Desultory Bloviation

americastestkitchen: How to Avoid (or Start) Fights with Food Snobs: People who consider themselves...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:49:45 -0400

How to Avoid (or Start) Fights with Food Snobs: People who consider themselves foodies can be tricky to talk to about culinary topics. You never know when you might offend them by doing something wrong. Details.com editor James Oliver Cury kindly wrote a post for Eatocracyabout common topics that can really set off a gourmand so that you can avoid an altercation (or start one). For example: If you’re looking to avoid a stern telling off, don’t put ketchup on your steak.

Here’s one: Don’t say “gourmand” when what you really mean is “gourmet.”

And that goes for all of ya!

Cleaning out the top shelves of my closet for the first time in...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:46:54 -0400

Cleaning out the top shelves of my closet for the first time in about 10 years & found this box. It’s empty.

Who remembers Hecht’s?!

It’s taking every ounce of my being to resist…

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:15:14 -0500

It’s taking every ounce of my being to resist…

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen in months.

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:31:05 -0500

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen in months.

THANK FUCKING GOODNESS AND LIGHT

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:19:09 -0500

There were no "I voted" stickers at my poling place

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:38:37 -0500

This is an outrage!

Click me, I'm awesome.

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:32:21 -0400

Click me, I'm awesome.:

This is beautiful.

aatombomb: buzzfeed: Mitt Romney posing with the staff of a...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:45:38 -0400

aatombomb:

buzzfeed:

Mitt Romney posing with the staff of a Chipotle.

OMG the black guy’s face.

He’s Colberting the hell out of Willard.

suitep: theawl: kaebot: I made a thing if anyone wants to use...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 02:06:32 -0400

suitep:

theawl:

kaebot:

I made a thing if anyone wants to use it.

You search for a movie or tv show and it tells you which streaming service has it.

watchlegit.com

OH MY GOD, HERO

Snagging because holy hell.

Double snagged.

Topical!

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:15:22 -0400

The best, and stupidest, pirate joke you will ever hear:

“What is a pirate’s favorite subway line?”
“Oh, I know. R, right?”
“You think it be R, but truly, it be the C.”

soviet-posters: The very first episode of TV miniseries The...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:43:32 -0400

soviet-posters:

The very first episode of TV miniseries The Master and Margarita, a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita written by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

Set in Moscow under Stalin and in Jerusalem under Pilate, it has several story-lines where history, religion and politics are intertwined. The story of Master, a talented author of a manuscript about the biblical Pontius Pilate, and Master’s muse - Margarita, is paralleled by the biblical story of Ieshua in Ierushalaim, and the deceit of the cowardly ambiguous Pilate, whose character alludes to a Soviet leader. The reality is distorted by Woland, and his lieutenants, who are manipulating public events and people’s lives by pushing buttons of human weaknesses and sins. Margarita taps into Woland’s power, trying to save Master. The character of Master is autobiographical, burning of his manuscript alludes to what Bulgakov himself did under threats from Soviet authorities.

This TV-epopee of more than 8 hours was heavily criticized, or at least regarded with much skepticism, but most of the criticism stopped after the first appearance on screen. On December 25, 2005 40 million Russians were watching the seventh episode.

Recommended for everyone because of actors, music and almost word-for-word screen version and if you haven’t read the book you can just watch this =))

Watch online, optional subtitles (ENGLISH, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, GERMAN, RUSSIAN, ROMANIAN):
2nd episode
3rd episode
4th episode
5th episode
6th episode
7th episode
8th episode
9th episode
10th episode

For posterity.

thedailywhat: 81-year-old Runway Model of the Day: Meet Carmen...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:27:36 -0400

thedailywhat:

81-year-old Runway Model of the Day: Meet Carmen Dell’Orefice and her perfectly sculpted cheekbones.

The 81-year-old ~~walked the runway~~ put the rest of us to shame Monday night at New York Fashion Week.

NBD.

[yahoo]

If you’re only “meeting” Carmen now, yur doin it rong.

So this post-Oasis bit is a tribute to the Jimmy Fallon parody of Oasis?

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:21:45 -0400

So this post-Oasis bit is a tribute to the Jimmy Fallon parody of Oasis?

An embarrassing confession

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:01:08 -0400

Back when I was an impressionable young’un and the Sweet Dreams video was in heavy rotation on MTV, I thought The Eurythmics had 2 female singers. Yeah, yeah the wig didn’t help matters. But really I just couldn’t fathom that one woman could have that RANGE!

This > This

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:29:13 -0400

This > This

"We determine that your Credit Card associated with your Bank Account is not securised. For your..."

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:26:01 -0400

“

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”

- God, I love spam.

This man is officially my Olympic hero

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:59:40 -0400

This man is officially my Olympic hero

Life imitates The League

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:38:40 -0400

Life imitates The League

joemande: Everybody go see my new movie Savages. It’s a remake...

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:08:58 -0400

joemande:

Everybody go see my new movie Savages. It’s a remake of Oliver Stone’s Savages starring nothing but Savages.

SO MANY SAVAGES

Here is a photo of a tragic comic that Comedy Central has just...

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 02:22:20 -0400

Here is a photo of a tragic comic that Comedy Central has just acquainted me with. (His name is Ron White, if anyone cares.)

He’s a dude with tragic hair and a tragically ill-fitting suit and a tragic story about how (I guess? I didn’t catch the whole thing) using the bidet function of a Japanese toilet made him “appreciate how a gay man must feel” or some such side-splitting bullshit.

Here’s what I don’t get, though. If this is Larry the Cable Guy or whatever with the schtick, and the accent, and the bullshit… That’s fine. That’s what it is. But the fuck is this dude standing around with a fucking antique side table with cognac or whatever and smoking a cigar?? Does not compute.

This is not your audience! Your audience doesn’t drink cognac off an antique fucking side table. Your audience doesn’t respect someone who would actually drink cognac off an antique fucking side table! What is happening here??