I have the biggest craving for London food right now. I would just about kill someone for an aero bar, a few digestives, and a sandwich from Pret. Straight up cold. blooded. murder.

The new Rachael Yamagata album is NOT getting the promotion it deserves. I wouldn't even have known she was releasing a new album last week if I wasn't such a diligent music fanatic. And that would have been a shame because the album is incredible. Check it out. You won't be sorry.

The first single:

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My great-grandmother lived through the Great Depression. She doesn't talk about it much, but when she does, she always says, very simply, "I never once felt poor with that man sitting beside me." She talks about my great-grandfather going down to the church to cook breakfast for those in the community who had it the hardest. She talks about ( Read more... )

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Holy crap, I am starving. It's been a while since I've been on the "one pack of ramen a day because I'm too poor to afford anything else" diet ( Read more... )

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My heart is telling me to stay. My gut is telling me to go. My head is somewhere in the middle.

What do I listen to?

In the past, I've always gone with my gut. But this time I'm just not so sure.

Brilliant. From Margaret Cho's blog:

I’m a Christian, you FuckersAll kinds of Christians are getting mad about my Sarah Palin comments, and it is pissing me off ( Read more... )

The Dresden Dolls have broken up.

I've seen this coming for a good long time, but that doesn't make it any less traumatic.

It's a good thing Amanda Palmer's solo album rocks as hard as it does or I would be completely heartbroken.

Is there nothing right in the world anymore? I'm blaming this on the Republicans too.

"Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves."
-Eve Ensler

I have never heard anything that so brilliantly sums up my feelings about Fundamentalism.

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