November 2011
11 posts
Things I Have Written About
I said I would write every day and that is sort of working. I’ll just say, it works better when I have something to write about. Some of those things that are unfinished, unedited, or unsharable are listed here:
The National and how “Fake Empire” is their only song worth paying attention to, while the rest are really great background music
Mormon fashion bloggers and the true...
What's Wrong With #FirstWorldProblems →
ekf:
“All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.”
This hashtag has always irked me too, mostly...
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It started this weekend: the sound of spinning tires that cuts through the thin walls of my building; the sight of cars attempting to get up the hill, backing up and gunning it to no avail, then giving up and turning around. A pessimist might see this as a metaphor for life: you can keep spinning your wheels and it won’t do shit, man, something is always going to hold you back whether...
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Pros and Cons of the Friday Afternoon Happy Hour
Pro: One stiff drink and a scant selection of appetizers will leave you feeling ready for the deepest of conversations and also, a glass of wine
Pro: the food to drink ratio will facilitate easy-going ruminations on topics such as roots and their superficiality (or not), the existence of “non-voters”, and how to plan for the next five to seven years of your life
Pro: you will come...
“Somehow, one of humankind’s most practical, utilitarian inventions has been...”
– My piece about “invisible cyclists” was just published on Twin Cities Runoff. (via thedependentclause)
Whenever I read anything about bike culture I will always be reminded of the terrible article in [redacted local mag] where they put bikers into four groups, three of which were men, one of which...
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Turning Sad Foods into Delicious Soup
Part 1: The Sad Vegetable Bag
At all times you should have in your freezer a large ziploc bag. Your ends and butts of onions, carrots, potatoes, celery, leeks, maybe squash, probably not broccoli but you get the point - they will all go in this bag in the freezer, where they will stay eternally young but look sad, hence, sad vegetable bag. Their happy life as vegetables is put on hold until that...
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Happy November!
I’m here to inform you that I will not be writing a novel this month, nor will I be growing a mustache, nor will I be attempting to update my blog every day. What I AM going to attempt is to write every day for a concentrated amount of time (and it’s a really short amount of time, so short that I’d feel rather pathetic saying it) and okay, it’s actually only 15 minutes,...
“Finally, to those parents who are offended by our Day of the Dead celebration,...”
– Day of the Dead or Halloween? : The New Yorker 