Tag Archives: Flirting with disaster
I am tired
I’ve decided to continue ignoring Flickr and keep posting MY random photographs here on MY site. I don’t care if it’s inconvenient for everyone to have to come over to MY SITE to see MY THINGS. I don’t care if … Continue reading
Things Fall Apart
You’ve been waiting a long time to Internet-diagnose my latest disease or uncomfortable physical symptom, and now that wait is over. Sunday morning I woke up around 3:00 a.m. — okay, no, it started earlier. Last month I remember lying … Continue reading
Bike Swapping
First of all, congratulations to Autumnalyssa, who won the random drawing for a Let’s Panic! bag filled with all kinds of stuff, and whose mom taught her that you shouldn’t grow pot in the backyard if you have a gregarious … Continue reading
Posted in Main, Photos
Tagged Attention: I have an important announcement, Flirting with disaster, Guilt, Jackson, Nerdery
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Dear Diary
Wow, I’ve really let this web site slide. My excuses are legion, but in the end, part of what’s kept me from posting is a slowly growing need for this crazy thing called “privacy.” Have you heard of it? It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Main, Video
Tagged Flirting with disaster, Let's Panic, Observations on the human condition
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Warm Leatherette
I have recently discovered that, much like yogurt and bad relationships, furniture has an expiration date. Our couch, for example, had been begging to be put out of its misery for months. Its pillows were bursting at the seams, leaking … Continue reading
me am literate
You’ll be excited to hear that I’ve read another book. In keeping with my new habit of finding books that take roughly the same amount of effort to read as the back of a cereal box, I went to the … Continue reading
Posted in Main, Reading
Tagged Flirting with disaster, Marriage is not for the faint of heart
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And I haven’t vacuumed in weeks
One of the jokes in Let’s Panic the book is about how the Internet is such a satisfying and entertaining resource for new parents. Alice and I single out six web sites for having been particularly helpful throughout our own … Continue reading
Applegasm
What happens is that you go apple tasting. Apple tasting! Whoever heard of such a thing! You’re swept away by the novelty of the experience and when you come to you find you’ve purchased a jar of apple butter, a … Continue reading
Dear homeless folks, sorry about the pie.
Dear Homeless Folks Who’ll Be Considering Eating the Thanksgiving Pies I Constructed; First of all, I wasn’t intentionally experimenting on you. I felt sure that the fancy store-bought crust–even though I’d never used it before–would produce a much more beautiful … Continue reading
A Study in Lost Momentum
I stopped eating meat in July. I’d just come back from a yoga weekend of almost-vegan living, and it simply made sense to use the momentum. It wasn’t a reaction to the terrible crimes of industrial farming, nor was it … Continue reading
