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there's this book, right, that my boss gives to me, this past summer. i'm leaving for a bit and she says, "do you need beach reading? here — this one's really good." this book came out this summer. the reviews of it everywhere are enthusiastic - charming, touching, sparkling, coming-of-age-tale, emotional development, lovably flawed, funny, impressive, amazing. these are the words people are using.
the plot of this book is that a nerdy computer genius has always had some lady trouble and has recently become a bajillionaire due to selling some software or whatever. he meets a girl at a party - petite, "fine dark hair," cat eye glasses. he becomes obsessed. he is "in love."
he discovers that she was sexually abused by her father as a child - or she says she was, that she's "recovered" the memories, that she went through harrowing years of therapy and now has finally dealt with it - and suddenly he has trouble sleeping with her, he can't stop thinking about it, he begins to doubt her and he thinks she might just be making it up. this discovery is punctuated by chapters about his awkward high school life, his experience of being a social outcast, a nerd, a programmer, a computer guy. he tracks down the girl's father to ask him if it is true. he tells the girl that he did this and she calls him an asshole (NO SHIT) and leaves him and he Feels Regret and the whole thing ends with the exact same ending scene as Chasing Amy.
this is actually the plot of the book: finding out that his girlfriend says she has been abused and he doesn't know if he believes her and he no longer can have enjoyable normal sex with her because of it and feels uncomfortable around her, so instead of talking to her or his shrink about it, he hunts down her abuser because he suspects he is a normal guy and she's a liar, then he's hurt when she breaks up with him for being a royal jerkface.
why are these stories plot devices for male development but when women are honest about them it's too 'dark?' (even - actually, especially - for the male protagonists of books supposedly about these women's stories?) i am just rereading that thing vanessa veselka wrote for the rumpus last year and, like, goddamn.
formula for narrative: sad boy meets pretty (requirement) girl. sad boy finds out about trauma in pretty girl's past; takes it personally; botches the relationship; Learns From It And Moves On.
Today I learned that in 1966 a group of British feminists formed the "British Society for the Preservation of the Mini Skirt" and staged a protest against Dior because of the New Look and the return to fuller, longer skirts
(Though does this quite make sense as I thought the New Look debuted in the 40's and actually was quite racy and sexy at the time? WHATEVER this is still rad.)
She made me feel cool by proxy, like a human V.I.P. pass. Impulsive, erratic and electric, she was my opposite, and the juxtaposition thrilled me. I fell deeply in love.
When I said in my letter I knew my love couldn't fix her depression, I was lying. I thought my love could fix everything, including her depression.
Needing to be repaired is the No. 1 one rule of being a Manic Pixie Dream Girl — how could she ignore it?
She could ignore it because she wasn't a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. She wasn't a character or plot device in my story, or some damaged creature with deep despair that I and only I could cure as part of my "hero's journey." She was simply someone who had fallen out of love with her boyfriend. Which happens. It's really uncinematic, but it happens.
does this guy like want a cookie or something, congrats on figuring out that your college girlfriend was an actual human and being able to write about it for the nytimes
"To be honest, the first reason I understand the complexities of male violence against girls and women is that I went to college and read a shit ton of books—and even that wasn't enough education—I went to graduate school, where finally, finally, the books that I read and the films that I watched and the art that I experienced and the teachers that I had showed me just how not normal male violence against girls and women—or boys and men—is. Ever. …..
The second reason I understand is that I am alive. Still. Differently."
just because it's been a hot minute since i posted this here somewhere other than my bio and IT'S SO PERFECT and always bears repeating
Hi friends! I have gotten mad a lot lately about people being assholes on the internet and I want to talk about being an asshole on the internet.
I am not talking about people who are deliberately assholes on the internet. If you are deliberately an asshole on the internet, it's okay. Troll is a feeling. I know. I forgive you. I am talking about Accidentally Being An Asshole On The Internet, especially when it relates to that dreaded P-word.
