Mary Phillips-Sandy

Man oh man, what a month. Sickness, death and packing tape, and — most recently — a fateful combination of bike + steep hill + pothole + blue Toyota + concrete + my face. Settle down, I typed ‘fateful’ not ‘fatal,’ and the ER doc gave me a handy list of brain damage symptoms to [...]

Zach Braff
I have an intense, visceral aversion to this man. Perhaps it is his contrivedly-impish facial expressions, or his over-gelled faux-floppy hair, or the accumulation of consonants at the ends of his names. Perhaps it is the fact that he made it impossible for me to listen to that Shins record after it had served [...]

…identify ‘em all and I’ll buy you a hot dog and a box of sparklers.

Via the Organic Trade Association.

Well well, remember the second tag on this post? Yeah, looks like someone I work with was on that concept months ago. (Click the link and scroll down to resolution #7.) And no, I hadn’t noticed that post before, but it’s pretty clearly a sign from the universe.
ps. Mary, did you wake up this morning [...]

Obviously — obviously — I saw and bookmarked the WaPo “where is he now” story on John Edwards. And obviously (obviously!) I made mental note of the money quote:
Yet as he spends his days in his family’s mansion on the outskirts of Chapel Hill, N.C., Edwards can’t help but fret about how Washington and the [...]

In a wide-ranging conversation, she explained that Alex had kind of dated Katie before he went out with Claire so Claire wouldn’t talk to Sarah because Sarah was Katie’s best friend since like third grade.
In a wide-ranging discussion with the dairy case stocker, he said that the nonfat sour cream really did taste different but [...]

Front page of the hometown paper today.

Summarized, after the jump.