Handheld blogging

Updating chezmaddie just became a mobile experience! I’m now able to post from my iPod touch. I’m grinning from ear to ear…

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Let it Snow!

Here at Chez Maddie, we’re dreaming of a white christmas.
Check out the kids using the street as a toboggan run!

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The Winter Pineapple Classic

 
On a surprisingly pleasant Sunday morning in mid-November, three thousand one hundred and thirty five (3135!) individuals ran a 5k race for charity. But not just any race, and not just for any charity. The Winter Pineapple Classic 5k, an annual and long-anticipated event here in Seattle, is an obstacle course in Magnuson Park raced [...]

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Keith Olbermann speaks out on Prop 8.

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Equal Rights – Now! An Anti-Prop 8 March.

Today in Seattle, as in Boise, Portland, New York, Boston and San Francisco, thousands marched to protest California’s constitutional ban on gay marriage. Proposition 8, which passed in CA this past election, overturns the state’s earlier legalization of marriage. It officially denies the queer community the right to marry, and renders obsolete the once-legal marriages [...]

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Where Rainer just tastes better…

So it would seem as if there is a rumour going around that I must disperse. Despite whisperings to the contrary, I am quite fond of Targy’s Tavern here in Seattle. In fact, this tiny, non-descript hole-in-the-wall was the centerpiece of my Election Night experience.

The bar itself is quite easy to miss. Just a few [...]

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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis: An Artist Envisions the Asanas of Yoga
Artwork by Emanuele Scanziani with text by Jennifer Abel
The Downward Facing Dog, the King Cobra. the Crane, the Plough… Metamorphosis provides an absolutely fresh perspective on the bond between body and mind, form and imagination
Yogic asanas, or poses, invoke animate and inanimate objects, the form and spirit of [...]

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Habitual Rituals, post-Europe

1) Drinking 1/2 litres of beer with my brother in an underground bar in central Prague.
2) Working long hours with Gita and Sirish at the Tara Books’ stall at the Frankfurt Bookfair.
3) Meeting long-time publishing heroes at the same book fair.
4) Hostels.
5). Wine from the Pacific Northwest.

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Habitual Rituals (post-Portland)

1) Road trips with B.
2) The deep satisfaction of a mojito and food after spending 6 hours in traffic and pouring rain.
3) Long walks and talks along the Leif Erikson Trail in Forest Park.
4) Afternoon cocktails with girlfriends at the Bye and Bye on NE Alberta.
5) Clean hostels.
6) The new desk/office space that Gene made for us [...]

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Habitual Rituals

1) Metamorphosis, my first published book (and collaboration with artist Emanuele Scanziani), is available for sale worldwide!
2) On-the-job procrastination.
3) The strange feeling that I may in fact have become a morning person.

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