So let's all take a second to look at what's in our individual privilege cocktails ('cause sometimes we get good stuff and sometimes we get bad stuff, and sometimes it's an entirely different thing depending on where we're drinking, much like cheap white wine, which is horrifying 351 days of the year but occasionally just what you wanted.) In one context one might have been arbitrarily given the social upper hand (things like "being white" or "being able-bodied" fit here) and in one we might find ourselves royally screwed over by society (things like "being queer" and even just "being born with a vagina" fit here.) Sometimes the same thing will work in our favor in some situations, and against us in others. Some issues we hear about often and some we don't. Some issues we value more for our personal identity than others. Intersectionality. We all has it.
HOWEVER. There are times when context is a little more obvious, and when it's generally understood that one particular party is getting the short end of the stick thanks to the Evil Overlords of Societal Norms And Stereotypes Et Cetera. This doesn't mean that those of us with the long end of the stick are always doing great! We might be feeling shitty because secretly we are dealing with an invisible but debilitating illness or because we are gay or because we stubbed our toe. And then sometimes we feel shitty as a result of the other conversation going on, the one about how the Original Speaker kind of feels crappy due to their lack of privilege in the topic at hand.
Here are some examples of these sorts of feelings:
Sometimes we call these feelings things like "small violins" and sometimes we want to tell the speaker to shove it, and sometimes it turns out that we are the people with these unsavory feelings.
It's okay if you have these feelings. Feelings are totally valid. I have crappy feelings all the time where I feel resentful because I wanted to do my favorite thing in the universe, which is to Talk About Myself, and somebody had to rain on my parade. I also frequently have feelings which make me want to walk up to screaming babies on the train and punch them in the face and scream at their parents to make their despicable little worm SHUT UP BECAUSE I AM TRYING TO READ.
Y'all, my (internet) friend Jenny who I've e-known since, like, the days of Livejournal is seriously one of the most amazing people I know (I mean, read this and poke around her blog/tumblr and all then tell me she isn't fucking incredible as a queer feminist lady and survivor and organizer of awesome things and all around badass gorgeous babe.) So I was crazy honored to have that rambly-ass essay I wrote about lady antiheroes a while back included in the zine she made for her thesis at UCSC, which she just finished, especially considering the awesomeness of so many of the other contributors and the variety of their experiences and my comparative ho-hum privileged little existence. You can read a scan of the whole zine on her Tumblr or just download the whole thing here. Jenny, I'm so proud of you and so flattered that you let me be a part of this!
This whole Planned Parenthood/Komen thing keeps irritating me again at random points throughout my day, which is pretty crappy because it's seriously ruined basically the past seventy two hours of my life in a pretty major way. Right when I think I've forgotten it or managed to distract myself, some little part of me flares up in rage again ("But what the FUCK! It's like they're TRYING to PROVE that Planned Parenthood is only a baby-killing machine by taking away some of its other super valuable services! And like they only care about curing breast cancer in rich white ladies who will give them more money! What the fuck is humanity COMING TO? This is HORRIBLE!") I think I physicallycannotstop being pissed off about it, and so instead of writing nine thousand more words on how utterly infuriating this entire situation is, here, instead, are some links!
• Lest we forget, a year ago when that whole defunding debacle happened I wrote a thing about how much and why I love Planned Parenthood, and none of my feelings have changed.
• Salon has a great piece with a good analysis of the Komen Foundation and how it's actually symptomatic of wider problems with the org:
It's worth noting that while breast cancer rates are dipping, an October report from the American Cancer Society warned that they are declining more slowly among low-income women, and that "Poor women are now at greater risk for breast cancer death because of less access to screening and better treatments. This continued disparity is impeding real progress against breast cancer." You know who loses when Komen backs away from Planned Parenthood? Probably not those nice, pink-clad ladies who attend Susan Komen wine-tasting events.
• This post does a great job of explaining the insidious ways in which pro-lifers are not so much anti-abortion as anti women's freedom and anti-sex in general, which is an excellent point
If pro-life activists really cared about public health and stopping abortion and saving the precious widdle babies, if they were truly pro-life, then they would support policies and scientific advancements that prevent abortion and, you know, actually save lives. They would promote the use of contraceptives, and fight to make them as cheap and accessible as possible…………. They would support financial assistance for women who cannot afford pre and postnatal care. They would support organizations like Planned Parenthood. But they don't. They virulently oppose all of these things with a vicious, fiery passion because it's not about the babies and it's not about health - it's about the sex and the women who have it.
