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la vida es una tombola
I'm in my 20s and live in Austin, TX.
La vida es una tombola: A tombola is a lottery, or the word can also refer specifically to the rotating drum full of bingo numbers. Which is what life is.
Dec 18
Dec 15
I made these cookies to give out as presents. Not surprisingly, they are all from various issues of Martha Stewart Living. Going clockwise from top-left: Chocolate Coconut Cheesecake Squares, Chewy Chocolate-Raisin Cookies, Honeyed Almond Cherry Shortbread (but I used cranberries since I couldn’t find dried cherries), and Cinnamon Spritz Cookies. The chocolate raisin cookie and shortbread recipes aren’t online, but they are in the December 2009 issue of her magazine. And oddly enough, the December 2007 magazine calls the spritz cookies cinnamon spritz, but the website has renamed them as vanilla bean spritz. But seeing as I didn’t actually use vanilla beans, I’m sticking with the original name.
The consistency of the spritz cookies didn’t work so well in my cookie press, and they are the most boring of my cookies so I think I didn’t give them a good enough chance when I first tasted them. But how could they compete with cranberries that soak in sherry for an hour before mixing into dough or a mini coconut cheesecake bar?
I’ve gotten pretty good reviews so far, and I can only interpret as a compliment that the people at Action Figure asked me over and over again if I did in fact make these myself. “Like, you cooked them? In an oven? With flour and eggs? Even these?”
She looks so happy and so comfortable. And poor Bette Davis! She was 54 when she filmed Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. Will I ever get over that fact or cease to bring it up? Probably not.
And Meryl Streep gets to play the romantic lead opposite a man 9 years her junior. No Grumpier Old Men age spreads for her!
suitep:apsies:mikehudack:jenbee:
“It’s incredible— I’m 60, and I’m playing the romantic lead in romantic comedies! Bette Davis is rolling over in her grave.”
—Meryl Streep(via Overheard « The Errant Æsthete)
That I adore her is probably an understatement.
Dec 13
Dec 10
Paul got this not-quite-running 1800es Volvo a few weeks ago. Every time he is out working on it, people stop and tell him how much they love it, how it’s their favorite car or how they always dreamt of owning one. Last week a kid walking by with his mom went home to get his dad to come see it.
Paul plans to chronicle his experience with the car at 1800es.tumblr.com. Hopefully he gets it running before we go to Oregon for the holidays, but that day is rapidly approaching. So we’ll see.
here she is
Dec 9
I don’t understand how you tights-as-pants wearers do it in the winter. I’m doing chores around the house wearing only leggings, oversized hoodie, t-shirt and warm fuzzy slippers. When I go out to the garage to deal with the loads of laundry, I switch footwear, but the rest is the same.
It’s 38 degrees outside and I am shivering by the time I make it to the garage. It’s maybe 10 yards from my house and that’s an overestimate. Shivering.
I’ve seen you girls, all smiles, in such frigid climates such as Boston and New York wearing only your boots, tights, scarf and coat. And I just don’t get it. Is there some kind of secret method to staying warm that I just don’t know about? And don’t say body fat, because we all know that’s a lie.
Dec 7
Last week I was just guessing, but after watching this ad for Martini, I am certain that George Clooney is heavily influenced by Marcello Mastroianni’s Ferdinando Cefalù in Divorce Italian Style.
Dec 6
» US agency's balloon hunt tests internet accuracy
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Clever! DARPA offered $40k to the first team to track down 10 weather balloons using social networks, so they can see how fast and accurate the medium is for organizing in a hurry.
Congratulations Galen and the rest of the MIT team.
