February 2012
1 post
“Now I know there’s no fire in space, but it is a movie, and most people don’t...”
– Michael Bay
I regret reading through the entirety of this commentary on the commentary of the Criterion collection edition of Armageddon, as I would have liked to experience it firsthand.
January 2012
5 posts
“‘Ladies, if you love your man, show him you the flyest’ is the truest thing Beyonce has ever said. Unless she said ‘Everyone is sad’ or something in some song and I missed it.”
2 tags
bringing a knife to a gun fight
There’s a manichean arms race going down on the corner of North Ave. and Throop.
Home Depot and Lumber Liquidators are directly across the (very narrow) street from each other, and the tension seems to be getting a bit much for both parties.
and most recently:
Best part of my bus ride to Whole Foods, for sure.
this means just one thing.
January 7 - Nicolas Cage’s birthday
January 8 - David Bowie’s birthday
Con Air/The Labyrinth double feature tonight.
December 2011
4 posts
1 tag
totally specious excuses I've made to myself for...
1. I WILL BE BLOWN AWAY BY THIS WIND UNLESS I ENTER A VEHICLE PRONTO.
2. I’m both very late and very important.
3. This club blows.
4. Just got paid. MONEY EVERYWHERE.
5. I need to get a secondhand Kitchen Aid mixer from point A to point B.
6. The Blue Line smells like wet dog today.
7. There is no north side line connecting the Red and Blue lines. I CRY INJUSTICE.
8. I’m too...
1 tag
anthems for a twenty three year old girl.
charge that cab
lose that phone
sleep in your clothes
no dreams when you sleep
November 2011
2 posts
2 tags
new holiday meal strategy.
Napalm the jungle of the lone veg option at the Thanksgiving table (sweet potato + black bean enchiladas with tomatillo mmm) before it even leaves the oven, leaving it ALL FOR ME, WHAT UP.
I salute you, chipotle in adobo.
October 2011
6 posts
1 tag
2 tags
a vocabulary lesson for your early 20s.
guiltresolveanxiety - the feeling and experience of leaving a fun situation in medias res, likely to go home and watch Netflix streaming. You must always apologize profusely and self-deprecatingly use any of the following words: grandma, tired, work early tomorrow, lame. Later accompanied by the twin feelings of joy at a night exactly how you want it and quiet worry that somewhere, someone is...
2 tags
things that are totally beyond my control, and yet...
“Why didn’t Google make a daily doodle in honor of Steve Jobs? That seems disrespectful.”
2 tags
3 tags
September 2011
6 posts
2 tags
one day
some day there will be a weekend in which i do not eat mexican food after midnight. some day i’ll get there.
1 tag
recent google searches:
hot alcoholic drink
what alcohol goes with hot chocolate
puffy coat
pumpkin curry
IT’S FALL IN CHICAGO, Y’ALL.
2 tags
August 2011
11 posts
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
4 tags
5 tags
peaches and beer.
The first of maybe many of these posts.
So I was reading through the stack of discount cookbooks I got at a nearly and dearly departed Borders, and this dude from Plenty (SO GOOD, already made the cover photo of eggplant with buttermilk sauce and it was a B+ on presentation, A- on taste) was going on and on about POACHED FRUIT. Poached fruit, as it turns out, is usually poached in wine but my...
2 tags
4 tags
3 tags
2 tags
six almost posts on three weeks in a new city/job.
1. Potential new blog/new blog direction: THE CAPSLOCKED CHEF: conveying the GLEE and DRAMA of cooking the only way I know how. Or some food blog where I find veg pairings for beers and wine.
2. Follow up: I do have what might be the first entry of THE CAPSLOCKED CHEF, but it effectively became an ode to my food processor (what a QT) in which I discuss a) how you can make hummus/pesto, b) how to...
July 2011
3 posts
2 tags
June 2011
13 posts
3 tags
the accuracy of the legal system described in "99...
I walked my parents through the situation posed in verse two of Jay-Z’s “99 Problems,” and here is what they had to say with their extensive combined legal knowledge:
“…So I pull over to the side of the road. I heard, ‘Son do you know why I’m stopping you for?’ ‘Cause I’m young and I’m black and my hat’s real low. Do I look...
2 tags
2 tags
preparing for the transition from college to...
trading out my american apparel v-necks for j. crew v-necks.
1 tag
reading chicago street style blog archives from december ‘10 - february ‘11, telling myself I GOT THIS.
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
Things I am not allowed to bring to graduation...
sharp and potentially unsafe objects (wooden/hard plastic/metal pipes and poles, sticks, spears, baseball bats, hockey sticks, etc.)
large structural objects (wooden or metal furniture, grocery carts, etc.)
water toys (water guns, slip and slides, pools, tanks of water, etc.)
alcohol
live animals
motorized vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, etc.)
any flammable or open-flame...
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