• The Planned Parenthood Saved My Life tumblr is full of stories from women who received excellent and often life-saving care at their local PP, which is nothing knew but really serves to drive home the point that, you know, it rules?
• Here's a link where you can donate to PP, or if you aren't able to donate, you can always actually support them by, you know, utilizing their services — go ahead and book yourself a pap smear or whatevz like, right now, since you've probably been putting it off anyhow. You can also add your name to the letter declaring that you still stand with PP, or you can check out the PPAction site for more news and updates and calls to action.
Lately I've been really into weird concepts of something like failed, desperate, self-conscious deliberate performative femininity? Part of this is evidenced by the fact that I've been doing my hair in big curls with my kinda-crappy-blonde-dye-job and wearing a ridiculous faux-leopard coat with ripped tights and messy eyeliner, and part of it comes together more in at least 47 different e-mail conversations about books and movies with "unrepentantly fucked up" lady characters that I've been having with at least 5 different people of late. Some of these ideas have been written very eloquently by other folks already, and some of it is obvious and some of it is still vague, and all of it is definitely not "complete," so, like, go at it in the comments, y'all, I wanna know what you're thinking.
It begins, I think, with my ongoing frustration that when we are presented with male characters (or personas, or even real persons) who are basically bad people with one redeeming quality (still sleeps with a teddy bear, is a brilliant filmmaker) we let that one redeeming quality, you know, redeem them, and are collectively charmed by their fucked-up-ness. But I have a really hard time coming up with similar female examples: all of the ones I can think of we have opted to either lambast or concern-troll instead. And we always need to redeem them. They always need to learn something or be rescued, which we all know is basically the opposite of how the world really works. Kids, I am a hot mess, and almost all of the women I admire and love and am fascinated by are also hot fucking messes, and I so rarely see that represented in a real, nuanced, and fascinating way. To simplify: I am eternally tearing my hair out over the fact that I desperately want more female antiheroes. In books, film, pop culture personas, whatever. And I've been seeing this idea come up again and again lately.
As a brief list of some of what I'm referencing: There's this Lana Del Rey album review, which is kind of the most astute thing I've read on her yet, and which hit the nail on the head of my bizarre, obsessive preoccupation with her and her aesthetic — though it condemned her where I obviously am fascinated instead. There was that Marie Calloway brouhaha, and the fantastic response to it all from Kate Zambreno, which also lead to The Rejectionist's interview with her here. There were a bunch of folks over at Emily Books who managed to somehow misread a lot of lesbian moralism into Eileen Myles' Inferno, when I thought it was just a book about, like, someone very funny and intelligent and unapologetic, who also lived a life that reminds me an awful lot of my life now. There was Charlize Theron in Young Adult, who would have been way fascinating if not for Diablo Cody's frustrating insistence on de-nuancing her characters in favor of twee trope-tastic banter. There's Cat Marnell at XOJane and the no-nonsense-it's-okay-to-be-human writing at Rookie. Sarah's and my Rayanne Project (which sort of fizzled out probably partially because I am a little bit too much of a whacked-out womanchild to coordinate and motivate folks to write me things like that, but the stuff that's up there is still amazeballs!) The Amy-Winehouse-inspired couture collection that Gaultier showed yesterday. Courtney Love, like, in general.
I am really into this, you guys.
Russian-born Nina Leen was one of the first female photographers to shoot for LIFE magazine, which, fortunately for us, means there's a ton of her work available on the Google LIFE photo archives. While mostly known for her work with animals (including a dog named Lucky that she adopted and apparently put hats on), it's Leen's photographs of women that I find most fascinating. Admittedly, to some extent the period of time in which she was working for LIFE — the late 40s through the 1950s — dictated that bizarre style of "it's totally not posed, I swear, I just stand this awkwardly and grin with a box of kitchen supplies all the time, not to mention we are all white and very happy all the time" photography. (The original "woman laughing alone with salad?")
