Marie Elizabeth
I'm sorry to report that Marie Elizabeth -- who helped me start this blog -- is no longer going to be able to work with me.
I guess if you want to have something done right, you have to do it yourself. That's truly a cliche, but I'll be doing the posting directly myself now.
I guess that's what George Bush is thinking about when he says that things are "hard work."
Should I do some "hard work" today?
Frugal Luxuries or Luxurious Frugality
Augusta Tooth likes luxury. Yesterday, after a long day at the nonoffice,
Trader Vic's called.
If you get there before 6 p.m. -- or is it 7 p.m. -- they still have happy hour, that often now
verboten form of excess that has almost disappeared.... (I would write here about the health Nazis but
Bill Maher has announced an edict -- one of his New Rules -- against calling everyone a Nazi. He calls the rule Krystal Not.) (Maybe there aren't really health Nazis in Silicon Valley: maybe everyone became so consumed with either work or wellness that they forgot that escape -- in any form -- can be a welcome necessity. Perhaps Northern California is still engaged in a long-term cyclical reaction to LSD and the Haight Ashbury of the 60's -- sort of a sociological
Kondratiev wave.)
Two of the happy hour drinks -- a coconut, brandy, and gin concoction -- surely constituted luxury, and -- at $5 each -- frugality as well. Now it's the morning after and I still taste of the roasted garlic and brie that we somehow
had to have with the second round.
What will the day bring? How can I escape the garlic that permeates my whole being?
Greetings
This is the first blog of Augusta Tooth. I am Augusta Tooth.
Actually, Augusta Tooth is the pseudonym that my sisters and I thought up years ago when we were telling my mother that she needed another name to publish under--which since she was writing books about religion and classical music wasn't really necessary.
Why am I writing under a pseudonym? I like the idea of revealing all, but I like the idea of anonymity as well. When you are psychically taking your clothes off, it feels good, but do you want to deal with the fallout from it?
This will also be a good way for me to get to know August Tooth. Perhaps the real question is "Who is Augusta Tooth? What is she like? What does she care about?"
