January 2006
Alternate Titles for Train’s 2003 Hit, Calling All Angels
- E-Mailing All Seraphim
- Faxing All Graces
- Corresponding Via Post with All Naiads
- Yelling From the Window at All Sibyls
- IM-ing All Oracles
Alternate Titles for Train’s 2003 Hit, Calling All Angels
- E-Mailing All Seraphim
- Faxing All Graces
- Corresponding Via Post with All Naiads
- Yelling From the Window at All Sibyls
- IM-ing All Oracles
Alternate Titles for Train’s 2003 Hit, Calling All Angels
- E-Mailing All Seraphim
- Faxing All Graces
- Corresponding Via Post with All Naiads
- Yelling From the Window at All Sibyls
- IM-ing All Oracles
Alternate Titles for Train’s 2003 Hit, Calling All Angels
- E-Mailing All Seraphim
- Faxing All Graces
- Corresponding Via Post with All Naiads
- Yelling From the Window at All Sibyls
- IM-ing All Oracles
Alternate Titles for Train’s 2003 Hit, Calling All Angels
- E-Mailing All Seraphim
- Faxing All Graces
- Corresponding Via Post with All Naiads
- Yelling From the Window at All Sibyls
- IM-ing All Oracles
Alternate Titles for Train’s 2003 Hit, Calling All Angels
- E-Mailing All Seraphim
- Faxing All Graces
- Corresponding Via Post with All Naiads
- Yelling From the Window at All Sibyls
- IM-ing All Oracles
Outside Jokes
If, the next time you asked me a question, I were to look at you incredulously and say, “What? You pooped in the refrigerator?!” would it mean anything to you? Anything at all?
I hate inside jokes. I really do. I think there’s only one thing worse than people who share inside jokes in front [...]
What Arthur Agatston, M.D. Doesn’t Know Won’t Hurt Him
I just ate a homemade chocolate-chip-and-walnut cookie, and it was amazing. Soft, and chewy, with just the right size morsels of chocolate – not too tiny, but not those mammoth boulders you sometimes get either. I think there was a little cinnamon involved. I am a happy man.
About a week ago I started trying to [...]
What Arthur Agatston, M.D. Doesn’t Know Won’t Hurt Him
I just ate a homemade chocolate-chip-and-walnut cookie, and it was amazing. Soft, and chewy, with just the right size morsels of chocolate – not too tiny, but not those mammoth boulders you sometimes get either. I think there was a little cinnamon involved. I am a happy man.
About a week ago I started trying to [...]
What Arthur Agatston, M.D. Doesn’t Know Won’t Hurt Him
I just ate a homemade chocolate-chip-and-walnut cookie, and it was amazing. Soft, and chewy, with just the right size morsels of chocolate – not too tiny, but not those mammoth boulders you sometimes get either. I think there was a little cinnamon involved. I am a happy man.
About a week ago I started trying to [...]
What Arthur Agatston, M.D. Doesn’t Know Won’t Hurt Him
I just ate a homemade chocolate-chip-and-walnut cookie, and it was amazing. Soft, and chewy, with just the right size morsels of chocolate – not too tiny, but not those mammoth boulders you sometimes get either. I think there was a little cinnamon involved. I am a happy man.
About a week ago I started trying to [...]
What Arthur Agatston, M.D. Doesn’t Know Won’t Hurt Him
I just ate a homemade chocolate-chip-and-walnut cookie, and it was amazing. Soft, and chewy, with just the right size morsels of chocolate – not too tiny, but not those mammoth boulders you sometimes get either. I think there was a little cinnamon involved. I am a happy man.
About a week ago I started trying to [...]
What Arthur Agatston, M.D. Doesn’t Know Won’t Hurt Him
I just ate a homemade chocolate-chip-and-walnut cookie, and it was amazing. Soft, and chewy, with just the right size morsels of chocolate – not too tiny, but not those mammoth boulders you sometimes get either. I think there was a little cinnamon involved. I am a happy man.
About a week ago I started trying to [...]
The End of the Earth
Last Tuesday, my “1000 Places to See Before You Die” desktop calendar featured the destination of the Aran Islands, three small “stepping stones out of Europe,” as Seamus Heaney called them, situated a few miles off the coast of Ireland. The calendar page describes the islands as a “windblown … pocket-size window onto the hardscrabble [...]
Read more >>One Step, and I Messed It Up
Lope said, “It’s real easy.”
She said she thawed chicken for me, and that while she’s away at her creative retreat in California all I had to do was cut up the thawed chicken and put it in a skillet with some olive oil. She pointed to the olive oil. To season the chicken, I was [...]
Bibliography
Why do I write like this? What inside my head drives me to choose, for instance, a short opening sentence followed by a longer explanatory sentence, both structured as rhetorical questions? What is it that quietly tells me a phrase has just the right number of syllables, and that I should stop right there, or, [...]
Read more >>To Boldly Go?
There was a time when explorers would venture out to sea, aimed toward an uncertain horizon, equipped with little more than a few trunks of rations and a working knowledge of how stars move across the night sky.
Nowadays I get twitchy running errands without my cell phone.
The NASA astronauts managed to fly into space, land [...]
Random Facts
• A common term in the confectionery industry, and pretty much nowhere else, is “enrobed,” which means to fully cover something in chocolate. Enrobing is done through the use of a dipping fork, the fingertips (if the enrobing vat is not too hot) or with specialized automated machinery in candy-bar manufacturing facilities. (See Hershey’s “Mounds” [...]
Read more >>Fresh n’ Ferocious
You know what I just realized? These new zip-loc seals on beef jerky packets are DOUBLE awesome, because not only do they keep your jerky nice and, uh, jerky, they require two hands to close, forcing you to hold the jerky with your mouth as you seal the seal, clenching your jaw and gritting your [...]
Read more >>Fresh n’ Ferocious
You know what I just realized? These new zip-loc seals on beef jerky packets are DOUBLE awesome, because not only do they keep your jerky nice and, uh, jerky, they require two hands to close, forcing you to hold the jerky with your mouth as you seal the seal, clenching your jaw and gritting your [...]

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