with love, from florence

Whoa there! Apologizes for my silence on the airwaves. Internet connections in Italy are few and far between. We are in the process of getting wireless installed in the house and I’ll be back, but for now, love to friends and family and a few pictures.

and the countdown begins.

imagine real hard

Katie still has my camera from New Years, and that is a shame. It is snowing outside and I wish you could see how breathtaking the mountains look dusted with white.

because it makes life more fulfilling

dooce tortures coco and chuck.

 

 

Just the daily Chuck photo from Dooce. The Armstrong Family (cause I know them and all) recently got a new dog, CoCo. I can find this adorable because I have a dog who considers it a five star day if she doesn’t shart on the carpet.

will be up at the cabin till monday night….

(can’t wait to see you waffles)

signing off

defective yeti feeds me a hard truth

 

“Edwards was my man in 2004, and I still contend that he cwould have won, had he been nominated. But, to my mind, he’s been a moderately terrible candidate this time around. For one thing, I can’t help but wonder what he’s been doing since 2004–and the only conclusion I can come to is: running for president. Which means, really, he’s been running for President for five or six straight years, to the apparent exclusion of all other activities. And it doesn’t help when he says that the presidency is “his calling.” He’s pursuing the White House with such zeal that, were it a girl, it would have long ago politely asked him to stop calling and sought a restraining order. And, as the “Draft Al Gore!” and “Draft Fred Thompson!” and “Draft Wesley Clark!” movements demonstrate, Americans like candidates who feign disinterest in the presidency. The coy suitor, if you will, rather than the guy standing on the White House’s front lawn holding the boombox over his head blasting The Star Spangled Banner.”

-http://www.defectiveyeti.com/

josh rouse: quiet town (a click on the picture provides an appropriate soundtrack)

an afternoon diversion of dorothy parker love

• You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
  • Parker’s answer when asked to use the word horticulture during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence?

• They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
  • “Fair Weather” in Sunset Gun (1928)

• You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
  • As quoted in The Algonquin Wits (1968)

• I’ve been too fucking busy – or vice versa.
  • On her honeymoon, in response to a telegram from her editor asking about some promised stories.

• This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

• Tallulah Bankhead: “Why, it’s as easy as ducking for apples.”
  Dorothy Parker: “Hah, change one letter in that sentence and you’ve got the story of my life.”

“are you going to rape us or something” “um…………..no?”

You know the recent episode of south park, i think it was the “imagination land-part one” where the mayor of imagaination land sings immmmmmmmaaaaaagggggggiiinnnnnattttiiiiiiiiooooooonnnnnnnn for about 6 minutes of airtime? Welll replace imagination with procrastination and that is what I’m doing. I’ve changed locations but the procrastination followed me.

Must. Finish. Grad. School. Applications.

calvary church of the brethren

That particular air conditioning unit had weathered the Iran Contra affair.

So on those s w e a t y s u m m e r s u n d a y s

It was a contest between man and machine

As to who could blow the most hot air.