Category: Blog

  • dear texas.  please send breakfast tacos from taco cabana.

    dear texas. please send breakfast tacos from taco cabana.

    Lately she’s written about gumbo, queso and crawfish, making me the Homesick Texan. Spending time with Dave and Tara this week, our conversation turned once again to our plans to Eat Through Austin — a tour we consumed back in 2004 when Omar got married. That’s the last time I’ve been to Austin, and I…

  • boxed in.

    boxed in.

    “The Kattbank (via Design*Sponge, of course) is very pretty, and it comes in a satisfying array of colors, but at a whopping $1750, my sphincter says what? Also, do our friends want to sit atop a bench packed with feces? Don’t answer.” Evany is on a hilarious search for the perfect litter box.

  • on the nightstand:

    AM Homes: This Book Will Save Your Life. Mary Roach: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

  • calling all winos.

    I got to spend some time this past Sunday afternoon in this wine cave with some good people (including these people.) When Chris and Tess are around, I just let them choose whatever it is I’m drinking. It always works. I didn’t buy anything, so I avoided anything like the last time I went wine…

  • lost.

    lost.

    We moved into our new offices for Season Two on Monday morning. It’s been five days now, and I still keep getting lost. So much so that Correne made the kind gesture to make this sign just for me, so I can find my essentials. Monday and Tuesday I gave myself excuses. I figured I…

  • reading:

    Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips Steve Almond: My Life in Heavy Metal

  • hiatus.

    It appears this site has been on an unintentional post-Dewey break for the past week or so that might continue for a bit longer. Otherwise I’ll never get this novel written.

  • Steven Pinker:

    The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

  • lately…

    Gnarls Barkley: The Odd Couple The Helio Sequence: Keep Your Eyes Ahead Michael Jackson: Thriller [The original. Never a need for another.] The Cardigans: Gran Turismo The Weird Weeds: I Miss This Mia Doi Todd: GEA

  • A Letter from Alicia Fox, librarian at Children’s Institute

    [This letter was in response to asking if she needed help unpacking/sorting/shelving/etc.] [readermail] Hi there! Thank you! I will need help sorting or labeling but I’m not sure when. I’ve been obsessed with opening the boxes each day and condensing them into the bigger boxes. If I didn’t I would run out of room! I’ve…