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It's all coming together
I've just gotten an email from the USCA offering me a large single in Hillegass/Parker House for the summer (please god let me keep it in the fall...). So this is where I'll be living, at least for the summer. I have begun online reconnaissance of appropriately sited yarn stores. -
Pound Cake
Via Ravelry, I found Phoenix's glorious blog entry on pound cake.
Pound cake was one of my very favorite things as a child, especially home baked. I, too, share her horror that people try to pass of angel cake (or worse, 'diet cake' and variations thereof) as pound cake. This is a sin. Follow her recipe for proper pound cake in all its ( Read more... ) -
Race, class, and country music
The Gristmill today pointed me in the direction of 'One Nation, Under Elvis', an article by Rebecca Solnit. It is, essentially, an article about the current 'culture wars' in the US, which is less a war than a massive childish spat between groups of people who all think they're better than everyone else.
Says Solnit,
"Grubby, furry, childless pseudo ( Read more... ) -
we are now bourgeois capitalists
Last weekend Matt and I cleaned and decluttered the flat from top to bottom, which involved four full days of sorting and packing and scrubbing and moving and recycling. And a trip to Ikea. Why?
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election blues
Okay, so on Tuesday I went to cast my vote in the Democrats Abroad primary at Portchester Hall in London. The problem was, I was having a massive moral crisis. I was an undecided voter, for the first time in my entire life (and yes, this includes casting a vote for Dukakis in my school's mock election in 1988 and crying when Bush won ( Read more... ) -
good people are nice to animals. bad people aren't.
Okay, in the past week I've been running across what seems to be story after story about animal cruelty. Take, for example, today's article about the Ministry of Defence ending goat testing on submarines. WHAT? We've been giving goats the bends? For how long? Why is my taxpayer money funding this?
There was also a great New York Times story about ( Read more... ) -
bagsnatcher part II
So, as it happens, my bag was found. The nice dudes working at the train station (next door to the pub where the bag was stolen) called me, and I went to pick it up. The thief had dashed down into a quiet spot in the station, ransacked the bag, grabbed my iPod, and dumped the bag behind a fence in a kitchen midden-y type area covered in trash and ( Read more... ) -
damn you, bagsnatcher!
So there I was, in the pub, having a wonderfully pleasant dinner with Alison and my friend Ariana who is visiting from Boston, when a dodgy-looking guy brushes past our table. A split second later I check for my bag and it's gone. In the couple of seconds it took me to realize that my bag was, yes, definitely gone, the guy had ducked into the ( Read more... ) -
bali policy outcomes
Okay, for everyone who said to me "but wasn't Bali just a washout, anyway? Nothing really happened."
Yes, the overall declaration was watered down. But this post from global deal is a really good summary of the policy wins in Bali, showing how promising the Bali groundwork could be.