Milk Tongue

Like most our New Year’s Eve gatherings, this year is all about food. I like starting a new year with good food and this year, we went a bit crazy.
I’ve never had foie gras or caviar, so we got both.
About a week ago, my husband read a story about Akaushi beef (rarest in the world) […]

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I’ve imbibed an obscene amount of vodka this week. If I remember correctly (and I may not) there was a bottle of Chopin, followed by twice as much Grey Goose and then Absolut Mandarin. I’m really uncertain how much cranberry juice I’ve had - but I can say with authority, peeing has never been pleasanter. […]

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All I Want For Christmas
This combines a number of things I love - the music, one of my favorite modern Christmas songs (even if this version is sung by Mariah Carey), joyous/ridiculous public spectacles, random eruptions of dance. I wonder how many of these people are “in on it”? Sorry for the boring link, I […]

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How does our country still manage to be shocked (shocked!) when a physically healthy teenage girl with almost limitless means and minimal supervision manages to become pregnant?
I mean, people understand that Britney and Jamie Lynn were, in fact, parented by the same set of people, right?
Does anyone remember that Britney Spears (who as far as […]

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Entrancing little girls with his long, flowing locks since ‘00 - it’s the other uncle! Arnold! Returned from the land of milk, honey and co-eds for a few weeks in the meat-locker Mid-West. Come on, Evil Knarnold - you know you missed being unable to feel your toes!
Toot was initially a bit uneasy about him […]

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Eric Carle and modern design, two great tastes that go great together.
via Stephany at Crooked House

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Imagine my horror when I arrived at the Post Office to pick up stamps and found this gorgeous behemoth sitting in the parking lot and my Nikon back at home on my bookshelf! I guess my iPhone did alright. Still, I swear never to leave my camera at home again. This car (there is one […]

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Yesterday my husband and I attended the wedding reception of the 4th inter-cultural (I only say “inter-cultural” now. Race is fiction.) couple we know, IRL. (I’m not counting all the lovely couples I’ve met through Kimchi Mamas or this blog.)
Ariel was born in Taiwan and Nick grew up in Dearborn. (Nick and I went to […]

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Guest blogger: Mitten, age 9.11 - I’ve been begging my darling Mitten to write a guest entry for some time now. At first, I gave her an assignment entitled, “My Uncle Who Lives Under the Stairs” but she thought that was dumb. She’s created a mock site for herself, so I know she’s interested in […]

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“With Spook Country, the man responsible for the concept of “cyber-space” bangs out another book on the burning edge of modern culture. Curl up with Chinese-Cuban assassins, cult icons, semi-oracular benzodiazepine addicts and rogue G-men as they circle each other on the slow ride down the drain of Western society…”
I wrote two little somethings over […]

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