Category Archives: Body
Don’t Worry Baby — It’ll be Fun Fun Fun
So, it’s in the high forties in the ‘Ville, I’m in a creative slump and I miss California. The Rx was lying there, unjacketed, slipping around on our tower of cds. The Best of the Beach Boys. Oh man, I … Continue reading
Filed under Body, History, Into the Mystic, Music, Ten bucks or fewer, The 'Ville, Uncategorized
Object of the Day: Tisket! Taskit! Check Out My New Basket
Some goofball once said something like: “Pleasure postponed is pleasure doubled.” I’m not all about instant gratification; that two day UPS hang time is about perfect. The fine folks at L L Bean backordered my bike basket for a friggin’ … Continue reading
Around the Ville: Trains, Bikes and Atom Smashers
I’ve been tooling around the ‘Ville on my bepetalled cruiser, congratulating myself that I had the brains to insist on a bike with no gears to shift, a coaster break, and a saddle and handlebars that allow me to keep … Continue reading
Filed under Body, Free, Growing things, History, Home, The 'Ville, The Great Outdoors
LA Journal: Ozzie Dots
I love Los Angeles. I say that loud and proud, and you’re hearing this from someone who sniffed with disdain at the very mention of LALA land — no good places to walk, no high culture, too hot, superficial, blah … Continue reading
Chicago Chutney: Cheap and Cheerful
I could bitch on endlessly about the heat wave of 2011, and I might still. I’m an English rose, not a hot weather bromeliad. I wilt, I sweat, my hair and shirt plaster to my skin and I’m not good … Continue reading
Filed under A Couple of Bucks, Body, Food
My New Wheels!
Ain’t she a beauty! Lou asked me what I wanted my my birthday. You know, that’s getting harder as I get older. When I was fifteen years younger and a little better off, my answer was “Go to the silver … Continue reading
Filed under Body, Machines, On the Street Where I Live, The 'Ville, The Great Outdoors, Worth it anyway
Things I Learned This Week
It was a weather week and an insomnia week. Weather: grey skies, nearby tornadoes, humidity and temps in the sixties. The low sixties. Insomnia: Asleep by four am, though I’d been twitching in bed since midnight, then bolt upright at … Continue reading
Filed under Body, Books, Free, History, Into the Mystic, Library Card, On the Street Where I Live, The 'Ville
From My Sole
I hate my feet. Anyone who’s seen my bare feet hate my feet. Pedicurists hate me, because , much as as John Singer Sargent or Ingres might have felt when they had to make a sitter look better-looking, they know … Continue reading
Filed under A Couple of Bucks, Body, Cheap and Cheerful Object of the Day
Must Bake:Savory Cheese and Chive Bread From Dorie Greenspan
I bought Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table a few weeks after it was published, but I hadn’t cooked much from it, what with geographical discombobulation and other culinary distractions. Gee, was I a folle! I read it all way through this afternoon and … Continue reading
Filed under A Couple of Bucks, Body, Food, How Cool is That?
Frozen Pancakes:Cheap and Cheerful, Fab Fab and Fatal
My father was the breakfast cook when we were kids, and we loved the sight of that red box with the picture of the cheery black lady. Pancakes for breakfast! (Daddy’s still the breakfast cook, and come to think of it, Aunt … Continue reading
