i have always been a big fan of all things cute, but my love has come to new heights with my obsession with kogepan. he is just so. damned. cute. i can’t stand it.

i spent countless days in grade school, practicing my handwriting (and signature, in preparation for my marriage to river phoenix), drawing outfits i wanted to wear and playing m.a.s.h. in my notebooks, so imagine my surprise and delight to find m.a.s.h. on the web! forget fortune tellers and palm readers, this game will determine who […]

it has been a long time — a very long time, in fact — since a perfectly random stranger has lingered in my mind but over a week ago a boy in a bar changed all that. he was wearing one of my favorite shirts (yoshitomo nara’s “nothing ever happened”) so of course i thought […]

the morning news has become a part of my morning ritual, along with walks around the reservoir, french lessons in the car and bad office coffee. i just adore that site and the boys who run it. the only bad thing i can say about it is they make me miss new york like mad, […]

I bought five at 79 cents a pound last Thursday and just ate the last one. The lingering fresh citrus smell in my cubicle reminds me of buying bags for a buck at our neighbors’ house. They left the oranges on the porch and we slipped the dollar through the mail slot. commerce via honor […]

please don’t tell my ibook but i think i have a crush on the new imac. i went to see it at the glendale apple store today and got all swoony at the sight of it. oh, sexy space machine! i even copped a feel, but i swear, it was innocent. i came home to […]

i keep listening to the same three beulah mp3s (the only ones i have) over and over again, and it’s getting ridiculous. i need to buy their CDs. now. i actually saw them live sometime last fall, by sheer accident and a lovely one, at that. now i just can’t get enough.

as much as i would like to pretend otherwise — because admitting it is putting my guard down and oh, i am strong and independent and i don’t need anybody, no sir, i don’t — i am harboring a crush on a boy with light blue eyes, a funny laugh and a charming way with […]

the other day, i visited the international herald tribune online for the first time and it was love at first sight. i used to read the IHT when i lived in paris, but i’d since forgotten about it, now that i read my news on screen rather than paper (except on sundays, because that would […]

oh, fruitella! how i love thee. you are no ordinary fruit chew. you burst with far more flavor than starburst ever could. i just devoured a whole pack and it’s a good thing i’m too lazy to go to the kitchen or i’d eat another.