Guilty as Charged

How to Make Candied Fruit Peel at The Hungry Mouse

Though anything in the NYTimes can generally be subtitled Douchey People Saying Douchey Things, I was charmed by (and envious of!) this piece about houses in Brooklyn. Something I miss about living in Fort Greene was walking by the rows of clapboard houses on Adelphi and Carlton…among others.

'With this doubt, I thee wed': Some know marriage will fail

Gee, thanks USA Today. As a child of divorce you’ve done nothing to quell my commitment fears AT ALL.

13. Sometimes, if you’ve been especially nice to me, I’ll tell the bartender, “Give me a frozen margarita, and don’t put it in.” That totally gyps the company, but it helps me because you’ll give it back to me in tips, and the management won’t know the difference.
—Waitress at a casual Mexican restaurant in Manhattan

30 Secrets Your Waiter Will Never Tell You

Nope, wasn’t interviewed for this at all.

This has been stuck in my head all freakin’ day.

But let’s dodge the question of whether abortion is murder for a second. What do pro-life groups want? Presumably, they want no more abortions to be performed. Some of them don’t even want anyone to use birth control, because every sperm is sacred. But people are going to have abortions even if they’re illegal, just like teens are going to continue to drink and my first-floor neighbor is going to continue selling weed.

This Baby should Be Allowed to Smoke Weed and have an Abortion: Sucky Thoughts on Sucky Laws

I went to college with this guy and his blog is actually pretty funny - it’s almost like the male version of Apocalypstick, but minus the angsty ranting about boys and one’s lack of acting career.

“THE FASHION PENDULUM IS SHIFTING AGAIN… THE HARD, AGGRESSIVE EIGHTIES INSPIRED LOOKS THAT HAVE DOMINATED SEASONS PAST ARE SLOWLY BEING OVERTHROWN BY A NOUVEAU FRENCH SEVENTIES ROMANCE RETURNING IN FASHION.” (via JAK & JIL BLOG)

clientsfromhell:

This is the discussion at the start of a client meeting:

“Before we begin, what’s your sign?”

“I’m sorry?”

“You know—when were you born? I like to know who I work with.”

“Oh, a Taurus…”

“Great! I see that in you. We can work together.”

Lets just say that was the only meeting we had.

True story: I’ve had the same thing happen to me. And to this day I STILL see the position relisted every 8 weeks or so.

reblogged from clientsfromhell

In Keene for Thanksgiving!

Bringing a boy home too. Thank God he’s already met the parents. Now we just have to worry about the brothers…and the friends…and the pug.

Wish me luck!

Who are these people who are such good friends with serendipity? These are the same people who meet the loves of their lives “when they’re least expecting it” and they always tell us that that’s how we too can meet our soul mates. “Just stop looking,” they say. “That’s how it happens.” So if I want everything does that mean I have to do nothing? A P O C A L Y P S T I C K: Do Nothing, Get Everything.

Natalie Merchant, “Kind and Generous”

Ever since randomly hearing one of her songs in a flea market (of all places, I know) over the weekend, I’ve been on quite the Natalie Merchant/10,000 Maniacs binge. My parents were actually huge fans of her/them when I was a little kid, and looking through YouTube brought back all sorts of memories that I didn’t even know I had.

Some others:
“Eat for Two”
“These Are Days” (performed at the 1993 Inauguration Ball!)
“Wonder”
“Because the Night”