May 2012
13 posts
The average Tel Avivan fell madly in love with the city at first sight. Yes,...
– Etgar Keret Reflects on Tel Aviv
BOYFRIEND: You’re going to be English when you come home, aren’t you?
ME: No.
BOYFRIEND: Are you okay? You sound kind of mad.
ME: I’m just pissed.
BOYFRIEND: Wait, did I do something?
ME: Pissed like drunk, not pissed like mad.
BOYFRIEND: This is what I meant.
Of my core “group” of friends from college, almost all of the guys are married and almost none of the women are. I don’t know why I feel like that’s interesting, but I do.
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bthny:
not all people who live in the South are bigots
not all people who live in North Carolina are bigots
people who live in “Blue” states can be bigots too
North Carolina was one of those “Blue” states in 2008
North Carolina also managed to elect a pretty decent lady Democrat to be…
This, basically.
I have this game that I play in restaurants called “What’s secretly pork?” As a non-pig-eater who moved to New York with a limited food vocabulary, I would always end up wanting to eat some interesting-sounding thing on the menu only to find out that it was secretly pork.
Things I now know are pork:
Prosciutto
Sopressatta
Lardon
Rashers
Speck
Pancetta
Collops
Gammon...