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Review: Round About a Pound a Week by Maud...

Ben, unfamiliar with American traditions, asked if one...

Pumpkin cheesecake. Made with sweet potato, of course....

“Q: Your other film, which is out in February, “She’s Just...”
— Jennifer Aniston interviewed...

Happy Birthday, Arthur

Today is my brother’s 30th birthday. I don’t think he reads my blog (at least, Google...

Thanksgiving 2007: Oh, the memories!

Tomorrow will be the eighth Thanksgiving that I have spent not only away from home, but in a foreign...

I am really stressed

Trying to get to Edinburgh next weekend to see my sister. Flying is cheaper than taking the train,...

What if they bottled it?

tumblelikeyougiveadamn: Listening to The New Yorker: Out Loud and wishing I still got the magazine. ...

[via mudisland: early sunday, Vauxhall Cross (via BB B)] ...

It got cold in London this weekend: London cold, which is a lot less cold than the Montreal cold I...

(via somethingchanged) Whitehouse 2: “Where you set the...

Post-partum

I sent my editors a draft of my book yesterday, before going to work, and am thus feeling the...

“As Mr. Obama prepares to take office, I wish I could say...”
— Op-Ed Columnist: Obama and the...

My Mayflower heritage? Oh, Ancestry.com, you are so funny.

tumblelikeyougiveadamn: St. Paul’s latest gift to the...

lfarm: The Peanut Butter Solution trailer… The creepiest movie of my childhood. This is not a...

(biteofpythias: via thewordunheard) I played ultimate at...

“The latest is the Aussies’ ingenious “muffin effect”,...”
— BAD IDEA magazine | Desperate...

“Mr. Obama: There sometimes it’s soothing to wash the...”
— The Obamas On Their Personal...

(via:yodaniel:capucha: toothfairy) DOORHINGE.

They took a really long time to arrive, but I love my...

“Yes, rickety sounds rickety to an Anglophone, but to a...”
— Limning Language I am...

My new website is live-ish. It doesn’t work on my computer...

I am so sad....

…that I wasted my first five years in London, without a bicycle. Frustrated beyond belief by...

Change your bookmarks...

…I mean, if you have them. I feel presumptuous to insinuate that you might. Anyway, I am...

“Dear Jean, I am contacting you to let you know of the...”
— Dear Cambridge University, I...

“Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets...”
— For a Washington Job, Be...

Laura Bush to publish memoirs before...

“I find that sitting at a table opposite three Ernest...”
— Extremely excellent comment on...

“But the best thing I discovered was the fake commute,...”
— Routine inquiries: what goes...

(via semisetadrift:spitintheocean: jlaney: Ridiculous...

“Now wipe away those tears and follow me please down to the...”
— E-Day in Erbil, Iraq, by...

Sadly (for me, not for her, as she is going to have a great time), lovely flatmate Bex has decided...

Thank you!

To everyone who wrote and offered advice and assistance for the design of my new website…all...

Help, please, Internet-savvy folk

Internet-y people: I want to make a new website for professional purposes - I’ll carry on...

“Her résumé is similarly unexpected: A Rhodes scholar and an...”
— The Secret to Rachel...

I awoke to this video, sent to me by my friend Dan. Like many recent political commercials, it made...

Rarely have I been so proud to be half-Scottish as I was...

“They’ll be sorry when I’m a famous...”
— Me, to Lauren, trying not to...

I went out to the Co-op this evening to pick up some food for dinner. On the way there a man stopped...

Still in the first flush of falling in love all over again...

What Obama's win means for science

Well, hi there, cycling safety fetishists. Now I have a...

(tumblelikeyougiveadamn:emptyage:nickmcglynn)

From across the miles, in a lonely hotel room in Iraq,...

VERKLEMPT

It’s the only appropriate word to describe my feelings right now. I will write more when I...

Today, Dadelstein blogs too.

Text from Dadelstein, who is working as...

This a.m. over 700 pp, 1.5 hour wait. 2:24 p.m., 724 democr, 28 repub. Love, Dad

I called my grandparents to say, 'Happy...

Jean: I think he's going to do it!
Grandpelstein: Yeah, I hope so. But I don't know. I called two elections wrong before.
Jean: Really?
Grandpelstein: Yeah, that time with Gore, when they stole Florida from us. And Nixon! I thought he was a really bad guy, but he got in anyway. They got him the second time, though. And you know, Eisenhower, I thought he was good, but I voted for the other guy.

I Didn't Vote for Obama Today

My wee sister has a blog

Telephone canvassing

So last night I decided to do some telephone canvassing. This close to the election, the Obama...

I'm perplexed

By an enormous spike (thanks, Google Analytics) today in hits to the photo of me in my cycling...

My laptop is making weird crunchy noises

Oh, please don’t die now, dear little laptop. I know that I am somewhat indelicate with you...

Sebastian sends greetings from Kurdistan, where he is...

NOW YOU KNOW. Typed passive-aggressive notes are the best...

RUSSELL BRAND BECAME MONSTER WHEN GEORGINA...