Tidbits

[mariness]

1. For the local foodies, or the unlocal foodies who happen to visit me, or local nonfoodies, or nonlocal foodies who happen to visit me, or just random people in general: new restaurant recommendation: Rendez-Vous, located in an utterly atrocious location without enough parking on Oakland Park Boulevard, but serving truly extraordinary French

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[mariness]

Apparently it's serious. Can you BELIEVE the part where she says she can't add? I'm like, lady, if you're ADMITTING that you're that stupid, why, precisely, should we be listening to you?

[foms]

If I ever get around to visiting my folks while they are being snow-birds, maybe we can go look at pretty gay boys without parking.

Razors, pff.

[mariness]

Are they in the South Florida snowbirding area?

[foms]

Medium Florida? Fort Pierce area. Not that it's likely to happen this year.

[mariness]

That's about, hmm, two hours from me in current car, perhaps an hour and a half in presumed new car of next year. So doable!

Of course, I'd think that this would be the year you'd most want to flee your current location...

[_val_]

Rendez-vous. I work right near there and it's absolutely a nice place. I go there for lunch occasionally and usually I spend much more money then I want because of all the wonderful choclatey baked goods.
I always walk away from there much fatter than when I got in. :-)

[mariness]

I went into a major sugar high. I think it's just as well that I don't work nearby -- my lunch budget would vanish.

[jackolantern]

It seems like both the WaPo and the NYT have made a point of publishing articles by ditzes that reinforce the worst sexist stereotypes. They may even get a little embarrassed about it themselves.

Impreza is boring? Well, that all depends on the specific model.

[mariness]

I did not, alas, try out one of the cooler models. My model was boring. The salesman said I should come back and try to drive it in the rain to feel the excitement, sigh.

But yeah: I'm not sure why both the WaPo and the NYT feel this need, or what they think it gains them.

[jackolantern]

I wonder if the WaPo and NYT are harkening back to their elder days of yore, when wimmins were in their place, before bloggers started staking out the sort of territories that their formerly-intrepid reporters used to claim as their own. Hey, it's a theory...

[dzuunmod]

She's part of a certain species of female columnist that's become apparent over the past 5-10 years that basically writes blog entries as columns. You know, incorporating their own lives and observations into whatever half-baked political or social theory they're writing on today.

Not to say that there aren't good ones out there, but Charlotte Allen may want to add "political columnist" to that list at the end of things that women just aren't naturally good at.

I kid. Mostly.

That said, I do wonder what the B section is in the Sunday Post, and what section it was that this thing apparently ran on the front page of.

[mariness]

I don't know. It was forwarded to me, and then horrified links to it began popping up everywhere.

But dear god, is she a terrible political columnist.

[dzuunmod]

And apparently we're not the only ones that think so.

[mariness]

I've lost track of the blogs that were uniformly condemning it or wondering why the hell The Washington Post would bother to print it -- and this includes baffled conservative bloggers, and even women who are arguing that women should return to the home -- but not because of stupidity or inability, but for family stability and happiness. Which is another argument entirely.

I think it's the "women watch Grey's Anatomy" that gets people (well, me) especially given that both men and women watch some insanely stupid TV. I mean, reality TV shows are not bolstered solely from the female audience.