July 2011
12 posts
“The balancing act between how much rule-making you like in language and how much...”
– Linda Holmes | NPR Monkey See | Going, Going, And Gone?: No, The Oxford Comma Is Safe … For Now (via fromoneroomaway)
love this - i do feel that the oxford comma is neat, useful, and pleasing to my eyes…
mom in china: the menu
Here is the second half of an email from my mom, in which she gives the menu from the university restaurant (she scribbled it down while eating), and then adds some entertaining tidbits:
Stewed Forrest Toad with Hawaii Papaya
Flagrant duck heads
Coir Raincoat Cucumber
Jellyfish in aged vinegar
Braised goose intestine with chili
White fungus in orange juice
Sautéed chicken tendon with hot spicy...
June 2011
54 posts
“You may form your super PAC and proceed.”
– The Federal Election Commission, approving a bid by “Colbert Report” host Stephen Colbert to set up a super PAC, allowing him to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on the 2012 elections. (via officialssay)
OH BOY
"I am pretty sure that approximately 99% of the...
What I actually yelled at my sister this morning.
Her rejoinder: “Who cares! We used to take baths together when we were little!”
Ugh. We are in our 20s. Her boyfriend lives with us. Am I the crazy one? This happens fairly often, even when friends are over, and even though I have even given her multiple bath robes. I think she might be getting better about it though?? Please LORD?!
mom in china, day 1
Email I just got about my mom’s first day in China (she writes to inform AND entertain!)
Hi, now that we have actually seen something I can also report on something. We visited the Summer Palace today, which is in an vast park around large lake (we walked all the way around it!) containing an enormous boat made of marble (the dowager empress Cixi a century ago decided to bankrupt her...
last night, around one am
I got a call from a certain “friend.” It went something like this (I was pretty much asleep):
Me: uhhh hi?
J: Hey, what’s up? Uh, it sounds a lot like I just woke you up…
Me: Oh, no, don’t stress it…what’s up?
J: Oh, I looked at the time, and I was like 11, that might be late for her, but…
Me: uh, I think it is later than 11, but uh…no...
“On Twitter you follow people you wish you knew, instead of people you used to...”
– Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone (via aifestival)
Facebook burn/I might someday actually start tweeting
best, easiest smoothie ever.
also full of protein. approximately 23g’s!
Upon opening some plain greek yogurt, I thought to myself: this could be so much more. AND I had managed to buy frozen fruit this week.
So, I eyeballed the measurements as I am terrible at using any kind of measuring devices/recipes, but here are some potential measurements. Just trust your eyeballs.
1/2 cup fage greek yogurt (fat filled or...
great travel updates from my mom en route to...
Lifted from various emails:
…So far entirely uneventful. We are sitting in Copenhagen, waiting for our next flight. But I did get a message that they are nominating me for some other prize at the university! lots of love from this country where people make very strange sounds in their throats, —mom
…Well we are here in Beijing. We can’t exactly report on having seen...
North Carolina boasts more craft breweries than... →
in-north-carolina:
A list of craft breweries in the state—from Asheville to Kill Devil Hills and beyond.
perhaps people don't dig middlebrow because it... →
on marriage →
jdelam: Hilton Als on gay marriage.
Here is the 1923 poem.
hey, jde, will you marry meee?
Your Nutritionista: 10 Exercises Myths that Won't... →
nutritionista:
I’m SO EXCITED someone finally put all of these in writing, together. Burn these into your brain, people. Apparently CNN.com asked exercise physiologists, trainers, and nutritionists about their most hated exercise myths, and their answers? Are ON POINT.
(via CNN, found via …
