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Forget the world; local is lekker

By E | Posted on: November 13, 2007
The word of the year (!), according to Oxford University Press, is “locavore”. So do like Jamie and make history by planting stuff in the garden.  With the right publisher, you too can pretend that no one else has done it before you.
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You Are What You Eat (so go easy on the falafel)

By E | Posted on: November 12, 2007
Lest the FBI suspects you of terrorism.
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‘To dwell means to leave traces’

By E | Posted on: November 11, 2007
So noted Walter Benjamin in 1935, much later to be published in his Arcades Project. The loveliness of the sentence is that it seems obvious, and easy, enough. When I was younger I used to think that I could dwell anywhere as long as I had my things; those were my traces. So, every five [...]
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Apropos

By E | Posted on: October 23, 2007
From Reason Magazine, a nice little piece on The Onion.
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So funny I forgot to laugh

By E | Posted on: October 20, 2007
It is a sad thing to be reminded of how transparent everything has become, and how the plenty we have all become accustomed to (of food, of useless things that make us feel better, of marketing language that gives us a false and inflated sense of our importance in the world) really conceals a great [...]
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Learning to rest

By E | Posted on: October 4, 2007
It’s amazing how difficult it can be to rest, even when you’ve earned it: like getting to the end of the final chapter of a monstrous (aka PhD) thesis. The final chapter still leaves a conclusion, of course, but 70,000 words down the line (not including footnotes, that delightful space for showing off everything I [...]
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Molecular something (surely?)

By E | Posted on: September 28, 2007
Word is, that in addition to deep-fried coke, the ‘trendy foods’ at the 2008 California State Fair will include deep-fried cookie dough (yawn) and deep-fried latte (yawn turns to disbelief and, if you’re Ferran Adria, deep green envy). I vote for deep-fried second-hand smoke. Transfat free, of course. Mark my words, some day they’ll figure [...]
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An inventory

By E | Posted on: September 27, 2007
of the stories that there has been no time to tell… First, I contemplated ingesting some brainy spices (I was smocked enough to forego the salmon option): Then, on an innocent Sunday afternoon shopping expedition, my car died a temporary death and had to be taken away by someone who claimed I was the only [...]
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More on punctuation

By E | Posted on: September 16, 2007
As someone who has always found it amusing to see the weekly specials outside my local Checkers or Pick’n Pay boldly advertised as “Baker’s Tennis Biscuits” or “Stork Margarine” because the irony of the ironic punctuation is (“literally”) lost, I enjoyed a recent New York Sun article on the same. It seems, according to Jon [...]
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Too much salt will send you to jail

By E | Posted on: September 11, 2007
‘A McDonald’s employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer’s burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick. Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail.’ Read all about it here.
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