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My most sincere sympathies to the Northeasterners on my flist: here it's sunny & 75, or will be by the time this entry is posted. [Errr, no longer true at 10:55PM, but it's still pretty warm.] I wore red heels today to celebrate.
I ordered a breakfast burrito from some fundraisers, and it was supposed to be delivered by the time I got to the office. It is now 8:47 and I still have no breakfast on my desk. Woe.
10:10AM: still no burrito. I nibbled part of a Luna bar I keep in my desk. But I want my scrambled eggs & bacon!
10:20AM: burrito arrives! I feel bad for grousing, because the guy delivering the burritos was late because he backed his car over a fire hydrant and spent the morning dealing with the police and engineers. Woops. His day: way worse than mine.
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I love How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman, and I make his veggie cassoulet with disturbing frequency (now with added chard!). Now, he's apparently fasting to call attention to the proposed cuts to aid for the poor being discussed in Congress.
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Linda Holmes is worried about Adrianne Palicki's boobs. To be fair, so am I.
My other opinion about the new Wonder Woman is that I wish Josh Freidman had been hired to do it, instead of David E. Kelley. Because Adrianne Palicki is utterly wasted on a Kelley production: she deserves better, and so does Diana Prince.
I can't watch this at work, but by way of the Buffistas, here's a vid for Re: Your Brains. Note: it's pretty gruesome and there's some self-harm in there, among other potentially triggery things. Funny, but very black.
Speaking of Youtube, the Atlantic has a piece on online video about the supernatural.
Oh, this is vastly entertaining: Ta-Nehisi Coates has discovered Shakespeare. Heh. Give us time, and we'll have him watching Slings and Arrows.
So Radiolab (one of my favorite podcasts) won a Peabody award! Go Radiolab!
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The Economist celebrates the 400th birthday of the King James Bible.
I guess I wasn't at risk of dying when those yahoos shot into the air on New Year's Eve across the street from me, after all. That's a bit of a relief.
Jessa Crispin has a pretty damning indictment of the industry producing writers, and the cultural expectations swirling about the profession. Storytelling may be instinctive, but book writing - whether novel or memoir - is not, and because everyone is now invited to be a writer, we have an industry built up to teach writing to the masses.
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Woe. I just got over a cold, and yet I can feel the congestion in my sinuses beginning to build again. I begin to think there is something wrong, because I have never been sick this many times in one winter before. Even though it's not winter anymore here.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
I ordered a breakfast burrito from some fundraisers, and it was supposed to be delivered by the time I got to the office. It is now 8:47 and I still have no breakfast on my desk. Woe.
10:10AM: still no burrito. I nibbled part of a Luna bar I keep in my desk. But I want my scrambled eggs & bacon!
10:20AM: burrito arrives! I feel bad for grousing, because the guy delivering the burritos was late because he backed his car over a fire hydrant and spent the morning dealing with the police and engineers. Woops. His day: way worse than mine.
*
I love How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman, and I make his veggie cassoulet with disturbing frequency (now with added chard!). Now, he's apparently fasting to call attention to the proposed cuts to aid for the poor being discussed in Congress.
*
Linda Holmes is worried about Adrianne Palicki's boobs. To be fair, so am I.
My other opinion about the new Wonder Woman is that I wish Josh Freidman had been hired to do it, instead of David E. Kelley. Because Adrianne Palicki is utterly wasted on a Kelley production: she deserves better, and so does Diana Prince.
I can't watch this at work, but by way of the Buffistas, here's a vid for Re: Your Brains. Note: it's pretty gruesome and there's some self-harm in there, among other potentially triggery things. Funny, but very black.
Speaking of Youtube, the Atlantic has a piece on online video about the supernatural.
Oh, this is vastly entertaining: Ta-Nehisi Coates has discovered Shakespeare. Heh. Give us time, and we'll have him watching Slings and Arrows.
So Radiolab (one of my favorite podcasts) won a Peabody award! Go Radiolab!
*
The Economist celebrates the 400th birthday of the King James Bible.
I guess I wasn't at risk of dying when those yahoos shot into the air on New Year's Eve across the street from me, after all. That's a bit of a relief.
Jessa Crispin has a pretty damning indictment of the industry producing writers, and the cultural expectations swirling about the profession. Storytelling may be instinctive, but book writing - whether novel or memoir - is not, and because everyone is now invited to be a writer, we have an industry built up to teach writing to the masses.
*
Woe. I just got over a cold, and yet I can feel the congestion in my sinuses beginning to build again. I begin to think there is something wrong, because I have never been sick this many times in one winter before. Even though it's not winter anymore here.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.