Molly (my better half) just launched a line of Cuisine Carriers under the name First Resort. She’s makes each one by hand, often using vintage fabrics and is selling them on her First Resort Etsy store. She got the original design from a carrier her very talented and crafty grandmother Browder made mother bought at [...]

Molly just turned in her final line at the Apparel Arts school where she’s been studying the last two years to be a pattern maker. In the world of high fashion there is the designer who dreams up the clothing, the pattern maker who turns the sketches into replicable blueprints, sewers who actually fabricate the [...]

Earlier this month Michael David Murphy, a great photographer that should be in everyone’s flickr contact list, as an aside, pointed out the americangothic tag was worth a look. Until I met Molly I had presumed American Gothicism died with Faulker. She showed me where to look and who to read and how to see [...]

Last week Molly and I “rented” our first movie from Amazon’s Unbox that connects to most networked Tivo.
We gave it an overall review of lame.
Yes we were able to “rent” a movie from our couch and have it get pushed to our TV, but it took 6 hours to download before it could even [...]

Moxie graduated from Puppy Kindergarten tonight! We got her diploma and everything. I highly recommend Perfect Paws if you live in the Bay Area, for puppy or any type of behavioral training.

It’ll be sad to see her move out, but it’s important for her to get a job and find her own way.

Pictures from our favoritest nearby getaway, West Marin’s Tomales Bay and Point Reyes
It was an anniversary weekend so my apologies about the sap.

Molly made Beignets we ate on the porch looking for seals

Whales were spotted in these waters the next day

Moxie from the hot tub

Oysters from Drakes Farm. Just as superb as Hog Island

The [...]

If you are over 50, or share my last name, then you’ll be familiar with Miss Rheingold. For a couple decades from WWII until 1964, each year Rheingold Beer (made by Liebmann Brewery in Brooklyn, NY) would pick a Miss Rheingold woman in her twenties, in beauty pagent-style but actually based upon her wholesomeness [...]

Three years ago today Molly and I got married. It truly has been wonderful to have such a stabilizing partner who loves to explore life as much as I do. She’s my biggest fan and my greatest inspiration.

Thanks Molly, from the bottom of my heart.

Molly, Timmmii and I we’re having a cocktailly dinner when Molly said, I’m such a picky bitch. I thought it would be a great name for a chick band. She thought it would be great for a website. Assuming pickybitch.com would be taken (it is) Molly quickly said “get the .ch” and we did, and [...]

OMB! (Oh Molly’s Boobs) This is too much! Irina Slutsky from GETV, Molly and many other good peeps make a timely spoof on SNL’s D*ck in a Box.

Great work Irina!