http://laurafries.com Firm in the belief that every snippet is a story Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:35:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's a tiny piece of paper; a scrap from a time of Texas bills, transmogrified into packing material two years ago. A slip that snuck, across state lines, a tiny cling; now resting on the floor of my car. I've moved too much, and in the last one, ended up ... http://laurafries.com/archives/giving_self_slip/ Searching for something else, I found this piece, which I believe was deleted from my blog in the mysterious blog purge of depressed laid-off posts. It republishes today, almost a year later, in a year without things. WASHINGTON, D.C., August 18, 2007 The unemployed know this - how the days can ... http://laurafries.com/archives/blurred-vision-seeing-clearly/ ATLANTA, Georgia, May 2, 2008 Yeah, I've been hearing that a lot recently. What can I say? Sometimes things have to really bottom out before they rebuild - and I'm in that process. I'm on the way up for a change. http://laurafries.com/archives/where-is-fries/ ATLANTA, Georgia, April 2, 2008 What happens to a tiny SMART car when it's run over 70 mph into a concrete wall? Watch and learn. http://laurafries.com/archives/smart_car/ ATLANTA, Georgia, February 22, 2008 If you were going to make a list of websites that wasted your time, would CNN.com be one of them? 8aweek.com seems to think so. A newly-launched Firefox plugin, 8aweek.com keeps track of your internet usage, logging those midnight hours spent browsing those 'restricted' sites ... http://laurafries.com/archives/cnn_wastes_time/ How to make chocolate milk from LauraFries.com on Vimeo. ATLANTA, Georgia, February 22, 2008 This utterly pointless video of my friend Carrington making chocolate milk at Gato Bizco Cafe [Yelp profile] in Atlanta was shot when I was testing out my new camera. It still makes me smile. http://laurafries.com/archives/chocolate_milk/ ATLANTA, Georgia, February 12, 2008 Ok, so you've got your plans for V-Day down. Dinner reservations, check. Clean underwear, check. Flowers from the dumpster behind the florist that aren't too wilted once you've trimmed the brown leaves off, check. But once the night is successful, and you've lured the ... http://laurafries.com/archives/secret_agent_bar/ ATLANTA, Georgia, February 11, 2008 I stopped off at Rusan's in Adventure Plaza (ok, Edgewood Retail Center) for some quick sushi before a wifi session. Sitting alone at the bar is always fun if you like watching the chefs go at it, and that treat was made even better when one ... http://laurafries.com/archives/carved_orange_slice/ ATLANTA, Georgia, February 7, 2008 An amalgamation of existing recipes, this dish came together in a snap. Fast, spicy and sweet - completely unlike the horrible Lipstick Jungle (which seems to exist entirely to convince me that I ought to be wearing a wide belt around the middle of ... http://laurafries.com/archives/candied_salmon/ I'm in stitches. Tied up in knots. Yeah, I could make better puns, but I'm suffering from water intoxication. via Craftzine blog: Watch this beautiful animated video for the Quebec, Canada group Tricot Machine (tricot means knitting). The video is for the song "Les peaux de lievres" where all 700 frames ... http://laurafries.com/archives/knitted_video/