settling accounts

31Jan08

so a restaurant week/s wrap-up is in order.
tammy and i went to Vong last week and had an awful meal.  perhaps we had unfairly raised expectations because our/my birthday dinner at Spice Market was so freakin’ blow-your-mind good.  Vong proves that the issue is not what celebrity chef graces your menu, but what manager runs [...]

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homes that need a word

29Jan08

wiktionary’s portmanteaux
h/t tear

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not just a character attribute, anymore…

29Jan08

many uses, much fun to be had.

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cute

29Jan08

things my boyfriend says. h/t sasha/

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surrender to joy

28Jan08

the kids freakin’ rock.  somebody mashed up this lupe fiasco song (“paris, tokyo”) with a vid of Busby Berkeley dancing.  Rad.

also, “cheese“… you know…for NinaandAndy.
and the freakin’ t-shirt.  with the palms up.  double rad.  [Egyptian star midfielder Mohamed Aboutreika showed his support for the people of Gaza after scoring a goal [...]

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bait & switch

27Jan08

hip hop girls say haaaay.
dalton conley explains away sociology as combinatrics.
there’s an 8-year old who knows what Bill O’Reilly does not: rap doesn’t kill people, parents kill kids, who then kill people.
Shirley Phelps and her tour o’ hatred. There’s no way god has enough patience to deal with this woman on the reg.
Here’s some Lupe [...]

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what is 65 x 65 when you’re 9 years old?

26Jan08

the really charming thing about this website, which purports to show “books that make you dumb (or smart)” is that there is a transparent correlation between race and book preferences, and between race and SAT score, that is right there on the surface of the graph, and remains unmentioned.
and how did ‘dystopian’ become a genre?  [...]

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26Jan08

snicket was charming, and universally loved.  i know what i like.

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he is human, after all

25Jan08

Federer loses to Djokovic, pigs fly and hell freezes over.
says the Serb: it is an “indescribable feeling to beat No. 1 in the world, probably one of the best players the sport has ever had.” um, DUDE. Federer is like, one of the best athletes ever to live.
btw, this is part of [...]

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24Jan08

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