Entries Tagged as 'Musing'

Friday, December 5th, 2008

& Julia">Julie & Julia

The title of the latest Nora Eph­ron pro­ject is just per­fect.
Julie, the title char­ac­ter, is a frus­trated temp who “embarks on a year­long culin­ary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia’s Mas­ter­ing the Art of French Cook­ing
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Anna­bel Crabb’s head will explode from the […]

Friday, November 7th, 2008

A post to procrastinate

Here I am wait­ing idly for my damn PuIL take-home exam to pop up on WebCT. How deflat­ing. I am drink­ing the most ran­cid, vile, brown liquid known to man­kind  —  instant cof­fee. I think I must have scal­ded the cow juice or some­thing, because it tastes awful. I miss my fresh Barista brew with a dol­lop of French debon­air and but­ter­fly kisses.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008

Missed connexions

Don Draper is mes­mer­ising as he demon­strates the kind of sen­ti­mental bond you can develop with an inan­im­ate object. “Nos­tal­gia”, he calls it, “the pain from an old wound”.

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“Nos­tal­gia” is actu­ally from the Greek mean­ing the pain from return­ing home, or the pain of memor­ies.
This kind of scenario

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has […]

Monday, October 20th, 2008

NYT finally pretty much perfect">NYT finally pretty much perfect

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This seems like a fairly mundane thing to write about, but the New York Times’ Die, Mom­mie, Die! rip Aus­tin Powers: Inter­na­tional Man of Mys­tery ipod
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20 Years After dvd
art­icles are finally read­able without affect­ing your (my) san­ity. I tend to have trouble focus­sing, so I high­light text as I read it. I also tend […]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

The bizarreness of the financial bailout

Dur­ing one of my many high-minded (ha!) dis­cus­sions with Tommy
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, an inter­est­ing view of the U.S. fin­an­cial bail­out emerged.
One of the fol­lies lead­ing to the credit crunch was the habit of tak­ing oth­er­wise bad debts, and repack­aging them into sup­posedly AAA secur­it­ies. The vast num­ber of these secur­it­ies floating […]