my teeth are in really great shape (“only floss the ones you want to keep!”) but i do make a point to see my dentist at least three times a year. mostly it’s because my visits include drinking coffee out of his vacuum pot with his freshly roasted beans (kenyan, usually). there’s a whole rigmarole [...]
just a short list for today: –a bonanza of fava beans. god, there’s never enough. lucky for me it’s also green garlic season so sauteing the two together in butter makes everyone lick their plates so clean there’s no dishwashing here until tomato season! –indecision: –crazy assed yet beautifully designed Chinese coffee tins: yes, i [...]
last night at the Walt Disney hall we went to a performance of Louis Andriessen’s La Commedia, a crazy opera based on the story by Dante, full of intense, super-intellectual music, with text in Latin, Dutch, English and Italian. one of my favorite lines was “[the three furies] screamed so loud that I pressed myself [...]
so this sign pretty much sums up what i’ve been up to. that’s a hint, since we’ve had to sign a hefty NDA on this one. the big & happy picture is that we’ve automated something that used to take four lovely women four hours a day to do on a computer, and that’s four [...]
fava beans rising up like middle fingers… and all sorts of other helpful creatures standing by… ever since we moved here our neighbor’s avocado tree has borne no fruit. sometimes i get the suspicion that he thinks it’s not a coincidence. i think (he’s over 80 years old) that he did get fruit these last [...]
here’s how a cat sends a message: and here’s how a dog receives one:
today’s agenda is to cover everything with chocolate. we’ve got: candied tangerine peels (after eating the inside of a tangerine from Westfield Farms the immediate thought is what to do with the outside), candied ginger (ok, i bought those), bananas (which we’ll freeze and eat as if we’re on Catalina Island), coffee beans (no duh), [...]
it’s bad enough that there’s a note posted on the window of my local bookstore that says (something like), every time an order is made on amazon.com another mom and pop bookstore goes out of business. it’s bad enough that California hiked its sales tax so damn sky-ward that i want to buy EVERYTHING online, [...]
a long time ago a fashion-senseless lady advised a friend of mine that wearing stripes as a “wide” girl would only accentuate her wideness. instead of telling her that fashion is how you carry it, not how it carries you, she relegated my friend to the “dark coffin of low self-esteem,” full of oversized & [...]
