In medias res

From the home where the words “I told you the wine was better with a little shot of Tabasco in it!” were just uttered, so you’ll know it’s good stuff.
People are starting to write about Thanksgiving, and that reminds me of all sorts of wisdom I have picked up over the years.

Before you start trying [...]

I saw a recipe for candied bacon in the NYT yesterday.
Must remember to make some.
…and thus continues my hate/hate relationship with NaBloPoMo.

I was going to say that I’m over NaBloPoMo, but then I realized that the very act of saying it in this venue undermined the statement. Therefore, I blog another day.
Saw the Mel Brown trio tonight, and, as always, enjoyed it…especially Mel Brown. What a fine jazz drummer.

It has been one of those days. When I stop and think about that statement, it’s completely meaningless. What is “one of those days”? And how can we all nod our heads sympathetically as if we know?
For me, here’s how the cliché played out today:

Lost track of where I was on the whole knit a [...]

It was nice, the temporary lull of no one asking me to help them put crap (er, content) on the internet. Then, out of nowhere, came a flood of “please help me” requests. That makes me not want to do any blogging myself.
Instead, I am knitting! Knitting worthless and yet interesting crap! That and drinking [...]

I met Ali yesterday. It was at three, for coffee. That became Powell’s at 4, then sushi at 5, then tea at 7, then kissing at 11.
It was a wonderful first date; if he is who he seems to be, I imagine there will be more, which means, hurray–more titillating material for NaBloPoMo!

I was ready to blow up when I saw the following headline on the O this morning: Portland’s low-income neighborhoods are city’s ‘food deserts.’ Given the excessive number of wealthy foodies who restaurant hop on Hawthorne and fight for parking spaces at New Seasons, I guessed it was going to propose that the poor needed [...]

Linkie.
I hadn’t realized that there were no four star women in the US military. Fan of the military or not, it’s cool to see a woman break through that particular glass ceiling.

I’m sure this is more tedious for everyone else than it is for me, the daily pressure to post at all costs that is NaBloPoMo.
At this moment, I am watching CSI in another window, rehashing a conversation with Ali, one of those online dating contacts who seems hot over chat, as I imagine I did [...]

Oh, for the simpler days when you could just say, “Look, it’s carnivalesque! Look at how low discourse and the verbally overwraught interpenetrate and coexist in the the polyphonic expression of comedy!” Because of course that’s something we would say in normal conversation.
It’s not that clear cut anymore. I just had a brief talk in [...]