August 2008
The Omnivore's 100
This great list has been swirling around the food bloggers for a week or so and I’ve been meaning to post my own results. Below is list of 100 items that every good omnivore should try at least once in her life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a good omnivore should really try it all.
Here’s how it works:
1) Copy this list into...
Czech it out
I’m a sucker for displays of unfettered gluttony in movies, which is why I’m really looking forward to those promised in the new Czech film “I Served the King of England,” an epic comedy about a waiter in the fancy brothels of 1930s Czechoslovakia. The film stars Bulgarian actor Ivan Barnev (cheekily described by the NY Times as “a doll-like hybrid of Mikhail...
I decided to be responsible about it
I contacted Facebook Abuse to report the imposter profile. Here is the email I sent:
Dear Facebook Abuse Department, Today, after playing around with an online application that told me how many people named Alejandra Ramos live in the US (12), I decided to search on Facebook to see how many of the other 11 have profiles. Imagine my surprise when I saw that the third person listed, an alleged...
More from the Mad Men!
For fictional ad men from the 1960s, these guys sure do know their way around the Internets. After yesterday’s big to-do over the AMC-Twitter-MadMen scuffle, the Mad Men have come back (AMC was begrudgingly persuaded that it would be a good idea to let them continue Tweeting) and have expanded their web presence with a newly posted webpage, announced (how else?) via Tweet by @sal_romano,...
But what about the smoothies?
Typical. I read an article like this, and i quickly realize that I’m actually just skimming through it in search of more info about the Google smoothies in that picture.
And the point is...?
This story from the NY Times tells the nice little tale about a Brooklyn woman (Laurie Cearley, a “performing arts curator and a former food stylist”) who throws dinner parties “about once a month.” The article focuses on a recent party themed around figs, which the woman picked from a tree in her yard. Aside from the fact that this woman had a fig tree (and, perhaps even...
This one goes out transatlantically… (So...
Do you believe in Santa Claus?
I saw this tweet on my feed today:
“gezelliggirl This is 2008: my kid, who has just lost a tooth, asked me to look up the Tooth Fairy on Wikipedia so she could see photos of it.”
I love this because it’s exactly what I would have done if I were a child today. When I was 11 or so I looked up “Santa Claus” in the encyclopedia. I read the entire entry, concluding that...
“As Alejandra Ramos points out, it’s pretty ironic that the show about...”
– What Am I Doing: Mad Men ‘s Twitter-Related Kerfuffle
I gotta admit it: I *really* love seeing my name linked and quoted on a Gawker post.
Regret
I shouldn’t have waited so long to finish my Muxtape…
AMC Backs Off
“Don Draper’s back. On Twitter, that is. The fake accounts of “Mad Men” characters like Don Draper and Peggy Olson, created by fans but taken down at the request of bumbling cable channel AMC, are back up again.
What happened? Deep Focus, the Web marketing group that works for AMC, tells us that they gently nudged their client into rescinding the DMCA takedown notice...
AMC's Sad Men
Fans of the AMC show Mad Men are all a buzz on Twitter today over a bit of distress at the fictional Sterling Cooper office. For the past couple weeks, the characters from the show have been sending tweets from various Twitter accounts. They’ve interacted with other Twitter users and sent amusing messages that hinted or played off events on the show. This kind of 2.0 guerilla marketing was a...
““He popped open the Champagne and poured two glasses. He dipped his...”
– Trail of Crumbs, Kim Sunee
“He looks at me like he’s a spoon and I’m a dish of ice cream.”
– The Jane Austen Book Club
Fiction can be fun
Am oddly fascinated with the “Tweets” by the characters from the cast of Mad Men. Am currently following Don, Betty, Sal, and a couple others. It seems that they reveal hints about what’s coming up on the show.
“We have these fake queues at front of 20 stores around the country to drum up...”
– Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in Poland | Tech News on ZDNet
I have zero qualms about self promotion
Dear Editors, I’m new to Tumblr (I’d say about a little over a week old), but already I’m in love. I’m a bit of a blogging fanatic with two of the *other kind* of blog and a twitter account, but this…this is something else. And so wonderful! I’m always checking out your picks and noticed at the bottom a link that said “Want to get listed?” Well, my...
Because I was happy and it was sad
I saw Onegin last night. I requested it on Netflix a while back and promptly forgot about it. When it arrived, I was excited because I love moody, romantic period dramas with elegant costumes and poetic language. I wasn’t disappointed; it was beautiful. Hauntingly so at times. But I was surprised that I had a bit of trouble with it. See the problem—and really this is so not a...
Right On Schedule
Craving chocolate and sugar something awful today. Checked the calendar. Yup, just as I thought…
“Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of...”
– “On Le Bonheur d’Etre Bien Aimee,” Anne Carson
“Good night, sleep tight,
Don’t let the bedbugs bite.
And if they do
Then take...”
– Oh, I will. I will…
Uninvited
Am feeling kind of miserable right now. I discovered that I have bedbugs today. I’ve suspected it for a while, but never saw any and since my boyfriend hasn’t been bitten once, I figured it was just mosquitoes. But it’s not mosquitoes. It’s bedbugs. I saw one crawling on my bed today. I’ve turned my bedroom upside down. Literally. My mattress is hanging on its side....
The bedbugs are biting. Also...there are mice.
So I think I have joined those illustrious New Yorkers battling bedbugs. Awesome, huh? Here is the e-mail I just sent my landlady (who is really very awesome):
Hi [redacted], How are you? So I hate to disturb your weekend, but I have a problem and need your help.
All summer long I’ve been getting lots of what I assumed were mosquito bites all over my arms and legs. I’ve always...
Whole Wheat Cinnamon Hotcakes →
Good Advice
Chris: How are you? Off modified Atkins?
me: no, i'm still on it. Last week's funnel cake was an exception
Chris: Good. Cheat like hell.
Want to do this someday (soon...) →
