December 2008
Prayer
via unsustainable:
Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that.
Poem: “Prayer,” by Galway Kinnell, from A New Selected Poems (Mariner Books).
xoxo, c. hotpoint
“The top band, video, and song searches also yielded similar results. Top band...”
– AOL’s Top Searches: Does Internet Famous Equal Sales Famous?
Uh, what year is this? Oh wait. Jonas Brothers and Sugarland; this means that teenagers and people who like arena country also use the internet. For the rest of the world, it’s still the 90s.
<3 pvb
“Our favorite butters were salted Kerrygold from Ireland, unsalted Kate’s...”
– Butter Holds the Secret to Cookies That Sing - NYTimes.com
Product endorsement: Kate’s Homemade Butter (with the funny baby-in-overalls picture on the box) is the best butter availalble in New York…short of making your own. Kerrygold, however, is nothing to sneeze at. And Smjor, from...
Roxy Music — In Every Dream Home, A...
WatchCan we all agree that Prince & The Revolution’s “Take Me With U” is one of the best songs ever? I think we can.
xoxo c. hotpoint
“The first day I met him was the day Ray Charles died,” said Travis McCoy, the...”
– Music - Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy - Frontman in the Background - NYTimes.com
Yep. We love Pat Stump too.
via lalitree: Arthur Russell - “Lucky Cloud”...
“Sure, I know, I’m being a little naive here. People get slaughtered by the...”
– Grocery Guy
Tom Mylan, you are completely mean and I fucking love you.
<3 pvb
Dear New Yorkers,
You may not know this, but every Tuesday thru Friday at 12:20 pm, the organist at Grace Church (802 Broadway @ E. 10th St.) wails on some Bach for about 30 minutes. It’s pretty neat (I adore pipe organs) — and if you have a chance, you should spend a lunch hour there in quiet contemplation, if that’s your kind of thing. Trust me, it’s great — I...
“Now painfully stuffed (I was starting to believe the talk about cornmeal...”
– Tracing the Path of the Delta Tamale: gourmet.com
I didn’t post the article’s lead picture, it would just make you even more hungry.
lover of all tamales, c. hotpoint
