|
I’m staying at an “urban” bed and breakfast in Baltimore. It’s called the inn at 2920. When I got here, the keepers had left a note out for me saying which room was mine, and asking whether I took coffee or tea with my breakfast. The key paragraph is: Your room is located on . . . → Read More: Inn at 2920 Just saw No Country For Old Men. What an awesome movie. It was probably as close as one can get to a Cormac McCarthey book without actually being such a book. I highly recommend it. However, I would recommend it when one is not getting back, alone, to one’s dark and solitary hotel room . . . → Read More: No Country We don’t wonder where we’re going or remember where we’ve been. We’ve got to keep this traffic flowing and accept a little sin. Long Line of Cars; Cake For those who were not already aware – Kayak is the best travel planning tool in the whole universe. Also, I’ve started using one of those “total view” things where I give all my rewards program numbers and passwords to a central website, and it scrapes my account balances out of their pages from . . . → Read More: Websites I use Went to see Cake last night, with redmed, capital_l and technolope. They were, in a word, F-ING AWESOME. Fine. That’s two words. Whatever. The opening acts were odd. The first group was a forgettable younger band who kept mumbling their name and turning their back on the audience. The second was King City, a six . . . → Read More: Cake I feel like I don’t post here very often anymore. It’s not because I’m too busy … heavens … I have plenty of time. I just don’t feel up to it. It’s a combination of the usual winter desire to crawl into a hole and sleep until spring, plus the persistent sadness of a holiday . . . → Read More: Lack of posting. Tomorrow … who knows? Tonight: Back from a fun evening seeing Natraj with redmed, fanw, and friends. Nothing like a little mad world-music drumming to brighten a cold evening. There was also some interpretive dance from some traditional indian style. I wasn’t as big a fan of that, except as it enabled the drumming. I . . . → Read More: emit ni sdrawkcaB Late notice: Any and all are welcome to come over for fondue at our place in Braintree this evening (Friday) at around 7pm. This *was* going to be a Pampered Chef party … but at this point it seems to be collapsing into social even driven almost purely by cheese. Drop redmed or I . . . → Read More: Fondue on Friday! |
