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  • Please pardon our appearance while we redecorate (IT'S DONE!)
    Update January 22: OMG it's done. I love it. Do you love it? I was going to delete this post, but I want everyone to know that coder Las...
  • My Super-Talented Family Members: JoAnna Lombardi (Painter)
    Stevie Happy Sunday, dear fine readers. I was thinking. I am lucky enough to be surrounded by incredibly talented artists. And I haven't...
  • Where Is Lexi Kahn?
    No matter how much I try to stop ruminating, there come the thoughts again. Why didn't I do this, why did I pick that, why have I mad...
  • To Blog or Not To Blog (And If So, Where?): A Round-up of blogging platforms
    There has been some talk on Facebook and Reddit  in recent weeks about blogging--whether it's still relevant, who is doing it, and what ...
  • ...Because, That's Why (Regarding The Absence Of Politcal Posts This Time Around)
    "But you used to write about politics..." Yeah. At one time I did, yeah. Here in Blogger, back to 2012. You can find all those pas...
  • French Toast Alert on HIGH: Heavy Snowfall Expected
        "A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.”   
  • Currently Listening: The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (Traffic, 1971)
     
  • Christmas in Harvard Square Bears
    Harvard Coop bears are ready for Santa. Cardullo's gingerbread house. Sure it's big enough, Paisans?
  • Books: The Night Circus (part 1?)
    I got a bunch of books for holing up and reading this winter, and the first one I picked from the TBR pile was The Night Circus. Ninety pa...
  • The Star Wars Holiday Special : Merry Gen X'mas
    Long ago in a galaxy we 40-somethings refer to as "childhood," we built a cherry Kool-Aid world with rad high tech toys like ...
  • Never Forget Who Broke That Egg: The Triumph of Marcia Brady
    One of my buddies confided that he can't stand it when his other single friends goad him into going "tom-catting around" on ...
  • Where Is Lexi Kahn?
    No matter how much I try to stop ruminating, there come the thoughts again. Why didn't I do this, why did I pick that, why have I mad...
  • ACOSTA FAMILY: Are these girls okay?
    When I typed "Acosta..." into Google, the auto-fill came up with "...family." That means I'm not the only one who we...
  • Losing Your Religion? Consider an Upgrade!
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  • Music Makers and Dreamers of Dreams
    When I was 24 years old, I found it necessary to retract and re-submit my * theory about musicians and just what the hell is their deal a...
  • Me and the Loony Bin
    Self-Portrait The first time I went into the mental hospital was in early 2014. I'd been fired from my job at the end of Novem...
  • American Borer Story: The Blair Witch Project Turns 15
    Fifteen years and a whole bunch of copycats later, I still say that it's a miracle we ever heard of The Blair Witch Project . ...
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