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nyt-picking

Posted on December 12, 2008
There is such a blog! It is all things snarky and good, and sometimes fun.I rely on the NYT for a lot of news, don't get me wrong. But on my hate list:1. Modern Love columns, although sometimes you can't tear your eyes away from trainwrecks of humanity...

name your favorite soup

Posted on December 11, 2008
...in the comments, and if the idea/ingredients appeal, I will try to make it and then blog about it. So far I'm recycling through beef and barley and corn chowder. TD doesn't like potato leek, alas.

Happy Birthday, Bryan D. Brown!

Posted on December 11, 2008
Happy birthday to my good friend, esteemed co-blogger, musical guru and all around good guy Bryan D. Brown! I confess, I don't know what the "D" is for, so I have fun thinking of possibilities like "Dashiki."I confess to falling behind on blogging his awesome radio show (this week's is really good), mainly because of end-of-term insanity and bizarre and untimely predilection towards wintertime diseases, but I will hopefully get around to doing a highlight list of bands Bryan has introduced me (and you) to that I now really like...

What is empowering? Choice is empowering.

Posted on December 10, 2008
Amber,As I am presently lucid and not in bed (what is up with the spate of bi-weekly malaises? I'm trying to get a lot of fluids by making myself thirsty through the eating of potato chips, but I can't say that's Dr. approved), I will respond forthwith...

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gender studies in your spare time

Posted on December 09, 2008
(Readers: the epistolary blogging experiment officially begins here until after the Inauguration: Amber and I started at her blog on 10/9, and wrapped up around 11/30, so I figure I've got until the end of January to host it here before we switch again...

love/hate

Posted on December 09, 2008
Hate:1. Justin Rice in movies. Bishop Allen the band is ok, but I fucking hated Mutual Appreciation, and this movie sounds like another exercise in solipsism celebrating the delicate epiphanies of the bourgeoisie (or hipstersie), and thus execrable.2...

"I'll study your gender." *suggestive eyebrow waggle*

Posted on December 09, 2008
Belle,Between Burke's warning and personal observations of the horrors of grad school, I'm not about to go, but that collection of syllabi is going to be immensely helpful. Thanks. I've been gearing up to read more challenging stuff of late: I started with a book that was far out of my comfort zone: prose-focused solely, plot and characterization incidental...

things i actually say out loud

Posted on December 06, 2008
As we're playing cards, and I'm shuffling:"I wish I could shuffle cards like Data in "A Fistful of Datas. That would be the coolest thing ever."Thereafter I resolved not to say the first thing that came out of my mouth, since it's likely to be extremely weird and nerdy...

random thoughts

Posted on December 05, 2008
1. I am really tired. Ok, that's not a thought. But I am so tired and my head hurts and so do my eyeballs.2. AWB's blog is on fire! I should blog like this. I think I used to. Hmm. This blog sucks nowadays, I know. But it's hard to get that personal and feel comfortable...

admin law in the news!

Posted on December 03, 2008
Everyone's favorite under-performing workplace safety agency is further undermined in the last days of Bush:The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job...

belle's challah recipe

Posted on December 03, 2008
I looked at 20 of them, and my fourth time baking, have finally settled on the right combination of techniques and ingredients for moist, tender, eggy, slightly sweet loaves. Following recipes blindly leads to dry, bland, olive oily bread, and disappointing your Jew-ish boyfriend...

why I oppose tipping

Posted on December 01, 2008
Look at Phoebe's experience! Look in horror!The check appeared suddenly while we were still eating, but I didn't take offense, because the same happened to the Latvian model and her date sitting next to us. (That this was a beautiful-people place is both the restaurant's saving grace and its downfall...

Google and Free Speech

Posted on December 01, 2008
Interesting article in the NYT today:THE ONGOING DISPUTE between Google and Turkey reminds us that, throughout history, the development of new media technologies has always altered the way we think about threats to free speech. At the beginning of the 20th century, civil libertarians in America worried most about the danger of the government silencing political speech: think of Eugene V...

practice makes perfect

Posted on December 01, 2008
We're going to a nine course Chinese banquet wedding on Sunday (his friend, not mine), and I'm trying out one of my dresses by trying to see if it feels comfortable after eating two large bean, cheese, pepper and rice tacos. Tostadas, really, since I can't even close the taco into a taco shape...

back and bemused

Posted on November 30, 2008
I don't know if it's because I smuggle back Vietnamese snack food whenever I visit my parents or because I'm on some watch list, but I always get the "your bag has been inspected" slip from TSA. Hmmm. If I don't get to have my tamarind candy and seafood-flavored chips, the terrorists win...

snack food reviews

Posted on November 30, 2008
I am very disappointed in the Trader Joe's brand Ridge Cut Sweet Potato Chips--not enough salt, not enough crunch, not enough anything. Strong sweet potato flavor, but it feels like eating a rice cake with higher fat and fiber content. Pass.I do, however, like Trader Joe's brand Ridge Cut kettle chips, lightly salted...

