http://www.precarioustomato.com Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:19:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, tomorrow?  I am taking Cherry to visit my grandmother and her grandmother. On a plane. This will be her first plane ride ever, and my first plane ride ever with a baby. (An external baby, anyway.) I am hoping to be that lady with the howling infant that everybody ... http://www.precarioustomato.com/?p=128 You're voting, right? Good. Now that we've gotten that out of the way... I voted on Halloween. Took me three hours. I would have complained about it, but I know people who stood in line for more than twice that long to vote earlier in the week. I'm glad to see the ... http://www.precarioustomato.com/?p=127 I was just messing around on Wikipedia... I swear, when I started I was actually looking up something useful, but y'all know how it is, one thing leads to another and the next thing you know three hours have disappeared and you know a whole lot about the mating habits ... http://www.precarioustomato.com/?p=126 In 1993, the last time the Phillies went anywhere near the World Series without buying themselves tickets, I was living a few blocks south of City Hall in Center City. The night they won the pennant, there was chaos, pandemonium and general higgledy-piggledy until the wee hours of the next ... http://www.precarioustomato.com/?p=125 In the spirit of it being Halloween week, this is one of my morose little monsters. They're a little glum right now because the client I did them for is not quite feeling ready for characters as a promotional concept. But if they were, they said, my monsters are totally ... http://www.precarioustomato.com/?p=124 Last night I was trying to make rice pudding... cause, ya know, I'm all domestic or whatever... while Sneaky Pete was trying (and failing) to convince Cherry that she was more interested in eating pureed green beans that she was in painting the kitchen with them. "Hey," he said, "Cherry got ... http://www.precarioustomato.com/?p=123 (Thanks for all the congratulations about my wreath project. How nifty is that?  I'm really excited!! I asked the editor that I've been talking to if it was ok if I put up a picture of it here before the magazine comes out, and I haven't heard back from her ... http://www.precarioustomato.com/?p=122 I WON!!!!! My wreath project is going to be in the holiday issue of ReadyMade magazine!! http://www.precarioustomato.com/?p=121 Hi!  Sorry for the blog lull. I had to suspend my blogging for a little while to rush off to Washington to fix the economy. Sadly, economy-fixing turns out to not be my strong suit. Mea culpa. As a friend of mine so eloquently put it earlier this morning "Jeez, am ... http://www.precarioustomato.com/?p=120 Dars Bar. Much better than it sounds. Much, much. We have survived another bedtime and a stock market collapse, and there is merlot and also brownies.  So it's not all bad, right? Even if AIG does go tits up tomorrow and they can't fix Texas, the brownies have walnuts and ... http://www.precarioustomato.com/?p=119