Wednesday night, as Paul and I were listening to a Q and A after a movie, our phones flickered with calls from my brother, who was visiting my parents in Florida. Paul and I looked at each other and wordlessly slipped past the row of people into the lobby. It was after 1 AM in … Read more
This blog has various functions. One of the bigger ones–conceptually if not in practice, is a kind of “witness to the world” thing. I have this fantasy that if my blog landed in some electronic time capsule discovered later by aliens or the round- blobs-of-video-watching-dough that humanity evolves into, they will have some sense of … Read more
Frequent house guest and good friend D left this past week for Japan, leaving behind a space in our hearts, a small box of books, and extra suitcase and his camelback. He also sold us his ’95 Toyota Camry, making us once again a two car family–woo hoo! Waiting in line at the DMV anyway … Read more
So not into motion right now. There’s a little cocktails/birthday thing for folks in our program tonight, and I just can’t. make. myself. move. Moreover since it would require a change of clothes. Instead, I think I will try to creep over to Paul’s computer (he is out watching Transformers) and try to check out … Read more
Over the past couple of years, a few people have noted having trouble adding my blog to their RSS feeders. I have recently updated the template for this blog. It is kind of ugly, but it allowed me to add this “Subscribe To” window that is currently in the right-hand sidebar. If you are someone … Read more
Paul and I got back from our whirlwind nine-day trip to Florida last night. With full days of travel at either end, this left us a week: Three days in Sarasota with my parents, two days in Tallahassee, seeing friends (and Paul of course worked on a friend’s film) and two days back in Sarasota … Read more
After being married for over eight years, I just found this out the other day. When Paul is buying something with a credit card, and it asks for the date of expiration, and say, the card says “10/31/09”, he doesn’t say “10-09”, but “11-09” since that’s the day it has actually expired. Who does that? … Read more
Saw this band “Unpopable” at a little bar in Pasadena last night. The guy has (as you can see here) created a kind of one string bass out of balloons. It’s pretty cool. He makes each instrument the night of. Last night he was using a white balloon for the string and wearing a white … Read more
Fell off the blogging wagon (actually the opposite of that) lately, so don’t think I mentioned this. While placing flower/swag arrangements in celebrity trailers with another P.A. on American Idol, I realized how I might be getting too old for this when we had the following conversation. ME: Okay, that’s Keith Urban’s done, who’s left?OTHER … Read more
Just bought a new blank book for four bucks, and having a cuppa tea that costs about the same. Up charge for subsituting soy for dairy? Fifty-five cents! Is it just me, or is that a lot? Still, vanilla red tea latte. It was really good. I was conscious of enjoying it, and enjoying my … Read more