bean burritos

Posted on November 30, 2008
I didn't over-consume anything over the holidays (Thanksgiving dinner: one piece of ham, two pieces of roast pork, bits of sides), and perhaps only indulged slightly more than usual in potato chips. Despite the previous post, I don't actually snack much, although being surrounded by snack foods at my parents' reminded me of the snacks I do love and how much I love snacking, which is why I don't have snackfoods around and thus do not snack...

action flicks, california love, pork, and thanks

Posted on November 27, 2008
I babysat the first day here, and my six and seven year old are ubercute and tell me delightful stories and apparently do impressions of me in my absence. Today I hung out with the two oldest, a 14 year old and a 17 year old, and we watched Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk...

pho real

Posted on November 25, 2008
At my parents' house in sunny, hazy, warm Orange County. As soon as I got home, I ate a bowl of my mom's pho. I hooked up my 12" X61 to the 42" plasma TV they installed in my bedroom (which they keep for me), thinking that I'll move home and teach at a local law school as soon as I'm done...

New Annoying "Trend": Slow-blogging

Posted on November 22, 2008
And here I thought I was just being busy, sick, lazy, otherwise occupied with an off-line life, etc., but lo! There is a slow-blogging movement!:The practice is inspired by the slow food movement, which says that fast food is destroying local traditions and healthy eating habits...

Obama Killed Irony: Grim Melee Observed Sardonically by Hipsters

Posted on November 22, 2008
Breaking news from the NYT.

do you have a dog in this fight?

Posted on November 22, 2008
I wrote a post about education and intellectualism here. I was trying to roll up my sleeves and get dirty, but I am just too nice and believe too much in civility and collegiality. I wonder if there will one day be a war between intellectuals and anti-intellectuals, although what else were the last eight years?After Thanksgiving, the lovely Amber Taylor of Prettier Than Napoleon and I will switch venues and continue our epistolary blogging on Law and Letters, so that this blog actually has content again...

turn to p. 56

Posted on November 22, 2008
Following on Gowder's experiment to ?grab the closest book, turn to page 56, and quote the fifth sentence?, except that I am surrounded by books and half of my reading is in PDF:Left: "Marty's car was not there; the road was bare except for the dwindling backs of the other visitors, passing under a streetlamp now as they made their way down to the bus stop near the Administration building...

scientists: 1, anti-scientists: 0

Posted on November 20, 2008
(Thanks to KJH, caption: "Seen outside a Walgeeens. Maybe the owner was filling a scrip for someantibiotics. ")Well, I'm on the mend because of awesome antibiotics. I am very grateful for antibiotics. I do not abuse them and use as directed for the entire length of the prescription, but as a frequent sufferer of strep throat and other yucky bacteria-caused things (this is what happens when you're a sickly child who grows up to work in daycare in college and be a de facto au pair to your nephews and nieces), I am very grateful...

Guilty confessions.

Posted on November 20, 2008
I have some confessions to make. 1. I now have a backlog of two cooking posts, and I've promised Belle that I'll post them, but I'm completely unmotivated to do so. Perhaps I'll cook something tonight, and, by doing so, become motivated to post all *three* cooking posts that will then be backlogged? 2...

more random roundup

Posted on November 20, 2008
1. Passive-aggressive notes. They are awesome!2. Sleater-Kinney plays Wii Music!3. A feminist literary critique of that asinine abstinence-only-vampire-love story! She mentions Byron.4. The school of (cultured) life. "Changing society through culture and literature, philosophy and conversation...

looking for love in all the wrong places

Posted on November 19, 2008
In 1995, I placed third in the Ayn Rand Anthem essay contest. I recount this story as a mark of everlasting shame, a bright scarlet AR branded upon my bosom. Dude, I was really poor and I was socking my $2 a week spending money plus skipping lunch to buying books and classical music CDs in my quest for self-concerted cultivation...

random roundup

Posted on November 18, 2008
1. I don't get the appeal of these books (now a pro-abstinence, pro-vampire movie!), and I really liked Buffy the Vampire Slayer.2. Rehnquist's papers were mostly boring, occasionally illuminating.3. Stupid essay about the pathos of LOLCats.4. Accomplished, brilliant Michelle Obama celebrated for her Sir-Mix-a-Lot booty, decried for her momification (not quite convinced; I think M...

fun in the kitchen

Posted on November 17, 2008
An exceedingly fun twist on that traditional standby date "dinner and a movie" is to take a cooking class on how to make traditional Japanese dashi, ramen, and mochi, followed by a showing of the lovely movie Tampopo. Dude, I so did not recognize Ken Watanabe with hair and without Tom Cruise...

*sniff*

Posted on November 14, 2008
When I get stressed out by work, I have insomnia, sleep fitfully, wake up groggily, and have coughing fits due to acid reflux or whatever. So tonight I took a break, which I normally do anyway when TD is around, to watch a movie--Amazing Grace! It was good...

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