archives for Saturday 21 April 2007
my strange obsession with gemelli
Saturday 21 April 2007 | I like a cookie
“Gemelli pasta is a kind of pasta in the shape of twisted paired spiral tubes,” per Wiki. It’s also increasingly impossible to find in stores. Annie’s quit making it and the Coppola kind is about eight bucks a box; but fortunately you can still get Albertson’s brand for like 69¢. Why am I so crazy [...]
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pen envy
Saturday 21 April 2007 | I like a cookie
The Waterman Carène Islands in Lagoon, $199.99 The Waterman Carène in Violet, $139.00 The Waterman Ici et Là in Blue, $42.00 The Sheaffer Agio in Whispering Pink, $39.95 The Sheaffer Agio in Coyly Coral, $39.95 The Pelikan Pelikano in Blue, $14.99 The Pelikan Pelikano in Pink (“Ladykiller”!), unavailable in the US; but soon to be [...]
couple months’ worth of weird searches
Saturday 21 April 2007 | someone left a cookie
new mexico theme song men of thought and deed [hooray] what are symptoms of having constant nervous anxiety [pretty much just that] hunchbacks [can't imagine we're near the top of the heap on that one] weltzschmertz [or that] the weevil twins [but there are more than two] little einstein theme song hawaiian centipedes [hell yeah] [...]
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the modem’s working! quickly, blog….
Saturday 21 April 2007 | someone left a cookie
I’m doubly thrilled because it’s actually after four a.m., and I went to bed at ten—so for the first time in a week my sleep was nearly normal. Of course I did drug myself freely with Rozerem and Tylenol (which for some reason has a terribly soporific effect for me, and I use it off-label [...]
