By Avelino Maestas on Apr 16, 2008 in Daybook | 1 Comment
Books
Read: It’s a Jungle Out There: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
My good friend Amanda Marcotte (who tipped me off to Wordpress as a blogging platform and helped me immensely in my nascent blogging days) wrote a book on surviving as a feminist. It’s an incredibly funny guidebook for messing with wingnuts, but [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Sep 16, 2007 in Daybook | 0 Comments
Cooked up a quick dish last night, and the colors were great so I thought I would post a photo. Just some sautéd veggies and pasta, with a bit of shredded cheese on top. I love the quick, easy dishes.
On Friday, my sis and I caught 3:10 to Yuma, a stunningly beautiful film (shot in [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Jun 19, 2007 in Climate, Congress, Daybook, Energy, Environment, Jeff Bingaman, Pete Domenici | 4 Comments
Borrowing a page from John’s playbook, here’s a bit of what’s going on with me right now1:
Reading: I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns last night. Like Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, Suns is set in Afghanistan, and the author again does an incredible job of inserting the reader into the culture and setting. Indeed, [...]