Archive for January, 2003
Super What?
The what- Bowl?
Cutting
After she left me, and after I had given up hope, destroying the burden of past things began the process of healing. Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP SD. (Update: I wax melodramatic at times, but believe me, I’m doing much better now, six months later. The pain never really fades away completely, [...]
A Barukatash Wedding
Congratulations to Brian and his new wife Stacey, who were married yesterday. We got together with Valerie, the Garvers, and Daniel to fill up the Bloggers’ Pew at Valley Presbyterian, and later the Bloggers’ Table at Oak Crest. Through the course of the day, I tried my first Gin and Tonic (so as to establish [...]
Freezing Points
Okay, you know it’s cold when you look at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and see parts of it completely frozen over, so solidly that a beer bottle sits atop it, rolling placidly with the waves that rock beneath, while seagulls walk on the sheet, picking at bits of food that tourists have thrown to see how [...]
Nyne Otpushchaeshi
I’m listening to Rach’s Vespers, performed by the Choir of King’s College, and it just blows me away how low the basses are able to reach at the end of the Nyne Otpushchaeshi while still being able to project, even at that pitch. Whoa. WHOA. Nyne otpushchaeshi raba Tvoego, Vladyko, po glagolu Tvoyemu s mirom: [...]
Crisis Links 1/23
Every Thursday, we have our “Crisis Century” class, an overview of modern media and culture in the feverish, fast-paced world of the 21st Century. Our professor, writer and curator Tim Druckrey, usually begins the morning with a reading from Harper’s (yes, definite left-leaning bias there ;) and a show of links to modern art resources [...]
Cold Snap
A few nights ago, when temperature was still up in the 20′s, I tried running to the grocery in jeans and a t-shirt. (It’s only a block away, and I was too lazy to put on all those layers just for a bottle of milk.) I will not be trying that stunt tonight, as any [...]
Bleaked Housed
It took a year and three months of on-and-off reading, but I’ve finally finished Bleak House, Charles Dickens’ tragicomedic tale of bittersweet lives and loves in a protracted court case whose legal costs ultimately outweigh the value of the assets in question. Some people die, some people marry, some people discover they are Lady Dedlock’s [...]
Maalat
maalat: (Tagalog, adj.) Salty. With the grocery closed and the refrigerator lacking any fresh or frozen ingredients for a decent dinner, Paulo decides to eat tonight what he was planning to have for breakfast in the morning: two hotdogs with rice and a boiled egg. He boils the hotdogs in a pot with the egg [...]
TupperIlocano
Beep beep! From: Mom ive sent u mango jam. keep d nice plastic containers, will get it from you when i go der coz will refill them. strong kasi my ilocano blood. Yup, I’m part-Ilocano. This text message explains why I’m so obsessed with washing and keeping even the smallest disposable plastic food holders. Utensils, [...]