But when juxtaposed with her more candid shots (a girl falling down at a skating rink, a woman on the phone in an office, women trying on shoes, cleaning their living rooms, browsing stores) they provide a surprising amount of insight into the expectations versus reality of being a young woman in that era. Exposé photoessays on the work of housewives or of young working girls (like we know from Mad Men, most of them are either secretaries or models) ran in contrast to Upper East Side socialites walking their dogs or glamorous women in evening gowns posed like mannequins. Intentionally or otherwise, her work as a whole provides an interesting study on idealized femininity and the public versus private lives of women and the world, separate from that of men, in which they were forced to exist.
More photos after the jump.
Look guys! We're official now! Here's all the infos for all of you people who blew us the hell away with your enthusiasm and totally brilliant ideas — and a new tumblr and twitter for the project!
So a few weeks ago The Rejectionist and I were having one of our weird long gmail conversations about, like, this thing pissed us off and should we buy these pants and have you seen this cool thing on the internet and OMG the 90s, which naturally progressed into lengthy discussions about My So Called Life, because I mean, what else is there worth talking about? And we realized that the same thing kept coming up — we get it, Jordan Catalano leans really well and like everyone ever thinks they're Angela, but what about Rayanne? While Angela's the central character and the "most relatable" because of her "most normal" life, why don't we ever take Rayanne seriously? Why is it that she's relegated to the secondary character of "the one with quirky style and attitude but like kind of an unhinged drunk slutty bad girl?"
And then we started thinking about all the other things related to that, like how maybe all of Rayanne's sex and "slut potential" wasn't totally consensual and why do we sort of ignore how rich her character is when the show does a pretty good job of it really? Why do we just want to talk about how COOL she looked even though, you know, shit wasn't exactly coming up daisies for her and her life was impressively complicated for a show airing at that time, and maybe we should talk about that? Why is every analysis of Rayanne and Angela's friendship that we can find anywhere way too idealized and, frankly, kind of stupid? Could we also see Rayanne some kind of accessible whitewashed pathway into talking about those "othered" (through race, class, gender, body, whatever) teen girl experiences that don't get talked about as much? What about Ricky, what if we relate to Rayanne and Ricky more as well? Basically — can we make Rayanne more than the quirky, slutty, sassy sidekick drunk with amazing hair?
And how does that relate to other things we've been thinking about, like the devaluing of teen female experiences or how we're both sort of grossed out by the fetishization and flattening of what could be loosely defined as "punk female identities," and how a tattooed bisexual asskicking brunette does not a feminist storyline make? Or how it bums us out that nobody ever writes good fiction about what it's like being sixteen and a girl who dresses funny or maybe was a little nuts but doesn't need to be saved or married off or isn't going to die or anything from making some bad decisions? Or how we totally can't fucking stand that manic pixie dreamgirl trope and aforementioned asskicking bisexual tattooed brunette character? Can't we talk about teenage girls without it turning into a Choose Your Own Adventure of Pick One: crazy-pregnant-addict-anorexic-kooky-overemotional-shallow-lonely-doomed-virgin-whore? And how does all that fun stuff like race and class and gender and sexuality and bodies and ability and everything intersect with those experiences?
And then we realized that there was a lot to say here, and that it might as well not be said only to our own Gmail archives, and that we had an entire internet of people with Very Smart Opinions who we also wanted to talk about this. So: we want to know what you have to say. Do you want to blog about this as part of a big ole internetwide Let's Please Talk About Rayanne or Girls Like Rayanne Seriously kind of thing, our Rayanne Project, as we're calling it? Do you not have a blog but want to guest-post on one of ours, or interview someone, or be interviewed? Are you overwhelmed with some other related creative impulse that we could also somehow e-share and show off your fabulousness? Awesome, because we want it all.
