January 2009
35 posts
My roommates store some baking sheets and pot lids in the oven, which does get used, after removal of 100 pieces of cookware.
You would hate that mid-century green oven come moving time.
cakeordeath:
You know the chick-lit cliche about women using their ovens as storage, because they’re too cosmopolitan/freewheeling/self-centered to care about cooking? They usually store their shoes in them,...
Pets vs. Pedipaws →
I could never even hold my cat like the Slate people are holding theirs. Nobody puts Metro in a corner!
thatgirlcaneat:
Slate V - The PediPaws Pet-Nail Clipper, Reviewed
this has nothing to do with food, but i was curious if it actually worked. best part: watching animals fight the weird humming nail clipper. :)
So I guess I live in New York now
People sure are proud of themselves for living here.
Downturn has people buying less toilet paper →
Even less than when everyone was on Atkins?
If Karm City Was a Place We Would Buy A House...
Get a room, you guys!
crumbler:
Have you ever woken up one day to find out that Oprah has designated you one of her favorite things? Well, that’s pretty much how we felt this morning reading Myke’s kind endorsement of the old Crumbler Tumblr.
Karm City is one of the granddaddies of the Tumblverse and has always impressed us with its vibrant mix of posts, from Junot Diaz’s cursing problem to...
On Aretha Franklin's hat
That Girl Can Eat points out that it’s not that unusual of a hat in a circle that most Tumblr’s are not a part of. I hadn’t thought of that at first, so thanks for saying it’s a church lady hat. But I had thought about how she was performing in front of huge crowd and so would wear something a bit exaggerated. As a friend put it: Actors don’t wear everyday makeup on...
Colicchio only chef who knows Heimlich maneuver →
Alice Waters flung herself into the banister behind me. She was shouting. “Does anyone know the Heimlich maneuver?” She ran back. This is not what you want to hear at a dinner party. Moreover, this is not what you want to hear in the room full of chefs. Don’t they teach the Heimlich at the CIA?
Forget the CIA, don’t they teach it in elementary school?
Did he really just say that?
From Politico:
If Obama were “serious” about changing Washington, Tom DeLay said, “He would announce to the world: ‘We are in crisis, we are at war, people are losing jobs; we are not going to have this party. Instead, I’m going to get sworn in at the White House. I’m going to have a nice little chicken dinner, and we’ll save the $125...
"That's the old dude who used to post about his...
alexbalk:
A middle-aged man has been arrested in a series of lower Manhattan commercial burglaries that netted him more than $50,000 in cash and merchandise, authorities said yesterday. Between last June 12 and July 5, Kirk Ruffler, 46, struck six times, mostly at restaurants and bars on Second Avenue or East 7th Street, cops said.
Lord knows it’s not the first blush of youth or anything, but...
Reasons I'm keeping certain items of clothing
Would be needed if I worked at Starbucks
Useful for funerals
Just try to keep hating The Songsmith now. →
Oh, hey, look, I'm a trend →
For a while last year, the downsized people I know went around pretending they enjoyed the “freedom” and “variety” of doing “a whole lot of interesting things.” Twelve months later, nobody bothers with that cover story anymore.
I do like the variety. I would also like affordable health insurance and sick days. Could the gig economy be what finally separates health insurance from employment?
“To help the body’s defenses, the best things are love and hugs, warm...”
– A doctor, in a story about how Vicks VapoRub doesn’t work. So, too all of you who avoided hugging me when I was sick a few weeks ago: You can suck it, just like BabsonLacrosse. (I’m looking at you, Mom.)
Today's dose of sadness
The Anchorage Daily News has a rambling story about a sex offender winning a lottery sponsored by a group that advocates for victims of sexual abuse, which you would never know from the headline, but that’s another post.
So sadness No. 1 is just oh, hey, the sex abuse of children makes me sad, as do the perpetrators of the abuse (and, yes, angry, duh, but also sad).
And sadness No. 2, from...
Favorite independent clause of the day
From a San Francisco Chronicle story on the troubled dairy industry:
Souza, who in high school bought his first cow that was headed to slaughter and turned it into a grand champion at the state fair, now has 900 cows, 240 acres and nine full-time employees.
help me help myself
molls:
So like, I guess I’m asking if anyone knows any sites where I can watch shows like The View for free/really really cheap and what I’m supposed to do if 9/11 pt. 2 the remix goes down and the internets break. Do ya know?
NPR for mass tragedy.
“At Bouley — where we would happily take our parents if they were still...”
– That line from a Wall Street Journal review of three restaurants, socked me in the gut this morning.
"Polka, New York" is surprisingly hard to Google
It brings up lots of results for dots. But someone in a city of 9 million has to have a polka night for our unironic, genuine enjoyment.
I did just realize that Blob’s Park was the whitest room I’ve been in possibly ever, though.
Added: Also, I am sure my friends are tired of hearing about how much I hate German food. It’s all the same color!
I am enjoying judging this woman, despite the... →
Highlights:
She met her husband at Burning Man
After a rocky first year of marriage, she informs us that now they will be OK forever.
My Twitter feed
(From earliest, to most recent):
ABC2NEWS ALERT: Mayor Dixon Indicted on 12 Counts
baltimoresun BREAKING: Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon has been indicted by a grand jury.
dumpkopf RT @ABC2NEWS ALERT: Mayor Dixon Indicted on 12 Counts
dumpkopf Also at the Sun! http://tinyurl.com/9nu5cy
sugarfreak I now have bangs.
maryvale The Baltimore mayor was just indicted in a corruption investigation.
I think she's the new "The Burg" →
Tuna casserole
I grew up in a house where casseroles were not served (unless you count lasagna, macaroni and cheese, and baked ziti, which you might, in which case I grew up in a house where three casseroles were served). My mother is pretty icked out by tuna casserole (thank you, Mom!). Once (just once!) she made something that contained spinach and probably cream, and had Ritz crackers sprinkled on top because...
thatgirlcaneat:
apartment therapy shared recipes for overnight yeasted waffles, which look SO DELICIOUS. but every time i see a good waffle recipe, i get sad because i don’t have a waffle iron.
Borrow one. There’s no way you’re going to be making waffles that often, and if you are, then you can buy one. I know someone who has one. …
Goals for 2009
karmcity:
DONE - Host a party
Oh, really? No, no, it’s just something caught in my eye.
Figuring out what a company is really worth →
“That is why adults in couples are friends with other couples. It’s like...”
– From some advice on Ask.Metafilter
“The transformation of the West Village has been well documented, from an...”
– The thing about that quote is that you could say that about most places, couldn’t you? It would be powerful if you were talking about, say, Baghdad and said, “A person is far more likely to be shot with a gun than with a camera.” (And even then, I’m not sure it would...
I wonder what will happen next
I am so thankful to Maryann for making black-eyed peas today. I need all the good luck I can get in 2009.
Good-bye, 2008. Good-bye, Baltimore.