My Little Garden

I decided to go all out this year and experiment with a vegetable garden. I have a tendency to kill things (I’ve picked up 5 stray just born kittens trying out the neurotic mother role and they died in one weekend) and fear my lack of garden knowledge and experience with lead to sad wilting [...]

Sophie Calle at Paula Cooper

I have history with Sophie Calle’s dense and wordy series Take Care of Yourself and it wasn’t until this show that I was smitten. Working for a gallery that exhibited and inventoried this series I was briefly bombarded with reproductions and never got to experience them in person. I remember creating a checklist for a [...]

Hit

Last night I left Atlas Cafe and was riding down Bedford crossing Metropolitan when an airhead teenager ran a red light and hit the rear end of my bike. I remember looking to my right and seeing those headlights and I just closed my eyes tight shut and I heard glass breaking somewhere and I [...]

Benefit Bake Sale this Sat at t.b.d.

I’m organizing a benefit bake sale for the India Street Mural Project to be held during the Great Greenpoint BBQrawl at t.b.d. in their new Ginormous backyard. I’ll be baking shitloads of good stuff so come early (it starts at 3) and share the reverie. There’ll be free beer, burgers across the spectrum of participating [...]

FEAST: May 9th

The third FEAST dinner took place two weeks ago (I wrote about the previous dinner here) and I must admit this was the best of three!

The crowd was far more manageable than last (up to 300, this time we’d say 150) and the way we managed food distribution ran sooo smoothly and there was even [...]

Hernan Bas at Lehmann Maupin

I wasn’t familiar with Hernan Bas and his earlier paintings of homosexual boys posing in acts of removal and exposure reeking in romantic dandyism. I think this was to my advantage as the new series emphasize crazed landscapes and mixed references and received mixed responses from a nostalgia for his earlier style to generic comparisons [...]

Some Photos

My life is quite simple. It consists mainly of:

My horrendously good looking dog, (FYI Monday was his 1 year birthday. I contemplated baking a puppy cake and celebrate with bday hats, but then I’d be that lady who bakes puppy cakes and celebrates with bday hats for the pitiful dog)

Puppy friends,

lots of good food,

And when [...]

Chickpea Salad

I’ve been pretty good about cooking my meals lately and have been on a non-meat recipe kick. The last few days I’ve amused myself with Otsu, a Japanese buckwheat noodle dish accompanied by simply sauteed asparagus. I’m a newfound lover of asparagus whose only flaw is the resulting wee wee stink. It won’t keep me [...]

Reader: May 14, 2009

- Soft pretzels. (via kitchn)
- Why hide a miscarriage? (via daily kos)
- A tour of Franklin Ave and Manhattan Ave. (via Brooklyn 11211)

- I want a chalkboard fridge food journal too. (the kitchn)
- Newly planted trees get in the way for kickballers at McCarren. (via Brooklyn paper)
- De-Fence project in Dumbo torn down. Why didn’t [...]

Marcia Tucker: A really long post

I recently finished reading a memoir of Marcia Tucker, curator, critic, and founder of New Museum. The women’s art collective I’m in decided to choose this as the first book to read for our book club. I’ve been meaning to read this since it was published as I figured it would help put my life [...]