October 2009
WatchCooking with Christopher Walken! Remind me sometime to tell you about how I’m secretly writing a screenplay in my head that’s specifically for Mr. Walken.
xoxo, c. hotpoint — who is very, very busy at work these days.
Unquiet Thoughts : The New Yorker →
Several friends have directed me to Alex Ross’ new blog over at The New Yorker site. And now I’m letting you know in case you’ve missed it too. According to Ross, this new blog (he’s keeping his old site intact as an archive)
will consist of short commentaries, addenda to New Yorker pieces, audio excerpts from recommended new CDs, links to novelties and oddities around...
“If someone—Jamie Oliver, for example—devised an appealing mass-market food...”
– Matthew Yglesias, What The World Needs From Its Celebrity Chefs « The Internet Food Association
(via ffffood:rodmitch)
OH GROW UP and cook your own food already. I really have no other response to this other than: if you’re interested in eating good food, it’s your...
Pushing Ahead of the Dame →
Have you seen this site? I’m cleaning out my tabs in the six Firefox windows I currently have open. Anyway, this site is offers a thorough analysis and history of EVERY SINGLE DAVID BOWIE SONG. I’m pretty much a Berlin-and-after Bowie fan (no, I don’t like the Ziggy Stardust period, thank you very much!), so it’s been illuminating to read about the songs I don’t know...
Regretsy - Handmade? It looks like you made it... →
Yes, we know there are a lot of “point and laugh at the terrible crap on Etsy” sites out there. This one is the best.
xoxo, c. hotpoint
Andy: What qualities make a person a good candidate for copy editing? Mary: Self-doubt. It’s always good, before changing something, to stop and wonder if this is a mistake or if the writer did this for a reason. When you’ve read a piece five or more times, it is tempting to believe that it must be perfect, but you have to stay alert for anything you might have missed. Eternal vigilance! It...
