“Leos born between 23 July and 4 August will be very very obstinate… This is one of the most inflexible combinations in the zodiac. ” Both I and the Little Lady were born during this time frame. I thought I would share this. Because that is what I am in the mood to do today. [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Today I am painting, and possibly rehearsing the past. I just wanted to share this. And for once, the downstairs neighbor is being quiet. I also wanted to shart* this. * Er. That would be ‘share.’
What possibilities remained open to artists who did not wish simply to rehearse the achievements of the past but to establish painting’s ongoing claim to truth and validity? -Jason Geiger Jeez. Who realized that painting after 1960 was so fraught with peril?
Me: Well, I have a slightly strange relationship with Bambi. Her: I know it makes your father cry. Is it something weirder than that?
Is pretty cool. Sideways I am not so sure about. Though it does seem insufferably pretentious I must admit that, in addition to the fact that it involves a 4Runner, which is always a plus, especially if it is blue and has a sunroof (though if I lived in LA I would get an MG [...]
So I made the beet cake. Unfortunately, it tastes sort of like dirt. But, it is a very pretty pink color.
A page and a half into Sideways I already want the narrator to knock it off. Why can’t he be more like Princess Mia from the Princess Diaries? Still, he has a 4 Runner so he can’t be all bad.
So. It turns out that beet cake does not even take mascarpone icing. That is a different cake in the same cookbook. (Which actually looks a lot better than the beet cake but I have already invested heavily in beets.) Now the pragmatic thing to do is make the mascarpone icing anyway. But you need [...]
The downstairs neighbor has been playing scales for the past four hours. I cannot express how much I hate the downstairs neighbor. I hope her fingers stick to the keys and have to be removed with the Jaws of Life.* *OK- this is a little harsh. I repent.
Today I am making a beet cake. It is like carrot cake, except it has beets and the beets make it pink. It has mascarpone icing, which sounds good. Except the grocery store charged me for 2 tubs of mascarpone and I only got one, which I will obviously have forgotten about by the next [...]
This really made me laugh, which was a good thing because I had just left Philosophy of Aesthetics class in which some numbskull said that he didn’t like modern art because it was ‘bad.’ It really made me mad! This idiot probably wouldn’t know modern art if it fell on him and squashed his ass. [...]
Bring myself to read Kant. 50 pages of Kant on a cold night, when I could listen to Sugarland until I pass out? And read The Princess Diaries instead? Which I actually am reading. I guess I had better put up a picture to prove it, though I don’t think this is going to improve [...]
I have started a photo blog for class. It will have repeat images from the day’s FlickrMania. I’m dithering about whether to go with the best artistic image of the day, one which says something special about the day, or whether I’ll just go with something I like. Probably the last one. And in addition [...]
Was surprisingly good. Lindsay Lohan’s love interest was the guy from the Apple ads. Hot! Hot!
Me: (looking through Food and Wine magazine) There’s a Vermont locavore, there’s a California locavore. There’s no Virginia locavore. Her: What the hell is a locavore? Me: It is a person who only eats foods grown in a 100 mile radius of where they live. Her: It’s not surprising that they didn’t cover Virginia. They [...]
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