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This week has been crazy. Here’s what I think: 1. I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that I didn’t watch the State of the Union address, not because I was opposed to it or because I had other plans, but because the 4th disk of the second season of Project Runway came in the mail, and [...]

Just a hint: when Uncle Crappy organizes a Pho Tweet-up, you must go. It’s that simple. I got the bun dac biet- a spring roll, pork and shrimp with lettuce, bean sprouts, cucumbers, peanuts and noodles. Not a soup, which is what almost everyone else got, but super good. Sadly, I’m a mess with chopsticks [...]

Believe it or not, a good deal of editing goes into Mining Monday, mostly for the sake of time. I’ve taken on average about a handful or more photos that I’ve never shown. Today’s Mining Monday is going to consist of odds and ends from past weeks that didn’t make the cuts. Hello, 1971. Mup-pet [...]

A week ago I did the seemingly unthinkable: I deactivated my Facebook account. You might think I’m being melodramatic, but you aren’t the one who’s been getting “Where did you go on Facebook?!” text messages. I had been contemplating for a while but ended up doing it on a whim (like most decisions I make). [...]

I’ve become pretty good at parallel parking. In the past two years, I’ve done a total F-to-A+ transformation. Considering this was what kept me from passing my driver’s test for oh, um, several years, yes, I’m a little proud. The other night, however, I kept getting stuck. I was trying to park in front of [...]

I went to a Salvation Army last week for Mining Monday, but it was very gross (even by Salvation Army standards) and I didn’t seen anything worth noting, so I’m not going to degrade the integrity of Mining Monday by posting the few pictures I took just to post them. Yes, believe it or not, [...]

There was a reading project this past summer called Infinite Summer, an online book club of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. I didn’t join in, but I will be participating in the Spring 2666 reading of Roberto Balano’s 2666. I’ve been wanting to read it since it came out, but never got around to it [...]

Photo by Laura Petrilla. In case you have not heard: Jamie and Ali are two Pittsburgh sisters who run the BRESMA orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which just suffered a devastating earthquake. They have 150 children without food, water, or shelter, living in the yard of the orphanage. The wonderful, inspiring Ginny from thatschurch.com has been [...]

What are two of my favorite things in the entire world? Brunch and old things. And what happens when you bring them both together… GREATNESS THAT’S WHAT. This is why I love the Zenith. Jesus knows it’s hugs not drugs. Chairs on the ceiling! How Mary Poppins of you. Oh Ton-nee! Those above shots I [...]

I think 10 days after the new year has started might be considered too late to still be writing about the previous year, but I always oversleep and misjudge how long it’s going to take me to drive somewhere, so this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Anyways, this is the space where I share [...]