Archive for October, 2003

NATHAN

Nate P., who is the kind of person you miss:
“When I was home in the Bay Area a couple of weeks ago for the wedding, I had dinner with a friend, and he asked me why it is I write this blog. “What’s the attraction?” he wanted to know. I can’t explain all […]

LORI LOO

Observation by Loriloo:
“Don’t Think That’s In The Book
Observed:
Overweight couple sharing a platter of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, each reading their own copy of Dr. Phil’s The Ultimate Weight Solution: 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom.”
EXPLODING DOG
How long has it been since you visited Exploding Dog:
He decided not to go back there anymore
How did this get my […]

DONG RESIN

Dong Resin has a better tagline than you, “Speaking and removing all doubt. More funnyness:
“…My taxation suggestions for the Sunshine State :
Any insect larger than your head
Anything that big with that many hands has to have some form of currency on it. It probably has real estate holdings and a mistress. Tax that fuck.
Any dipshit […]

HAPPIEST DAY

We’re off to honeymoon in Asia, to return on November 1. While I’m away, please visit Mighty Girl for excerpts from my favorite blogs. Thanks for all the kind wishes and support, can’t wait to tell you all about it.

FRAGMENTS

Kevin Fanning’s Mitosis.
Jen Robbins’s Monster Bra. And her hilarious, touching rendition of “Summertime” at age five.
10.24.03 BLUE EYES
The Blue Eyes Magazine archives. You’ll like them.

PAUL FORD’S ARTIFACTS

Paul puts his pretty brain at F-Train:
Bathtub
Airplane
Kismet
Lust

JESSE CHAN NORRIS

Photos by Jesse Chan Norris. They had no titles, so I named them because I needed a word to link:
Preparations
Heights
Deno’s
Ready-to-wear
Ferris Wheel
Patient
Pals
Sentries

GO MAGGIE

It’s my birthday! I turn twenty-eight this year. It’s been a very good year. Let’s celebrate with a little bitta Leslie Harpold.
Go read Leslie’s very short essays. Three of my favorites are excerpted and linked below.
“Unsaid”
To the woman who leapt out in front of me on Houston Street and jumped into the cab I had […]

DOOCE

From Dooce:
“Jon and I smoked weed for the first and last time together, a little over a year ago, a horrible experience wherein Jon sat relaxed and groovy on one end of the couch and I sat uncomfortably transfixed at the other end, completely convinced that Jon was going to figure out that I couldn�t […]

HEATHER CHAMP

A lot of Heather’s photos and projects have a quality of wonder to them. They give you the feeling of having remembered something forgotten. She took most of the photos in our Polaroid guest book at the wedding, and some of them are so lovely you could cry. (Thank you, my sweet.) Some of my […]