Lollygag Blog

Shopping at Jewel has got to be the most fun thing ever these days. The glass case (sandwiched in between dental care and contraceptives) that brought us such awesome keepsakes as the Love Beyond Words frame is stuffed to the gills with more, well, keepsakey frames! For example. It’s hard to see from this picture (and P.J. won’t let me take it home for a better photo) so I’ll narrate. We have a couple of crazy kids clutching chardonnays (chardonnaies?), {Read More}

Last night, after Instant Theatre (which was great, by the way- and there’s talk of workshopping one of my plays! Calloo!), P.J. and I went to Margie’s Candies. It’s gotten so we can’t be on the Western bus, at the Armitage and Western corner or even on that leg of the Blue Line without needing to stop by for some ice cream. (“Well, we’re here…) Last night was no exception, although we decided to only get it to go. (Does {Read More}

Last night we went out to dinner at Brazzaz, a fantastic Brazilian steakhouse for an all-you-can-eat steak, chicken, bacon-wrapped anything and lamb extravaganza. Turns out, we can pack away quite a bit of protein. They also have the best salad bar I’ve even seen in my life. (Does that make me sound like a rube? I hope not.) They had oysters!The “all you can eat” aspect reminded me of an Ellen Degeneres standup bit (“Do we really need all we {Read More}

I think I’ve figured it out. Sure, we’ve all been alerted that there will be travel delays on the brown line (and red line, purple line and any other line that roughly intersects and can be forced to travel on the same track) and we’ve been urged to be patient, “leave early, leave late, alternate,” all that helpful advice. We’ve been given numerous phone numbers to dial if we’d like to vent to a recorded message and, in some cases, {Read More}

Fine. I’ll admit it. The majority of my posting process goes like this: my sis Kate will email/call me with something wacky, we’ll laugh/joke/talk about it for an hour, I’ll write a post about it, I’ll call her to see if she’s read the post, she’ll read it and be the first to comment, she’ll call me back to see if I’ve received the comment, and we’ll talk some more about how funny whatever it was actually was in the {Read More}

Big news recently was the controversy surrounding Miley Cyrus. Not that one! The other one! Apparently her song “See you again” sounds a ton like “Sunglasses at night” by the one and only Corey Hart. (I love that song. Not that one. The other one.) Also, Avril “Originality” Lavigne’s ditty “Girlfriend” is a direct ripoff of The Rubinoos “I wanna be your boyfriend.” This last tidbit made me feel a whole lot better- I was kinda hating myself for rocking {Read More}

This is an actual travel insurance payout list for an American Express Corporate cardholder (in this case, my brother in law, whom I dearly hope I am not jinxing as I have become quite fond of he and his beat-boxing ways.): Loss of life: $350,000 (Nothing funny here, although that is more than my husband’s life insurance policy. Maybe we should get an AmEx?) Loss of two or more hands or feet: $350,000 (I read this wrong the first time…) {Read More}

Turns out, the “dive” bar we went to on Friday night was actually a sweet little Korean place. Sure, it wasn’t the Cape Cod Room at the Drake…(as so few places I go to are- in fact, none of them are the Cape Cod Room at the Drake. I’ve never been there. But it sounds so nice!) It was quite fun nonetheless. The bartenders, a mother and daughter team, actually thanked us each time we ordered a drink. A copious {Read More}