February 2008
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Atonement
lenachen:
Still need to watch this. Who wants to go? Am I going to be disappointed having already read the novel and loved it?
Also, I’m trying to decide which Ian McEwan work to read next. Amsterdam or Enduring Love? Or something else? I’ve already read Saturday. Trying to go for something that isn’t/hasn’t been adapted to film, because then I’ll pretty much feel...
January 2008
Camel roasted English-style
Christmas Dinner During the Siege of Paris, 1870 As the Prussian army seiged Paris in the fall and winter of 1870, butchers began slaughtering zoo animals from the Jardin des Plantes for meat. The Restaurant Voisin prepared this holiday meal. -Stuffed donkey’s head -Elephant consommé -Camel roasted English-style -Kangaroo stew -Roast sirloin of bear with pepper sauce -Haunch of wolf, with...
File under: nothing new under the sun
Take a gander at the menu of one of the great feasts of history, some 2,700 years ago. What’s most striking is how modern it seems: “Sweet tarts of caramelized fennel served with pomegranate juice and raisin and honey syrup” sounds like something on any number of precious, overpriced West Village menus. Funeral Feast for King Midas, King of Phrygia (now Turkey), circa 700 BC ...
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Has anyone tried this no-stir risotto at... →
davidcho: It looks kind of really amazing. I also really want to try the arctic char and risotto at Market Table. I suppose by “tried” you mean, has anyone EATEN it. And no, I haven’t. But I’ve made Mario Batali’s “laid-back risotto” (some stirring, not much though) and it was delicioso. (I’m the anti-New Yorker. I basically never eat out. Why?...
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Elephants: they're just like us!
katespencer:
According to Wikipedia, the Republican party might want to rethink their party mascot (the elephant):
Homosexuality
African as well as Asiatic males will engage in same-sex bonding and mounting. Such encounters are often associated with affectionate interactions, such as kissing, trunk intertwining, and placing trunks in each other’s mouths. The encounters are analogous to...
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“Absent from this debate is any sober recognition that a Hillary Clinton...”
– The Billary Road to Republican Victory - New York Times
The Billary Road to Republican Victory - New York... →
Warning: not something to read right before bed. (Scarier than tales told by the Brothers Grimm.)
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World's most recession-proof economy? The Super... →
dihard:Rooms at Scottsdale’s 5-star resorts are going for $3,000 a night (four-night minimum), average price of tickets sold on StubHub is currently $4,227, and tickets to the Playboy and Maxim parties are going for $2,000 to $3,000. And lest we forget: the asking price for a 30-second commercial spot this year is about $2.7 million.
My favorite New Yorkers
… are the ones with a “Talk of the Town” piece by Mr. Hendrik Hertzberg. I’d love to sit inside his brain while he sips his coffee and reads the morning papers. I admire and try to study his deft persuasive prose, his canny ear for pathos and humor, his generally impeccable research, his control, his empathy for the human condition —- as in this excerpt from his blog...
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Another email from my friend Claire... it is sort...
mariahnotcarey:Hi there everyone. I just wanted to make sure you all know that a U.S. spy satellite has lost power and is falling back to Earth. It will be here in about a month. They do not know where it will hit yet, but they will figure it all out soon enough. Google the story. It’s sort of like, Wha? Love, Claire Claire is the kind of friend we all need in this big bad wolf of a...
Passage to India →
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Token 'Angry About My Dead Mom' Post of the Day
I know exactly how Kate feels. My mom died when I was 2 and a half. Mother’s Day lands during the school year; Father’s Day is in the summer: one more injustice in a long line of them, it seemed to me. I made the shapeless clay pots and the doodads dripping with dried Elmer’s glue along with my classmates, but it hurt like hell to know that I’d be giving it to the...
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Super Fudgy (& Light!) Brownies
These are the brownies my friends request again and again: astonishingly moist, and with just 3 tablespoons of butter and reduced sugar, they are (relatively) low in fat and calories. (One two-inch square brownies packs 145 calories and 6 grams of fat).
I’m not saying they’ll change your life, but they might.
½ cup alkalized (Dutch-processed) cocoa powder – best unsweetened
1 cup flour
1 tsp...
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$600 for you to jumpstart the economy!!!
Q: What will you spend your rebate check on? A: Stimulus. Lots of stimulus. FROM THE CURIOUS GIRL WHO TEACHES ME SOMETHING EVERY DAY: There’s a new plan in town - a stimulus package that will give $100B in tax credits for an estimated 117 million families by Spring. It awaits the House’s approval in early February, but once passed you could be rolling in the dough. Here’s how.. ...
Delirious Me
I feel like Billy Clinton nodding off at a Babtish church. I am laughing intermitently, unfocused, my personality is starting to get cross-hatched and blurry at the edges, and I’m faced with a whole lotta doowie-doo to do: * Tomorrow I enter the imposing doors of the Conrad Hilton Library of the CIA: I am tasked with unearthing the lodestone and guiding star of deep-fat frying in American...
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“Q: Why should the modern, educated woman care about style?
A: If you put all...”
– Lesley M. M. Blume: Woman Of Style: Katherine Johnstone, Vintage Goddess - Living on The Huffington Post
Bush Cancels Event After Heath Ledger's Death -... →
The irony? The event was to promote an ad campaign aimed at preventing prescription drug abuse. Now, I’m not saying the fed’s PSA is going to curtail what is a scary ass epidemic (too strong a word?) in this country among 20-somethings, but I wish I was a fly on the wall when they decided to ditch the event. Too timely?
Living's for losers. I blog. I am.
This is from a friend… Me likey! Hi All — Inspired by the tag line on Michael Pollan’s new book — Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants. — Tara Parker Pope at the NYTimes started a contest to see what wisdom people could distill into seven words. She limited people to the two, three, two word format that Pollan used. I decided to start our own contest for seven words...
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Prescient? →
“Dylan was completely inspired by James Dean, and Heath has a little bit of James Dean in him, even physically, a kind of precocious seriousness,” Mr. Haynes went on.
Todd Hayne’s likening Ledger to James Dean: in retrospect, chilling, but then, if every young actor compared to Jimmy D died an untimely death, we’d only have, um, Tim Robbins, George Clooney, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and...
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