'Random Stuff' Category
Food around the world
What the World Eats, Part I is a photo essay documenting what 15 different families around the world eat during an average week. It’s from the book Hungry Planet, which features many more families and apparently deals in some detail with their lives and their relationship with food. It doesn’t sound like it’ll be all […]
How many can you guess?
I read about this quiz on Language Hat and went promptly attempted it to see how many of the 100 most common words in the English language I could guess in 5 minutes. I got 54 and just about all of the ones I didn’t get were so obvious, but only when I had them […]
Fourteen Passive Aggressive Appetizers
Having people over that you’d really rather not? Or just feeling a teensy bit, you know, vindictive? Trust the New Yorker to be able to tell you what to do:
4. Blend fresh crabmeat with diced avocado, scallions, and a dollop of mayonnaise for a canapé topping so delicious that it will take your guests a […]The Onion gets it right…again
I strongly suspect that all the real news is to be found in comedy and that the stuff passed off as straight news is actually a huge joke. Anyway, this made me giggle.
Novelists Strike Fails To Affect Nation Whatsoever
Nor has America’s economy seen any adverse effects whatsoever, as consumers easily adjust to the sudden cessation […]21 Accents
Yes I should be working…
Chick Does 21 Different Accents - Watch more free videosOh noes! I haz succumbed!
Moving time
As the post title might have told you, we’re moving! We just did the requisite signing and I’m about to book the movers and then the sorting shall begin. I’m really excited. I absolutely love moving (and yes, I have been told I’m not right in the head already, thank you). How much do I […]
Memory Meme
Penni’s guest-blogging at Inside A Dog this month (twice the fun!) and did an earliest memory meme, so I’m picking it up too. Hey, I should be blogging and writing and am doing neither at the moment, so this is a good thing. Seriously.
My earliest memory is of sounds - my father brushing his teeth, […]Here comes summer - and this time I’m ready, punk
Even though I’m dreading the trip to the library that I have to make in just a bit, I think I might not be entirely unhappy about the coming of summer. I generally like the end of the year, and I generally dislike the heat. Of the two though, it seems my fondness for the […]
Thursday music
The Indigo Girls are coming here and doing a free performance thingy at Readings the ONE day I can’t make it. But I found this little gem on YouTube. Remember when videos were fun?