What’s Your Food Sign?
Swiping an excerpt from Alan Hirch’s book, What’s Your Food Sign? How To Use Food Clues To Find Lasting Love: Imagine that you and your date are at the ice-cream parlor. Which of these flavors would you pick? Vanilla Double...
Tagged: books
You have got to be freakin’ kidding me.
“Thirty years ago, a recipe would say, ‘Add two eggs,’” said Bonnie Slotnick, a longtime cookbook editor and owner of a rare-cookbook shop in New York’s Greenwich Village. “In the ’80s, that was changed to ‘beat two eggs until lightly...
frustrated observations
I’m in charge this week, which usually means I can’t do any actual work because I’m assigning and reporting and collecting data, etc. So I took a quick moment to look for a book to use the remains of a...
paint it gold
I was in Barnes and Noble last night and saw this book on the seasonal cheap reads table, The Official Guide to Christmas in the South: Or, If You Can’t Fry It, Spraypaint It Gold. For a moment I was...
upcoming author appearances
Olsson’s is hosting Dan Savage tonight, Friday Oct 21 at their Penn Quarter location at 7pm, and Margaret Cho, Monday Oct 24 at their Arlington/Courthouse location at 7pm. Details below. Olssons.com — Event Schedule Friday, October 21 at 7:00PM •...
unintentional penis
Nothing like a nice work safe penile reference in the morning! Boing Boing: Unintentional penis on religious book called “After You’ve Blown It” Now I keep getting reminded of the song Detachable Penis but all I can remember is the...
force of personality
From the Washington Post, The Tiger Strikes Again. I really want this collection, though the price tag gives me serious pause. I’m also impressed that the writer didn’t make any mention of the rumors surrounding the strip Frazz considering the...
one of those days…
It’s been a so-so day, I had a really bad morning. A task that I was in charge of here didn’t come out as well as my usual tasks do. The work was split between 3 people with me coordinating...
losing it now?
Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop – This is the wonderful bookstore I went to in Boston when Al and I visited Hugh, and this is a link to their newsletter explaining why they don’t support Alibris. It’s just an interesting read...