kidchamp dot net: cautionary tales

07.21.06

it's been a long, strange california week. i've actually only been here since ten on wednesday morning, but i was awake for the first thirty or so hours of the trip (give or take a cat nap on the plane); new york is far away. at my grandfather's funeral in los angeles, i saw my mother's side of the family (not my mother, but that's another story) for the first time in, say, six years. i won't be seeing many of them again for a while, i think.

07.06.06

the bridal wave is gathering speed. invitations are mostly out, and calls are starting to come in. i flip-flop between days of steady progress - haggling with the florist, romancing the seamstress, brinksmanship with the post office - and nights of staring at the ceiling, o-god-less-than-two-months-we'll-all-surely-perish. we de-stress in odd ways: yesterday, for instance, we interviewed for who wants to be a millionaire? (they wanted us for one of their 'engaged couples' shows, but cooled off when they learned the wedding was in a month; we'll be plain old contestants now, if called). this weekend, we tired of new york and hopped a bus for atlantic city (much better timing there, as the governor has since closed down the casinos as a result of jersey's budget crisis). behold the mighty photo set!

Labels: photography, television, travel, weddings

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and you will know us by the stuff we've read (the recent dozen, plus a few stragglers):

faithful place (tana french) :: super sad true love story (gary shteyngart) :: the drowned library (paul kerschen) :: travels in siberia (ian frazier) :: death be not proud (john gunther) :: the magician king (lev grossman) :: mockingjay (suzanne collins) :: catching fire (suzanne collins) :: the hunger games (suzanne collins) :: the silver swan (benjamin black) :: life (keith richards) :: the magicians (lev grossman) :: the pale king (david foster wallace) :: villette (charlotte brontë) :: homer's odyssey (gwen cooper) :: christine falls (benjamin black) :: cloud atlas (david mitchell) :: ghostwritten (david mitchell) :: a visit from the goon squad (jennifer egan) :: neon angel: a memoir of a runaway (cherie currie with tony o'neill) :: the ask (sam lipsyte) :: coco chanel (justine picardie)