Bookshelf porn
Posted in Better Half, books, good things, links on Jul 22nd, 2010
Bookshelf porn. I like this one, though it’s more art than bookshelf. Thanks to the Better Half for the link.
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No. Not Nuprin, but my anti-anxiety drug, a stronger one than I used to take.
It’s been a long several days, and I shan’t/won’t go into details, other than to say the following.
Crazy people are liars.
They lie to themselves about how much they can handle, until they just can’t anymore. In the meantime, they pretend that they’re fine […]
On writing and reading
Posted in adventures in retail, book snob, books, links, writing on May 31st, 2010
The Sunday Times Book Review has an article about a new book– a transcription, really, and I’ve read the advance copy, it’s well worth the read– of an interview between the late, great David Foster Wallace and the Rolling Stone reporter and writer David Lipsky as Wallace is doing his book tour after Infinite Jest […]
There’s a May 24 column from Pete Wells in the Dining section of the NYT about not having access to his cookbooks since they’re boxed up for a move. He relates a lostness he feels, not having access to those pages, yet talks about how, not being tethered to the recipes, he’s in some ways […]
Provincetown, 2010
Posted in Better Half, books, flickr, food, links on May 27th, 2010
We finally had a long-ish weekend away. We spent the weekend in Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod. There was walking– and eating greasy Portuguese sandwiches for breakfast including a custardy-yum pasteis de nata and fabulous fish and chips for dinner one night and another HOMGYUM breakfast oh, there was laughing and […]
Shakshuka and more of the poached egg chronicles (but Jenn, just add more feta)
Posted in Pantry cooking, baking, books, cooking, flickr, food, links, low carb, recipes on May 14th, 2010
Deb at Smitten Kitchen had this recipe for Shakshuka, an Israeli Spicy Tomato Stew with Poached Eggs that I really wanted to try. See, it looked really easy, a one pot dish that you built by layering flavors, and when the stew was basically done, you popped in a few eggs and poached them in […]
Red Sox Fans Are All Douchebags, aka Don’t Box Me In
Posted in YouTube, books, going to hell, just plain silly, links, music on May 12th, 2010
I go to therapy not far from Fenway Park and Kenmore Square, a land of ample metered parking. Usually. But it’s baseball season, and as I came out of my session, the SUVs were roaming like mad cattle, foaming and frothing and honking and worst of all, NOT USING THEIR SIGNALS TO INDICATE LANE CHANGES. […]
An ex-lawyer works in a bookstore…
Posted in books, good things on Sep 8th, 2009
I got the job. I start Monday. And I’m ridiculously excited about it, and not just because of those two lovely words, Employee Discount.
In some alternate universe where I was more blase or just a yuppie asshole with grandiosity problems brought on by graduate school I might be rolling my eyes at myself for being […]
Pretty tofu confetti: cleaning the pantry
Posted in Pantry cooking, books, cooking, flickr, food, ham sandwich, links, photos, recipes on May 23rd, 2009
Okay– I admit that my fridge and pantry contain ingredients that are not “average.” But I still have to clean the sucker out and use food up before it goes bad. Times are tough, starving children in Africa, it’s a sin to waste food, or you’re just a cheap Yankee like me– any way you […]
The Lingering Effects of Harry Potter
Posted in books, chains, good things, nerd on Feb 8th, 2009
I was browsing at the shrine to the “Twilight” vampire series at one the downtown chain bookstore that has a decent sci-fi/fantasy and poetry section and observed the aftermath of the Harry Potter books. I’ve never read these books, but I see people of all different ages and social groups reading them on the train […]