Pass me my stilettos so I can gouge out my eyes! The horror! I’m starting to realize that a disastrous throwback to the 1980s is alive and very much in the city sight line almost every step of the day: Perhaps one of the seven wince-able sins of shoe-wearing commuters: The dreaded marriage of ratty […]
Watching me watching you: CCTV at the movie theatre
So, I saw my first flick in a London theatre: Quantum of Solace. And, like a kid taking its first bath, walk, etc., it has quite possibly* been immortalized forever in the digital reel. In fact, I’m sure you can file an FOI and watch me watching it–thanks to CCTV Camera A and B. According to […]
The Red Cups are coming! The Red Cups are coming!
November 5, I believe. So says the sandwich board outside my local ‘Buck. And call me Santa, but nothing tastes as joyous or yuletide-ish as a peppermint hot chocolate from those seasonal red cups. And although I mentioned it earlier, I really can’t shake this whole no drip coffee thing. It’s so strange. Fine, two […]
Shall we Salvadelve into that further?
So it snowed in London last night for the first time in 70 years in October. I missed the snow–but I did see an image today that I hope to never see for another 70 years. Straight out of a surrealism painting, I saw a man vacuuming up leaves on the sidewalk. No, not using […]
Phewff! We made it!
Weow! A full month in the Cobblestone City. And not to detract from my love of compiling lists–I’ve made a special v 1.0 and added “On” in front of everything. I think it gives it a little something academic. And British. On traffic: Ah! Traffic. It’s not so (shudder) bad if you’ve got a sense […]
Zen and the facecloth
After 24 years of wondering, I’ve finally found a purpose for facecloths. I know, right? Strange. But what is even stranger is that my bathroom sink has two separate taps–one for hot and one for cold. Add to that a tiny basin and you’ve got the makings of an interesting/frustrating morning face wash routine. Turn […]
Thanks, but I’ll just avert my eyes
Leave it to the advertising execs to crash a perfectly good party!—We ninetofivers*, toting travel mugs, cherry tomatoes and ergonomic laptop bags, wake daily with reaffirmed attitudes towards success. “Today, my to-dos will become to-dones!”“Microsoft Access has got nothing on me!” Driving across the city’s gastroid belt, the sun cresting through our rear windows moves […]
A Cube of One’s Own – Haikus for the Working Girl
“Day, have I the guts to greet you? Alarm clock tomorrow, cradle to the grave. Working full-time.” -The Constantines This summer, I’ve traded the field for the 407 and the forest for the panoramic view of Terminal 3. And I wrote some haikus on my lunch break: near Terminal 3 is that a Boeing I […]
It wasn’t love, but it sure did hurt
An open love list to my gallbladder, now deceased. “But Since U Been Gone/I can breathe for the first time/I’m so moving on/Yeah, yeah/Thanks to you/Now I get/What I want [to eat]/Since U Been Gone.”* –Kelly Clarkson (*more or less) Hey you, Well, you’re gone now, but the scars you left will take a while […]
Hot or Not – Winter Edition
Yep, this blog has kind of become a blah-g, but I’ll do my best to navigate and repair this sinking ship. Coming soon: Pictures!Words!Charts!Links! But for now, a list… Hot Wasabi peasThe Joy of CookingBanjoZombie filmsLunar eclipsesLiberte yogurtThe Caribrew Cafe Not Seymour Street wind tunnelRavensAbrupt Daily News goodbyeAbandoned mittensEmo selections on open mic nightsmultiple choice […]