kitten!

today i went with cecile to pick up her new kitten. she is a little, all-black, 4 month old, and has been renamed 'kuma' in honor of the awesome chicago burger place where we had lunch just before the pick up. mocchi (the 2 year old cat cecile has had for a few months) …

so much food at christmas

...and i have eaten ALL OF IT. the pants are a little tighter, the gait is a little slower - ahhh christmas.

buenos aires day 8: iguazu falls

We arrived in Puerto Iguazu in the early afternoon and took a taxi to our hotel, the Rio Tropic. The hotel was very nice and relaxing - it's out in the middle of nowhere down a long red dirt road. The clerk, Remy (another Frenchman named Remy), was very nice and …

panda gets a boost

via buzzfeed.

thank god you're a man

goldstar beer flowchart ads. sadly, so often very very true.

new best thing ever!

cute things falling asleep! a whole blog devoted to it!

bear! his noooooooose!

oh so THIS is what december feels like

it's -2° right now. NEGATIVE! TWO! when i got off the plane, the cold air blew up my pant leg and i almost threw up. first thought: i miss LA. second thought: sorry family and chicago friends - but i'm never moving back here. after living the joy that is southern …

missed connections

most sad/touching/depressing missed connection ever.

bioshock dreams, elaine's birthday

quick recap:

• thursday was elaine's birthday, so maria, elaine, april and i went to dinner at the great greek. the food was really good, and the live band and dancing was so much fun!
  
  
• jodi had her holiday party friday night, and i met some really nice people! ...and i …

iguazu falls videos

see more over at vimeo. unfortunately due to compression and my lack of a real video camera, the audio and picture quality is pretty meh. i'm in the midst of uploading photographs from the falls - 23 uploaded, about 70 to go! - and they are a far better visual …

goodbye, lwaxana

today majel barrett-roddenberry died. she played nurse chapel on 'star trek', lwaxana troi on 'star trek: the next generation' and 'star trek: deep space nine' and the voice of the computer on all contemporary trek series, as well as the forthcoming jj abrams movie. she …

michaela conlin

...on the set of 'bones' at fox. i went to visit meghan on set and do a gift exchange, and as meghan was giving me a tour of the standing sets, we turned a corner and almost ran into michaela conlin. who is actually even prettier in person, if that's possible. i also …

cheese-filled bacon roll

yeah, you read that right. the recipe is not so much a recipe, as it is a construction walk-through. amazing.

dinosaurs were pretty light on their feet, you know

ok weird - on regis & kelly, kelly is visiting a ballet studio and the pianist is playing music from...jurassic park. um.

slumdog millionaire

today i went to the arclight and saw slumdog millionaire. it. was. fantastic. if it's playing in your city (probably not, but maybe it will be soon since it's gotten golden globes nominations) you should definitely go see it!

mushroom soup

last week mark sent me this mushroom soup recipe and i decided to give it a go. the first time i made it, it came out weird. the recipe says to use 1/4 cup sherry, but that is WAY too much sherry. i added a lot of milk to mellow it, and that made it palatable, but i was …

am i becoming a person who likes shrimp?

oh god.

afi's best of 2008

see the list and how pathetic my viewership is over at my tumblelog.

buenos aires day 7: la boca - cama bus to iguazu falls

We woke up early on Thursday and moved to the apartment we had originally booked on Cochabamba. We ate lunch at el Hipop

pear-pear

pear-pear is my new favorite web comic. eric pointed me to it and it is ADORABLE. a pear and a mug are friends/in love/whatever and they communicate via pictures (kind of like owly). see the first pear-pear here.