Her name was LaMar Harrrington.And she gave me this pin.She died on Wednesday.She was 87 years old.At 34, she started volunteering for art fairs.At 40, she received her BA in art history from the University of Washington, going on to be curator of not one, but two, local art museums.
   The arts were her life, […]

The best sauce you never made.
Sometimes you just don’t want to screw around with a roux, but you hanker for something creamy. This box can save you, in many different ways. It’s about the size of a kid’s drink box. Cut the top open and it reminds me of coconut milk, with a thicker cream […]

   
The coolest thing happened today. OK, it’s a little thing, but still.    I had a wine rep visiting with a distributor, and another rep waiting in the wings. We were tasting some amazing French wines, all great values. So I shared some of my wine with the waiting rep, a friend of mine. […]

When not working or playing, I have a news feed addiction that can’t be healthy. I just can’t stand what newspapers and TV try to shove down our throat as news. Unless it’s Jon Stewart, whose humoristic slant on daily events is considerably less spun and often times perversly more informative than "major" (read:sell-out) news. […]

 
This is the most superb, sublime use of fMacromedia Flash ever.
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orsinal/

If you don’t get hooked at least one game, like Bum Bum Koala or CATS, you are not human. 
   WARNING: (Though it is beautiful–turn the music off, before it burrows into your brain, Wrath of Khan style)

  I hate malls. I never partake. I avoid even the mall theaters if possible. But I had to go to the mall today. Not just the mall, the Whitey McWhite mall in the mother of all suburbs. And I saw this sign:
Employees are parking offsite for your convenience

What prompted this sign? Lots of […]

I’ve noticed something lately … blogs used as sources in major news media.   Ha ha! Jon Stewart did a little story a few weeks back, something about CNN crediting a number of blogs as their sources on a story. His usual Agog face and chuckling ensued. Ever since, I’ve seen all sorts of media site […]

In the new book, French Women Don’t Get Fat, you’ll find many nuggets of useful information. Or you can just photo copy the back 8 pages, summing up the entire diatribe.   I wanted to like this book, I did. I did. But…outside of the fact that Mireille Guiliano is right about most things…I can’t recommend […]

Shopping in one of those upscale resale shops, that plays nothing but Alterna-40 music, heard a song called Valpolicella? In that jingly jangly alt-pop vein that thinks it is sooo cool, when it’s only really badly recycled Iggy Pop. Guessing the name of the band I’d say it had 2 words, starting with "the."
   Will […]

   Below is a snip of an article that hammered the Midwest for its binge drinking crisis.    This work hard/play hard mentality basically stems from people who hate their jobs/lifes and can’t express their feelings about it. The first thing I noticed when I moved to the West coast from Chicago? People didn’t ask, […]