I'm addicted to this recipe for creamy avocado pasta lately. It's so easy and quick and yummy, and I love avocado so much. I don't use a food processor, I just use a fork to cream the avocado because it's easier and more rustic that way and still tastes just as good. (For a single serving, I use half an avocado and eyeball the rest of the ( Read more... )

IT IS HEROIC TO TRY TO STOP TIME
-Jenny Holzer

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For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
-Joyce Carol Oates

From a New Yorker non-fiction piece she wrote about being widowed.

one of the prettiest sad songs about the need for a cold heart

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one of my favorites from 'help!' -- lovely period mod details in this sequence. note chairs, colored walls, and recessed living room nook just for ringo and his tambourine. i could also write a story on george harrison being the sexiest boy w/ the crookedest teeth.

Kiss my ass global warming! It's TOO EFFING HOT.

a youtube man does an admirable david gedge impression for "swimming pools, movie stars," but ooerr, those high notes mister.

aw i miss the weddoes. i need to fish out watusi. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

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remember this song? perfect pop. it's making my day at 2 am. we have to cover this song in my band. and his hair! i want my boyfriend to have this hair. it made everyone look like david naughton back then. i will look so cute playing the drums on this one.

hooray! director todd haynes' (of 'safe' and 'velvet goldmine' and the dylan movie 'i'm not there' which i haven't seen) best movie is his first -- 'superstar: the karen carpenter story,' which was told using barbie and ken dolls but was later banned from public consumption by richard carpenter. luckily, it's online (ssshhh) hereit's a great movie ( Read more... )

eric ripert and tony bourdain would make excellent drinking (and post-midnight bone marrow dish-eating) buddies. i caught a great episode of bourdain's "no reservations" where he goes back to being a line cook for a day at les halles in nyc, his old aching back straining to reach for the sauerkraut and his failing eyesight squinting at the orders ( Read more... )

did you know there is a giant vortex of garbage that is twice the size of texas in the pacific ocean? it's called the great pacific garbage patch or the north pacific gyre. disturbing. i wish the pilot would point this out when i flew to the philippines.