Cake or Death?

2010

December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January 4

2009

December 15
November 8
October 11
September 5
August 26
July 10
June 9
May 12
April 17
March 18
February 30
January 55

2008

December 21
November 39
October 45
September 49
August 54
July 45
June 50
May 40
April 54
March 45
February 48
January 10

Neil Simon, watch out!

The third-graders in the class I help with once a week are working on a play that they’ll be...
May 30th
“But the message going forward to every car buyer and...”
— Truth or Consequences -...
May 29th
karmcity: Watching people work on their laptops in a coffee shop is like watching people drive....
May 28th
“Please transfer for your connecting flight to San...”
— The Onion sets out to write...
May 28th

Over/under

Overrated:Softball chantsIroningCalling your boss “dude” (oops)Alphabetized CD...
May 28th
greatgreybrains: spiral: Feeling a little abstract today …...
May 23rd
Warch Watch
Testing out Animoto with images taken in December for “Seeing Beyond Sight,” a workshop...
May 23rd
I feel giddy with both thrill and fear. Google Reader...
May 21st
Who's Jessica Alba?
She's one of America's ... actresses.
Did you forget an adjective?
May 21st

The intro to Tom Waits interviewing Tom...

I must admit, before meeting Tom, I had heard so many rumors and so much gossip that I was afraid....
May 21st
crumbler: Videogum tries out the Sex and the City movie’s...
May 21st

From the mixed-up files

I’ve been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art twice now, the most recent being last weekend, and...
May 21st
The London Tower Bridge Twitter feed
May 21st
Warch Watch
“Facebook in Real Life”
May 20th
Some days I think I’d like to study linguistics. Today is one of those days. 
May 20th

Two Mondays in one week?

My calendar has a typo. Next week, Monday is the 26th, Tuesday is the 27th, and Wednesday is the...
May 20th
citrus salad with mint sugar
May 20th
Holy shit. BlogHer interviewed Obama, after declining interviews with candidates’ wives. You...
May 20th
12 most interesting non-touristy experiences...
May 19th
Gallery: Neat Food Sculptures
May 19th
Just seconds after we’d been exclaiming our glee at the city’s newly timed stoplights,...
May 19th
“The news media get these calls all the time, though we...”
— The Post’s Gene...
May 19th
People photographed now and then, posing with...
May 19th
Why We Travel: A New York Times slideshow.
May 19th
“I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone. I...”
— Steve Carrell on How to Act...
May 16th
Warch Watch
Take a pause, man!
May 14th

Mistakes I have made with food in the...

Spilt popcorn all over my desk floor and in my shoe (20 minutes ago) Lost my banana (all day) ...
May 14th
I just finished a few Bon Appetits, and in addition to dozens of recipes I dog-eared, I also decided...
May 13th

I just counted

I go to at least 17 meetings a week. Those are just the scheduled ones. 
May 13th
In my tutoring-by-reading-with-kids session today, a girl chose “Away in a Manger,” with...
May 13th

Do you live in Baltimore?

karmcity: I just launched a website you’ll be interested in. It’s called Localist.com. We have a...
May 12th

Excerpt from a John Cleese essay (yes,...

“We all operate in two contrasting modes, which we call open and closed. The open mode is more...
May 12th
These newspaper blackout poems are totes incredible.
May 12th
Finally took some pictures I like this weekend.
May 12th
Another delight from Indexed.
May 9th
(via garfieldminusgarfield)
May 9th

The new steakhouse

Dinner at Chima in Tyson’s Corner was an exercise in extravagance from the minute we entered...
May 9th
“This country is a supermarket of opinion in which everyone rattles around with their...
May 8th
My sister graduated and was commissioned into the Air Force...
May 7th

Brilliant

misslizzie: Since I moved to Virginia, dealing with Comcast has been a nightmare. When I call...
May 6th