311's "Hive" just came on my iPod party shuffle (directly after Alison Krauss), and I realized that it's been 10 years since the blue album came out. Yet I still know every word, and I still think "I'm all up in your mix like f***ing Betty Crocker" is one of my favorite lyrics of all time.
When I was in 7th and 8th grade, I WORSHIPPED that album. I am off to re-discover it now! Thanks!
I think it was the first album that I listened to every song over and over and over and over .... and it's STILL awesome. And it's one of the only albums that Patrick and I both love, so it gets a lot of play on car trips. Okay, that and George Strait's greatest hits. Go figure.
ooh! I read and bought both of Ruth Reichl's first two autoboigraphies. mmm... food. I'll wait for the latest to come out in paperback before I buy it, so that they'll match though. I'm on the library's waiting list for the latest one. I actually got to the top, but my dad for got to give me the phone message. !!
I'm not sure what the actual order they came out in was, but I've done Tender at the Bone and Comfort me with Apples. I've heard that Garlic and Sapphires is even better, but I haven't been able to get it from the library here either! I feel bad putting more than 3 books on my transfer/hold list at a time (for unexplicable reasons), so it's next up. Have you read Jeffrey Steingarten at all? It's definitely not as fast a read, but fascinating (and about food!) none the less.
you have them in the right order. I actually read several chapters of Garlic and Sapphires sitting in bookstores when I needed to kill time waiting for people, and indeed it's a great read. Dunno about better, since I thoroughly enjoyed the other two.
I have not read any other food writers, so I'll have to check out Steingarten.
I loved the virgin suicides. I bought it randomly when it first came out and have read it a bunch of times. I just read Eugenides recent novel Middlesex, which I liked, but to be honest I preferred his first book.
I ran an 8K in early October, and have another one planned for thanksgiving. I feel your pain!
Actually, I have Middlesex out of the library right now too. That's what prompted my interest in Eugenides - the med school book club is reading Middlesex for it's next selection. I'm reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy right now, and then on deck is Middlesex, Birth of Venus, and the Master and the Margarita (if I ever find my copy).
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311's "Hive" just came on my iPod party shuffle (directly after Alison Krauss), and I realized that it's been 10 years since the blue album came out. Yet I still know every word, and I still think "I'm all up in your mix like f***ing Betty Crocker" is one of my favorite lyrics of all time.
When I was in 7th and 8th grade, I WORSHIPPED that album. I am off to re-discover it now! Thanks!
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I have not read any other food writers, so I'll have to check out Steingarten.
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I ran an 8K in early October, and have another one planned for thanksgiving. I feel your pain!
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