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Is the New York Times spying on us?

Bryan and I got it together enough on Friday to make it out to the beach, but aside from that we’ve just been at home, bouncing from one lazy activity to the next: dabbling in low-commitment home improvement projects, shucking a few oysters, catching up on blogs, experimenting with beer cocktails (3 parts hefeweizen + [...]

Last week we ventured out into the city on a weeknight (!) for an event called “Porkapalooza.” Really, how could we resist? The hook was that you watched a butchering demonstration while you ate fingerfoods made from that very pig. (A couple of my friends misunderstood and thought for most of a week that we’d [...]

The only poetry I read anymore is email spam. Like this:
the accommodation at mall, yadgar chah, the observing in itself, but the computing of however, was shrewd enough to see that this carelessness, that listless manner burst out in a paroxysm of spectacles. So far i was well on the way to proving too much [...]

Clare and I watched Little Children yesterday, and now I think more movies should involve (spoiler alert) auto-castration. Actually, that was the least depressing part of the movie. Also narrators. Movies need more narrators.
If we’re all really lucky, I’ll leave this one up top all through Christmas.

I continue to get more than my money’s worth (to date: $2 in fines) from the Berkeley Public Library, god bless them. These are a few novels I’ve enjoyed recently, in case you’re looking for a good one:
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See - a story of women in 19th century China. [...]

Three things to love about seeing movies in Berlin:
1. Plenty of American movies make it over in English. We’ve seen Oceans 13 (so tragically bad I was embarrassed for everyone in the cast), Harry Potter 5, and The Simpsons. We’ve passed on Clerks 2.
2. Giant mugs of beer are the perfect compliment to salty theater [...]

OF COURSE I’ve read the latest and last Harry Potter book. In fact, I broke down and read one of the leaked copies on my computer the day before it was released. And I’m only a little ashamed of that.
I have all sorts of opinions that I won’t write here to avoid spoilers. Although at [...]

I’m having a completely unanticipated problem with being in Germany: it’s KILLING me to miss the summer produce in the Bay. It doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but at some unidentifiable point in our four California years, Bryan and I slid into the territory of true food snobbery. This doesn’t mean we’re too good [...]

As is often the case abroad, my two English-language options on television are CNN and the BBC.* While I was in Thailand, the primary thing I noticed was that the anchors on the BBC appeared to be real people, while the CNN anchors were about 20% skinnier, blonder, and looked like they’d tripped and fallen [...]