aaand recipes i will definitely be trying: Curried Chicken and Broccoli Casserole
(via The Hairpin)
aaand recipes i will definitely be trying: Curried Chicken and Broccoli Casserole
(via The Hairpin)
Should You Break Into a Jog If Someone's Holding a Door Open and You're Still a Few Paces Away?
A new book from the author of the international best-seller, How Long Should You Maintain Eye Contact When You’re Passing Someone You Know in a Long Hallway?
(more Unwritten Self-Help Books That Could Have Really Helped Me Last Week via The Hairpin)
Enjoying a cup of tea in the Bleachie mug a certain editrix made for me.
omg Jolie Kerr has a Bleachie mug! i’ll bet it’s the cleanest mug of them all
articles i wanted (but didn’t get a chance) to read this week, part 22
last week’s roundup was a short one since we were heading away to eat too much, drink too much and nap on couches around the country. in fact, i was so looking forward to the couch napping that i left the office before posting this wednesday afternoon (rumors of trader joe’s having a line down the block also propelled me out the door). apologies for depriving you of these articles, songs and videos to enjoy en route to your couch destination.
i hope you all had a super Thanksgiving! now that you’re back at work and longing for couch time, here are some things to distract you
TO READ:
- a lot has been said about Mitt Romney. personally, i can’t imagine this man leading our country. he could probably lead an intramural badmitton team. but not the U.S. and i’m not even that patriotic. adding to the list of things we say about Mitt, Mother Jones takes his awkward, verbally stunted observations and re-imagines them as works of poetry. do you think it works? does it make you want to vote for this anamatron?
- in an attempt to be more in touch with the people, Saks Fifth Avenue launched a blog. it’s really more like a web magazine, full with articles by fashion writers and makeovers of ballerinas. or something. for their debut, here’s an article with scary man o’ fashion and international perfectionist Tom Ford about his new makeup line
- “Top Chef” contender Sam Talbot tells Esquire how to cook a fabulous meal in a less than fabulous kitchen. since tiny kitchens seem even more so during the holiday season
- a lovely lady wrote about her trials with the big C for, who else?, the Hairpin. so i looked her up and she’s Rebecca Pederson, a writer for Yelp. her blog is particularly funny - and not just because she appears to love Karen Walker as much as i do
- a former editor of mine, now the Observer’s Foster Kamer, wrote about the silent sadness of startups. alas, that’s not the hed he chose but i like a solid alliteration
- this one i read, because how could i not? lovely lovely Jen Doll wrote a fabulous piece in the Village Voice. it’s the sort of thing that makes the expensive rent, infrequent subways and general fear of being peed on seem more than worth it. now that you’re back from wherever your home couch is, here’s “How to Be a New Yorker”
TO WATCH/LISTEN:
- i spent a good long time this past weekend watching the first season of “Happy Endings” - a show i love because it’s adorable and of-the-moment without being overtly cutesy and loaded with saccharine (ahem “New Girl” ahem). here’s where you too can stream it online
- there’s a web series called “Very Mary Kate” all about the trials of a spoofed MKO. the third season premiered. i hope it’s better than those Rachel Zoe parodies that are out there
TO BUY ME:
- it’s time for a new haircut. my darling stylist moved to Robert G Salon. care to get me a gift card there? side note: if you’re looking for a more than decent stylist in nyc and have haircut anxiety like i do, i highly recommend Dolores. she’s just fantastic!
- gorgeous lady blogger behind From Me To You
promotedwore this DKNY purse. and now i’m in love with it. see Jamie in this look here
my favorite literary food puns from The Hairpin
those lovelies @thehairpin have come up with incredible foodie puns on literary titles. ahead is a list of my favorites, in no particular order:
- Troilus and Crescent Rolls
- Mac-and-cheese-beth
- To Grill a Mockingbird
- Are You There Cod, It’s Me Margaret
- Lard of the Fries
- The Bun Also Rises
- Banana Karenina
- A Tale of Two Zitis
- Watercress Down
- Tropic of Cornichon
- The Fridges of Madison County
- Of Rice and Men
- Foodie and the Feast
(of course, you can peep the whole list for yourself over at The Hairpin)
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What ELSE Your American Girl Doll Says…
just hilarious.
via @The Hairpin: ”How you gonna fit all them titties into two seconds?”
(Drive: An Illustrated Response, By Lisa Hanawalt)
Florence the Machine’s “Shake It Out”
more than perfect listening for today, in so many ways
(via The Hairpin)
something about the soothing jazzy music and watching Todd Coleman “shake the dickens” out of those metal bowls is the funniest thing i’ve seen in weeks. i’ve watched this three times already. enjoy!
![there are indeed several amusing and horrible things significant others have said in @thehairpin’s Amusingly Horrible Things Significant Others Have Said: The Bracket. here are the two stand-outs for me though:
4. [On declaring I would be Dorothy when identifying who would be what Golden Girl, my girlfriend says:] “Because you’re always the undesirable.”
12. “You know why you’re never going to be in a healthy relationship? Because you’re selfish. And you keep wearing wedges. No wonder you can’t make anything last.”
(more amusing horribleness on The Hairpin)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrkpx4Uada1qzjk7uo1_500.jpg)
there are indeed several amusing and horrible things significant others have said in @thehairpin’s Amusingly Horrible Things Significant Others Have Said: The Bracket. here are the two stand-outs for me though:
4. [On declaring I would be Dorothy when identifying who would be what Golden Girl, my girlfriend says:] “Because you’re always the undesirable.”
12. “You know why you’re never going to be in a healthy relationship? Because you’re selfish. And you keep wearing wedges. No wonder you can’t make anything last.”
(more amusing horribleness on The Hairpin)
a little ditty for thursday. a super lovely one too: Florence the Machine, “Shake It Out”
(via The Hairpin)
“bonjour, girl!”
true story: i played Belle at musical camp in the 3rd grade. my singing was way better, if less sassy
(by wehoguy30, via @thehairpin)
via @TheHairpin - Man Captures Live Fairy Godmother
my questions here have less to do with the fairy, or finding thereof, and more to do with the fact that the news team of Azteca Trece dedicated a full three minutes to covering this story. is it really that slow a news day in mexico that a man with a jar of formaldehyde and a plastic toy (i’m assuming) gets 3:06 of air time?
and also, how bored are the people of guadalajara that they are gathering in droves (check 1:06) to see said jarred hoax (again, assuming).
via @The Hairpin - Feist, “How Come You Never Go There”
jazzy, saucy Feist is just perfection for a Monday afternoon. except now i want to be on my couch with a cup of tea and a netflix.
