January 2011
42 posts
feastingonroadkill:
While we’re in a Jimmy Sham...
“The Silver Palate opened on Columbus Avenue in Manhattan in 1977, the same year...”
– From a Chowhound thread about people’s favorite Silver Palate recipes. Lukas pointed out that this would be a great audition monologue. (via thingsiatethatilove)
I have the Silver Palate Cookbook (inherited it from a friend’s divorce.) The recipes may not wow people with innovation anymore,...
I'm listed in Tumblweeds under politics, music,...
feastingonroadkill:
jhnbrssndn:
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #politics, #music, #dogs
Mr Feastingonroadkill is listed under ‘#Ugly Bastards’
Merci beaucoup tumblrverse.
Moi, #”deranged women”
SIMPLE THINGS PLEASE THE SIMPLE-MINDED....
…and now I’m up to 99 followers. (Pathetic.) Which brave soul will push the Tumblometer over to three digits?
“How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in...”
–
A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Fuck yes.
(via acafourek)
Fucking rights.
Yeah. This is my argument for why I teach only adults and not kids. How can you have a halfway fucking decent conversation without saying “fuck” a half-dozen times?
(via cvxn)
feastingonroadkill:
And where will she go and...
This New Yorker will not seem so random to some of... →
And I want to be Sheila McClear when I grow up.
“Whether or not there’s some measure there in terms of limiting the size of the...”
– Former vice president DICK CHENEY, who once shot a hunting partner in the face, voicing support for legislation that would limit the number of bullets in a gun clip, on NBC News.
Wow. Progress?
(via Newsday; sorry no link)
I read he’s considering/being considered for a heart transplant...
Things I Ate That I Love: Tiger truthbomb →
thingsiatethatilove:
It’s hard to think of a controversy that could be less relevant to my life than a debate about parenting style, and also I know that this controversy is old news, but I still can’t get Amy Chua’s assertion that “nothing is fun until you’re good at it” out of my mind. Far be it from me to say…
That woman is soooo wrong she literally makes me ill.
Getting good at...
The Doree Chronicles: Favorite New York Fiction,... →
alexbalk:
markcoatney:
doree:
- Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy - Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City - Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote, Summer Crossing - John Cheever, The Collected Stories - Junot Diaz, Drown - Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the…
Winter’s Tale, for sure.
Winter’s Tale is my favorite novel of...
The return of Ruby →
vruz:
Just when it looks as if things cannot get worse for Silvio Berlusconi, they do.
Earlier today Italy’s beleaguered prime minister learnt that prosecutors in Milan had formally made him a suspect in an investigation into alleged juvenile prostitution. Although the age of consent in Italy is 14, it is an offence to pay for sex with a prostitute aged under 18. According to a statement from...
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via landlessness)
Sylvia, if you’d only learned to drink and throw a punch, your horizons would have been significantly widened. Moral of the story: stay out of Ivy League schools.
“If you don’t have grammar, you don’t have sense,”... →
Wingnuts who think that grammar is another form of government control…..
misterhippity:
Forgive me for posting multiple kid pictures today. The only excuse I can offer is that I don’t own a cat.
That’s ok. She’s cute, and I’m sure she doesn’t shed.
They all come with the double barrels of a Low IQ... →
Jimmy Breslin, writing in Harper’s, in September, 2010.
…civil rights activist Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.... →
As we mourn the murder of a nine year old girl, let’s not forget that many other people, and children, have died as a result of domestic terror attacks (what else do you call the activities of the Klan and their friends?) I was 8 years old when the 4 little girls were massacred at Sunday services in Birmingham, Alabama, in September 1963. I was old enough and (thanks to my parents) well...
“This is just a quick musing, but it’s worth noting the extent to which political...”
– Jamelle Bouie, The American Prospect, January 4, 2011, 3:05 PM (via feastingonroadkill)
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
The Watch List: The medication of foster children →
Nearly one in every 10 American children is diagnosed with a mental health disorder. Often the treatment prescribed is medication, and often the medication is heavy-duty — so-called antipsychotic drugs.
In this report, you’ll see that foster care children are prescribed drugs at a rate much greater than that of other kids. Concern over their well-being — not to mention the amount it costs to...
Clients From Hell: I work for a company with a CEO... →
clientsfromhell:
I work for a company with a CEO whose never around. He’s either traveling or held up in his office for extended periods of time with the marketing director. As a junior designer, I’ve only spoken with him once. Two weeks ago, I heard from the marketing director that the CEO was really happy with…
The problem? He wanted it rotated 180 degrees. I told him I couldn’t help...
Video of the attack on Charles and Camilla's car... →
raincoaster:
You’re not REQUIRED to cheer, but you may.
Yes, and they’re asking people who recognize the bloodthirsty protesters to rat. So I think everyone should flood the Metropolitan police with phony reports. Oh, no I don’t. That would be illegal.
Wait a second.
inothernews:
In re: the Great iPhone Alarm Clock Fuckup of 2011 — how many people actually had to get up on a Saturday morning, on January 1st no less, to go to meetings?
Well, I think the point is that….if you had to get up on New Year’s Day, you really had to get up, because pretty much only essential services (cops, health care, transit, etc.) or service jobs (restaurants,...
James Gorman on Eating Invasive Species →
cvxn:
There’s a new shift in the politics of food, not quite a movement yet, more of an eco-culinary frisson. But it may have staying power; the signs and portents are there. Vegans, freegans, locavores — meet the invasivores.
They had me until they mentioned Canada Geese. Invasive or not (and they are both invasive and annoying), they’re still a protected species, and in some circles here...
Hundreds of dead birds fall from the sky over a... →
Well, the first thing I’d do would be check out the whereabouts of Shaun Ryder (of Happy Mondays). (re: 24 Hour Party People).
December 2010
49 posts
“Because of the bad road conditions the Almighty has made, any gay activities...”
– Pat Robertson, who claims that God created the blizzard currently battering the Northeast “to punish Americans who were planning to drive to do something gay.” (via ryanedwardmiller)
vruz: if he really did that, the almighty is a total bastard.
(via vruz)
Uh….It’s a joke. The...