May 2010
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Cooking Mushrooms ala Julia Child: there's no...
Julie Power was spot on when she exclaimed “I’ve been cooking mushrooms wrong this whole time!” But what you might not know from her surprise is that there is no secret. JC does not offer any unexpected advice on the matter. (in my world, JC refers to Julia Child, not a god)
HOW TO COOK MUSHROOMS:
1. Heat a pan
1.a Put some oil in it & heat the shit out of that too. Like...
March 2010
6 posts
My Mind Was Blown Again: noon panel with Frank X....
Saul Williams speaks in poetry. With his words, body, and voice. He’s mesmerising. He unconsciously lives his work. There were times when his answers left us all speechless…including Mr. Walker. I exerienced a rather powerful conversation today with two amazing voices in modern American poetry.
Here are some of the gems I thought were worth passing on:
When asked about how they add...
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How To Safely Open the Spine of a Book Without...
I’m a firm believer of treating my books with reverence—I want them to last since I’m a frequent rereader. I strongly dislike dogeared, broken backed, mangled, & otherwise “slightly” damaged books. They’re uncomfortable to read because of the strange hand contortions I have to employ to read them. My mom, who I most frequently share books with, has none of...
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Week 8 roundup ... Moe's Big Fat Loser
Week 2(of 12) of Marathon Training Week 9(of 16) of Moe’s Big Fat Loser
I felt like last week was one big hump day. You know the feeling? Like you’re stuck in a routine, doing your job, but are really thinking about & longing for the fun you’ll have on the weekend? Yeah, that’s how I felt ALL week. Also, we had our 2-week challenge weigh-in yesterday & … I didn’t lose a thing in 2 weeks....
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Where I was after my 1st day running...
Day 1 of marathon training
12 weeks till half-marathon
8 weeks till final weigh-in (unless we extend)
I’ve become a runner. I’ve embraced this fact. (Much like I long ago embraced my ghetto booty. Hopefully by the end of all this I’ll be as proud of the former as I am of the latter=difficult & annoying at first, but eventually a source of pride.)
When my family announced...
Recipe: DINNER IN A SQUASH. A high-protien, good...
On a whim I bought an lovely green squash one day (I thought it was acorn. I was WAY off.) But it tasted like…well, like nothing. So I devised a recipe to spice it up. I took the idea of my mom’s “dinner in a pumpkin” recipe, nixed the rice, and then just threw stuff together. It turned out really really yummy. Now I make it all the time. And it’s what I’m...
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My 7 Week Round-up of the "Moe's Big Fat Loser"...
I feel like I should’ve been keeping track of my progress since Jan, I meant to. I even started a Twitter acct just for a exercise outlet so my FB friends wouldn’t have to put up w me complaining about aches & pains & motivation problems OR an acct of what I was eating/caloric intake. BUT I was too busy actually working out to document much of anything extra. I also...
July 2009
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An Homage to Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking...
First off, let me tell you that the book JULIE & JULIA is inspiring. Well, not so much inspiring as mouth watering. It makes you want all those dinners with too much butter and cream (who wouldn’t??). And it’s like a really funny version of the cooking chanel meets some lame-ass reality TV show like the girls next door. I sat there for two days, reading this book, and drooling over...
June 2009
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June Reads - Suemoe's reviews
I’ve been traveling a lot this month, and when traveling I like to read. Who doesn’t? I hold no distinctions between ebook, trade paperback, or audiobook. I consider absorbing them in any way is still “reading.” So here is my list of what I’ve read and partially read this month - after which, I want to know what YOU’RE reading too and where I should go next.
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May 2009
2 posts
“A mother and her young son were flying Southwest Airlines from Kansas City
to...”
April 2009
4 posts
A 3rd hand "inside" look at Amazonfail. Makes... →
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Amazonfail theories
If you’re on Twitter or Facebook, you might have noticed a lot of talk about #amazonfail this weekend.
A few days ago Amazon.com started stripping the sales ranking indicators, or deranking, books they arbitrarily deemed to contain “adult” content. The action was first blogged about in late Feb by Craig Seymour. Then this weekend Mark Probst author of YA, gay themed, THE FILLY,...
On April 19th you shuld be awll up in mai concert,...
I already posted how awesome and amazing The Sweet Remains concert was in March. Well, now is your chance to go see them!! Sadly, I won’t be in NY for the Sunday, April 19th show (I’ll be at a Twins game in MSP) but I wish I could be there!
The recording from the March show is online now. I’ve been listening to it on loop for almost a full day now and as promised, here’s...
How We Lost the Trailer in Queens
THIS IS A TRUE STORY …
I MOVED OUT OF NYC (ASTORIA) ON SATURDAY. My parents, who are pretty awesome, drove all the way from ND to NY with their van and trailer to help me move. Since all the seats were removed to hold my far too large assortment of shit, my dad had to fly home after helping me pack everything up. In order to bring him to the airport (a 5-15 min drive to LGA), we had to...
