December 2010
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(On that note: I feel like Gwen Stefani’s crimes, both musical and sartorial, in a post-Tragic Kingdom era mean that she doesn’t get as much 90’s nostalgia adoration as she properly deserves. But she used to be so awesome! She wore crop tops and almost-chola red lip and bindis and she jumped around like crazy onstage and the woman wrote “Just a Girl” and...
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“Nor does he understand that when we talk about sale-leasebacks and right-of-way...”
– Didion. From “On Going Home,” from Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
Lydia Encyclopidia: Leek and Potato Soup →
When I moved back to New Haven, Lydia collaborated with two other friends on a little recipe book for me, as a going away gift. The book was equal parts sentimental and practical, calling back to dishes they’d made me in the course of various long, excellent dinners together, but always hinting at the old joke: no one really believes that I know how to cook. Most of my friends are very good;...
How to Act Like a Grown Up:
Schedule a dentist’s appointment.
Buy rainboots.
Take the online sexual harassment training course you’ve been avoiding for six months. When it gets boring, simultaneously fill out expense reports.