January 2011
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Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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“I asked Lynn Philips for her favorite joke of Iris’s. “My personal...”
– from Emily Prager’s introduction to After Claude by Iris Owens (h/t Sadie!)
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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thanksforsharing: Related. Oh my god, Lukas!!! You win an Oscar of the Internet!  Now I wish I had spent the day simmering chicken livers and stuffing them into a crock with two sticks of butter and some Calvados, as opposed to … whatever I did all day.
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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“The Silver Palate opened on Columbus Avenue in Manhattan in 1977, the same year...”
– From a Chowhound thread about people’s favorite Silver Palate recipes.  Lukas pointed out that this would be a great audition monologue.
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under books, cats, food
It is a little unclear to me why I decided to do this other than “why not” but now I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers (which: that’s a great way to find stuff you’ll like except huh?) Find me listed in #books, #cats, #food
Jan 27th
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“In fact, because the unself-aware — which includes basically everybody...”
– The Post-Birthday World is full of things that make you go “oof”
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Tiger truthbomb
It’s hard to think of a controversy that could be less relevant to my life than a debate about parenting style, and also I know that this controversy is old news, but I still can’t get Amy Chua’s assertion that “nothing is fun until you’re good at it” out of my mind.  Far be it from me to say whether she’s right about anything else, but I think she’s...
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 15th
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“What else is an artist but someone who believes that she can barter a little...”
– Laura Miller on how contemporary novels — and novelists — are slowly coming to terms with the Internet
Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Auuuuughhhhh.  Man, it has been a productive day for all of us at Emily hq.  Raffles caught a mouse for the first time in his indoor cat career! All those years of practicing with the eerily realistic mouse toy really paid off; he killed that mouse a ton. Ewww. After recording this event I put the mouse in a plastic bag and put it in the trash.  Raffles is sniffing everything ISO mouse remains. ...
Jan 12th
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cookingthebooksshow: I know sometimes when I’m watching a video on the Internet I can get a little bored and tune out if it’s longer than, say, :30 and not about a cat fighting a bear cub (and winning).  Nevertheless I have to recommend that you give this episode of Cooking the Books’s flavors time to develop and blossom on your palate, like a fine wine/ vodka-Schlitz-lemonade beverage. Also at...
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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ok now post or send photos please
petslookingoutthewindowatsnow: you can email them to emilgou AT gmail or tag them snowpet Let’s make this the best gimmick tumblr ever created today!
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 8th
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When I’m tempted to brag about success I remind myself that a lot of my past successes turned out to be complicated forms of failure I guess it would be nice to say that the converse has proved true, too maybe it has maybe it’s too early to know maybe it always will be.
Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 3rd
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Jan 1st
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