Author of MURDER GOES TO MARKET
As we prepare for this holiday season, let us not forget what it is truly about: Sending your cat to board at a place where they take vaguely seasonal pictures of him, and apparently give him a collar. What do you want from me?
As I believe I have mentioned in this space a few times before, I have a store on Zazzle, where various items are for sale with designs I produced from pre-1923* sheet music covers. If you bought one of them, I would get some money, which would be pretty cool. This is the one that … Read more
Multitasking in the Key of Ow It seemed like a good idea at the time. The ferry terminal is only about three miles from my house, which is a doable but long walk. Taking the ferry home is nice, but it means that I don’t have time to work out in the gym at work. … Read more
Your vegetables will look approximately 372% more glamorous if you put them in a fancy gardening basket. Wheelbarrow optional. On a related note, does anyone know what I can do with three habaneros? That won’t kill me?
(This post will make slightly more sense if you are familiar with this video.*) Sherds. Samarra, ca. mid-7th millennium B.C. Sherds. Early Harappan, early to mid-3rd millennium BC Oh my God, sherds. Predynastic Period, 3850-2960 BC Let’s get some sherds. Early Bronze Age, early 3rd millennium BC Let’s get some sherds. Early Dynastic Period, 3100-2649 BC … Read more
Dear Judy Wenzel of 307 N 12th Ave Wasau, WI, What happened last year? This is the second time you have used my email address to book yourself into a hotel during the month of September–this time it’s the Best Western on 1001 N. 14th Ave in Sturgeon Bay, WI–and I can’t help but notice … Read more
Picture, if you will, a cold storage unit in Long Island City. Outside it is a grubby wasteland of featureless warehouses and tiny pieces of broken glass, with only a few taped-up signs and a line of suspiciously young and well-dressed people to mark the door. Inside, a man in a cow costume is standing on … Read more
Well, live-tweeting actually, since blogger’s mobile interface is, shall we say, poor. But if you feel like it, around 2 pm Eastern time I will actually be physically in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, looking at things and making comments about them on twitter, as @daisyj. I promise to try to find more interesting than … Read more
They have a lot of stuff at the Met[citation needed]. Pieces of rock that might have been part of something, pieces of rock that might have been used for something, sherds, etc. But, if you are going by the things they have collected that are not pieces of something else, a person might be forgiven … Read more
One of the problems I have with major museums is the inevitable feeling that you missed almost everything. No matter how dedicated you are, even if you wear ugly shoes, you are guaranteed to end the day tired, foot-sore and blurry-brained from information overload, and you still will only have actually looked at about 0.003% … Read more