I just finished a rather lovely dinner that Sarge made. I eat, but I don’t cook. Last night, while watching Life Is Beautiful for the first time (what took me so long?), I ate another meal Sarge made. And I cried. Twice. But that was the film, and had nothing to do with his cooking. When it’s my turn to cook, we get take-out, which is probably safer for all involved. I have tried to cook. I have the burn…
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy has made me change the habit of a lifetime. I love the books and the films (so far). I love them equally. This has never happened before. Ever. I am always disappointed with film versions. Or I think that the films are better than the books they started from. (Frida, for example. Moving on.) This time, I am enthralled with both. And it helps that I like series of books. I like them for the same…
It would have been cool if she had been, though. Anyway, I’m still reading Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, and I’ll probably give it 3 stars on Goodreads. That means I like it. I’d like it more if the author got out of the way of the story. I know there is such a thing as putting things in context. I appreciate context. I’ve just now read that Hayden Herrera is an art historian. This puts her over-long explanations…
I met Sarge on his lunch break yesterday. For lunch. It felt quite decadent, eating at a restaurant in the middle of the afternoon, while not being on holiday. I might not be on holiday, but I still don’t know where the hell I am half the time. Geographically/directionally speaking, of course. This isn’t because I’m new to the city. I lived in Glasgow for more than four years, in the same neighbourhood for nearly three of those, and I…
This is the actual list that this blog isn’t actually about. I posted it on Facebook, and said this: I plan to use the last year of my twenties doing this stuff. Like me, this is in no particlar order: Eat more sushi (and as it happens, dumplings.) Stop writing on envelopes and phone bills which people end up throwing out, because they don’t know I write on envelopes and phone bills. (Really good stuff, at 2 am.) Renew the…
