February 2012
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Jack White's Malt Recipe
always a good read. i have bolded my favorite parts for your convenience and delight:
“one thing that concerns me however is the dying art of making a chocolate malt. i have to admit it is one of my favorite vices. but it seems that the days of the soda jerk being able to make a proper one in his sleep are long gone. so i will now list all of the known techniques to making a proper malt...
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Hogwash.: Tanya Donelly on feminist issues, her... →
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An interesting and personal excerpt Tanya Donelly wrote for Amy Raphael’s 1995 book, Never Mind The Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock. Especially enjoyable is the bit about her being “a puker” at school, her diaries being wrapped in electricians’ tape, and the long piece of hair growing…
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“The story she then told was as all attempts at sympathy are: an effort to match in form and size and detail what another has known: to hold one experience next to another the way lovers and children match fingers and hands, as if these two, side by side, are linked by their likeness, are both identical and unique.”
(from That Night by Alice McDermott)
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January 2012
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Après Ski Instructor: Yeasted Beer and Sour Cream... →
I like this writing very, very much.
apresskiinstructor:
This morning Max popped out of bed when the sun was brushing its teeth. He whispered into my ear, “let’s make mom some waffles. shhh.” “My Famous Yeasted Beer and Sour Cream Waffles?” I said. “Shhh,” Max whispered, “yep, the yeasted beer ones.” “Let’s wake up the yeast,” he said.
We tip…