Archive for March, 2001

3.30.01

I finally posted my Bali Blogs. Perhaps in another two months I’ll post some travel photos, I’m feeling ambitious.
10:37 a.m.

3.29.01

I got this from Salon–which means most of you have already read it–but it’s about a local girl, so I feel some responsibility to spread the word. A San Francisco artist is working on what she calls the bush project. She’s asking women to shave their pubic hair and send it to her in little […]

3.28.01

My friends and I were watching a profile of Buford Furrow (the guy who shot five people in a Jewish community center) on “60 Minutes II” last night. The anchor had such an Einsteinian moment that all of us burst into simultaneous laughter:
“When Judge Cody released Furrow, she ordered that he continue on his medication, […]

3.27.01

Who are these women who come to clubs wearing fishnets, come-hither skirts, appropriately obvious tank tops, and… laptop bags? I know they didn’t come from work, so I have to wonder what the hell is in that bag that they must have with them at all times. I watch as they order Cosmos and sway […]

3.26.01

What’s more crass than a billboard for liposuction services? A billboard for liposuction with a horrible catchy phone number: 1-800-GO-4-LIPO! Like you’re just gonna drop by after you’ve run some errands. “I’ll be back in a bit, honey. I’ve got to grab the dry cleaning, maybe go for lipo.” Are these billboards a California thing? […]

3.23.01

A cutting from Mark’s site.
“Ingested today:
- 2 cups of coffee (with cream and sugar)
- 1 Snickers bar
- 9 Wintergeen Altoids
- 2 Spearmint Altoids
It is now almost four in the afternoon and the walls are starting to look furry. ”
2:03 p.m.

3.22.01

“Georgia O’Keefe was not a flower painter.” (From the introduction to a book of her paintings titled One Hundred Flowers.)
3:06 p.m.

When the sky is blue and clear in San Francisco, it’s cause for comment. “Such a beautiful day,” I said. Then I felt something flutter over my feet. I looked down at the swirling […]

3.21.01

Yesterday we got to go home early because of the power shortage. Rolling blackouts are the Californian equivalent of snow days.
2:01 p.m.

The best headlines from this month’s Martha Stewart Living:

Putting Baking Stones to Use
Why Scald Milk?
Arrangement of the Month: Forsythia Fan

11:52 a.m.

3.20.01

EMAIL MOMENT!
Subject: Med school epiphanies and my bony ass.
Excerpt:
“I learned how to calculate my body mass index today. There’s overweight,
obese I, obese II, and obese III. After that, there’s just a picture of
Jabba the Hut.
Take your weight in lbs. as the numerator.
Divide by your height in inches, squared (e.g. […]

3.19.01

From Magnificent Melting Object:
“Rasbliutto means ‘the feeling you feel for someone you once loved’ in Russian.”
3:11 p.m.

I did the Geary Street pub crawl for St. Patrick’s Day. My friend and I were standing in a sea of drunken green men, and I mentioned that I wanted to get rid of my gum. An earnest […]