What are your areas of refuge?

I had never come across this idea until two minutes ago. I think it’s going to help me a lot. It cost me nothing. Result!
Now I just have to come up with some of my own.

Still sick enough to indulge in schadenfreude

Watching Gordon Brown’s government implode under the weight of its own corruption and incompetence is a lot of fun. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of evil bastards. Guido is all over it, of course.

Faith in glass

Some days just feel like this, don’t they?

NB I checked out the comments on I Can Has Cheezburger for the first time just now. Jeez Louise! Turns out my habit of thinking in lolcat is pretty normal compared to the extent people take it to in the comments there. What’s sort of silly, though, is […]

David Bailey shooting bloggers for GQ

And by “shooting” I mean taking photographs of. That said, Bailey turning a gun on a bunch of bloggers would only be slightly more bizarre than the fact that he’s been commissioned to photograph them for a style magazine.
Guido Fawkes was asked to take part, but declined:
Mrs Fawkes was very amused, “See if he […]

Speaking of nice places to live

Edgecliff

Originally uploaded by dynamist.

It’s funny that I read so many comments on local blogs about the fact that there’s “nothing to do in Cincinnati”. The fact is that, every night of the week, there are usually multiple events going on that my friends and I have to choose between. (I guess that’s why I don’t […]

Despite the backward people, I still love Cincinnati

Cincinnati first snow

Originally uploaded by ekalb.

And I suspect I always will. I’ve been really bursting with gratitude lately for the fact that I live here now. May explain why I find myself saying “I love Cincinnati” at least once a day.
Blake Fox will have some of his photography of Cincinnati published in an upcoming […]

Backward people run Cincinnati

I’m talking about politicians and the media. I could barely watch this whole “news” report, it made me so angry:

Why is this city spending taxpayer money on these crackdowns? Coming out in favor of sense and reason in this case would not be a vote winner for any politician, so you’re not likely to hear […]

What do we do with the criminally immature?

Nancy wonders, and so do I.
I hope my friend Paul Coulam reads this and leaves a comment: He knows exactly what to do.

tokidoki

New bag

Originally uploaded by dynamist.

I got this tokidoki for LeSportsac bag in LA last week, and ever since then it occupies WAY too much of my headspace. (You know you’re fixated when you read your handbag designer’s blog.) I’m worried someone is going to spill coffee on it, or I’m going to accidentally rip it, […]

Do they have cheerleaders for this?

Although I grew up in the country, I come from a more urban, industrial neck of Ohio. So I still find certain things about the country sort of cute, such as the exciting news that my high school’s Future Farmers of America chapter (motto: “Doing to Learn [sic],
earning to live, living to serve”) […]

Matt Welch, your new editor-in-chief

I found this out last week and GASPED out loud when I heard the good news: My buddy Matt Welch has left the LA Times and is taking over from Nick Gillespie* as editor of the excellent magazine Reason. He and Emmanuelle are moving to Washington, and I just can’t quite imagine Los Angeles without […]

Pontin’s issue resolved

I received an apology today from Jason Brindle, director of sales and marketing for Pontin’s, and as far as I am concerned, the book is closed on the whole situation.

“Ugh, you’re too skinny AND too fat”

The British tabloids really are unparalleled at this sort of thing. Who’d be a female celebrity these days? (Well, quite a lot of wannabes, as it happens…) It’s the use of the word unsightly that gets me.

Shudder

This sort of freak accident is one of my most irrational fears (I even hate walking between parked cars) and it happened at an intersection I used to walk through at least once a day for a couple of years. How horrific.