January 2012
19 posts
Yelping with Cormac: Chili's Grill & Bar →
New favorite Tumblr EVERRRRRR
yelpingwithcormac:
Natomas - Sacramento, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Four stars.
I am going to remove a star, he said.
Please don’t mister.
Don’t move. It’s better if you don’t move.
Please.
It’s important you know why. Do you understand why this is happening?
Oh God.
It is because I…
(Very) Belated Birthday Post
I asked an old friend, once, about what it was like to turn 30. He said, “You still get drunk, but it’s a mellower drunk.”
Yup.
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Composition as Explanation (1925) by Gertrude... →
“It is very likely that nearly every one has been very nearly certain that something that is interesting is interesting them. Can they and do they. It is very interesting that nothing inside in them, that is when you consider the very long history of how every one ever acted or has felt, it is very interesting that nothing inside in them in all of them makes it connectedly different. By this...
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2011, quickly
2011 flew by. Filled with transition, milestones (for us and our friends) and travel. A lot of everyday fun, many goods with a few bads. Highlights starting with the most recent:
Joshua Tree, Christmas that doesn’t feel like Christmas, Little Champagnes, Moving in, Records, 30 (2), Big Champagne, Site launches, 3 years, Weddings (2), Portland, Wine, Wine, Wine, Plan B (B Bar, Trilby,...
November 2011
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July 2011
1 post
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I Wanna Do It, Sonny and the Sunsets
May 2011
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“For through violence, you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder...”
– I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate:...
April 2011
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March 2011
21 posts
“Writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this...”
– Ann Beattie (via theparisreview)
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Just because I don’t need egg cups (who needs egg cups?) doesn’t mean it would stop me from buying these...come on, duck feet.
And while we’re at it, these egg cup tea towels.
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It Must Be True Love, Toots and the Maytals
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Di Fara Taking Pizza Orders via Facebook →
Could this really and truly be real? No more waiting at least 2 hours for a pie?? (Anyone out there who’s had success with this, let us know how it worked out!)
thecorcorangroup:
We salivate over the pizza at Di Fara’s and don’t mind waiting an hour to dive into their delicious pie. Now, in a stroke of genius, Margy De Marco Miles, the daughter of owner and pizza chef Dom De Marco,...
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Charlie Sheen Browser Blocker →
Download this and you’ll stop seeing the pointless and inane mentions of Charlie Sheen across the Internet. YES. Yes, yes yes yes yes yes yes.
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A List of Grammar Myths We Probably Should Have...
Grammar geek out.
mentalflossr:
Today is not National Grammar Day. That was Friday. But this article by the great Patricia T. O’Conner, which first ran on mentalfloss.com in 2008, is still worth reading.
When I think about the rules of grammar I sometimes recall the story—and it’s a true one—about a lecture given in the 1950s by an eminent British philosopher of language. He remarked that...
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The Kisser by Dora Malech
The Kisser By Dorah Malech
As in, in the, of course. The body knew the drill by now. Was are we there yet and then never been so, then so long. Heart tied with twine, with shorthairs, trip wires—whispered that bind. Drew the short straw, scared herself apart to spit-sweet shards and into time that counted backwards from two lips ago. Said done is done and is between me and those teeth. Some...
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Sometimes you just feel nostalgic for the...
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davidtrawin:
Carl Dawkins - Baby I love you
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How to Back Up Your Gmail the Easy and Cheap Way →
Because I don’t want to see grown men and women crying when they lose an email containing a link to their favorite LOLcat (or, you know, their entire inbox.)
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February 2011
35 posts
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Chocolate-Dipped Beer Marshmallows →
Did I just fall asleep and wake up in a chocolate-dipped boozey dream? If this is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
(My brain’s fried from all the amazing. Cliches it is!)
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Um, no.
Please put that $160 down. Go grab your favorite bed sheet, and we’ll make this dress for free darling.
Also, where are you going in this? Toga parties only happen in bad college movies.