Season 3 of The Great British Baking Show (known as The Great British Bake Off in Britain) was my favorite yet. I cried through the Final (in a good way). Here is the chocolate well created by a contestant in Episode 9… …with a bucket that drops to the bottom to collect liquid white chocolate… Read more »
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Monday Randutiae
A few links for your Monday… Jon Almeda at Almeda Pottery makes the teeniest, tiniest stuff on his teeny potter’s wheel. Here’s his Instagram. Ack! So beautiful. (Thanks Alison!) ETA: Here’s a gorgeous collection of pictures at Bored Panda. In a similar vein, Althea Crome at Bugknits knits with needles sometimes practically as thin as… Read more »
Checking In
Greetings from the Worst Blogger Ever. I’m sorry I’ve been such an absent blogger lately! First it was because I was taking a much-needed work break, and now it’s because all I ever do is work. I have a new book and I’m so excited for the day when I’m finally allowed to tell you… Read more »
Long-Overdue Randutiae (Yes, I’m Still Here!)
Lenny Kravitz’s Dick Fell Out, and Women Everywhere Are Being Terrible about It. So. The gorgeous rocker and everyone’s go-to Arena fashion designer had a wardrobe malfunction at a concert in Stockholm, and social media went wild, in a bad way. I appreciate this response, which is thoughtful about questions of consent, problematic double standards,… Read more »
Lengthy Linky Randutiae. Also, Rainbow Nails
Ready? David Levithan and Billy Merrell are putting together an expanded edition of The Full Spectrum and are looking for essays about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning and other queer identities by writers under 21. If you have a story you want to tell, go to www.queerthology.com for details on submitting. Deadline is August… Read more »
Thursday Randutiae
Okay, I should never have said that thing about how the next thing I blog is going to be the girl superhero post. All it’s doing is preventing me from blogging anything at all. When in fact, I have some mighty complaints, like, for example, why in the name of all that is reasonable is… Read more »
Rainy Randutiae for a Sunday
As I’d hoped, a number of friends emailed me with suggestions of superhero role models for girls. So many, in fact, that I’m going to have to set aside some time to organize it all before I post it – but it will be forthcoming. Unfortunately, most of the suggestions were for teen readers and… Read more »
Hawks and Conchords
I came across this guy a couple of hours ago in the Boston Gardens, hanging out in a shrubbery. Sent a photo to my buddy Jim, who says it looks like a young red-tailed hawk. On the subway ride home, someone with a sing-songy voice was talking about sandwiches, and I figured, since the blog… Read more »
Randutiae That Reflect the Scattered State of My Brains
I’ve been a very poor blogger lately. I have a list as long as my arm of things I’ve been wanting to blog about, but the spirit has not been moving me. In particular, I’ve been going through a period of grievously fractured focus with my writing, and have been wanting to blog something about… Read more »
Sharing Some Great Links…
… via screencaps of all the browsers currently open on my phone. Some of these are priceless, others are slightly pointless… 1. Dance performances on the Ability Unlimited Foundation website. The Ability Unlimited Foundation is a Delhi-based non-profit social service organization for the benefit of differently-abled people irrespective of race, religion, caste, colour and creed…. Read more »
