Urban Honking

New advice is up at Advice! I’d really love you people to chime in over there, because this person could use some crowd-sourcing. And two new posts on I Saw That! Fun times at the movies! And tomorrow is Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday! I’m gonna eat so many things made out of cornbread that you’re […]

Dear Yours Truly, I’m a longtime fan of your personal blog, movie blog, and now your advice blog. Even though we’ve never met, I think of you in a very fond and friendly way. It’s very exciting to be a blog participant! My questions is long but, sadly, not very juicy. It’s about work. First […]

I keep trying to write about my grandfather’s funeral and my subsequent post-funeral nervous breakdown in which I became suffused with horror about my own parents’ impending old age and how I need to become a more responsible person so I can take care of them and how horrible everything is. But honestly, I think […]

yesterday I got in the car and turned it on, just in time to hear a fancy-voiced woman begin a very passionate monologue about savory bread pudding. “You can put whatever you want in there,” she said. She said you just rip up old bread, put some sort of sauce on it, whatever veggies you […]

fun new post over at Advice. This one’s not about romance, but about religion and mysticism! Fun stuff. Reading liveblogging of Hurricane Sandy is stressing me out A LOT. Tonight I want to watch “The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane,” a 1976 movie starring Martin Sheen and a 13 year old Jodie Foster. […]

Why is it okay for hip, secular liberals to believe in weird, unscientific things like “Mercury in Retrograde” and “Saturn Returns” and “Astrology” but not in weird, unscientific religious things like “god making a donkey speak” or “angels killing all the firstborn kids in egypt”? I guess this is more of a general question than […]

                          Well, like father like son, I suppose. Gus Nicklos, who I collaborated with on the Mittopoly poster, which was featured in my last post, just forwarded this image to me. It was designed in 1967 by Herb Lubalin, but it is clearly applicable today.

Just read the New Yorker about bacteria. It confirmed my lifelong nonchalance about germs as basically being an appropriate stance, the disgust of my husband notwithstanding. I’m just not that stressed out about germs. I’m not one of these people using a toilet seat cover. To paraphrase a comedian I heard recently: “I have a […]

Dear Yours Truly, I am in need of some advice on the matter of life paths. Some background: I am on the brink of my Saturn Return and feeling like I need to start getting my act together. I’ve spent the last five years post-college doing things that made me feel great, like being in […]

It’s Saturday! And I have nothing really to do! Normal to-do list instead of crazy one like lately! It’s weird and great! Gonna make some plans Gonna eat this egg sandwich Gonna drink this coffee Katy is now of course the keyboard player in Gossip, and I think hearing all her amazing tales (they are […]