archives for October 2004
of cover albums and desert-island beasts
Saturday 23 October 2004 | I like a cookie
So even though I came up with the cover-album-for-N’s-birthday idea (”the best of the eighties, nineties, and today!”) over three weeks ago, I’m still too timid to ask Maman if I can borrow her stunning electric piano. I’m about ready to sell all I own to buy one of these…I’d rather have it than the […]
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bugger, bugger, bugger.
Thursday 21 October 2004 | I like a cookie
Why is it that the first Internet appearance of one’s once-spouse, now acting independently of one, should be so ghastly? Even though relatively innocuous (not, say, an online wedding photo album, or streaming Nobel Prize acceptance speech)? Dismayed, I shall arise and go now, not to Innisfree but to Denny’s.
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hey mom look at us we’re blogging!
Thursday 21 October 2004 | I like a cookie
So I’ve read all Mandarin’s lovely posts, saturated with cinnamon porridge and stealthily removed lawn furniture (who knew Madeleine Albright could be so funny?! what is she, the stand-up SOS?); and while it’s good to know Dr. Melfi is human and not the uber-the(raped)ist, still—still. I can’t believe Mandarin is being Rolfed AND therapized all […]
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all up in arms
Thursday 21 October 2004 | I like a cookie
Herself has me all riled and indignant over this well-intentioned but to me patronizing email, sic:
So happy abt yr godmother. A great blessing.
The meeting [with HH in Dharamsala] goes well. Amazing what ‘plastic’ creatures we are. Even nurturing changes our genes. And our brains, the hipocampus, produces neurons throughout our life. More to come.
I am […]
katchoo & francine & david
Tuesday 19 October 2004 | I like a cookie
With what great delight do I log in here in the Boerne Public Library and find that I’ve only read the first of the Strangers in Paradise comics, but there are literally dozens more since then, as Terry Moore started writing it in 1993. This means I may anticipate hours of graphic novel enjoyment, […]
