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Daily Archives: April 27, 2012
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Oh, hey, munchkins. Let me play my broken record again. Your nominations make this post what it is so please please send them to me. Crasstalkers who are quick to blurt out “COW!” at every witty comment but then don’t also send a screenshot to me (and you know who you are) should kneel on broomsticks for one hour as punishment. Send me some nominations next week, okay? Great! Now let’s see what happened this week at Crasstalk!
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Sacha Goldberger – Super Mamika – c. 2010
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If you’re a pretentious foodie geek culinary savoir-faire you’re probably familiar with the concept of umami. It’s a Japanese word for the “fifth basic taste” (after sweet, sour, bitter and salty) that was only isolated and identified in 1985.
The idea of some hidden dimension of flavor is a pretty coddamn interesting one and while listening to music recently it occurred to me that my ears were detecting something similar in many new songs. Continue reading
Jezzies. You love them. Their razor-sharp wit, their entirely excessive use of all permutations of the phrase “clutching my pearls,” their lentils or whatever. The articles might be the stars of the site, but the commenters are the mellifluous Greek chorus. Specifically the one in Electra.
The most innocuous part of Jezebel, the Dirtbag, was the site of the most Jezebellian comment thread ever yesterday. Continue reading
ARE YOU READY TO RUMMMMMM BLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEE?
The 66 games in 123 days are over. Linsanity is a distant memory. The Bobcats wish their worst-winning-percentage-in-NBA-history was a distant memory. The Lakers were too old and washed up, and now they’re back. The Spurs were too old and washed up, and now they’re back. The Celtics were… look, there’s a bit of a theme going on here.
16 teams enter and 1 team leaves. Who will be… America’s Next Top Model the next NBA champion?
It’s almost May, and that means the start of wedding season! Open bars and casual foreveralone-fueled hookups and cheap yet “meaningful” party favors and mason jars filled with ALL THE THINGS!
But wedding season isn’t just about collecting seven hundred monogrammed boxes of Jordan almonds; it means bridesmaid-duty season, too. According to a survey of over 20,000 brides in the U.S., it costs an average of $1,695 to be a bridesmaid. The study, done by WeddingChannel.com, found that not only is the cost of the average wedding going up, but that the cost for those roped into being in a giant matrimonial circus is increasing too. Continue reading
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