so last night, due to the extreme generosity of an old freind of mine, i went and saw anthony bourdain talk at the moore theater. now, i know people go absolutely crazy over him, and think he's the sexiest motherfucker alive, think he's a food god, etc. but i had no idea there were so many people in seattle who were so in love with him and took his ( Read more... )

i want you to shake dat ass for me
shake dat ass for me.
shake dat ass for me,
shake dat ass for me.

mmm mmm MMMM! thanks, kube.

caught my attention last night that pacino must be wearing a hell of a lotta black eyeliner in scarface. which is a great movie. 
just felt like i wanted to make that a lj observation. 
in other news, i dreampt in three languages last night. english, italian, and arabic. when that happens, its not that the dreams are so much better or happier, its ( Read more... )

KANYE WEST
BUMBERSHOOT 2006

...i think i need to sit down.

i'm slightly hungover. and right now i'm really missing having a hungover saturday, as in most of my weekends last spring: brunch, hashbrowns, ketchup, and coke, huffing and puffing back up the hill to nap and watch a movie with the ladies while inhaling their second hand smoke. then doing some bullshit work in the library and quitting at 4 to have ( Read more... )

been trying to find out a way to post yemen pictures here, but that's only something you can do if you pay. so, a bunch of pictures from the trip are up on my facebook profile, in "the yemen" album. look for the one where i'm about to make out with a hermit crab on socotra.
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is it wrong that i want to see curious george just to hear the sweet, dulcet tones of david cross's voice?

is it also wrong that i am not interested in hearing any new music that tries to imitate belle and sebastien or any other sad, timid little existensial band that makes up quiet songs about sad skinny chain smoking girls from cinncinati and how ( Read more... )

top 5 favorite....ever ( Read more... )

saveur, gourmet, nytimes wednesday food section all arrived pristine in my second package. i've been driving myself crazy with all this food literature...gourmet was a special issue on montreal and subsequently there was foie gras, bacon, cider, pork rillettes, crepes, ginger cake, cassoulet, gracing nearly every page. i beleive maple syrup was ( Read more... )

why did it take 2 days for one single bra weighing 1/2 a pound to get from secaucus, new jersey, to hodgkins, illinois (distance: 795 miles), when it took 4 days for my package the size of a small vacumn cleaner to get from the mailbox in magnolia to my room in sana'a (a journey of more than 12,000 [this is a guestimate because i just tried for ten ( Read more... )