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Archive for April 2011

got the grippe

YESTERDAY Although I knew the weather was cold, windy, and generally Chicago-style pigshitty from my morning commute, I still wanted to go out at lunch. I guess I took all those stupid lifestyle columns to heart. The ones about stretching one’s deskbound legs and smelling fresh air at lunchtime. No! Don’t listen! It was crap. […]

got no time for compromise

1. Seen on the train: young woman with rolled-up yoga mat, spendy Lululemon gear, I Heart Bikram tote bag, and paperback copy of Atlas Shrugged. Yoga and Ayn Rand: together again! I mean, together for the first time! Because that makes no sense at all! I like imagining the hypothetical Objectivist Yoga Studio though. Find […]

last one out of the box

1. Scene: in the kitchen making myself a garden burger. Which was not actually a Gardenburger-brand garden burger but something else vegetable-based and patty-shaped, I suppose most people would say “veggie burger” but I can’t stand “veggie.” Why must we talk like two-year-olds? There are no good words for non-meat burger-shaped patties, just like there […]