Monday, December 17, 2007

And one goes & ruins it for all













Snowmens, w/ chocolate sprinkles for eyes, slivered Swedish fish for noses, and chocolate-covered mini Oreos for hats. Chocolate cake's vegan, and near-perfect I might add, but the heeeeeavy buttercream frosting is not vegan. Neither is it perfect, or very near it. Though I followed the recipe to a T, I'm convinced ol' Martha effed up, as biting into one of these is too much like squishing my teeth into a stick of Parkay. That said, they're still pretty yummy.













Loner.
















I walked by this fantastic signage (UES) on the way to the 6 after attending a reading/conversation between Madeleine L'Engle's two granddaughters the other day. They read passages from A Wrinkle in Time and Camilla Dickinson, talked about L'Engle's influence on them growing up and into adulthood, and then took questions from an enraptured audience. To hear the pair tell it, their grandmother was just as you'd imagine: reading her granddaughters Shakespeare in bed while they all sipped hot cocoa; wandering routinely out to her star-gazing rock; carried along at the whim of her fictional personalities (they tend to re-emerge in subsequent L'Engle texts). What a woman. Man, if every kid were raised w/ the ideals of active curiosity, imagination, non-judgment... Wouldn't hurt.













At trapeze the other night, this happened. Looked odd.

Posted by princess kanomanom @ 11:28 PM