January 2010
1 post
Does this not sound like an Onion headline? →
October 2009
5 posts
No surprise here: reduced-fat cheese just doesn't... →
I was surprised, however, that more of our collective saturated fat intake comes from cheese than from red meat. Hmmmm.
McDo? →
(Somehow, I don’t believe that “McDonald’s is now seen as fully part of the French agricultural community.”)
Sound familiar? →
“All I want inside a car is music. When a favorite old song comes on the radio, I...”
– Amy Hempel, from Tumble Home.
“Farther up the coast is where you have to go for stuffed plush whales and orange...”
– from Amy Hempel’s The New Lodger.
September 2009
2 posts
“The text is a tissue of quotations and the writer can only imitate a gesture...”
– (Barthes)
March 2009
1 post
“In fact, it’s a good rule of thumb to know that white people like anything that...”
– Stuff White People Like.
February 2009
2 posts
Cute! Covetworthy! →
January 2009
10 posts
Superbowl cuisine →
I haven’t tried these, but I’m seriously considering it.
“If you spent six or seven years and hundreds of thousands of dollars getting a...”
– James Jacobs, president of Macomb Community College in Michigan, on the part-time jobs his college is offering many teachers. (New York Times quotation of the day.)
December 2008
6 posts
Tonight, we get a leap second. →
1,001 Things to do with Bacon →
So good.
World's Largest Tater →
October 2008
1 post
August 2008
6 posts
Know thyself? →
Psych Central’s list of the best online psychology tests.
"What we used to call cheap isn’t cheap anymore.” →
Soul food restaurants dying out in Harlem.
May 2008
2 posts
April 2008
8 posts
Barbaric, Classical, Solemn Something happens in the stickerbushes the day of my first kiss, a baseball game under black clouds of smoke. The Garden State Racetrack burns down as Mary Prate clocks me from the bleachers. She chases me into the clubhouse, she smells the scallion on my breath. Mary consoles herself in our passion play. She plants them on me as racehorses choke off in Cherry Hill....
February 2008
3 posts
December 2007
6 posts
