My sister in law, Jennifer Dixon, has a fondness for hearts, not ♥ kind of hearts, but thump-thump, lub-lub, real hearts with veins and valves. [see also Tour de Jen] Here’s one on our fridge: But I especially like this collaboration by Jen and my brother, that must’ve been a Christmas card with books for John … [Read more…]
Take today, fer instance: I went out for a walk, and it’s a beautiful sunny day – but that just filled me with dread and grumpiness. Because it’s FUCKING FEBRUARY in Wisconsin and it’s not supposed to be 50°. Or Friday: After reading friends and friends of friends facebook posts about how they’re dealing with … [Read more…]
So I guess if this is a cooking blog I should talk about food at least a little. Friday I met Mark at a retirement party for somebody we both used to work with, although Mark much longer than me. After, with Jane & Jonathan, we went and had dinner at Graft, a new-ish small … [Read more…]
It was sunny today, and cold. I walked up to the city county building to do some training so I can work on early voting at the library on Saturday, and there was a girl in front of me with Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead and other hippie-dippie embroidered patches on her backpack. I was … [Read more…]
To wintry mix and a head cold, or well, it was a head cold on Wednesday when I started writing this, but now it’s Friday, and it’s in my chest. Wintry mix falling on HC White building courtyard from Debra Shapiro on Vimeo. Since I’m so belated in writing, here’re a few snapshots of the … [Read more…]
So here I am at another library conference, where I’m sitting in meetings with people talking about metadata before 9:00AM in the morning. Fortunately, I think the fashion for showing screens of code with pointy brackets is fading; instead they’re showing slides with lists of all kinds of technology and environments used to create the … [Read more…]
I didn’t hear enough of this during the election season.
I’d wanted to make this Sam Sifton chicken tetrazzini from the NYT mag ever since it was published last fall, even though it’s not like any tetrazzini I’m familiar with, that usually involve creamy white sauce and crumbs on top. It includes a chili-based sauce with dried red chiles and chicken broth and milk and … [Read more…]
So I guess yesterday was the first ordinary Sunday in January, because New Year’s Day was Sunday this year. I got up and made cherry muffins and a few rhubarb ones. As I suspected, the rhubarb ones aren’t very pretty. Then I went out to the fabric store and got a bunch of pink fleece … [Read more…]
Stop your mind with dirty snow. Jefferson Airplane, Ice Cream Phoenix, track 9 on Crown of Creation. Early January, what should be the brutal time of winter here in Wisconsin, is a little weird this year. Yes, it’s been brutally cold, but only for the last few days: on Monday & Tuesday it was in … [Read more…]