I admire my Andrew a lot. I don’t know how he does it. (Hello! Get your mind out of the gutter—this is a PG-rated blog, most of the time.) I’m not referring to his parallel parking prowess, instant recall of useless sports stats or mastery of Angry Birds. No, my amazement stems from this observation: […]
I returned to DC several days ago, just in time for the heat wave blasting straight from Hades itself. I wasn’t off exploring a faraway, exotic locale. No, I drove to the Philly ‘burbs for a pathetically short visit to my mom’s house to celebrate her 70th birthday. I figured this trip would also be […]
It was 100 insufferable degrees today in DC. To state the obvious but tragic fact, no amount of antiperspirant was gonna save you from pitting out that dry-clean-only sleeveless silk blouse. (Actress Rose Byrne describes it as becoming “a feral mess.”) Anyway, the scorching temperatures made me think of the movie Heat from 1995. It’s […]
[Warning: this post exposes my inner-nerd. So what does that make me? A nerdy fashionista? A fashionable nerd? I’m cool with either.] Earlier this week during my mundane morning commute via Metro, it dawned on me that QR codes (which are ubiquitous on every freakin’ ad plastered throughout every station) look a lot like houndstooth. […]





