Inspired by Top Chef I’ve changed some of the ways I cook. Like, I stop reheating things from Trader Joe’s. I made this dish that had my book club drop-jawed that I had made it, and hadn’t… brought something from Trader Joe’s. We have a rule that you can only bring food mentioned in the [...]
I had a job I detested once, my first SF job “landed,” as I shelved my airline bag after commuting to Seattle every week for years. I took a pay cut, and didn’t care about who I interviewed with, just happy that I wasn’t commuting. My commute was a walk from North Beach to downtown, [...]
Workout playlist for my sister, Jenny, in Baltimore. Includes: cheesy, danceable hip hop, with some fast indie stuff thrown in. Enjoy! Buy inline with iTunes, or click on the sampler on Amazon. Amazon songs work in iTunes fine. First, hip hop warmup: “Yeah!”, by Usher, Ludacris, Lil’ John, on iTunes “Glamorous”, by Fergie, iTunes “The [...]
I toured the gardens of the Cooper-Molera family Adobe in downtown Monterey last weekend. It’s always neat to me to think of the pre-American past of California. The Coopers, despite their Anglo name, were half Californios from Mexico/of Spanish descent. Cooper was a captain who married Vallejo’s daughter in former capital of California, Monterey. Cooper [...]
I got an allerga-cold, the allergies that devolve into a full blown cold, and the culprit, I believe rightly or wrongly, is dust. I can pretty much map directly exposure to large areas of dust (dive bar last week, Library book fair last year, cleaning out garage last spring…) to these alergacolds. The great thing [...]
God I love’em. What says it better than a t-shirt? Oh wait. A bumper sticker.
I haven’t really felt like blogging lately because I’ve been overwhelmingly busy with paid work & unpaid work (annaboka.com). I write pieces and then don’t go into depth, and end up deleting them. This goes in waves- at some point I’ll come back to feeling expressive. OK I was over that in a nanosecond. Overheard [...]
Ah, if only I’d had this over the last 10 years! I got this from a t-shirt blog. There’s no logic to why I’m reading a t-shirt blog, except that I am on a quest for the perfect t-shirt. This would be very long, light soft material, interesting neckline (not too high!), slightly fitted, and [...]
Ah, the joys of dejunking. I’m sitting here and it’s so peaceful and organized, and I can see surfaces of counters and tables, and there aren’t a million little reminders of projects and things to get done. The backstory is that I drove down to San Jose on Friday to have my very first set [...]
We lost a really cool guy a few days ago, Dick Curry. I had met him a couple of times, he’s my brother-in-law’s dad, but his stories are pretty famous. In his obit in the LA Times today, it says: He was a dedicated family man, a proud member of the East High School Alumni [...]
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