Preparation
Tying up some loose ends for a 3-week trip to SE Asia.
Packing chronicles to follow tonight or tomorrow.
Chicken galantine. It is done.
Skinned it whole. Ground it. Pork Fat. Emulsified it. Spiced it. Spread it. Filled it. Rolled it. Bound it. Made stock. Poached it. Chilled it. Unrolled it. Sliced it. Ate it!
This was amazing.
It was so good. And knowing the amount of hard work and skill that went into it made it even more delectable!
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Modern interpretation of “life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.” -L
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theatlantic:
You Don’t Have to Be Superhuman to Commute by Bicycle
These are people who travel many miles at a pace more like 10 miles an hour. They wear regular clothes and ride the bikes that they can afford.
But everyone who bikes in New York or any other city has certain things in common. The Type-A strivers on their carbon-fiber steeds; the skinny-jeans-wearing fixie riders; the elevator repairman in work clothes on his anonymous hybrid; the fashionable businesswoman on her folder; the 82-year-old photographer on his cruiser. All of them benefit from an increased recognition that bicycles are a legitimate way to get from one place to another, and that you don’t have to be some kind of a freak to use them.
Read more. [Image: Dmitry Gudkov]
YEAH! Just last week I bought a super cute beach cruiser off Craiglist and as soon as it warms up enough, I’m parking the car and grabbing the handlebars (plus it’s got a basket for my dog, Alex). — tanya b.
Fuck yeah biking!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/e4881609adce8dbb83b0e094bffb0ed2/tumblr_mhcoolU3XV1qcokc4o1_250.jpg)
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You Don’t Have to Be Superhuman to Commute by Bicycle
These are people who travel many miles at a pace more like 10 miles an hour. They wear regular clothes and ride the bikes that they can afford.
But everyone who bikes in New York or any other city has certain things in common. The Type-A strivers on their carbon-fiber steeds; the skinny-jeans-wearing fixie riders; the elevator repairman in work clothes on his anonymous hybrid; the fashionable businesswoman on her folder; the 82-year-old photographer on his cruiser. All of them benefit from an increased recognition that bicycles are a legitimate way to get from one place to another, and that you don’t have to be some kind of a freak to use them.
Read more. [Image: Dmitry Gudkov]
YEAH! Just last week I bought a super cute beach cruiser off Craiglist and as soon as it warms up enough, I’m parking the car and grabbing the handlebars (plus it’s got a basket for my dog, Alex). — tanya b.
Fuck yeah biking!
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (via kvlv)
(Source: crimson-arms, via fuckyeahhiking)
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The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Ernest Hemingway (via irisblasi)
(via oldflorida)
Court Rules Portland's Naked Traveler Is Protected By Law
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“A man who stripped naked to protest security screenings at the Portland International Airport was exercising his right to free speech, a court ruled Wednesday.
John Brennan was charged with indecent exposure after the incident, but Brennan said he stripped only after he refused to walk through a scanner and security agents found traces of nitrates on his clothes…”
Elvis buying a 1956 Lincoln Continental Mark II in Miami on August 4, 1956
(Source: bostongarbage)
