Memphis

Single-arity

I’ve got a post up at iDiva about the frustrations of trying to meet men to date in a city where there are 20,000 or so more single women than men. (Check out that map. Hello, west coast!) It already seems like an uphill battle when you work an odd schedule that takes away most of your nights and weekends, and if you mix in your own anti-outgoing personality and weirdness about meeting new people,…

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movies

1408 (obligatory spoiler alert … sorta)

Phil and I went to see 1408 the other night. It was a decent-enough flick, carried pretty much by John Cusack and his sheer will to get to the end credits. It’s based on a Stephen King short story that I’ve never read, but like some of King’s other works, it’s about a writer and a place with a bad reputation and some spiritual residue, and how those environments can bring out the worst in…

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project 365

Day 175 — Swinging

[for June 24] Yesterday Phil’s phamily had a cookout, so I tagged along with the camera and took lots of middling pictures (I’ve really got to work on manually opening up and stopping down to get the depth of field I want, and I need to quit relying on the autofocus so much; and I need a better primary lens than the one that came with the camera) and a couple that I actually like.…

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