Green Chile and Zozobra

I love goings-on as a tourist – I’m totally down to go to your local garlic festival or llama parade or county fair or fireworks display, and to sample some regional cuisine while I’m at it.  So here’s a post… Continue Reading

A Moment of Frisson

First off, hat tip to Musette for her fabulous post on Bill Evans last week – she introduced me to Bill just a few weeks ago and he’s been the soundtrack around here ever since.  Second, it’s snowing. I’m guessing… Continue Reading

Let’s Talk About Beauty Pie

This was going to be a post on more fragrances by Frank Voelkl, who did the Olfactory tea scent I reviewed recently (as well as the wildly successful Glossier You.) The fragrance post is still being worked on, so today… Continue Reading

#@*%! Comments?!?! Please try again…

I hear that, once again, there have been issues with commenting on the Posse.  We use WordPress comment “widgets” which, not to get too technical, are designed in some dank, airless basement by aliens from Jupiter while they sip motor… Continue Reading

Spoiler alert, but not what you think

When you see the phrase “spoiler alert,” what comes to mind? Someone giving away an unexpected plot twist or the final climactic scenes in a new movie or best-selling book? (Note: I once sat very near the movie critic when… Continue Reading

Happy Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is this weekend so I am rerunning a post I wrote at PST years ago about my own mother and Miss Dior back in 2007: When Colombina suggested this three-way review, I thought “cool, I can get away… Continue Reading

Morning Beverage

Some of us like to start the day with a fresh-brewed cup of coffee, some of us with tea. I can go either way, although I have to admit I don’t make very good coffee. Trader Joe’s has a nice… Continue Reading