Category: Blog

  • one of them drawy-picture books:

    Eddie Campbell: The Fate of the Artist

  • pill pusher

    pill pusher

    It’s been three attempts now of trying to get Cal to take two pills and switch to wet (diet) food in order to treat his asthma. That’s six pills and half a can. That means I’ve accidentally eaten about half an antibiotic, more than a few fingertips worth of cat food, and almost gave Taylor…

  • Two Things

    Two Things

    For those of you who are Liz Feldman fans, want to be Liz Feldman fans, or enjoy all things The L Word, here’s Liz’s new Internet show: This Just Out, with Liz Feldman. Liz is a 4-time Emmy winner for her work as a writer/producer on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Being the over-achiever that she…

  • i am so awesome.

    i am so awesome.

    Over the weekend I went to a party at a restaurant/nightclub/bar type thing. It had a wall of black mirrors when you walked in, which made the room — and the crowd — look twice its actual size. But I didn’t know that. So when I walked inside to the bar to get a drink,…

  • happy friday.

    happy friday.

    Last night. I was sound asleep. Then I heard screaming. A man, screaming, “I’LL KILL YOU! I’LL KILL YOU! I’LL KILL YOU! I’LL KILL YOU!” I bolt up in my bed and stare at the window. My heart is racing, but my brain is not quite fully awake, but Wonder Killing: No, you know that…

  • Reader Mail

    From a Wonder Killer (in Wonder Speed): [readermail] Hi, Pam– According to Wikipedia, kolache fillings include fruit and cheeses, but not sausage. The correct name for what you made this morning is Klobasnek, which are sometimes mistakenly referred to as sausage kolaches. Just thought you might want to know. Take care, Michael[/readermail] You know, I…

  • whole lotta kolache

    whole lotta kolache

    I woke up this morning and wanted sausage kolaches. Like, two kolaches. This is because you other homesick Texans have been sending me email about food I’ve forgotten about, and Lis sent the link to the Homesick Texan’s kolache recipe.

  • An Update from Peter, at the Rockhouse Foundation

    [readermail]It’s hard to believe that we’re about to break ground on the renovation and expansion of the Negril Library knowing that so many books, furniture and technology are already funded through the awesome efforts of Pamie and David, not to mention the generosity of their thoroughly cool Dewey donors… it was truly an amazing achievement!…

  • Listening

    The Breeders: Mountain Battles Talib Kweli, Madlib: Liberation The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely Lyrics Born: Everywhere at Once Moby: Last Night Portishead: Third Johnny Cash: Love

  • suck it, movable type.

    To those of you who have written to say that your obsessive desire to read every single one of my archived entries has been thwarted by server problems, I say: “I fixed the archives.” And: “Please share some of your spare time with real, live humans.”