Category Archives: General
Simpler
I think that part of what makes staying at a hotel fun is that you don’t have all your stuff. You have only some things, but they are pretty much enough for whatever you’re doing. And the absence of the rest of your stuff means you have less to think about, less to worry about. …
Scaredy cats
Today, I brought the cats to the new apartment for the first time.
Oranges and olives
Today I did something I’ve avoided doing for years: I shopped at the Pennsylvania Macaroni Company. Yes, it’s a famous Pittsburgh-area foodie destination; yes, they have all kinds of delicious things like amazing cheese and orgeat syrup and amazing olive oil and real Italian imported everything. It is indeed hard to fathom that one might …
Impromptu
So, I’ve had this apartment for over a week and haven’t been in it for more than a few hours at a time. Why? Because while there was furniture and various amenities, there was no Internet. I need my Internet.
“The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked…”
“The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.”Seth Godin on self-publishing
Treeless
On Friday we moved furniture from my house to the new loft. It turned out that I own almost enough furniture to furnish both a small house and an apartment — if you needed an example of overconsumption in the modern age, I think that’s a fine one to use. My cats will be spending …
The Weekend Dress, circa 1986
In the late 1980s, I was a big fan of Banana Republic. Actually, I’ve bought items from Banana Republic many times since then, but the Banana Republic of today is very different from the Banana Republic of then. It used to be that Banana Republic was more of a catalog experience, where the catalogs were …
Age of Steam Night at Pittsburgh Public Theater
Get out your waistcoats, goggles, and pocket watches. The Pittsburgh Public Theater is having a charming steampunk event next Friday before the evening’s performance of Around the World in 80 Days.
Attention to detail
Here’s a thought experiment: Please take a look at the following photo, and note in particular the embroidered figures on the socks, and in extra particular the colors of those figures. How anal retentive are you?