Adventures in the Pointless Forest

All class

2007-04-15T18:38:06Z

Thanks, New York Times! This is from this week's "T: Style Magazine".

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It's funny because it's true

2007-02-28T02:41:08Z

Just now I saw this headline in the New York Times: "Cheney Unhurt After Bombing in Afghanistan." Yes, sure, okay, in this case, Cheney was actually more or less on site for the bombing in question, but my immediate thought was "Boy, isn't that al...

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Tasty

2007-01-05T02:33:14Z

So I made that nut-pesto pasta recipe tonight (I like that the Times now lets you get at permalinks through their own site, via that little "share" link -- thanks, Khoi Vinh! I bet you're responsible for that) and it really was delicious. And to b...

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While I'm at it...

2007-01-03T18:13:04Z

Elsewhere in the NY Times food section, I find this: A basic tomato sauce is mixed with a pesto of four kinds of raw nuts, which makes a creamless pink sauce with real body, enlivened by the kick of black and red peppers, a generous grating of pe...

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Suck it.

2007-01-03T18:00:45Z

My award for the day's most obnoxious characterization of the motivations of one's own supposed constituency goes to Caren Wilcox, executive director of the Organic Trade Association, quoted in an article in today's NY Times food section (emphasis...

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In today's Science Times

2006-06-27T15:51:03Z

Headline: "Way, Way Back on the Family Tree, a Common Ancestor of Web Architects". It's about spiders, of course, but it sure did take me a long minute to get there.

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Sunday Styles

2006-06-10T19:43:05Z

Dear New York Times: This is not artsy; it is blurry. xoxo, red

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