2008

CBS's "virtually undetectable" full frontal

Entering a strange phase in my life regarding men. Receiving unwarranted attention from unsavory...

"Who's your daddy?" - Jeff Probst from...

after the white night... a sea

Nuit blanche, a white night, is what they call it when you stay up all night without sleeping. This...

Getting ready to get skinned at dominos tonight. Feel that maybe I should play for money as it will...

Rising quietly for a couple of years now, Frenchman Gilles...

why am I all of sudden listening to so much punk and psychedelia?

Listening to the Baby Grandmothers… a lot.

I've got a zucchini the size of John...

That’s right… I was forced to get creative with vegetables. Hauled in over two weeks ago...

is back in business. Internet and cable tv at home make life sooooo much nicer!

BABY NADAL! The US Open 2008 - Grand Slam Tennis - Official...

I need a day with my head in the sand

Thoroughly rotten day which luckily ended with a good meal. Officially hate 19th century French...

Food Quiz

The Omnivore’s Hundred (which originates at Very Good Taste)1) Copy this list into your blog...

in a bikini, by the pool, hard at work.

What I couldn't write in China - Salon...

So in love...

There I was, riding the horrid train back, when I suddenly dozed off. I woke up dark in the tunnel...

Toronto Journal - In a Cyclist-Friendly City,...

Aug. 25, 2008 - Michael Phelps’ SI Covers - Photos -...

After the most inactive day possible replete with 13 hours of sleep, have woken up refreshed and...

My things are put away. There was actually less of it than I thought. I hope to stuff everything in...

I’m taking time out from alternately packing and vomiting. This has been one of the most...

Oh god… it just happened. I had my first weep to the Olympics. I was watching the judo...

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Well, China’s hosting the Olympics. Let’s hope...

awake early. huge heavy rainstorm. windows open. the sound is like applause.

Coming out of the exhibition

I spent the afternoon at Traces du Sacré. It moved me deeply, sometimes almost to tears. A Rothko...

Pedicures with fish

Fatigue

Just an indication of how tired I am. I remember yesterday, while walking by the Seine, that there...

Yesterday, Emilie and I both slept through Wall-E. After dutifully paying our 9EU, and then being...

Nothing gold can stay - Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only...

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The mysterious Mr. Henry

Sixty-eight days to eat through sixty-eight of the greatest Michelin starred restaurants: this mad...

Mark Leckey's Fiorucci made me hardcore...

Discipline. I need some discipline. Where’s the spanking board? That’ll teach me to...

Oh golly gosh poo. I’m beat and still have to go… very soon. Stayed up till 5 last...

and just to set the record straight

Yell for Cadel! That’s right. I’m putting my money where my mouth is, hoping that...

before I go to work...

Must remember to put air in tires.

Revenge against the liver

Oh… my body hates me again. Or more like my brain takes official walkabouts because it’s...

“You can destroy one racket. You can destroy a chair. But you...”
— Marat Safin

It’s a testament to my love for tennis that I can forego dinner for a game. Nevertheless,...

A big bowl of ketchup, and hold the...

There’s a restaurant I frequent where the food is pretty decent and inventive. Their...

heh… rather long-winded comment got posted on the Guardians minute by minute coverage of...

hurrah! Asked three questions to Radio Wimbledon and all of them got answered! I’ve already...

The day after

Just starting to sober up. Realize that last night might have been the party of the year… so...

“It’s yellow, it’s ugly, it doesn’t...

NBA Finals Priceless (via Da Nes)

Art critics at the games

* Like their English counterparts, the French often...

Laying football and sports aside for a moment, I am soooooo looking forward to the rest of the week....

In case people forgot, here’s why the Italian team are...

Tennis - RG (H) : Il aura fallu attendre...

Bryce Dallas Howard eyes new 'Terminator' |...

Sarkozy's world after the Events

London Journal - British Military Releases U.F.O. Files -...

Yesterday at David Television’s stand near Notre Dame...

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Terry was a stand-in for key penalty miss | Football | The...

The Artemis Transat 2008 » Official Website

Tym Blogs Too!: I have no tastebuds

Already wasted half the morning. Gah! Next up… dreaded appointment dealing with Secu Social...

After a most delicious and simple supper of sauteed mustard...

Food coma

Just woke up. For lunch, had cooked up these Jura hamburgers that we bought from the butcher (made...

Last night, for potluck dinner at Ryan’s, we had yummy crudités, a coriander infused beet...

It’s certainly nice to be working at a place where there is no dress code… until I look...

GRRRRRR… ARRGHGHGHGHA! Jean-Claude giving Arnold a...

might have sunstroke… or queasiness from not wanting to go back to work… or from the...

Off to the countryside! Hurrah!

facts of life

me: I stopped dealing with men under 30... especially 29
they are either married to their career and anxious, married to a girl and anxious, or married to their slothful indolence and unbearable
claire: hehe
(ed. note - I should include men under and around 30....)

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I came across this book yesterday at the Abbey Bookshop. I...

more peripatetic musings

This week’s episodes of Gossip Girl, Top Chef, and most of all Survivor, have made this week...

well… what is going on in this picture? I’d be...

In response to this one liner from rhino75, I’d like to pitch in and say that there...

naked, ignored and reading about...

I’m just going to go on the record here and say that sitting naked next to a boy who’s...

Do you remember proms from the 80s? I don’t. I’m...

So I finally figured out why I love Gossip Girl so much....

Got rest of the day off, thanks to the purveying sense of laziness at work. Hurrah! Now to work on...

This was my dad in 1983, when he was still Polish and after...

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There’s something aesthetically unacceptable about...