and her boy had chemistry in spades. In fact, their harmonies rivaled — maybe […]

People definitely offer up a lot of dross that wouldn’t be worth the gas to pick up, but this is the strangest one I’ve seen yet:
Offering: corn cobs
Posted by: [redacted]
Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:55 am (PDT)I know it’s a little weird, but you never know.
We bought a […]

It’s been an eventful, stressful, hopeful few months. And I don’t want to tempt the Fates by assuming anything. But a dream I’ve had for a good 10 years has gotten a lot closer to materializing. And for that — and for whom I’m so fortunate to have by my side throughout all of this […]