Red Dead Redemption’s Best Feature: Raccoon Murder
There’s a giant, forty pound raccoon that pretty much treats our koi pond like the neighborhood sushi bar. He is forever trying to circumvent our expert security system. He’s such a jerk. Yesterday, while playing Red Dead, we discovered that not only can you shoot raccoons as part of the game, (+1 for meat, +1 [...]
My Roman Apartment In Schmap Guide’s To Rome!
Bernini’s Elephant is my favorite obelisk in Rome. I must have taken about forty different pictures of that architectural doodad. It’s so cute. One of the forty photographs was selected today to be in the latest (Eleventh) edition of the Rome Schmap! I’m so excited. Schmaps titled the photograph “Minerva’s Chick” which is the English [...]
My Bees Love The Wall Street Journal
This made my father’s entire year. I’m quoted in this article from today’s Wall Street Journal: A Backyard Battleground to Save the Honeybee By ANNE MARIE CHAKER Catharine Reeves is doing her part to save the honeybee. The 49-year-old lawyer from Bethesda, Md., is a newly minted backyard beekeeper. She tends two hives and thousands [...]
Knitting For Beekeepers
Do I have really lazy bees? I’m always accidentally bringing bees into the house because a few bees have decide to use my head as public transportation to get around the yard. It brings new meaning to a beehive hairdo. Bees hate sweaters. No really. I thought this was a beekeeping urban myth until last [...]
China Mieville, My Latest Imaginary Boyfriend
I just finished reading an advance copy of Kraken, the latest work of Weird Fiction from fellow H.P. Lovecraft aficionado, China Mieville. Kraken is a noir-ish potboiler with just a sneezing of Marxist overtones. No really. It’s just like that. Imagine the literary lovechild of Mervyn Peake and James Ellroy. It’s that weird and historical [...]
Will The Curves 30 Day Challenge Make Me Even Less Curvy?
I had my first workout at Curves today. Yes, it lives up to its reputation. I was easily the youngest person in the gym by thirty years. I’m officially working out at the old lady gym. I swear I’m not complaining about the geriatric gym rats working out on the machines in their terry cloth [...]
Some Girls: My Life In A Harem
Well, not my life. My boyfriend DJ’d a party for Jillian Lauren, the wife of Weezer bass player, Scott Shriner, and all around funny writer. And, because I am always a sucker for offbeat memoirs and vice stories, I volunteered to be the boyfriend’s equipment monkey for the evening, so I wouldn’t feel like some [...]
