Shrek the Musical gave us gingerbread man cookies. He is soft and delicious.
Thanks Marco for writing the review. For the record, he only took two sips, I was the one trying to drink it. That was as far as I was able to get. Yuck. (But not as yuck as Metamucil smooth texture, double YUCK)
Quick review: Undrinkably sweet, even after adding extra water. Lingering aftertaste of its first ingredient, a strange fiber-sweetener. Very, very bad.
Dirty Car Art →
My favorite one is the Dogs Playing Poker on the Mini rear window.
(via taralikespink)
“The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”
The clean bee is horribly mistaken.
(His cuteness usually motivates us to keep the kitchen clean)
Holiday Bells
It should be restricted where people can ring those damn salvation army bells while collecting for charity. I’m all for giving and it isn’t so bad when you walk past it on the street or while going into the grocery store. That is a holiday standard. But do you really have to ring that bell in my ear for 10 minutes while I wait on the train platform? There is simply no escape.
This is one of the cutest Christmas things i’ve seen in a long time.
Time's top 10 iPhone apps of the year →
(thanks for finding this, fatmanatee)
Time has named Instapaper the #7 best iPhone app of the year. Thanks! I’m honored.
Congratulations honey!
Fran Drescher wants to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate. She says she’s qualified. (via New York Magazine )
FRAN FINE IN ‘09!
I would be okay with that.
Missed my Window
On the commute in this morning, for some reason I noticed this one guy in my section of the subway car. I definitely noticed him when he was also in the next train car that I had transferred to, and REALLY noticed him when he was in the same elevator as me at the office.
Wow. There was a time when it would’ve been awkward to acknowledge this and talk to him, when it wouldn’t have been, and when talking would’ve made it only more awkward.
There is a guy that I see almost everyday now. I began noticing him along different sections of my commute. Now I see him on my metro north train, I see him in grand central, we take the S-train together, part ways at 42nd street ( I think he walks and I take the A-C-E). Then we meet up again in my building on 8th and 37th and ride the elevator together. I’ve never said anything to him. I tried smiling once but he didn’t react. His stoic geek beard could have been blocking his response. Now it’s really awkward.
marco: I love Sunday nights. Tiff: “I wonder if you could just jump straight into a shark’s stomach.”
reblog gregbrown: Answer: YES
$5 from Adagio Tea
Anyone who wants me to email them an adagio coupon for $5 of tea, give me your email address and name. Since I just placed an order, they want me to give money to my friends, so who wants some?
Parallels
We just watched episode five of Ric Burns’ epic New York documentary (Amazon). This episode was primarily about the buildup to the 1929 stock market crash.
This was produced in 1999, but I swear it could have been made last month, explaining our current financial problems. It’s creepy how much it applies to today — how we made the exact same mistakes to lead ourselves into this.
Plenty of smart people have declared promising things about this recession, saying that it won’t be “as bad” as the Great Depression because we have so many protections in place and the government is responding differently. Let’s hope they’re correct about that. But what led us here in the first place is strikingly similar to the conditions that led to the 1929 crash — something that far too few people were able to step back and see until it was too late.
(via Marco)
Just what I need, another site to lust after.
A friend sent me this link a while ago. I Love love this shirt. Browse through Nest’s lovely collections of clothing, jewelry, bags, paper goods and more.
From Nest’s website:
“Nest is a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the lives of women in developing countries. The mission of Nest is to support women artists and artisans in the developing world by helping them create sustainable entrepreneurial businesses. To do this, Nest provides micro-credit loans to be used for the purchase of the supplies and materials necessary to begin and/or maintain art or craft-based businesses.”
This is great, I tell ya…
Wedding Day Golf
If you hit a golf ball at our wedding, go see if it’s in the (ongoing) gallery of found balls!
This is in my head today. “La La La La Laa Laaaa!”
me too!
megsnotplural:I love dorky white men