January 2011
26 posts
You're amazing but... Can you eat icing from a can...
I bought flowers (for Coujo’s birthday!) and a can of vanilla icing today at the neighborhood shop after work today. The man behind me in line (MBM) felt the need to comment:
MBM: Make sure you make a cake for that icing, don’t just eat it out of the can. Me: Can you read my mind? MBM: I used to do that. Me: Why do you think I got the brown bag. MBM: You’re not a closet icing...
“Let me in! It’s snowing like hell!”
– A Fishtown teen banging on a door.
Over the Rhine - The King Knows How
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It's Mutual: This Is Why You're the Best Ever. →
You’re amazing but… I’ve fallen behind.
So, there’s been a fair amount of dinosaur happenings and amazingness during and since the holidays that I have been remiss in sharing. I will eventually catch up. At least that is what I always tell myself about nearly everything. But I have to start somewhere.
And the linked blog birthday card and the accompanying gifts (below)...
Sharon van Etten - Love More
It was roughly...
Happening now: Cassette scratching. It’s a thing. If he wanted to make it danceable he could. This happened prior: Barbie and Ken karaoke tape player circuit bending quartet.
Stream: Iron & Wine at Daytrotter →
As I listen to “Naked as we Came”, of course loving it, I realize that at some point you must get tired of singing the same songs, right? Even if they’re lovely.
Not that I’ve heard it too many times, or that the world has played it too many times, but if it is your voice singing it so often, your throat and mouth must get tired and your brain a little bit disinterested...
Cliff Lee Buys Rittenhouse Area Condo →
My boss greeted me this morning by saying he had a gift for me. Then he showed me the Cliff Lee condo purchase blurb.
Why?
Because the specifics in the article precisely match the specifics of the building directly across the street from our office, which was completed about 6 months ago.
So now “playing in the park” with Emily, the 2-year-old, will mean stalking Cliff Lee.
A text...
Daytrotter Session :: Active Child →
Agreed. Beautiful and heartbreaking. Hear that harp. Instead of being painful-yearning-but-gets-me-going-nearly-every-morning version of “When Your Love Is Safe” it’s the go-ahead-and-just-roll-over-because-it-still-hurts version. Sometimes you need both.
Happy Friday.
smokedontsmoke:
Wow, these scaled down versions are heartbreaking.
“lucky in life, not in love”
– Ryan Adams and The Cardinals, “Withering Heights” from Jacksonville City Nights
That phrase often rolls around my head. I think that pretty much sums me up: I was reminded today several times that I am really really really lucky in life. And I am really really really grateful for it. It...
Top 100 Tutorials of 2010 →
Admittedly, some of it may be over the top: I’m sorry, I don’t really want a candy corn wreath.
But, as luck would have it, after a second of browsing the first thing I clicked on was this: Anthropologie inspired Knotted Bedspread (by kojodesigns) Here is the original I’ve whistfully patted every time I wander through the store during work: except in the red color they call...
“Wait. It’s O-possum? I always thought it was a possum.”
– Overheard at the Academy of Natural Sciences today. She was a 20-something. She said it to her boyfriend - twice. And she followed it up with, “Are those skunks?” I don’t care where you were raised, honey. Every 5-year-old knows that a skunk is the black animal with the white...