Ideally, since it was the basis of the conversation (and we basically really want to talk about Rayanne without being like OMG THOSE BRAIDS!! THOSE PATCHWORK PANTS! again, because we have that conversation twice a week) — we'd love for you to use My So Called Life as the basis of whatever you want to contribute. But if you want to branch off into that multitude of related topics above, or have other really awesome ideas that relate, we certainly aren't going to stop you, since we pretty much think enough can't be said about this.
We're planning mostly on a blog conversation for starters which we may then later curate into another website — but if this goes as well as we're hoping it will, there will be a zine coming out of it (!!!!), and some kind of event for those of us based in NYC.
So! If you'd be interested in contributing in some way, please email megpclark[at]gmail and rejectionistandyourmom[at]gmail by Thursday, May 12th just to say that you'd be down, and let us know some of your ideas, or how or what you'd like to contribute. We'll get back to you soon with more concrete details, posting schedules, and more guidelines later next week — because duh, we can't wait to hear what you have to say.
Continuing my apparent ongoing obsession with photographers who call excess attention to just how creepy mandated performativity of the feminine can be (see: Alex Prager, that Kourtney Roy editorial) — some of Anna Gaskell's photographs, largely from the 90's.
Similar to Prager (and nodding of course, as always, to Cindy Sherman, who we have to mention again that I can never for the life of me care about as much as I know I ought to, considering her obvious influence on so much that I do like) Gaskell stages elaborate, cinematically lit photographs, but of costumed young girls in inexplicably macabre, somehow sadistic poses. The Hitchcock light and angles, extreme cropping, and cartoonish saturation of colour creates and re-enforces the discomfort we feel with the girls' cruel and bizarre actions, the apparent fetishization and sexualization of their isolated legs and feet, and the idealized, stylized doll-like way in which they are presented. Vague parallels emerge between classic cultural references of young girls (Alice in Wonderland), a forced and limiting uniform (the blue dresses, white tights), and a discomfort regarding feminine agency and sexuality, and the taboo of corrupted innocence; the overall effect is troubling in ways we can't quite comprehend at first.
More after the jump!
CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW THIS IS MY NEW FAVOURITE TUMBLR LIKE BASICALLY EVER NO REALLY LIKE EVERYTHING I LIKE EVER JUST EXPLODED INTO A BUNCH OF CRAPPY MACROS OF BIKINI KILL LYRICS OVER PRERAPHAELITE PAINTINGS, DYING RIGHT NOW IN SO MANY WAYS THAT I REALLY NEED TO BLOG ABOUT IT IN ALL CAPS AT ONE IN THE MORNING (also like, I'm sorry, beyond the side splitting hilarity it's AWESOME considering everything about all this art, if anyone ever needed some Kathleen Hanna it's THESE ladies.)
I also want to sort of talk about this professor I had in college, Wendy Graham, who taught this wacky class on — I don't even know what it was about, I feel like "deviant sexuality" was in the title of it and the ending half of it was "decadence in the fin de siecle" (which judging from my tumblr name kicked off a lengthy ongoing obsession) — other than that we read Bataille and Sacher Masoch and Deleuze and whatever and talked about the preraphaelites and listened to the Velvet Underground and at least once a week she wore this absurd yellow plaid kilt suit THING, I think there was actually a Facebook group about it — ANYWAY. Good god, that yellow plaid kilt suit thing. But I wish I could have just thought to do this instead of writing whatever lengthy half-formed terrible sophomore-in-college-brained-papers I cranked out for her class.

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Endive and Grapefruit Salad with Smoked Trout
- 2 ruby grapefruits
- 1 tablespoon Champagne vinegar
- 1 tablespoon minced shallot
- 3 tablespoons crème fraîche
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 4 large endives (about 1 1/2 pounds), leaves separated
- 2 Hass avocados, cut into 1/2-inch dice
- 1 pound smoked trout fillets, skinned and flaked into 1-inch pieces
- Using a knife, carefully peel the grapefruits; be sure to remove all of the bitter white pith. Working over a bowl, cut in between the membranes to release the grapefruit sections into the bowl. Transfer the sections to a plate. Squeeze any extra grapefruit juice from the membranes into the bowl and stir in the vinegar and shallot, then whisk in the crème fraîche and oil. Season the grapefruit vinaigrette with salt and pepper.
