Sometimes a blog is just a blog, right? And it can house a collection of fragments? And have lame post titles? Like LiveJournal?
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I got to go to the opera last week, completely unexpectedly. My boss ended up with an extra ticket to the Kirov’s production of Die Walküre at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan […]
My favorite part of the Harry Potter series has always been its attention to media and memory — gadgets and goodies like Dumbledore’s Pensieve, the Marauder’s Map, owl-delivered letters (some of which actually scream at you if you’ve been bad), text books on Monsters that are themselves eager to bite you, memory charms, photos that wave to […]
The bookstore in our neighborhood has been counting down to the release of the final Harry Potter book since January. We have stickers pasted all over our house proclaiming Snape to be either “a friend” or “a foe.” The hubbub will reach its apex today when the mall adjoining the bookstore will transform into “Harry Potter […]
Rome is everything you’ve heard and more. Compared to other European cities, it’s dirty, chaotic, and corrupt. It’s also one of the most glorious and seductive places on earth, a feast for the senses and the home of more beauty than anyone can comprehend.
My partner and I recently returned from two fabulous weeks […]
I live in a land where just about everyone under fifty has a tattoo or three or twenty three. This will come as no shock to anyone who knows that I live in North America or, in particular, Long Beach, California. I don’t have any tattoos, which will also come as no shock to anyone […]