the american version of brit-com show the office last night was a pitiful sight. i wanted to rip out my eyes like a shakespearean tragic hero. as with almost all things cultural (but few things political), britain does it better. the nbc version was almost a line-by-line imitation of the british verson, ripping off even subtle inflections and ad-libs. what's the point of ripping of a hugely popular (in england) show that closely? people should seriously just rent the bbc dvds, and i will even throw in this guarantee - if you don't like the british version 100000 times more, i'll pay the rental fee. how can you pass that up? (if you're in the new york area, i'll just loan you my dvds - seasons 1 & 2!) the actor who played the boss was simply horrible - i shudder at the thought.

have you all seen the dave letterman top ten list by poley d.? (via minnie)

oh, new york times. how you tickle me with your subway announcer speak.

As if on cue, a voice on the loudspeaker announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, because of a brflig fraptail at 116th Street, the uptown 6 train will frip deet brak croob."

pictures of walls

adieu, san frncisco.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

eventeven (4:11:35 PM): see i am motherfucking caring

Lisa Ruyter, The Girl He Left Behind

some random pics from last night in berkeley - no green beer!

quote of yesterday, courtesy of margotbot:
"Lisa, I can't stop staring at your monkey."

the pasta is dolce and gabbana
last night for my dinner party @ kimi's, i made a pasta from a recipe by dolce and gabbana that i saw in vogue a few months ago. that's just how i roll. anyways, it was a huge hit, and i will share the easy, but slightly time consuming recipe with you. the best part is that it's really filling, so you can eat it for days.

i have never been able to find annellini pasta, so i use bow-ties. there are no amounts of ingredients in the recipe, it's pretty much up to your own taste (last night i used an entire eggplant and four hardboiled eggs, 2/3 a package of peas and i'm generous with the cheeses). mix all that stuff together before layering it over the pasta.

i had to get my roommate in nyc to email me the recipe because it was on our fridge there (the recipe was with a picture of kylie minogue and stefano gabbana). here's her email:

This request is too hilarious to pass up. I have always wondered what Kylie and Stefano were doing cuddling on our fridge.

Kylie and Stefano say:

Cook a package of annelini pasta in boiling water; drain; pour into baking dish; cover with ragu sauce. Add a mix of eggplant slices salted and sauteed in olive oil, chopped salami, smashed hard-boiled eggs, peas, mozzerella and parmesan. Top with another layer of sauce and a layer of the mixture. Finish with a layer of sauce and top with bread crumbs. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove, drizzle with butter, then place
under a broiler till golden brown.

They show this dish with some $85/bottle wine. I'm sure that will be at your potluck, too, right?

good l.a. times article on the newest frontline of the gender wars.

for you top model fans
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it's nice to be home
me: "so what's up with these new clubs in the city like suede, loft 11 and suite 181?"
laurie: "all i know about them is that they're really chi-chi. you have to dress really nice...like vegas."

us weekly's editor is korean american - doesn't it all make sense now?

i went to j-school for this?
i interviewed for a paid internship here last week to be an assistant to the exec. editor for the rest of the semester. will keep you posted.

this is a long and intense story about rape in the amish communities, but it's well worth your time. even steve said it was moving.

Yes, Clarissa think, it's time for the day to be over. We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We lives our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep — it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more.

Heaven only knows why we love it so.

"The Hours," Michael Cunningham

favorite new catty celebrity blog

baby bok choy, how i love thee...so small yet so deliciously tasty.

back in sf for spring break: mar. 12 to mar. 21

"damn right it's bigger than yours"
i don't think anyone i went to high school with even reads this blog, but in case someone does, and you haven't gotten this link from at least 93 people by this point, here it is (some enterprising lowellite made a video of a bunch of teachers doing kelis' "milkshake").

3/11: fixed the link

gay or hairdresser?

or asian?

a cute asian dude was my hairdresser today. spent all 2.5 hours in the chair trying to figure out whether or not he was gay. being asian and a hairdresser made it hard to tell.

so we're back to short again. short is the new long!