Month: January 2013

  • TV Talk: My ABC shows

    Sorry, Revenge, you’re out. Your cast is beautiful and well-dressed (and sorely lacking in diversity…) but there’s no one left to root for. In Season 2, everyone has become either dumb or irredeemably manipulative (or both), and that just doesn’t interest me. Scandal, on the other hand, is still kicking ass and taking names. (Literally.)…

  • This year I’m going to attempt to tweet one thing each day that I’m grateful for, using the hashtag #dailygratitude. (Here’s the past week’s worth.) I guess you could call this a resolution, although I didn’t intend it as such. It’s more that I’m a believer in the power of positivity — as well as the…

  • There are many reasons I don’t watch the nightly news. All the violence saddens me. All the politics frustrate me. And all the misogyny pisses me off. (Instead I prefer to read headlines online, then click through to articles that interest me or offer some sort of enlightenment.) But recently, several appalling stories have broken…

  • On one hand, the new year is completely arbitrary. A farce. The calendar is manufactured by man, just a way for us to keep track of things, to force order and organization onto our random lives. On the other hand, we grow up thinking of time in this very particular way. It becomes real by…

  • Plaça de Catalunya

    A sunny day stroll through Plaça de Catalunya. The square anchors one end of Las Ramblas, so it flows with citizens and tourists, to-ing and fro-ing, talking and shopping. Beneath a ponderous blocky sculpture, pigeons ring around a pond. As I stoop down to snap a photo from a different angle, a large seagull swoops…