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What walks on four legs in the morning…
…and is scared of santa right after breakfast?
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The brand is dead! Long live the brand!
Here’s a picture by Thomas Hawk of the same promotion in San Francisco (check out the comments.) Last week, I was walking to the office down Park Avenue and a shiny tan car pulled up at a stoplight on 27th street with a red Starbucks cup on the roof. Now, given that I follow the…
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Excitement on Train 649, the Keystone to Harrisburg
Suddenly, the conductors’ walkie-talkies crackle: “Emergency, emergency, emergency. Train 649 is in emergency at Overbrook.” (Train 649 is us.) Immediately, the train starts to lurch to a stop. Which would be more disturbing if the voice over the walkie-talkie wasn’t delivering it in a tired, “oh boy, here we go again” voice, but still all…
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“What, THIS old thing?”
I sincerely don’t want to come across as an utter jerk in this posting where I talk about how nice our house looked for the YWCA Holiday House tour today. Let’s see how I do. So the nice thing about agreeing to be on a house tour is that it gives you a deadline to…
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Thanksgiving family and friend extravaganza
This has been a jam-packed holiday weekend: My brother Oliver is in town, who is a Real Artist, but whenever we get together I pester him to do sketches of me in various ridiculous outfits. I know, it’s kind of embarassing, but if your brother had the magical ability to conjure pictures of you as…
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There’s no bonhomie at the wheatgrass bar
Starting weight: 230 lbs Target weight: 185 lbs Current weight: 226 lbs Re-big-ulation in progress. So, in my last blog post on the subject, I was all going on about how I’m motivated by success, and I don’t handle setbacks so well. How prophetic! I got distracted by other stuff (er… like whole-milk lattes, I…
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The long, dark aisle of shame
Untitled I’ve written before about the traumatic experience of being publicly outed as a nerd on local TV news, “Doctor Who” baseball hat and all. When I saw that Channel 10 spot about the Hill School Computer Camp, a small meter deep inside me—the “personal coolness” meter—started spinning wildly into the red. Ever since that…
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Carob used as it should be: a punishment for the wicked
Halloween last night was a lot of (gentle, toddler-friendly) fun. Little Lydia has an ear infection, though, so we kept it mellow so she could get some sleep. This time, I taped the EL wire to the candy bucket, which the kids liked and (like dim dining hall lighting on Parent’s Day), had the effect…
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West Chester Halloween Parade
Last night, I got off the train, dashed home, Kate and I filled the baby with vegetable soup (“Noodle! Noodle!”), zip-tied twenty feet of blue EL wire (thanks, mom!) to the baby’s howdah, and we walked uptown to the West Chester Halloween Parade. Which was… soo super-great. Some things we saw: The West Chester University…
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Okay, I’ve been punished.
Okay, I’ve been punished for bragging so much in the last post. God put Leonard V. Kartoffelhammer (right number of syllables, not his real name. Though his real name is burned into my brain at this point) at the next table on the train ride in this morning, so for an hour and a half…
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