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June 11, 2013
Pictoral Recipe: How to Make Croissandwiches
An oldie but goodie, as I move myself to a new blog, I thought I’d do some reruns:
I was just thinking about how I don’t cook anymore, because the one person who would have eaten it isn’t here anymore, and I don’t eat my own cooking (I have no appetite for it. It’s not that it sucks or anything), and I don’t eat leftovers. So I have been doing a lot of prepackaged foods and tuna salad and veg (mostly the veg and the egg salad.).
But I got mad skills, yo. I can flash fry a duck. I got knife skil...
June 9, 2013
Sometimes. Writing. Sometimes.
Me: Grammar is like math. I understand grammar. It’s like…when you approach a story and say to yourself, “Okay then, what am I trying to convey with this shit?” Because I don’t fucking know. I wrote this thing, and here it is. Convey away.
Arsenic:: Well, except, I write stories all the time where like, I’m trying to convey something. and then people see something completely different in it that works for them, and I’m like, “awesome.” It doesn’t really matter that that wasn’t my intent. Why d...
May 17, 2013
Cocktail: Mummy’s Little Aviatrix
I know it’s not an actual Aviatrix (creme de violet + champagne), so I bastardized the name a bit.
2 jigger gin (re: pour about a knuckle high in this glass)
1 jigger creme de violet (re: add it until I like the shade)
TONIC.
A dash of lime juice (which erases many cocktail sins)
A little more creme de violet, (because I wanted it to be darker)
Aw yeah. Hella tight.
Oh, btw, I’ll be posting more often now.
November 8, 2012
Yeah, I am doing a fundraiser.
Okay, SO.
I have managed to somehow finagle two friends into run/walking the Pittsburgh Jingle Bell 5K with me on December 8th. It’s also a fundraiser for arthritis, by which I mean I guess we’re raising money to cure it, and not to cause more if it. Unlike widows and orphans, no one need more arthritis,...
Like a zoo, Fox News isn't so scary once you realize the animals can't get out of their cages
Reblogged from Margaret and Helen:
HELEN:
Margaret, I ventured into new territory today. I tuned into Fox News. It was kind of like going to the zoo… not so scary once you learn the animals can’t get out of their cages.
Just like when I go to a regular zoo, I didn’t know the names of all the animals at Fox, but I quickly learned the ones with opposable thumbs and the ability to reason were token Democrats who had, at some point, worked in the Clinton administration.
No...
May 15, 2012
Short story desertion: Rollback
Sometimes in life, no matter how much you live something, you have to let it go. That is today’s unfinished story that I am releasing into the wild. Go in peace, little buddy. Go in peace.
Rollback
Perhaps you’ve been focusing too much on saving.
(LEARN CHINESE – Egg roll. Chūn juǎn)
The plaque on the far wall directly in my eyesight each and every day says, EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH: ALICE SHAND, accompanied by a girl’s blond-haired, blue-eyed visage staring sullenly at the camera. It’s not me. I’v...
March 21, 2012
Interview on Writers’ Tea Party!
I and the rest of the Alice authors were interviewed over at Writers’ Tea Party, which is doing a thing this week on Candlemark & Gleam. In it, I talk about the inspiration for House of Cards, how i plot (or don’t), and what is coming up for me in the future.
The other interviews are lovely! I think I was supposed to be in a twitterchat, too, but I might have missed it. Sadface. Deets as I get them.
Interview on Writers' Tea Party!
I and the rest of the Alice authors were interviewed over at Writers' Tea Party, which is doing a thing this week on Candlemark & Gleam. In it, I talk about the inspiration for House of Cards, how i plot (or don't), and what is coming up for me in the future.
The other interviews are lovely! I think I was supposed to be in a twitterchat, too, but I might have missed it. Sadface. Deets as I get them.
March 20, 2012
Guest Post: A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds
A friend of mine is a physician who wants to speak about transvaginal ultrasounds but whose position makes it precarious to speak publicly about it. So I'm letting this doctor borrow my site for an entry to speak anonymously on the matter. Obviously, I will vouch for the doctor being a doctor and being qualified to speak on the subject.
We aim to misbehave (just a little!). Amen.
March 7, 2012
Review: Bone In the Throat (Anthony Bourdain)
I suck at reviews, but I feel like I need to type some shit today that doesn't have to do with plastic Virgin Mary trying to kill someone.
A wildly funny, irreverent tale of murder, mayhem, and the mob.
When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagana settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's restaurant in Manhattan's Little Italy, he unwittingly finds himself a partner in big-time crime. And when the mob decides to use the kitchen for a murder, nothing Tommy learned in cooking school has...
