Good Grief!

Last week, the Humus Reform Committee* appeared on this site, accusing me of taking bribes from Bobbi in exchange for promoting her most excellent hummus.
Sadly, I have received no free hummus from Bobbi. Which isn’t to say that I’m not open to the idea of pay-to-play blogging. After all, Good Grief! is a […]

Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if you were at a Thanksgiving celebration with smart and cultured people like college professors and opera singers and writers and astronomers, all of whom are connected to the best friends of the parents of someone you’re dating, and you accidentally sent a huge hunk of New Zealand cheddar flying across […]

To Suzette and Tom and anyone else distressed by “Christmas creep” and the resulting lack of Thanksgiving decorations: know that the people of Fishtown are fighting the good fight.
Happy Thanksgiving!

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It hardly seems like Thanksgiving without visiting Superwoman’s house, getting tipsy on Trader Joe’s Two Buck Chuck, and making pies, but there’s a lot to be thankful for nonetheless.

The end of my probationary period at work. I don’t think that Jekyll and Hyde will fire me, unless they’re waiting until after the holiday.
Bobbi’s hummus, […]

The white door looks ridiculous, doesn’t it? I have to paint it, don’t I?
In other news, I was finally able to make another Philly blogger meetup on Saturday, where I spent most of the time listening to Chris and Albert hatch a business scheme to make money by clubbing baby seals. Luna, Melissa, […]

Sure, the public transit system in your town is probably less expensive and more customer-friendly than the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA), which serves the Philadelphia region and recently went on a week-long strike. But does it hand out $600,000 trading cards?
The SEPTA cards are the talk of the town, and now thanks to […]

It’s time to discuss family values and how they’ve disintegrated during the past fifty years. Take, for example, the matter of secret family recipes. There was a time when people respected secret family recipes and waited until marriage—a sacred institution that unites the culinary heritage of two families—to give them away.
But in these […]

Very busy on super-secret skunk works project! In summary:

2005 Animation Show: not as good as the 2004 version. Don Hertzfeldt is possibly losing his mind and should return to the days of Billy’s Balloon. My favorite piece was Jonathan Nix’s Hello, It’s online, and it’s worth 10 minutes of your time.
Complain […]

February’s hellish DVD hookup experience has made me reluctant to undertake other electronics-related projects. However, there’s nothing like moving from a one bedroom apartment to a three story house to invoke the siren call of wireless. Well, guess what? It is much easier to install and secure a wireless home network than […]

Do any of the following sound familiar?

A row of cookbooks, spines uncracked, lining a kitchen shelf
A box full of untested recipes clipped from newspapers and magazines
A link to scallion wild rice crepes with mushroom filling and red pepper sauce, bookmarked circa 2002?

Everyone wants to be that person—the one who stops for fresh produce on the […]