Cake or Death?

2010

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2009

June 9
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April 17
March 18
January 55

2008

June 50
May 40
April 54
March 45
January 10
This has restored my enjoyability of people today.  ...
Apr 1st

Half and half ingredients: Cream, milk.

The first ingredient in Coffee Mate is corn syrup solids. That’s just wrong. I don’t...
Mar 29th
stalking just got so much easier
Mar 28th

Me = Jack Handy

notrgb: “The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?”
notrgb: I could see you doing this
Mar 28th

Mini review of Meli

The good: Amazing cheese plate. Grilled tomato salad with haloumi cheese. Honey, honey...
Mar 24th
No Impact Man: How FDR got us to carpool
Mar 24th

Parenthetical titles

For years, I’ve meant to submit a “top 5” to World Cafe. I settled on a mini-theme...
Mar 24th
PL8WTCH moves to Tumblr!
Mar 24th
Crayon Assassin (via stumblepeach)
Mar 24th

Blurbs and blips

I am starting to narrate my thoughts in Facebook status updates. Mary is building an impressive...
Mar 22nd
ryanadams: They need to make this into food. food is not...
Mar 22nd

A convo 'twixt Mimi Smartypants and...

TJG: Pretty good haul here! I'm always impressed with what you can get for $12.49.
Me: Not hookers and blow, that's for sure.
TJG: Not these days! Not with this economy!
Me [mentally giving him credit for hanging in there with the banter]: Hard times, man.
Mar 21st
Mar 21st
I am absolutely blown away and inspired and moved and amused by this Catholic deacon’s oral...
Mar 21st

Thursdays with Jimmy

Every few weeks, my dad comes into town for business and we get dinner together. Sometimes Myke...
Mar 21st

It's official

My mom to me: “I think you’re just projecting.”
Mar 20th
“There’s nothing scarier than being arrested at...”
— Swag, a photojournalist
Mar 20th
“Is there such a thing as a bad friend? Aren’t there just...”
— (via momosocks)
Mar 20th

No fling in spring

In elementary school, when I learned the seasons of the year, we lived in Hawaii. Each season had...
Mar 20th
(via garfieldminusgarfield)
Mar 19th

Luck of the Irish

I don’t often think about where my family’s from. It’s all around me for one day a...
Mar 19th
“Sometimes this hill feels like the only constant in my life.”
— Erin, while running up Charles...
Mar 19th
You never know what kind of helpful tips you’re going to get with Cool Tools, which is why I...
Mar 17th

Everyone wins!

This comment from a friend who read but didn’t participate on my old blog proves another neat...
Mar 14th
If I ever own an Irish bar, it’s going to be called O’Shenanigans. 
Mar 14th
“Dolphins are more like humans than any other animal; they...”
— Mary (via karmcity)
Mar 13th

Multimedia takes over the...

I was looking at champagne flutes on a certain kitchen retailer’s site, and stumbled into a...
Mar 12th

Next project?

A writer gets fed up enough with the addition of natamycin, a “bio-pesticide” added to...
Mar 12th
Photoshop Disasters.
Mar 10th
I am enthralled by the “Things I Never Learned in School” series on this Decatur Daily...
Mar 10th

Homey don't play that: Sci-fi and...

A weeks-old (I’m catching up) kottke post says of “Blade Runner”: “With the...
Mar 10th
Slideshow of photos from North Korea.
Mar 10th
“They celebrate the December birthdays with a cake and some...”
— Aaron Winslow :...
Mar 10th
Not only do the avatars begin as sexist creations — sexualized or passive or both — but...
Mar 7th

It's the little things

I just got lunch at a sandwich/coffee shop downtown. The woman who rang me up seemed friendly,...
Mar 7th
“Knit me a lion!”
— Myke, bidding me adieu on my...
Mar 6th

Silent places

“Have you ever in your life not been able to hear a man-made sound for, say, fifteen minutes?...
Mar 6th

Why I love Cary Tennis

He gets a question  seeking advice about a condo owner’s second, mostly unused parking space,...
Mar 5th
“It’s going to sound dark, but I think there should be...”
— When There Is No ‘We’ in...
Mar 5th

In the past three days, at two doctors'...

*Waited for a total of three hours *Read three People magazines, one Entertainment Weekly and one...
Mar 5th

Let's outlaw them

I always mix up the names “Elaine” and “Eileen.” Even when walking over to...
Mar 4th

Where were you born in the jangle

I just got a Facebook message with this text: Did I teach you guitar at South Carolina and you...
Mar 4th

Facon with yam slices to simulate fat

“Of course, some vegetarians might relish the idea of eating a pig’s foot made of soy...
Mar 4th
Gothamist: Troy got famous!
Mar 4th

Inside the box

I was so busy shooting a decrepit alley yesterday on a brief photo walk that I completely missed the...
Mar 3rd

There's always a 'Miss' before 'Annie...

I wrote the most amazing concert review in my head while watching St. Vincent and Foreign Born last...
Mar 1st