via robots
my sweet friend anne was sitting in a coffee shop when a japanese stranger asked to take her photo. he said the scene “looked just like the middle of a movie.” it does! anne is always perfectly styled. via her new and lovely blog, linenwoodflour
middlesex
finished reading it last night. the writing was really good! i’ll give eugenides that. but the promise of the premise is mostly neglected. i mean, hermaphroditism makes an appearance for sure, but this book isn’t about intersexuality at all! and it isn’t even about a boy growing up in a girl’s body. it’s about greek immigrants, and also detroit. if you want to read a book about sexual deviancy, which i think i did, this is not the book for you. i don’t know what is! but i’m going to find out.
jotted in shorthand on the back of a credit card statement
these helpful kitchen tips for the completely clueless cook (me). i don’t remember writing these down, but i imagine i was at the store and feeling poor and also hungry so i browsed the cookbooks and came up with a plan to both eat and not spend money eating these few things. i do remember proclaiming that my new thing was going to be to eat a hard boiled egg every day for breakfast. i have not done this. once.
hard boiled eggs
put eggs in sauce pan covered w h2o. bring to boil, then simmer 9min. remove eggs and run under cold for one min. keep one week w shells.
carmelized onions
oil and onions —> medium heat —> ten minutes
grilled cheese
cooking spray
med high
grated cheese
5-6 min each side
roasted tomatoes
tomatoes and whole cloves garlic in pan w 2tbs olive oil
450
40min
also found in the box: this recipe for peanut sauce
it’s written on the back of an envelope. sometimes i keep the unopened mail in my bag for a few weeks before it retires to the box. i must have copied this out of a cookbook at the store, but who knows which one. maybe moosewood? maybe not. there are no instructions with it. just a list of ingredients, which i guess means, put in a bowl and stir, which seems easy enough, which is surely why i wrote it down.
peanut sauce
half cup pb
half cup soy sauce
2 tbs rice vin
2 tbs lime juice
1 scallion
3/4 inch piece ginger, grated
2 tbs brown sugar
1/4 tsp red peper flakes
half cup peanuts cooked med high in dry skillet
adults open their mail
my dad said this to me once, and i think about it often, especially as i trip over or madly search through the cardboard box of unopened correspondence and notes and scraps that i keep on the floor next to my desk. this mantra of adulthood actually sinks in about once a month, and only then do i sit down and sort through the box and get things in order, for a short time at least.
found in the box this evening: increasingly desperate sounding notices from the oregon department of revenue regarding my unpaid income taxes (the latest titled DISTRAINT WARRANT AND WRIT OF EXECUTION which sounds super horrifying but isn’t really because: i am on a payment plan and work with a revenue agent named richard who is totally cool, but he’s required to send me these mean and scary letters anyway so in case i ever decide to stop paying my payment plan, they have a record of being harsh and can take me to court and golly this stuff is a mess); about a thousand statements from three different banks about various accounts i have open with them, none of which have any money in them, by the way; statements from my insurance company and three different medical providers; two checkbooks; offers of possibly cheaper car insurance that i’ve been meaning to look into for about two years; three avon catelogues (why?); a letter reminding me to renew my car registration; pleas for money from NPR, children international, and planned parenthood; three packets of seeds.
reimagined royal tenenbaums movie poster by claudia varosio via nogreatillusion
three happinesses for today
The happiness of being missed.
The happiness of staying in bed all day listening to Neil Young.
The happiness of roadkill that turns out to be not roadkill at all, but a clump of leaves, or a paper bag, or a discarded sweatshirt.
der krieger und die kaiserin is a german movie by lola rennt director tom tykwer; it is okay. but i’ll recommend it for two reasons: franke potente and wuppertal. potente is the german actress that you’ll recognize from lola rennt and the bourne movies (well, the first one at least, and the first five minutes of the second one.) wuppertal is the german city where the movie is set, and it’s breathtaking. it’s surrounded by forested hills and has this amazing hanging monorail (the schwebebahn) that winds through the city over the river. this picture was the best i could find and it’s only okay; the film provides some dope vistas. photo via wikipedia
"What you have to do with so much choice is to choose. And having chosen, to stick with it."
— Paul Shepheard (via paperspaceinspire)
