October 2009
22 posts
Ahhh, Pete Wells gives a shout-out to the best, dearly departed food truck on the Penn campus: Sophie’s. Their meatball subs (did I call it a meatball hoagie then? Can a hoagie even be hot? I can’t remember) were perfect. They made them to order—none of that powdered Parmesan cheese crap—in an oven in the truck. Then one day, just like that, Sophie’s was gone, and...
Stressful Jobs That Pay Badly
News reporter is #4, just behind parole officer.
Guys, I totally overcooked the squash tonight! But the steak came out perfectly.
Frank Rich on Balloon Boy’s dad:
There’s also some poignancy in his determination to grab what he and many others see as among the last accessible scraps of the American dream. As a freelance construction worker and handyman, he couldn’t find much employment in an economy where construction is frozen and homeowners are more worried about losing their homes than fixing them. Once his...
The NYTBR has published a counterpoint, by Book Review editor Gregory Cowles, to Michiko Kakutani’s evisceration of Jonathan Lethem’s new novel Chronic City. Cowles writes approvingly, of a passage in the book, that it contains:
a wonderfully slippery list of references, at once dense and daft, as if Susan Sontag had written alternate lyrics to the R.E.M. song “It’s the End of the...
WatchThis video of a beagle puppy playing with a Rottweiler who’s probs 10 times his size might be the best video ever made, ever, in the world, of all time.
Experts Puzzle Over How Flight Overshot Airport:
”It just doesn’t make any sense,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va. ”The pilots are saying they were involved in a heated conversation. Well, that was a very long conversation.”
Or a very long blow job.
I love Mary HK Choi. On Ann Taylor (in which she finds she agrees with Cintra Wilson):
They still do some annoyingly LADYDRAG things like unnecessarily shirred collars on otherwise straightforward trenches but they don’t try to make cashmiracles from acrylic. In fact, they don’t DO anything particularly magical except make the trunks on their sweaters longer and make hardware on bags...
Part One of my Halloween costume has been purchased.
But I’m going to need a Bedazzler to really make it perfect. Does anyone have one I can borrow?
Here’s a nice thing about living in a neighborhood that still has stores from the Before Time. I wanted to make eggplant parmesan (parmagiana?) tonight, because lately I have been all about eggplant, and I already had the eggplant ready to go, all big and purple in my vegetable drawer. So. I stopped at Caputo’s on my way home and got a ball of fresh mozzarella, a container of homemade...
So the other day Sam and I went to the Shouts & Murmurs thing at The New Yorker Festival, and George Saunders read this piece, “Nostalgia,” from a few years ago that was so funny I snort-laughed. Here is an excerpt:
Same deal with violence. I remember how stunned we all were when the Cain-and-Abel thing happened. What, what? we kept saying. He bludgeoned his brother? With a rock?...
Was Gawker's Balloon Boy Buy A Good Investment? →
I love when Choire gets super wonky with numbers.
(via alexbalk)
Major Laser Fail
I joined Groupon a few months ago and have gotten a few good coupons off of it—a mani-pedi, a facial, a coupon to Caselulla that I haven’t used yet. And I know a couple people who have had their businesses featured on there. I’m assuming it’s basically an advertising deal, but I don’t know for sure.
Anyway. Every day they do a short writeup of the company or service...
Sad things: when the only new emails in your inbox are from TMZ and Yahoo! Entertainment.
Blog-To-Book
fimoculous:
Question: What was the first blog to book project?
Which reminds me of this:
The pseudonymous author of The Minor Fall, The Major Lift was particularly unreceptive. “What am I going to write a book about?” he replied. Even if positioning herself as agent to the blogosphere ultimately does little for Lee’s career, she’ll have no regrets. “I’m now friends with these people,” she...
Top Chef Crew Member Explains It All:
Tom Colicchio is a super cool guy. He’s not stuck up and will talk to everyone, and doesn’t complain about delays or having to wait outside in the heat. Gail is the same way. Padma… not quite. When a Japanese guy sat in her chair for a lighting check, she called him Morimoto and told him to get the hell out of her seat.
(via Eater)
