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You guys, this is the best recipe ever posted. You must read the comments. I saw an article on Slate this morning that was all about this recipe, and my coworkers and I have spent the last 30 minutes crying from laughter. No recipe comment stereotype is left unsaid!
I have had a revelation about pour over coffee. Using a gift card that I got last year, I bought all the equipment necessary to make pour over coffee, and stopped by Whole Foods yesterday to buy some single-origin coffee beans. I wasn't sure what to expect, if this would be yet another disappointing hype, or if it'd be amazing. If you like coffee, I think the pour over method is definitely worth it. I can't believe how many flavors I got from the cup of coffee I made last night (though less so with the cup I made this morning, so it's still dependent on the type of coffee). Finally, I know what all those descriptions are talking about, when they say that a particular type of coffee has hints of chocolate/caramel/orange/what have you!
I have beautiful Jeremy Renner images to share with you from Tumblr.
[As someone commented: Sock porn. Neck porn. Arm porn. Hawk ass. And the chain around his neck. Sweet. Jesus.]
The Tumblr-ers, they are my people.
Then there's this gorgeous homage to Hawkeye, from aryastark:
Um... pretty much the only reasonable response to this is
So I forgot to mention another teen book that I read recently, maybe because it doesn't belong in the category of "terrible teen lit" that was the theme from yesterday's post. I finally read Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. I enjoyed it. It was well written, which is like, 90% of the battle. BUT. I didn't particularly care for the universe. There was NO larger mythology to the whole werewolf thing! There was no plot other than the love story between Sam and Grace, and I just need more than that. I like a really solid mythology (like, what does it MATTER that these people just randomly turn into wolves? How did that all start? Why should I care that they do? Are they in danger?) and some actual PLOT other than "oh isn't it tragic that they can't be together." I mean, props to Stiefvater for making me care even a little bit about the universe, given that I'm generally not that into werewolves and it was a pure love story that had really very little conflict. I suppose she could get into better world building later (after all, there are 3 books), but there's nothing about this book or how it ended that made me feel like I wanted to continue. It ended happily, there was no conflict yet to be resolved, so I don't particularly care to go back into the universe only to have more made-up angst thrown at me. I just want to move on now. I may pick up the next book at some point, but I don't feel any urgency about it.
I have had a revelation about pour over coffee. Using a gift card that I got last year, I bought all the equipment necessary to make pour over coffee, and stopped by Whole Foods yesterday to buy some single-origin coffee beans. I wasn't sure what to expect, if this would be yet another disappointing hype, or if it'd be amazing. If you like coffee, I think the pour over method is definitely worth it. I can't believe how many flavors I got from the cup of coffee I made last night (though less so with the cup I made this morning, so it's still dependent on the type of coffee). Finally, I know what all those descriptions are talking about, when they say that a particular type of coffee has hints of chocolate/caramel/orange/what have you!
I have beautiful Jeremy Renner images to share with you from Tumblr.
[As someone commented: Sock porn. Neck porn. Arm porn. Hawk ass. And the chain around his neck. Sweet. Jesus.]
The Tumblr-ers, they are my people.
Then there's this gorgeous homage to Hawkeye, from aryastark:
Um... pretty much the only reasonable response to this is
So I forgot to mention another teen book that I read recently, maybe because it doesn't belong in the category of "terrible teen lit" that was the theme from yesterday's post. I finally read Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. I enjoyed it. It was well written, which is like, 90% of the battle. BUT. I didn't particularly care for the universe. There was NO larger mythology to the whole werewolf thing! There was no plot other than the love story between Sam and Grace, and I just need more than that. I like a really solid mythology (like, what does it MATTER that these people just randomly turn into wolves? How did that all start? Why should I care that they do? Are they in danger?) and some actual PLOT other than "oh isn't it tragic that they can't be together." I mean, props to Stiefvater for making me care even a little bit about the universe, given that I'm generally not that into werewolves and it was a pure love story that had really very little conflict. I suppose she could get into better world building later (after all, there are 3 books), but there's nothing about this book or how it ended that made me feel like I wanted to continue. It ended happily, there was no conflict yet to be resolved, so I don't particularly care to go back into the universe only to have more made-up angst thrown at me. I just want to move on now. I may pick up the next book at some point, but I don't feel any urgency about it.
