May 2013
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Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two →
Hyperbole and a Half is back! Her post about depression was really eye-opening and wonderful.
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First Listen: Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film 'The... →
The soundtrack to The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann’s latest high-end refurbishing of a lived-in classic, doesn’t try to re-imagine Jazz Age tunes in a modern context. Instead, it attempts to transplant the sensibility of the 1920s to the hip-hop era, with genre-busting collaborations overseen by Jay-Z.
I haven’t even read The Great Gatsby, which I think makes me the worst...
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Microwave French Toast in a Mug
Remember when I shared my recipe for easy microwave miso soup? Well this recipe for microwave french toast is almost as easy, and just as fast. Not as healthy, but probably more delicious. It’s a give and take, you know? Bonus: It’s better than the french toast I make on the stove. No, seriously. The coating gets distributed perfectly.
Ingredients:
a few slices of bread (I used 3...
April 2013
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“We can go anywhere at any time in the universe! But it’ll probably be...”
– Community, parodying Doctor Who.
So spot-on.
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March 2013
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Lot's Wife by Gary J. Whitehead
Sometime soon after the embers cooled, after dust clouds settled, after the last strings of smoke, hoisted by desert breezes, cleared the air,
they must have come, people of those three cities remaining, to pick among the charred bones, the rubble of what was once temple and house,
stable and brothel; to kick at stones; to tug at handles of buckets, blades of shovels and spades. Later,...
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Praise Song to Stone: For My Father by Qwo-Li...
Praise sternum
cracked like mica after
truck’s impact
Praise teeth in
lower jaw sheared clean as
marble rushing
down his throat
Praise ghosts watching from
behind granite graves across
the street at the Rosebud Cemetery
Praise body arched like
sandstone illuminated by
headlights as it flashes through air
before landing on the other side
Praise dust that surges
as he hits...
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The Easiest, Fastest Healthy Recipe Ever:...
This is so simple, but I am writing it down in case I am ever foolish enough to forget it exists:
1. Dump whatever amount of frozen veggies you want to eat into a microwave-safe soup bowl. I used broccoli and green beans.
2. Add enough water to the bowl to cover about 1/2 to 2/3 of the veggies. Cover, and microwave for 2-3 min.
3. Add more hot water to the bowl (I heated mine in an electric...
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The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes →
A series of essays about the theology of Calvin and Hobbes. Super badass. Nuff said.
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February 2013
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Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 by Martin Espad
for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center Alabanza. Praise the cook with the shaven head and a tattoo on his shoulder that said Oye, a blue-eyed Puerto Rican with people from Fajardo, the harbor of pirates centuries ago. Praise the lighthouse in Fajardo,...
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Four Poems for Robin by Gary Snyder
Siwashing It Out Once in Suislaw Forest
I slept under rhododendron
All night blossoms fell
Shivering on a sheet of cardboard
Feet stuck in my pack
Hands deep in my pockets
Barely able to sleep.
I remembered when we were in school
Sleeping together in a big warm bed
We were the youngest lovers
When we broke up we were still nineteen
Now our friends are married
You...
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NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts →
“Our favorite musicians play a show in our office at Bob Boilen’s desk.”
Love this. Literally every show is fantastic.
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Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy
Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief. I am trying to be truthful. Not a cute card or a kissogram. I give you an onion. Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful as...
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January 2013
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Will & Kate: Before Happily Ever After →
I know this series of sketches isn’t exactly timely at this point, but I fucking love it. Hilarious. I think Allison Williams is better here than on Girls (and I really like Girls).
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Help save my favorite used bookstore in Cambridge!... →
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“I really feel like our whole lives no matter how low our self esteem gets...”
– Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalk with Me
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Official White House response to a petition to... →
”Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?”
….Aka this is awesome.
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Fred Armisen plays Ira Glass on SNL →
Ahahaha.
Can’t wait to hear Fred Armisen and Ira Glass co-hosting TAL this weekend.
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December 2012
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“You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to...”
– Hillary Clinton (via ceedling)
(via rookiemag)
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