The Froth

My homemade Cheetos

26. November 2005

these are the Beastie Boys of the gnome world and my little kitchen helpers That’s my weekly horoscope from my favourite online newspaper, the Onion. And it’s not fair! I had been cooking all day yesterday damnit. Pisces Though the annual Chemistry And Engineering Institute Of Vermont Christmas celebration is weeks away, you’re [...]

Sweet paper smell

25. November 2005

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Is your Filofax important looking on the outside and full of stickers on the inside? That’s a new expression I’ll start using: "Oh, you’re so full of stickers!" to mean "you’re a fraud." No internet yesterday. Stormy weather all day and not a ray of that big fat greek sun in the sky. Which in [...]

Attention, shy person on board

23. November 2005

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Free tip: Having lots of pens and pencils helps if you are very shy I’ve always been extremely shy, and sometimes, clinically shy. I still think that being so shy is a kind of disability since some things are more difficult for me than for bold and brave people. Especially in a country like Greece where [...]

On the dangers of very very late baths

23. November 2005

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-Danger of falling asleep in the tub and getting out when you are already transparent. -Danger of hallucinating due to lack of sleep. Hello bubble-fairy. -Danger of mixing up shampoo and foam bath. -Danger of plastic ducks drowning, or, have I already mentioned hallucinating? -Danger of waking up completely when you really wanted to have a soothing bath. -Danger of [...]

We’ll shine

22. November 2005

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If you stare at the flame long enough you can see someone dancing in there, I promise you.

As I was having tea and toast

22. November 2005

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This is by Miguel de Unanimo, from The Tragic Sense of Life "And the soul, my soul at least, longs for something else, not absorption, not quietude, not peace, not appeasement, it longs ever to approach and never to arrive, it longs for a never-ending longing, for an eternal hope which is eternally renewed but [...]

Nice to meet you

22. November 2005

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Nothing beats working comfortably from home. Except, perhaps, not working at all. It’s a rainy day and I am grateful I don’t have to take the bus and go to that cold office to write an article about heels in fashion. Is there music more fitting to a dark, rainy day like today than Depeche [...]