You know you’re in Baltimore when you have crabs and you're excited about it. And you eat them at every meal and you don’t go broke. In LA this week, I just delivered King crab legs (just the LEGS!) to someone for $40. In Baltimore, “market price” doesn’t involve crabs in planes.Ervin and I cracked … Continue reading We Got Crabs.
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Butter, my Valentine.
When I was three, the Valentine's fairy brought me what would turn out to be the most miraculous of all past and future Valentine's Day gifts: A friggin' baby sister, Leslie. I don't remember if I was excited about this, or what. But I've heard tales of my trying to lift her tiny infant body … Continue reading Butter, my Valentine.
365 DAYS OF THIS IS LALA LAND!
It's been a whole year for THIS IS LALA LAND! I considered doing some kind of hilarious (to me) giveaway where I send one lucky reader an assortment of some of the things I've featured on the blog (for example: the cactus, the onesie , the condoms from yesterday...). But there wasn't time to put anything together, so … Continue reading 365 DAYS OF THIS IS LALA LAND!
Kelly’s BDay.
Tomorrow is my sister Kelly's birthday. July 30. She would have been 26. It almost feels like writing "she would have been 910!" It's an obscenely large number somehow, for someone who will always be 8 years old. She had the only head of gleaming blonde (not brown) hair in the family. Blue eyes she … Continue reading Kelly’s BDay.
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