hello, my flist. today is hannah glasse's 310th birthday. she wrote a cookbook that was notable for being written for normal people rather than professional chefs, like an eighteenth-century joy of cooking. neat!

in 1891 an african choir from south africa toured britain, even performing for queen victoria. have some photos of three of the ( Read more... )

so today was a. earth day, and b. a lot of science marches and rallies. boston just had a rally, on account of they opted not to march, and while there seemed to be a lot of people there, i think there would've been more if the weather had been better and maybe a march was planned. that said! we couldn't hear most of the speakers (i went with tamalinn ( Read more... )

i'm watching the daily show and trevor noah is having a lot of fun with size euphemisms and the crowd for trump's inauguration. possibly the only good thing to come out of the inauguration. (i missed it entirely. i had other shit to do on friday. like, you know, travel ( Read more... )

hi flist, i'm home. (actually i came back yesterday but my sister and i went to see moonlight and i didn't feel like updating when i got home.) florida was sunny and warm and beautiful and i ate fish and walked around and helped build an ikea dresser and did not actually help at the food festival at my parents' temple but i did eat blintzes and, ( Read more... )