Well, he at least doesn’t approve of it when Joel Cairo scents his visiting card with it- and yes, I would bet that Joel would have a visiting card. Nothing as tacky as a business card for him. As for… Continue Reading
The only downside of having such fun writers on this blog is that I immediately want to run out and buy whatever they’re writing about. The latest one that hooked me was Portia’s review of Aromatic Elixir by Clinique. It’s… Continue Reading
The last two of the freebies from my purchase of that Bell Jar. Écrin de Fumée is one that Cinnamon reviewed last year, so go and click on her piece to get the salient points (and enjoy her writing, as… Continue Reading
So you read the saga of the car last time. I didn’t mention that I was actually saving up for a different one that was sold before I could get to it. Which was kind of a blessing in disguise… Continue Reading
First- books. My summer reading partly was taken up by the slelection for this summers Beverly Hills Reads. “Lessons in Chemistry.” It’s a good book with some laugh-out-loud moments and some that will make you want to throw the book… Continue Reading
Well it’s Labor Day weekend in the old USA. In LA that meant unexpected rain on Saturday and overcast Sunday (although we didn’t get the rain they received in the desert at Burning Man) I guess that it makes some… Continue Reading
Musette’s post yesterday about hedonism (in a double dose! That’s hedonism) was interesting and kind of coincided with the arrival of my latest foray into “Stuff that Tom has Never Sniffed” from Surrender to Chance: this time Zibeline, a 1928… Continue Reading