Early Activist Natalie Portman

Water Inspired

My dear friend Heather gave me an alligator who grew from very tiny to impressively large while submersed in a bowl of water for a few days. During this time, I noticed that the bowl of water, in which the toy was placed, sometimes caught the sunlight and made a cool pattern on the wall. Then, when Robyn and I were recording our podcast, I realized that the sound effects in Garageband would be very cool to use to alter my vocals and make some water-related music. On this rainy afternoon, I put the two together and made a little video ditty:

My Valentine, Tina Fey

In celebration of Valentine's Day, I treated myself to a lovely article in the New Yorker, by my greatest love, Tina Fey. I saved it to read over breakfast this morning. It made my day super. Thank you, Tina Fey. I think you can get sort of an idea of it here.

A Video for Poetry Class

I also made this for poetry class. It may have a good idea in it somewhere. I once, long ago, gave Amy an assignment to walk around in Chicago doing her normal routine and take video footage of her feet walking, so that's where the audio is from. It also stars my sister, Maneka, who, after showing this video in my poetry class, was deemed a budding star by a woman in my class.

Soup With Robyn

I keep forgetting about this blog and leave it dormant for months on end. There are probably other things I should put on here that I care about and that I have been doing, but I just made this video of Robyn and myself making chicken soup. Which reminds me very much of when Sophie and I made chicken soup. And it was the most amazing soup I've ever had. This new soup was good, but not as good as the Sophie chicken soup because in that case, I also made the chicken and made stock. But this was super quick and easy and delicious and accompanied by a wonderful movie, The Prince of Persia, that you can even read about on Sophie's blog.

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It's Important to Go Hard

Espresso Making

Ever since living in Portland, I've grown to like good coffee quite a bit. However, I don't know anything about coffee and it's one of those things that people assume I know things about. Kind of like bikes. Only I know even less about bikes because at least with coffee I know what tastes good to me.

Anyway Amanda, fresh from her trip to Italy, though that probably has nothing to do with it, was making me some kick ass redeyes in Chiacgo and she showed me how those polygonal espresso makers work. She also explained to me that a macchiato is espresso with milk in it; it means "stained" in Italian, the milk staining the coffee. This was all previously a giant mystery to me.