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the dictionary evangelist
Wednesday 3 December 2008 | 12 cookies in the jar
Over the summer, the Umbrella turned me on to this brainy chiquita‘s blog about words (though I’ve been slavering over her garment-sewing blog, A Dress A Day, for months and months—she has, in fact, further enabled my minor obsession with Liberty Tana lawn). And I can no longer remember what word it was the Brujo [...]
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why I am a fashion-challenged goober (with apologies to nietzsche)
Wednesday 3 December 2008 | 6 cookies in the jar
Because I actually think these clothes are cute, and covet them. I am a hopelessly frumpy academic and also I am PMSing like a CRACK HO.
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want to blog…can’t blog…
Monday 1 December 2008 | 10 cookies in the jar
About our glamorous 24 hours in Puerto Peñasco! About the indigo sunset, the turquoise sunrise, the tide pools, the fresh corn tortillas, the flounder tacos, the drunken shrieking undergraduates, the fireworks, and the titty bars. And the two-hour border crossing back into the US, which felt like our just punishment for being horrible gabachos, as [...]
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why we love miss bovary (story tk)
Friday 28 November 2008 | I like a cookie
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why we love jenzai; with a story
Friday 28 November 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar
Here beginneth the tale. Now I’ll be curious to see how many of you even try to keep up, because I barely can (keep up). It’ll be a paragraph or five before you understand what ANY of this has to do with jenzai studio, I’m just warning you. 1. So, just as I did back [...]
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“…which, thanks anyway.”
Friday 28 November 2008 | 5 cookies in the jar
[The Brujo's and my new favorite expression of amused distaste, gleaned from a signal two grafs about Midwestern Xians near the end of "Ticket to the Fair."] So it was el Día de Accíon de Gracias. Last year we ate fish burritos at Amado’s, sitting outside in t-shirts under the palm trees. This year it [...]
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further fountain pen pr0n
Tuesday 25 November 2008 | I like a cookie
Because I worked my BOHINEY off today and I deserve it. Nothing fancy, just Cross Century II Starlights; but I love the colors, and the nibs last forever. Don’t get me started on my new obsession with Mabie Todd Swans and vintage Waterman (flex nibs! wet noodles!), though. Seriously. I mean it. Don’t. You get [...]
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do you have any more of the crispy crab cakes?
Wednesday 5 November 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar
National holiday in Kenya all day Thursday! I don’t know if they’ve slaughtered the bull yet, but if I could ride my bike over there, I’d totally have a piece, sushitarianism be damned. “If it were possible for me to get to the United States on my bicycle, I would,” said Joseph Ochieng, a 36-year-old [...]
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that’s *president* “half-breed muslin” to you
Tuesday 4 November 2008 | 7 cookies in the jar
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pen-crush
Monday 3 November 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar
Dear Interwebs, I have fallen in love with another Waterman, which can only lead to great pain. Of course, as you know, I already have two faithful fountain pens, who would no doubt be crushed should I express any wish that an interloper, an outsider, join our happy little family. Admittedly Ici et Lá is [...]
