Category: Life

Now, I understand if you’re a mom-and-pop coffee cafe, or a sandwich shop, you might not want to take reservations. Sure. But if you’re a swank, just-won-restaurant-of-the-year, crowded, popular, trendy dinner spot–seriously. Nostrana, in Portland, recently won just that honor, though it actually slips my mind from which publication. Being a hopeless foodie, I really [...]

The Gate. Originally uploaded by Tumi Tígur. I wish I’d taken this. Jealous, jealous.

I love Wikipedia, but, this passage is somewhat lacking in elegance and, well, truthiness, likely. I came across it while trying to learn more about some of the Greekie Heads I’m reading lately: Aeschylus was killed in 456 BC when an eagle (or more likely a Lammergeier) dropped a live, and very savage tortoise on [...]

My husband is a genius, even when other people would normally sleep. He takes passing thoughts or half-fantastical epiphanies and realizes them. Take the canoe, which came about as a response to “Why hasn’t David built a boat yet?” that hasn’t been asked by anyone but David, but it must seem mightily pressing to him. [...]

I finished this book a few days ago. Having found Danziger’s The Year 1000 to be a fun and at least somewhat informative read, I sucked 1215 up, too. It was too similar to 1000 to really get me on fire. I bet I’d have the same thing to say about The Year 1000 if [...]

Apparently, “walkshed’ refers to the number of businesses within walking distance of your home, set by Alan Durning in the blog Daily Score to be one mile: To get the a fairly complete count of businesses, go to this Qwest online phone directory, select the business listings, type “all” in the category field, click “near [...]

As for LYZA GARDNER: HowManyOfMe.com There are:0people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? You too can play with this inaccurate data at HowManyOfMe (via Neatorama)

Yes, I’m still alive. I’ve just been subsumed in other…things. We had a big party last Saturday. Many came. We had a fire in piece of fire-oriented furniture in our backyard and many sat around it. We all ended up smelling like campfire. It was all a good thing except that I managed to sprain [...]

This trilogy (originally a tetralogy–that means four (hell, I had to look up what tetralogy means)) of plays about the cursed then maddened then vindicated Greek not-quite-hero, the revered Orestes, is nearly 2500 years old. That’s lots of years. Getting through this was a challenge for me, especially since I already knew the plot: for [...]

In honor of tonight’s Season 3 premiere of Battlestar Galactica, I present some trivia about my friend, Dave Hood. Q. What connection does my friend Dave Hood have to Battlestar Galactica? A. When I met Dave Hood, he lived in a house called the “Jay Street Mansion” (or some such), so-called because it was on [...]