Peter Vidani
“There is literally not enough celery root grown in the world for it to survive on the menu at McDonald's — although the company could change that, since its menu decisions quickly become global agricultural concerns. Not long after he arrived at McDonald's in 2004, Coudreaut added to the menu an Asian salad that included edamame. The Soyfoods Council, a trade group, immediately got calls from consumers across the nation looking to buy edamame at their grocery stores. "Now you can find it in supermarkets all over.”
—McDonald’s Mac Snack Wrap: Chef Changes Fast-Food Menu
February 2010
The Friday before last it was my discovery of how to cry out the perfect turkey gobble, tonight it is the frumpy way I say the word fifth with a completely relaxed jaw that I will repeat a million times until it is no longer funny.
Megan: “How about it is not funny ever.”
EDIT: Megan and I just sneezed at the same time!~
“Oh good my cheese grater just shipped. Both of them.”
—Marco
The Girl from Ipanema
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
Ipanema has never had snow, but still this song seems fit for today’s snowfall.
If you actually sit down and listen to Massive Attack, and if, while doing so, you actually listen to the lyrics, diarrhea.
The guy we rode with in the elevator was dead
- marco: Well that guy is probably nice, but--
- peter: Oh, that dead guy?
- me: The man in the elevator was not dead!
- marco: I don't know, he might be.
“If a drug proves to change something in patients, then that something becomes a disorder to be treated. The discovery of the remedy creates the disease.”
—Head Case (New Yorker) via Give Me Something To Read
reblog the literally billion photos of these beautiful bloggers!
Hey, Peter, I don’t want to be a dick — really — but literally billions? Literally? I like hyperbole as much as the next guy, but this is literally a lie. I can’t believe that made it past the edit desk. Same mistake on the actual reads page.
I tend to find non-countable uses of this forgivable (“that party was literally off the hook”) but if you’re going to say there are literally billions of photos, there had better be billions of photos.
Sorry, Richard, but there are at least a billion photos on that page. I mean, no, I haven’t personally counted how many photos are on there, but there are a lot! And when I see a lot of something and get a little overwhelmed, I think billions is a safe word to use.
“How many people are there on Earth?”, “I dunno, billions.”
“How many hairs are on my head?”, “Billions, probably. I can’t see all of them in this light.”
“How many times do I have to tell you to keep away from my family?”, “Lemme think, billions? When do you guys usually eat dinner.”
I wrote billions twice, and I’ll do it a third if I have to. I will literally write it a third time, the same way I literally throw parties that dismount from hooks.
Infinity (Flufftronix Remix)
The xx
The Xx - Infinity (Flufftronix Remix)
Listen
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (live)
Did you know that a pimp steak is a hot dog? I heard that the other night on The Wire and think about it every once in a while.
“Nothing is more beguiling than a cynical, self-loathing, paranoid narcissist who is over the moon for you. Because then you feel like you’ve earned it.”
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Woody Allen Week: Annie Hall by Meaghano
Well that’s assuring.
“It's worth noting that to crawl the whole site at one hit per second will take several weeks.”
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Wikipedia
Jacob pointed out to me that you can download the entire Wikipedia Database.
“You can combine the tags any way you like. You’re not stuck in a rigid tree of categories, like on most ecommerce sites, where you can only move backwards or forwards. With Hybrowse you can go from A to A + B to B.
(IT’S KIND OF HARD TO EXPLAIN WITH LETTERS SO MAYBE YOU CAN JUST TRY IT YOURSELF!)”
—Jake launches Hybrowse, a thing to help you find what you’re looking for.
