I'm back on the ol' Brooklyn couch, and it feels pretty good to be home. Not to say that I'm not already pining away for the sweet blossomed air and generous spirit of Berlin! Along those lines, check out my new project documenting some thoughts from the trip: http://chachawhereareyou.com/

Lots of things have been happening and hence the absence of actual updates here, haha. Sorry about that. Where to begin?

• Over at Hightower Lowdown, we've launched a new weekly video series featuring America's #1 Populist. What more could you ask for? 2 minutes of Jim talking to you every single week! You can also watch it on YouTube, or subscribe to the show in iTunes.
• And for AlterNet.org, we relaunched the front page to be snazzier and brighter. Design was done by Design About Town, engineering by the ever-smarty Shawn and project management and OCD tweaking by me. Whee!
• I redesigned and launched the website for best-selling author Amy Bloom, who has been an absolute riot to work with. I haven't read her newest, but Come To Me was highly recommended to me by Bitch Magazine co-founder and feminista-extraordinare, Lisa Jervis. And it rocked.
• Lots of photosets from the last couple months.
• Um, I upgraded to Leopard last night, and so far so good. One thing that I called tech support about because I couldn't find an answer anywhere else: yes, Time Machine will wipe your external drive the first time you use it, but then you can continue putting other things on it after. It doesn't have to be a dedicated Time Machine drive, whew.

That's pretty much it. Holidays are a-comin' and I'll be up in Bingotown for a while, hanging out with the fam, and then back in NYC for New Year's. Hope all's well in the land of not-my-apartment!

I'm back in the picture-taking loop now that I've got a shiny new digital camera. Yippie! Here's some recent montages I've participated in…

The Zandt-Mänkze Family Reunion, 2007
(Here's my shots)

My birthday cocktail hour at Mo Pitkin's

My trip to Europe — Switzerland, Germany and the Czech Republic

UPDATE: Christine just sent me the most hilarious set of pictures from our IKEA trip, oh my:


Deanna's IKEA Adventure

It was such an exciting week! First, I was on CNN for about 5 seconds:

Then, I met Jason Alexander!

And then, he mentioned having my business card in his pocket at the beginning of the speech he gave at the gala we were all attending!

Tee hee. All thanks to Take Back America.