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Hot stew tip
Friends! Might I recommend to you this excellent recipe for Boeuf Bourguignon from Jacques Pépin. (Actually, it’s just called “Beef Stew in Red Wine Sauce,” but I wanted it to sound Frencher.) It’s probably kind of sad that I’m spending my Saturday evening cooking and eating stew, but all my friends are out of town for Thanksgiving and it’s freezing outside and...
“We tend to think of politics as a tiny fenced-off arena of unpleasantness, which most Americans avoid—except for the horse race of a primary season or fun moral questions often centered in irrelevant individual crimes and acts. But politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be “apolitical” is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life....
Q: Who was the dreamiest metaphysical poet?
A: John Donne!
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Q: Who was the creepiest metaphysical poet?
A: Andrew Marvell!
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Okay, class dismissed.
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katiebakes:
“Here’s how sophisticated Vice’s audience is: One time, I met this girl at the Charleston and I told her I was interning for Vice. And she’s like “Cool, let’s go back to my place fuck.” [sic] So, we go back to her place, she puts on some Finnish electronica, then calls up her ex-boyfriend and asks him if he wants to come over and have a three-way with a dude who works at Vice. He...