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Kids Are Funny
This boy liked me as a blond better, a blond “with the black thing in the middle”, a.k.a. my dark roots. This is the same boy who asked, as I wrapped his finger in a Band-Aid, if there was such thing as a second aid kit.
If This Blogs-a Rockin’ Don’t Come-a Knockin’
Happy Valentine’s Day! Red Heart Cutters Red Metal, Luna Mortis‘s Brian Little Red Dresses Red Car Bumper Chained Red Red Route New York City Red Tomato Red Cowboy Snowboot Red
A Collection: The Humorous Encounters of My Life
Garbage bag art installation (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)Thai restuarant (somewhere in Virginia)That you Santie Claus? (Bridgeport, CT)Hi, I’m Talky Tina… and I forgive your sins. (somewhere in North Carolina)A rare endangered hot pink gorilla (Upper East Side, NYC)Very sharp “equipment” (JFK NYC)Bling. Teeth. in 22 varieties (Bushwick, Brooklyn)The men come on Monday, Wedsnesday and Friday mornings. Soon [...]
How To Waste Time
After an extended weekend of working on the semester’s final projects, I’ve experienced a plethora of ways to procrastinate their completion. 1) Make extravagant breakfasts and swear they are communicating good will through their blackberry eyes.2) Start prepping fabric for holiday crafting. Allow yourself the luxury of making a mess because cleaning up can waste [...]
This is How I Roll
Things to Accomplish Before 2009 ❑ Sort out Obama Inauguration travel plans ❑ Complete my Thailand books II and III at Blurb ❑ Complete all Christmas crafts in time to send ❑ Do a raw food week followed by a 2 day fast ❑ Convert old home videos to DVD, edit and burn copies ❑ Get [...]
✩ ✩ Buy Nothing Day: Friday, 11/28/08 ✩ ✩
1. Break a comfort zone. For the most part, we exist safely in the parameters of our comfort zones. By design, they don’t challenge us. Year after passing year, growing boundaries can keep us comfortable– but should that be the goal of our time here? Today I’ll have a meaningful conversation with a stranger, parallel park a car until [...]
OVER THE LINE!! D.I.Y. Lebowski Fest
On the same eve the official New York Lebowski Fest was starting off, a group of motley misfits celebrated D.I.Y. style in Long Island City’s unsuspecting Maric Lanes. Far cheaper than the official fest’s bowling party in Times Square, sponsored, fittingly, by Kahlua, Maric gave us 5+ hours of bowling for the discounted rate of [...]
Vegan Mofo #4: Law Enforcement Slip on Apples
Given tomorrow is Fairway Day, the wells have run dry. The shelves of my cupboard and fridge are bare and I am forced to munch corn syrup-infused pretzels for sustenance. During this bleak but brief MoFo intermission, let us watch Bryan Adams, a vegan of 17 years.
What Do You Do In Milwaukee? (Part I)
1. Go to Bay View‘s South Shore Farmers Market. Bay View is a thriving area of Milwaukee and its South Shore Park is home to a wonderful farmers market. The small stretch of vendors situated on Lake Michigan has a real communal feel and plenty of the yum factor, including purveyor of raw food, Eden’s [...]
