Love food? Then you”l love this blog. It’s about food, but it’s also about plenty of other things. For example, today’s post about Miss Tea’s new dining room table is a kind of treatise on time management, a manifesto on living well, a celebration of the dining table as lifestyle: I want regular opportunities for shared meals that last late into the night, conversation and laughter floating out the open window. I wanted a dining table. At which point Miss Tea finds a perfect table, it goes on sale, the guy who’s selling it holds it for 10 days...
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Oh, Barry…& a Mobile State of Mind
Tonight, Barry Bonds hit his 755th home run, tying Hank Aaron’s record. Having lived in San Francisco for almost nine years, I’ve become a pretty solid Giants fan. But Bonds’s feat tonight strikes me as somewhat bittersweet, in that Hank Aaron is from my hometown of Mobile, Alabama. He had seven siblings, one of whom, Tommie Aaron, also played major league baseball. Hank played for the Mobile Black Bears, an independent Negro League team, during his junior year of high school, earning $10 per game (Wiki). A stadium in Mobile is named after him. From Wiki: Aaron’s consistency helped...
The Excellent Summer of Rodes
Congratulations to Rodes Fishburne, who recently sold his novel, Going to See the Elephant, to Bantam. H
Theresa Duncan Suicide and the Mysteries of Blogging
Here’s a follow-up to the story about the suicide of writer/game-designer/ blogger Theresa Duncan, penned by Duncan acquaintance Kate Coe for the LA Weekly. The article refers to my July 25 post about Duncan. Coe notes the coverage of Duncan’s suicide by bloggers, who weighed in on everything from her brush with Scientology to her mental state, without ever having actually met her. A portion of my post was based on statements made by friends and co-workers of Duncan in the LA Times that Duncan suffered from paranoia, as well as two quotes about paranoia that appeared in a...
this fellow has style
When I stumbled upon the blog Right Reading, I was struck by how great-looking it is. Then I realized that blogger Tom Christensen is the director of publications at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He also happens to be a typesetter, graphic designer, and illustrator. On the about page, Tom says the blog will mainly cover “issues of print and electronic publishing. That includes writing, editing, translation, literature, graphic design (including photoshop and illustrator techniques), photography typography, webwork, and related topics.” The blog is as interesting as it is eclectic–go see for yourself. He also has a...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