March 2009
21 posts
1st Comic Shop on the trek "home": Jay & Silent... →
Is the drive down to Red Bank worth Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash when driving a full van and pulling a full trailer? Is this an auspicious start to a LONG road trip, or just wasting precious time?
“When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother...”
– The Steel Remains, by Richard K. Morgan
garfield minus garfield: Ambition →
The Sweet Remains fulfilled 5+ years of musical...
I really think I planned my goodbye to NY’s privelaged music scene quite well. Kicking it off was Jacob Vanags who I gushed about at length already. And then Sunday Night was a very different type of show. It was like being in the live audience for an MTV unplugged rehearsal. And I only say rehearsal because their banter was a little unpolished … which only made the show better. Those guys are...
Sarah Nelson now writes for Daily Beast - she's... →
I will admit to having a little pub-crush on Sarah Nelson, the former editor-in-chief of Publisher’s Weekly. I’ve heard her speak on panels a few times and she kind of helped fulfill my NY stereotype of a strong NY woman … in publishing. (Gina Centrello is the other woman that fits the bill)
But now I really like her blogs at my favorite news source, The Daily Beast. She’s...
Epic Fail Justification (attempt) for Thursday...
Goal 1:
Do not open the internet (except for work purposes) especially the time suckers Twitter and Facebook.
Do not reply to any messages I get that aren’t work related.
Do not cheat by obsessively checking my phone and killing its battery the way I did the other day when I tried to turn off twitter & FB.
Goal 2:
Get a lot of shit done today!!! (namely stuff that requires me...
3rd Person
Him: Daddy often talks to himself in the third person. It helps keep Daddy sane.
Me: However accurate, using Daddy as the identifier in the 3rd person is actually kind of ... creepy.
Him: This is how Daddy rolls.
Me: I bet you do, you dirty bitch.
Suvudu.com "How I Became Peter V. Brett's #1 Fan... →
I’m a new (sort of) blogger at Suvudu.com, the SF/F website for Random House. First up is my love letter to Peat Brett. I’m on a mission, people, a mission. I’ll let you know what it is by and by.
1st order of action: go buy The Warded Man. It’s kind of amazing.
The Pros and Cons of moving from NYC to ND/MN
I have decided to move out of NYC and go back home to ND temporarily. I was laid off in January and the huge lack of jobs in publishing at the moment is staggering. (At least, I think they’ve stopped laying people off now. Right?) And it will be a few months, if not more, before things start to pick back up (or before they realize that with the amount of books they currently have, the staff...
1000 novels everyone must read: Science Fiction &... →
Argues that SF/F isn’t just “spaceships, elves & vampires” and that “every truly original writer must, by definition, create a new world.”
Yeah, sure, that’s fine and all. But I think the genre changed so dramatically (or arguably was created) in the last 70-80 years, that their definition was too broad and their list - although everything on it was a bona...
Finally, the mystery of Jesus revealed
I found jesus! Well, I found his doppleganger anyway … This fall I saw who I thought was James Caviezel (who played Jesus in Passion of the Christ) walking into my healthfood store on 8th Ave/54th. After more furtive staring and deep brain wracking we decided it was really his doppleganger (because he was much younger and a little hotter than Caviezel). For months I could picture his face...
xkcd Ruined one of my favorite lame-ass turns of...
Ever since I read the Hyphen comic from xkcd.com I am incapable of not thinking it when I see/hear it.
Perhaps using the [adjective]-ass [noun] is a little childish anyway and should be put to rest. Along with wicked as an adjective …
Saving trees is fine, but what kind of record are...
I was watching a TV special called Egypt: The Search for Tutankhamun last night, a dramatized documentary about how King Tut was found, and the head archeologist’s main motivation for searching for Tutankhamun was to find out about his life. He desperately wanted to find papyrus scrolls detailing Tut’s life. But what he said struck an interesting chord with me:
“If I went to your house, walked...
What do you do when you see it go down on the...
So I was riding home the other night on the F train. By myself. A little tipsy. Lookin hot. And a crazy person sat down beside me as they are wont to do late-ish at night on the subway.
This person then proceeded to take out two small needles and get down to business. (I couldn’t tell if it was a he or she at first) With the strangest man-hands I’ve ever seen, sporting nails that look...
An afternoon with Non Society
With mild trepedation, Tad started telling me a little story yesterday morning about his friend Mark. Mark was supposed to help his friend Meghan out for a segment she was doing for her Non Society blog about girlfriends who hate their boyfriends’ hair and wish they would take care of it. Mark was supposed to go in for a bitch-fest about how they all thought his hair was out of control...
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Jacob Vanags' Music is stuck in my head
(Jacob Vanags playing Familiar Faces - the song currently stuck in my head)
With my newly acquired overabundance of time, I set out on a mission to find new music. My current playlists were all going stale and I was hoping to utilize my last month in NYC to see some of the “underground” everyone’s always talking about.
My mission: Find singer/songwriter “musician...