December 2011
28 posts
Drinking in the Morning After: the dos and don'ts... →
On the next to last day of the year, I do believe I’ve found my vote for Most Excellent Writing of 2011 on the Most Excellent Subject Ever:
Do use a clean glass. No guzzling from the bottle, either. Drinking at breakfast is a rare pleasure with a noble heritage, and you need to show some decorum. If self-respect is beyond you at the moment in question, then settle for showing some...
The Fat Trap - NYTimes.com →
jennabee:
caterpillarcowboy:
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Summary: it’s really, really hard for fat people to lose weight and keep it off. After you lose the weight, your body produces all kinds of hormones that not only make you feel starving all the time, it also reduces the amount of calories you burn during exercise compared to people who are naturally your weight. To make it worse, it can take up to six years...
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Gillian Welch - Look at Miss Ohio
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Yelping with Cormac: Olive Garden →
yelpingwithcormac:
Walnut Creek, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Four stars.
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And a man from the restaurant came forward and said they had brought pasta for the boy and that in the tradition of their restaurant the boy’s bowl would never be allowed to empty nor would he be want for breadsticks until such time as he was sated.
Alright, a question:
rachael-maddux:
If I was like, “Hello, smart/funny/kind people of the internet! Write at least a couple hundred words on the music (anything, released at any point in time) that meant most to you in 2011, send it to me, and I will post it with hopefully many other such things on a dedicated website type thing (most likely a Tumblr)!” would you A) do that, and/or B) want to read such a thing?
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