Recently readGuys who are cheesy towards their partner in public REALLY need to stop it. Exhibit A, Jenna Elfman’s husband. Okay, they’re Scientologists, so he’s obviously starting out a bit soft in the head, but there is no way I can fully describe just how unattractive this kind of behaviour is. You may as well be […]
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These quotations, from the comments on this post, pretty well encapsulate my worldview:
Either people own themselves, their labor, and their fruits, to do with and dispose of as they will, or they don’t. If the community owns what I make and what I do, then I don’t own my own actions.
It’s that simple: do you […]
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If this New York Times profile is anything to go by, Whole Foods is getting to be like that formerly obscure band that you liked until they had the audacity to score a number one.
I love Whole Foods, probably more than I should, in part because it’s so much better than anything we have […]
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LA continues to be grand; it’s nice to go through my normal work routine - the same stuff I’d be doing if I wasn’t on-site with a client - while also getting to experiment with recipes and subject Cathy to the results. The big food success of yesterday was this Native American cornmeal pudding - […]
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I agree 100 per cent with everything Gwen says here.
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My new flat
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
I’ve been waiting an agonising couple of weeks to find out whether this deal was actually going to happen or not, but I found out today that it is, and I couldn’t be more relieved or elated: I’m moving back to America, on at least a part-time basis, for at […]
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Interesting discussion on how much to tip in restaurants, here at Amy’s.
Some people say that, even if the service is crappy, you should tip no less than 20% because “waitressing is hard”. I say that if the service is crappy, you should tip precisely the amount that the service was worth to you. I’m […]
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Last night at Cathy’s, I made dinner (cream of spinach and mushroom soup, Thai prawn curry - made with my own improvised Thai curry paste, since the stuff I’d bought got lost somewhere between the supermarket and Cathy’s house - rice, butternut squash) and Sandra Tsing Loh brought the cookies. I was going to try […]
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Or: Another reason to wish Prince Charles would go away. So we should ban McDonald’s out of existence, but it’s fine to eat crisps, chocolate, biscuits, cakes, pasties, steak and ale pie….as long as they’re Charles’s own brand of calorific, fatty goodness, right? We just need our friends in Parliament to look out for the […]
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Or: Another reason to wish Al Gore would go away. I love his spokesperson saying, “Well, yeah, they may have a $30,000 utility bill, but they’re using energy-efficient lightbulbs!” Classic.
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Having had a number of problems with Movable Type over the years, and knowing countless people who have thrown up their hands and ditched Six Apart products completely - to the point where I no longer recommend MT to clients, and actively discourage others from building their online presence with it - I was very […]
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* This morning, Matt was telling me that, in the eight years since he and Emmanuelle moved to LA for keeps, he’s only felt fear for his personal safety once (and with no incident, as it turned out). They’ve had their car break down twice in Compton, and both times were overwhelmed by the people […]
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I was on what is definitely the newest airplane I’ve ever stepped foot in - imagine a new car smell in an aircraft, with lots of shiny chrome fittings and handles everywhere. (It was a Virgin Atlantic flight.)
The entertainment system on Virgin’s better planes (I’ve been on some which didn’t have it) is excellent. […]
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Dr Karen Singer Avrech, wife of our dear friend Robert, was asked by the editor of the Jewish Press to expand on a blog post she wrote for Robert’s blog. The result is moving and well worth a read. I am in perpetual amazement of how Robert and Karen continue to live such meaningfully constructive […]
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