Express train to fat town

The study serves as a warning that even brief periods of increased food consumption -- the first few weeks of college dorm life, a three-week cruise with its all-you-can-eat buffet, the string of parties from Thanksgiving through New Year's -- should be avoided.

Too late!

Free your breasts! Free your mind!

Only in Venice.


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LAT hates smokers

If they didn't, they surely could have found a less heinous picture to accompany this article about the hazards of cigs. Is she a mail order bride from the former USSR?

Vintage Mens' Watch

I have decided I want a vintage mens' watch. Preferably round, gold face. I can be in charge of finding the right band.

I have been looking at this store's website; maybe one day I will go in. There is a lot out there on eBay but I am afraid of fakes and Meg Whitman.

Worst Trader Joe's parking lots

Blogging LA posted an item about the worst Trader Joe's parking lots. That is a an impossible ranking. The solution has no limit. They are all terrible, with the exception of Culver City and maybe the new one near my office at Vine and Selma.

Similarly, I would not fault anyone who commits manslaughter at a Whole Foods parking lot. Fairfax and 3rd, specifically.

Sidenote: terrific commenting in the Blogging LA item. Unions, domestic partnerships, transportation issues are all covered.

The Big One

Maybe I should stop wasting so much time at the gym and quit my job already. The next major rupture is right around the corner!

Modern Love and a fondness for kitties

I don't usually read the Modern Love column in the NYT because it freaks me out, bores me, or both. This week's was very nice I think; it offers a somewhat uplifting trip to tear town, and touches on what it means to be a friend, a family, and do for others (things I have been thinking a lot about lately).

This Related Searches list at the bottom of the screen cracked me up:


Who wants to search for grief, and why does it need to be categorized as emotion?

My Morning Jacket at the Greek, August 12, 2010

Just Dance 2 track list revealed!!!

Thank you Laura.

Highlights:

2. Bangles – "Walk Like An Egyptian"

12. Elvis Presley – "Viva Las Vegas"

38. The Jackson 5 – "I Want You Back"

44. Wham! – "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go"

Worst track:

39. The Pussycat Dolls – "When I Grow Up"

The dog had grown fat from a steady diet of cheeseburgers

That is the only funny line in this sad story about a homeless guy who won $350,000 in a legal decision and died surrounded by King Cobra malt liquor bottles.

Oh Patti

The Millionaire Matchmaker and Andy broke up!

Vince Scuba

Do want. Do not want to look like Morticia Addams while wearing.

Cold-brewed iced coffee

File this easy recipe under: information that would have been useful to me 3 years ago prior to spending hundreds of dollars on iced coffee from Kings Road.

ORDER STARBUCKS PAY IN MIXTAPES

This is silly

Bellini

I never cared much about champagne cocktails, but reading this piece about the origin of the Bellini is making me thirsty!

Moustache Mugs

Via, from Lucy.

Prop 8 Overturned (for now)

Great news! Now, I am waiting or backlash and further appeals.

Wrinkly Hands

I have paranoia about premature signs of aging. I often wonder if my hands will be saggy and weird before the rest of me, because I often forget to put sunscreen there, and my hands are always exposed. I have long been suspicious of those UV lamps at nail salons, and now I know I am not far off!

But hey at least I don't have a hobby with a high rate of MRSA.

Eat Pizza for my Dad!

Fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society!

And because my Dad will no be there I don't have to look at any sausage and mushroom slices.

How Rude!

Why not?

Tranny who looks like a damn catcher's mitt

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Peach and nectarine desserts

Last night I made this peach pie. It was easy and good even though I used THE WRONG PIE CRUST. I don't looove peaches but I still enjoyed it.

What do I really love? NECTARINES. Also I apparently love creme fraiche? Anyway, this is also easy and good. And, doubles as breakfast if you are me.

Smitten also featured a delicious sounding tomato dish last week; the flavors were good but the croutons were soggy. Next time I will ditch the bread.

Visiting Teartown at your desk

Sometimes, people cry at work. Maybe they read sad articles, maybe they had a sad thought, maybe they had a terrible conversation with an authority figure.

I think crying at work is ok (real talk: I do it all the time!). Some people disagree with me.

Eg. Kelly Cutrone:

And Joan:


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Why is this so funny to me?