weapons of massdistraction

The FedEx delivery person must think we’re a bunch of freaks. When he rang the doorbell our little family converged on the poor man, over-eager, eyes wide and glistening in anticipation. After depositing the goods he backed away slowly…as we tore into our packages like a pack of wild animals in for the kill. [...]

There’s always too much going on these days. One not-to-be-missed event is the Twin Cities Book Festival happening Saturday in Minneapolis. The special sessons sound intriguing, especially the novel writing workshop with Chris Baty, founder of NaNoWriMo and author of No Plot? No Problem!: A High-Velocity, Low-Stress Way to Write a Novel in 30 [...]

For such a low-key, leisurely weekend I sure have a lot of photos. Friday we had our first family outing in ages (as the husband keeps to a bizarre work/sleep schedule). The three of us ventured over to the Children’s Museum. This month only they have a nifty little hay maze set up outside. [...]

The following are not helping purge my urge to travel:

25 Days in Turkey, photographs by Eugene Kuo, summer 2004;
The Washington DC Book Festival (just try to block out the name that follows “library of congress”, that’s what I did anyhow) is happening this Saturday, with Neil Gaiman and Neal Stephenson;
McSweeney’s first annual Icelandic Film [...]

Before I toddle off to bed, why not throw out a blend of potentially useful and useless tidbits?

President Arthur was born 174 years ago today. Who shot who in the what now? Perhaps the most unknown of the unknown, President Chester A. Arthur came from relative obscurity, became our 21st President by way of [...]