June 2010
5 posts
Why can’t one accessorize their female Scott Pilgrim vs. the World avatar with a sword, neckscarf, or baseball bat, like one can with the male? I ask you.
On Friday night we sat on a rooftop patio beside a large-scale photo of feet silhouetted against a lake. I had a grilled cheese sandwich with honey on it, which I enjoyed so much that the next morning I added honey to my favourite weekend breakfast (two scrambled eggs fried in olive oil, with one egg on a toasted English muffin with Jarlsberg or Lappi cheese and the other egg on the plate, both...
A de-contextualized segment of a line from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s poem “Saturday; The Small Pox” that jumped out at me as a funny title for something: Killing Picture Bear. (The full line: “Far from my sight that killing picture bear.”)
Classic Meat Loaf lyric from “Love is Not Real” on his new album, Hang Cool Teddy Bear: “Next time you stab...
I took a couple of personal days from work last week and enjoyed a long weekend. I barely touched the computer for four days, although I’ve behind on personal internet stuff for weeks. I mostly re-read the Harry Potter books and drank protein shakes, in between doing household chores and reading Jonathan Swift for class and trying to ignore brief shameful memories of the Wednesday afternoon...
