January 2010
29 posts
WatchAnd then I write something witty (or probably boring and unnecessary) about why I posted this video, mostly to validate the existence of this blog as more than just a place where I recycle someone else’s creativity.
Mcsweeneys: Inhuman Rights →
Turning a slippery slope into sledding!
Great minds...
New Frightened Rabbit video:
Old Strike Anywhere video (note the lighting technique at the end):
The difference:
I’m guessing the Frightened Rabbit fans paid for their batteries.
Posers.
Marmalade Fires - Mum
Put on headphones.
Sit...
“This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and...”
– Thomas Keller, The French Laundry Cookbook
Time elapsed:
Roughly 2 hours.
3 cheese raviolis.
Worth it?
Yes. Yes it was.
WatchWhile on the topic of The Weakerthans, I sang one of their songs a few months ago in a women’s restroom in bar in Gainesville.
Night Windows performed by The Weakerthans
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A while back I read an article in the Los Angeles Times about a cheap technique to modify one’s oven to better mimic the results achieved by an actual wood burning brick oven. The latter works so well because it gets super hot. 700-800 degrees hot. A home oven can’t get close to that. As a result, homemade pizza comparatively ends up simultaneously flaccid and overcooked, not crisp...
Codeine…Bourbon - The Great Explainer
A...
This is my parent’s cat:
She’s a very nice cat, amiable, affectionate in that she’ll sit on your lap while you watch tv, and she doesn’t seem to mind that my not quite two year old niece is obsessed with her in a big way, and frequently pets her (the cat) in that too rushed and poorly targeted way toddlers pet animals. Growing up we always had a cat or two around the...
A good goddamned point.
From Bryan Garner’s, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage:
goddamned; goddam; goddamn; adj. Strictly speaking, the first form is the only correct one. Yet because of the way this word is spoken—the final -d usually being silent—the latter two spellings commonly appear in print. And since the prose in which such expletives occur is almost always informal, it would be...
“You know those ultra-modern rifles, where the mechanisms of aiming far outnumber...”
– David Foster Wallace, Little Expressionless Animals
Fat for health!
About 7 months ago I bought Jennifer McLagan’s cookbook, Fat, ironically enough, while online at a militantly vegan coffee shop in Sweden. Aside from containing a recipe for the best roast chicken I’ve ever eaten, there is tons of information about the health benefits of eating moderate amounts of animal fats. To the French, this information would be painfully redundant, but it was...
The Outsiders - Modern Life is War
Even if you do...
The Moon is Down by Further Seems Forever.
Back...
When The Satirists Are Serious
I just rediscovered the Onion A.V. Club. I used to read it all the time but then I slowly stopped checking in, soon forgot about it in that way that it’s so easy to forget about things on an internet overfilled and too chaotic to concentrate, to wear a path in the undergrowth. But last year the writers over at Onion A.V. Club made a list of their favorite records of ‘08, and, while I...
