Looking at this chunk of my 101 things, it's pretty damn apparent I was in the midst of wedding planning. The good thing about including all this stuff on my list is that unless I ditched Todd at the alter,......

"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me."~Anais Nin H ere's the updated 101 in 1001 list. And yes, you are so right, it does stop at 88. I'm finally coming to term...

"New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." ~Mark Twain   Indulging in my Aunt Carol's noodle kugel and a fresh cup of coffee is vastly preferable to making resolutions on a ...

Dubya. King Dubby. Everyone’s favourite ‘Bible thumping Hamanzee’ has taken a bit of a kicking here at Toxic Towers over the years. I had moved the States six weeks before he was “elected� in 2000. America was a funny place back then, all full of liberal guilt, coffee and blowjobs in the O...

I was sitting in a bar on Venice Beach, CA looking out on the Pacific Ocean a few weeks ago. I was talking to a chap about the potential of Barack ‘Slim Slam Bamma’ becoming president. Despite the sunshine and optimism that surrounded us, I was offering a particularly rain swept British form of ...

I happened across this while googling pics of clapotis (guess what I just started in Noro silk garden #211?), thought it was pretty nifty, particularly from the perspective of an unemployed woman who needs to focus on something. Or a lot of things as it were.  After all, I like to claim that I ...

I love this song. It's from the bonus disk on their Rings Around The World LP. It's a seething attack on the news media and particularly a news anchor that has incurred the Furrys' ire. Gruff Rhys menacingly states toward the end of the song, 'Just remember, I can see you and you can't see me!' Thin...