Author Archives: DAK

I’m addicted to cooking competition shows; which, in and of itself, I find amusing. Cooking competition? Like for points and whatnot? An act of love, or just basic survival, morphed into something grade-able seems incongruous to me. Anyway, Top Chef, … Continue reading →

I just spent the better part of a Saturday cleaning half of my apartment. I’m not sure why that is so exhausting; but seeing as my place is already pretty clean to begin with, I’m either spectacularly out of shape … Continue reading →

Why do I still get searches for Bobby Trendy on my site? I mean, obviously he is fabulous, but wasn’t his 15 minutes up about 5 years ago?

The first time I went to prom I felt like I was too cool for school and didn’t take my date and friends back home for pictures with the parents. After all, we were taking pictures at everyone else’s houses … Continue reading →

Everyone gets depressed. Well, not ME, I’m perfect; but everybody else does from time to time. An it’s funny the kind of clarity that you can see easily from the outside looking in, that is so desperately out of reach … Continue reading →

The weird thing about keeping a blog that relatively no one reads is that I go to an awful lot of trouble to have the privilege of doing so. OK, it’s not that big of a deal, but I do … Continue reading →

I’m rapidly approaching 35. And I don’t mean like how the waif blonds get so depressed on their 25th birthdays because they’re ALMOST 30…I mean I’m actually rapidly approaching 35. Like in the next couple of months. You know the … Continue reading →

It’s funny the things you remember. There are expected things like particularly good or bad situations in your life. There are repetitive things like birthdays and remembering to breath. And then there are just kind of throwaway memories that stubbornly … Continue reading →

Lord in Heaven above, thank you for the gifts that you bestow on your humble servant on earth. Though undeserving, your magnanimous grace provideth me gifts of bounty and happiness. Thank you, baby jesus, for sending to this sinner: Voltron … Continue reading →

As a product designer, I go to a lot of design reviews. Passionate and long conversations about the smallest minutiae. And when I say smallest minutiae, I mean the size of a small 1mm radius on the back of a … Continue reading →