Electrolicious

Tonight, I watched from the window of the bus as a college-aged couple stood canoodling on a street corner, standing close together and touching each other’s faces. While my bus sat at the red light, an ambulance screamed by. The young man held his hands up over his girlfriend’s ears. She grinned, and lifted her […]

While in Missoula this weekend, we saw a guy in a cowboy hat on a trike sort of like this one. The trike was covered with silver mylar fringe and muti-colored flags, fluttering and glittering in the spring sunlight.
Hey, I thought to myself. A burner!
Dre’s dad nodded towards the biker and said, “That developmentally […]

Sure, I’ve enjoyed Facebook in the past. But it wasn’t until today, when I was catching up on a gossip session with my best friend from high school, that I TRULY appreciated the stalking power of Facebook. It was so awesome to have an illustrated gossip guide right there in front of us — oh, […]

At Shambhala last month, one of my camp-mates was a 19-year-old Polish woman named Ola. She was visiting her American aunt for the summer, and somehow her aunt had decided Ola should get out and see things, so she’d come to Shambhala with a family friend.
Ola was beautiful. I mean, stunningly perfectly beautiful with a […]

It used to be that I only had one toggle switch for how I felt about people: I either liked them, or I didn’t like them. Sure, there was a gradation of like (from obsessively adoring all the way to Arch Nemesis), but it was pretty much a single scale. I categorized people on the […]

As part of my new job, I’ve been reading a lot about the work-styles of Gen Y (aka the Millennials). Although my birth-year (1975) technically puts me into Gen X territory, after reading various articles discussing how Gen Y is hyper communicative and assertive but also plagued by narcissism and an obsessive need for connectivity, […]

One of the more interesting factors in being partnered with someone for a big long stretch of time (almost a third of my life — weird) is getting to watch them change. For instance, my artsy-fartsy musician “lover not a fighter” male-lesbian husband has become a jock.
Again.
I wasn’t around for Andreas’ first wave of jock-hood, […]

Alison muses on whether quoting others’ jokes instead of making up your own is crippling to one’s wit.
Here’s my tangential question: are inside jokes actually funny? Or is the humor simply the giddiness of exclusion? My college best friend/roommate and I used to speak what was almost our own language, a stoner liberal arts patois […]

As I mentioned, I’ve been at the Blog Business Summit for the last few days. This is my second blog conference in three months, and so comparisons are inevitable. I attended BlogHer this summer primarily to socially mingle and talk about Electrolicious and my book. I’m attending the Blog Business Summit on behalf of of […]

Last night I rallied to go to a Decibel Festival show, and totally regretted the rally. The first band was awesome, and the between-set music was awesome (soul in seattle?! MIRACLE), but then the headliner came on and embodied everything I can’t stand about techno: fancy technique, but totally undanceable for me.
And worse? THE CLOTHES. […]