So, I know everyone really likes the more personal TGW posts, but I’m gonna have to go with a relatively impersonal compendium of amusing video clips today. Dave and Stella set the bar very high last week, and I’m too grumpy and tired at the moment to write anything insightful – sorry! (ed. note: and [...]
Archive for the ‘Out & About’ category
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Previous readers may remember my mixture of excitement and trepidation before going to Colombia last month. Although most of me was excited by the prospect of this exploration, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t also nervous about it, what with the kidnappings, the malaria, and the anacondas (well, to be honest, I was [...]
Scenes from a horse show in Vegas
Have you ever been to a horse show in Vegas? I hadn’t, until this past weekend. It involves a lot of pomp, a lot of kitsch, and at least one showgirl. Yee-ha!
Do not panic.
Tomorrow morning I am leaving on a trip, the planning of which has alternately elated and terrified me. I’ll be landing in Bogota tomorrow evening. From there, a girlfriend and I will fly to the southern tip of Colombia, where it meets Peru and Brazil, to a small town called Leticia. We’ll take a boat [...]
A pretty thing happened on the way to the office
Almost every weekday I commute to a different public hospital in LA County to teach evening classes. Along the way, there are many really interesting sights. I’ve been meaning for a while to take photos of some of them. This week I finally did. In the distance, center right, is my destination for today, County [...]
Small World
New York City is home to 8.3 million people, and sometimes I’m pretty sure I know every one of them. I’m not particularly popular or cool. I am not affiliated with a “scene,” I don’t go to a lot of parties, and I’m sort of a stay-at-home girl. But it’s gradually become impossible to leave [...]
Popular Songs (Yo La Tengo, Barrymore Theater, Madison, 1/23/10)
My car has a cassette deck but no CD player, so unless I plug the iPod adapter into the cigarette lighter, it’s college mix tapes all the way. Little time capsules that transport me back to the 1990s faster than clove cigarettes or sandalwood oil. They’re full of the usual suspects: Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Pixies. [...]
Aquarium
Back late from a weekend in Vegas, too tired to write. Here are some photos from a trip to an aquarium a few weeks ago. The one of the stingray in the light is my favorite; it’s currently the desktop image on my laptop.
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In New York for a few days, and as usual, it’s sensory and emotional overload. Friends I think of every day—but see only once or twice a year—are here in the flesh. We go to amazing restaurants and wander around museums. We gossip and catch up and sit in loving companionable silence. The kids are [...]
