a birthday is a birthday is a birthday

i haven’t celebrated my birthday in any traditionally-befitting manner for years (party, cake, balloons) but i have been surrounded by loved ones on each occasion, which is most important. last year it was on a ship, and the year before rowing at Lake Washington. turning 18 was pretty low-key and lovely: yesterday’s lunch and a [...]

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Liberal Arts 2.0., or free and intelligent downloads

some months ago i was alerted to the presence of a crazy and intelligent tempest brewing in Snarkmarket’s teapot, which is to say that lots of smart people were huddling around a blog and putting together lots of crazy ideas for 21st century liberal arts which sound like they should be at the top of [...]

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Dinner and a Movie: Breakfast at Tiffany’s

“I’ll never get used to anything.  Anybody that does, they might as well be dead. ” – Holly Golightly

Susan at StickyGooeyCreamyChewy, chose one of my favourite films ever as inspiration. coincidence love! as Y said on tumblr. rewatching the movie prompted a flurry of scribbling on sheets of paper – flavour diagrams and ideas – [...]

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It’s the Girl in the Red Top, Charlie T

“wow, no one’s told me to poke stuff for a long time…”
i met Charlie about four years ago, a few months before i transferred to the school i’m in now. before that i’d sort of seen her around singing ABBA’s Chiquitita (very nicely too) onstage or walking in the corridors, and we might never have [...]

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cake sense? nonsense.

there’s a little place in Taman Megah called cake sense, which sells the worst macarons ever. you can make them collapse, they can look unsightly, but how on earth does one bake it into a rock? completely incensed, i dashed off this – in hindsight – very harsh email to them. i guess i love [...]

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