1. Serve roasted Cornish game hens.
2. Sit next to your laptop, which is ON.
3. Ask, almost rhetorically, as you suck on a drumstick, what a Cornish game hen really IS. Ask, OUT LOUD. Ask, to your spouse, the internet junkie, sitting next to you.
4. (OK, it’s 4 steps actually. [...]
Did you hear how the Seattle P-I newspaper is going to shut down if it is not bought in two months? Another death of that dinosaur, news in print.
I just had a thought. What if all us former and current P-I bloggers pooled all the money we made blogging for them to buy [...]
The sun FINALLY came out on Sunday, and to celebrate not taking antidepressants mixed with booze the warmth, we checked out the Mochi Tsuki Festival at Islandwood here on Bainbridge Island.
Here’s Islandwood’s blurb about it, in case you don’t go to events you can’t pronounce have never been:
Watch or participate in the making of the [...]
We’re supposed to be selling Girl Scout cookies. No, this is not a solicitation. I wouldn’t go breaking the rules now, would I? No. And endure the wrath of the Girl Scout czars? Uh-uhhhh.
In fact, we may not be selling any cookies at all. Except to feed my addiction [...]
Mmmm, dis tree yummy, dat suet yucky. [Or, insert your own pretend bird voice.]
Our friend, the pileated woodpecker, nibbled on the suet this afternoon for a second before pounding on our tree. No good deed, I guess….
The silver lining here: note the chain holding the suet onto the tree. That is the [...]
adjective:
1. Ineffective; futile.
2. Being at leisure; lazy; indolent; idle.
3. Of no use.
Although the wild outer movements and the angular Minuet can take such clockwork precision, the Andante, with its obsessive, claustrophobic dialogues between strings and bassoons, seemed sluggish and otiose.
– Tim Ashley, “VPO/Maazel”, The Guardian, April 16, 2002
Otiose is from Latin otiosus, “idle, at leisure,” [...]
From the Bainbridge Island police blotter for December 25th:
Assault: A Bainbridge woman was arrested for striking her boyfriend’s head with a hot cup of cocoa at a Pleasant Beach Drive home shortly after 11:15 p.m. Police found the victim cleaning the peppermint schnapps-flavored hot chocolate off of a vehicle parked in a garage. He told [...]
