7/30/09
7/26/09
Good take
on a pretty magical island -- I keep a photo on my desk of our last lunch there, which was absolute perfection.
7/25/09
7/15/09
7/14/09
7/13/09
7/11/09
7/8/09
Better late
than to let a great piece go unread, although you would flip right past it in that scrunched-in magazine. You gotta wonder what happened to copy editors, though: Misspelling Bunyan in the fucking lede?
7/5/09
7/4/09
Not fud, just uplifting
Eye candy most appreciated when you can't afford new clothes.
7/1/09
6/30/09
6/28/09
6/25/09
Not really fud
but rather fascinating. Mrs. Chimp at this point was firmly ensconced in her chair with ashtray at hand.
6/24/09
Not quite enough
to atone for canning Froomkin for BS reasons, but still a very smart move. No loose lasagna there.
6/20/09
Another consequence
of the shutdown of the home ATM. Cheap chicken, however, will always be with us.
6/18/09
6/17/09
Texas
the new Dubai.
(Filched from MenuPages Chicago -- we only get the Daily News on Sunday to keep up with murders NYT does not consider news.)
(Filched from MenuPages Chicago -- we only get the Daily News on Sunday to keep up with murders NYT does not consider news.)
6/16/09
6/15/09
6/14/09
Understanding,
I think, why people settle for unripened bananas.
6/13/09
Not fud, just a good reminder
We've been down Crazy Road before. Even then, though, the rabid foam was not as easy to spread.
6/12/09
No chickenshit
Sherlock. This, unfortunately, only hints at how figures lie and liars figure. Meantime, might be best not to complain about the high price of clean chicken at farmers' market. I'd think. (Photo is also absurdly romantic, too, given how chickens really are raised these days.)
Gullible Americans
always thought you had to drink the bottled water in Eutopia. Then again, my consort and I got very sick in a chateau in the Loire after drinking the tap stuff no one else did.
6/11/09
It's not the news
it's the notion. You just gotta wonder where the editors were. (Why one guy getting endless tickets? Who mans 24/7 cart? What is the deli's defense against "instead of" prices that once would have been neutrally set up as "compared" ["with," not "to" -- very different meanings to a copy editor].)
Teh stupid
it fucking burns. Trans fats in lard. All you need to know about how cretinism is not restricted to birdcage liners.
6/10/09
6/9/09
Not fud, just insightful
especially if you consider how universal health care might keep restaurant patrons safer than those disgusting latex gloves.
Help
is on the way. Scariest part of travel is dreading being wedged against fattest slob in departure lounge.
6/8/09
Yes, a smile
would kill you. I think Bob and I have seen that second scene more times than we can count.
6/4/09
6/2/09
6/1/09
Not fud, just sharp
Call it what it is, except these terrorists are too chickenshit to suicide-bomb.
5/28/09
5/27/09
5/26/09
But force-feeding ducks
is cruel and must be stopped. Having grown up with chickens, I never get the allure of live poultry markets. Especially now.
Where to even begin
with this now that it's finally broken through into "real" media? How many others were on the same trips and "reporting" for other holier-than-thou outlets? And this whole look-the-other-way approach to freelancers never fails to amaze me.
5/25/09
5/20/09
5/17/09
5/16/09
5/13/09
Buffalo sees the green light
Drive around downtown and it's hard to see how chickens would be any worse.
(Thanks to Astrology Mundo)
5/12/09
5/11/09
If they put non-Kraft mustard
in the MREs, would these braying idiots STFU and enlist already? (Hate to push up the traffic, but they don't seem to get that people will always come to gawk at freaks and pinheads.)
5/9/09
5/8/09
5/7/09
5/6/09
It's National Celebrate Brits Day
First they ban a frothing lunatic, then they come up with this antidote to the BS.
(Gleaned from the voracious EatMeDaily)
5/5/09
Where do pigs go
to get their reputation back? (Collective reputation, in case that looks like a grammar problem.)
5/1/09
4/29/09
4/28/09
Not fud, just revealing
And to think eight years ago we were supposed to bow to a boyfriend snuffer. Go, Hillary, too.
Kudos to the Chicago Tribune
for this, but what a brutal assignment. Food is the ultimate moving target. Even growing all your own, including olive trees, would not solve all the problems created in the thousands of years since the first fire seared off a nice slow-moving game animal. And not every picture tells the story. Can you say free-range pigs?
4/27/09
Camera,
meet the world beyond the dinner table.
MR. KRIST: Sharing a little of yourself is always the best way to go. If you're in a market, buy a little sample of what they're selling, try it, comment on it, and by the time that interchange is over they're smiling and ready when you bring your camera up. The last thing you want to do is try to sneak pictures, because you will get caught.
The long udder
of the Camorra.
4/24/09
And no one said
a thing to me about it.
4/23/09
4/22/09
4/21/09
I'm not going to link
because I hate to drive traffic to them, but the Maroons have really outdone themselves this time, bitching that the food in Cuba is too boring, only rice and beans and pork and chicken. Did they ever stop and consider why that might be? Ugly Americans and fat, to boot. (And WTF is with the bitters in the mojitos? And I assume ice was okay even though salad was too risky?)
4/20/09
4/19/09
4/18/09
4/17/09
4/16/09
Holy crap
Woman's Day? I just look at those and think of coffee going cold, though.
(Filched from David Lebovitz via Facebook.)
Speaking of copy editors
Count the screw-ups, starting with the villains in the piece ending up with a company. Jeebus White.
4/15/09
Now
we're talking. If only the MTA would do the same, with those guys who sit with their legs in two ZIP Codes as well.
Bad enough they're meeting
on communal (socialist) property. But it's as if the planners of the Iraq invasion were in charge.
4/13/09
4/12/09
4/11/09
4/10/09
4/8/09
Okay. Farmed mussels
from freshdirect, $50 extra needed for delivery, it will be. (Tip: Skip ahead past the genuflection.)
4/7/09
4/6/09
While I'm distracted
this is sudsy. It would be one thing if the wannabe militia actually did the goddamn dishes.
4/5/09
4/2/09
Not fud, just encouraging
It would be enough that he's articulate after eight years of chimp noises. Vision is the bonus. (Can I say it again, that Typhoid Mary was a cook and that health care for everyone might not be a ridiculous idea?)
Why is a country addicted to hot dogs
so squeamish? Now Detroit is the new Flint, 'coon the new rabbit. (Skip the video unless you like your racism with ham.)
4/1/09
3/31/09
Sorry, not fud, just fascinating
Never had this problem in the subway, only on the bus, where the signs were more insistent that able-assed folks need to cede space.
Not fud, just depressing
Why did we all sleep through the 2000 election and the unleashing of Go Fuck Yourself? I can't blame Panchito for everything.
Not fud, just illuminating
This is where founding fathers pledging lives, fortunes and sacred honor has led. Go, Minnesota judges.
I'm so old
I remember when all FOH faces were white. And don't ask about the homophobia in the kitchen.
3/30/09
3/29/09
Not fud, just remembering
Granada, and reading the guy's work near the guy's house. Justice, outsourced.
3/27/09
The mailing address
of my childhood gets its 15 minutes, foam included.
Update: The friend of nearly 40 years(!) who alerted me observes: If it wasn't rabid when it walked in, it sure was when it walked out.
Not fud, just amazing
that NPR continues to trot them out for respectful interviews every fucking morning.