March 2009
“Excuse me. No disrespect. But you are the power, kingdom, and glory of God.”
– Man on subway. So I’ve got that going for me.
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Would you take your husband's last name?
(Here’s my take.)
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Nora [your name here]
Until relatively recently, there was no way in hell I’d change my name for a man/marriage. My birth-mother didn’t and neither did my adopted mother.* But then it started to creep into my thoughts: maybe I wouldn’t mind taking a man’s name as a romantic gesture, as a pledge of allegiance, as a step toward the oneness of our future family. To be honest, part of this is the...
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"Farmers refer to the victims as 'blood sweaters,'... →
Forgive me if you’re eating lunch as you read this.
A mysterious disease is rampant in Germany’s cattle barns. The afflicted two-to-three-week-old calves begin bleeding massively and are often dead within hours. More than 100 cases have been documented throughout Germany, most of them in Bavaria, but the number of unreported deaths is believed to be much higher. Cases have also been...
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The Bacon Takedown on Good Morning America →
This is hipster heaven (or is it hell?): a beer hall in Williamsburg clogged with $900 strollers and more goofy uses of bacon than you can shake an iPhone at. It was an absolute mad house (the 300-person line wrapped around the place twice and took about 90 minutes to unspool), but Matt Timms handled it all with aplomb. I wasn’t planning on it, what with the whole pseudo-vegetarian thing...
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140-character recipes →
Twitter is awash with food writers and chefs…
Maureen Evans: “Stout Ice Cream: heat to boil 2/3c stout/2T molasses; cool. Beat 4yolk/6T sug; +c milk&cream/stout. Freeze/mix frequently~5h or use machine.”
Grace Piper’s Best Baba Ghanoush, transmitted over two tweets: “Best Baba Ghanoush Halve 2Eggplants rubwithEVOO RoastCutSideDown 400degrees tilSoft...
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8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet... →
dihard:
Don’t forget Earth Hour! Turn your lights off tonight from 8:30-9:30pm.
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Isn't it ironic?
President Sarkozy has a humidor engraved with “HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE” and a picture of Che Guevera.
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Watchcelebzaredum:
Rachel Maddow calls out Jimmy Fallon’s girly drinking habits and mixes up a cocktail on his late-night show.
M. and I have decided that we are going to lure Rachel into our lives, and we are going to do it through cocktails.
But here’s the rub: I have a feeling they would become fast friends, trading leads on obscure bitters and debating the relative merits of some byzantine...
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Thursday [not pictured]: improptu spring feast by Akiko and Cathy. Dinner table argument about race in America. A half-round of “Two Truths and a Lie.” Broken glass. Too tired to find my way home in the rental car. Lost in Brooklyn.
Note: woke up at 6 am to drive to Willimantic, CT. Exhausted.
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Anti-teenager pink lights highlight acne →
Considering that acne has been linked to clinical depression, this seems both cruel and counterproductive.
“Residents of a Nottinghamshire housing estate have installed pink lights which show up teenagers’ spots in a bid to stop them gathering in the area.
Members of Layton Burroughs Residents’ Association, Mansfield say they have bought the lights in a bid to curb anti-social behaviour. The...
Pahtnerships & big idears
New Englanders really have a love/hate relationship with the letter R.
I like the way you work it
I took M’s iPod for the drive through CT this morning and listened to his playlist “Noor” — Arabic for “light” and the root of my name. It has “That Teenage Feeling,” “You Are Too Beautiful,” and “Everyone’s In Love With You,” but I think I’m most flattered by the inclusion of “No Diggity.”
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A Day at Queens County Farm Museum →
This weekend, Cathy visited the good people and animals of the farm.
And she got to a tour from my, er, “crush”!
This pleases me very much.
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Hallelujah
I just found out I will have $9,000 coming to me by mid-summer (for work). After evil NY taxes that’ll be like $5,000 — and I still have a lot of bureaucracy to deal with before it’s all in my hot little hands — but thank you, Jesus. My ass is saved.
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MTA votes to increase fares →
Let’s keep this in perspective. This is a bargaining move. Now we see if the governor will come to the aide of the MTA with the state’s stimulus money, as he has said he wants to do.*
Look at it this way: it would look pretty bad if, at a time of financial harship for many New Yorkers (myself included!), the state-controlled MTA asks commuters to spend an extra $1 a day just to get...
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Labor Agency Is Failing Workers, Report Says →
In a report scheduled to be released Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office found that the agency, the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, had mishandled 9 of the 10 cases brought by a team of undercover agents posing as aggrieved workers.
In one case, the division failed to investigate a complaint that under-age children in Modesto, Calif., were working during school hours at a...
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Michael Pollan's 7 rules for eating.
(Via grapefruite, peterwknox, lizlemon, somuchsass.)
1. Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. “When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can’t pronounce, ask yourself, “What are those things doing there?” Pollan says. 2. Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can’t pronounce. 3....
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“Only the shallow know themselves.”
– Oscar Wilde