Conversations at the Louvre

So the Louvre is open until 10pm on Fridays.  This past Friday we got there at around 8 and decided to check out the wing with Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 16th-17th centuries and also to check out some nearby French paintings as this was a time period we were not especially familiar with.  [...]

Postcard from Paris

Dear friends and/or family,
Carolyn would liked to apologize (again) for not buying/sending postcards from her recent trip.  Unfortunately, she was too busy eating crepes and drinking cider and wine to stop at one of the 5 million souvenir shops in Paris to buy you a post card.  She did think of all of you though.  [...]

Country Music and the AV Club

This is good.  It’s a year long exploration into Country music as written by the AV Club’s main hip-hop writer.  Today’s installment is about my pretend grandad Willie Nelson’s concept albums.  Next week his collaborations.  I am about to read the articles about Johnny Cash.  I am very, very happy about this series. 
Country music and [...]

Sartorial discussions regarding my youth:

Email from my friend HP to me:
Speaking of that BRMM trip* – I found an awesome pic of all of us before they set us free in Boston for that afternoon of wandering in the sun.  I’ll get it up for all to see – bad hair, questionable fashion, braces, the Dorkiness is cranked to [...]

A little Neko Case for your Monday morning

Worth looking at

My co worker just sent me this link.  The pictures are really sad and beautiful

Holy Crap!

The internet works!  My mom sent me flower seeds (and tax information) in the mail. All because of one mopey blog post.  Thanks Mom!
Other holy crap worthy points of interest:

We have had 5 full days of sun in London.  It has been nice.
One week from right this very second I will be in Paris and [...]

Out of London

So our intended trip to Italy in April is off.  This sucks.  Because, you know, I really really like Italy.  Like, a lot.  Hopefully we will be able to go in the Autumn.
Since this trip has been cancelled we decided to make a smaller trip at the end of this month.  We discussed Amsterdam and [...]

So far,

this week I have worked 3 12-hour days
I will probably work another one tonight
I am not especially happy about this.
I have also found out that Jeremy will probably be in China on my brithday and had plans to go to Italy in April pretty much scuppered.
As a result of all these things, I am grouchy [...]

So I Sez to Jeremy I Sez

Me:  (As My Son Calls Another Man Daddy by Hank Williams, Sr starts to play on the IPod)  So did you ever think that someday you’d be standing in a kitchen with me making dinner and listening to Country Western music?
Him:  When?
Me: You know, like in 1999 after we started dating.
Him: Well, no because I [...]