- Arrange the endives on a large platter. Top with the grapefruit sections, diced avocado and smoked trout and serve, passing the vinaigrette at the table.
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The best bet for this salad is a Sauvignon Blanc with herbal and grapefruit hints, such as those from South Africa or New Zealand.
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Mark Gatiss does go on. He's been on at me about the Ice Warriors since I took over the show. And, frankly, I've been disappointing him. I just wasn't that thrilled about unearthing yet another old monster. I slightly felt we'd done all the good ones. But then, as I was sitting in my garden on the phone to Mark about Sherlock, he started pitching this story. An Ice Warrior! On a nuclear submarine! Under the polar ice cap. That would have been enough for me to say, "yes, please!" but then he had one more idea that made my hair stand on end.
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At FanIQ we have a lot of opinions, and come NFL playoff time, we like expressing them. So today three of us, me, Pat and our newest featured writer, Carlo, will preview Wild Card Weekend and make picks. One of us plans to leave with bragging rights. Or do you know better than all of us?
Cincinnati Bengals at Houston Texans, Saturday 4:30 p.m. ET, NBC
If Matt Schaub was healthy, the Bengals wouldn't have a chance. But with the likes of TJ Yates and Jake Delhomme at the helm in Houston, things are a lot trickier. Still, Arian Foster is a beast, and the Texans defense is solid. Andy Dalton might have to wait to get his first playoff win.
Pick: Texans 20, Bengals 13
This game is a tough call even though Houston is the slight favorite. And I think neither of these teams has a shot at advancing to the AFC Championship Game. Nonetheless, the matchup between Pro Bowlers A.J. Green and Jonathan Joseph, who will likely "shadow" the dynamic rookie receiver, will be fun to watch – Joseph held Green to five catches and 59 yards on Dec. 11. Also worth noting is that Andy Dalton has been considerably worse throughout the second half of the season and will face a solid Texans pass defense. While I trust Houston's outstanding rushing attack, I do not have as much faith in T.J. Yates. Ultimately, I think the Bengals will secure a win in a very close game.
Pick: Bengals 20, Texans 17
The fact that this is a playoff game pisses me off. Do you know how many playoff teams the Bengals beat this season? Zero, zilch, nada, none. Their best win was probably over Tennessee. Meanwhile, Houston played in an atrocious division, and jumped out to a big lead before Matt Schaub got hurt, putting the division out of reach. Whoever wins this rematch of Houston's week 14 20-19 victory will undoubtedly be dispatched next round.
Pick: Texans 20, Bengals 19
Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints, Saturday 8 p.m. ET, NBC
This could end up being a shootout, with Drew Brees and the league's most dangerous offense on one side and the league's most prolific QB-WR duo in Matt Stafford and Calvin Johnson on the other. In the end, the Saints just have too many weapons.
Pick: Saints 31, Lions 30
New Orleans is arguably the NFL's hottest team and a trendy pick to knock off the 15-1 Packers and even win the Super Bowl. Although the Saints have been destroying teams of late, Detroit has a decent chance to win thanks to its passing attack. Megatron should have a better game than he did in these teams' Dec. 4th meeting, though a rejuvenated Kevin Smith could be the actual difference maker in helping Detroit establish the run against a New Orleans squad allowing five yards per carry. The Saints are favored by double-digits, which seems a bit high to me.
Pick: Saints 37, Lions 31
This could end up being a game of whoever has the ball last, wins. That, said New Orleans has been absolutely crushing teams lately, especially at home, and they may be the league's best team right now. This is the game I'm looking forward to most this weekend, because of all the star power. I just wonder if the Lions will commit to running the football and keeping Drew Brees and co. off the field, or not.
Pick: Saints 34, Lions 24


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The warehouse retailer faces rising costs, and a 10% fee increase will help counter those expenses.
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The announcement comes amid disappointing quarterly results. The retailer reported $1.08 per share in profit on $28.18 billion in revenue. Analysts were looking for $1.10 per share on $27.84 billion in revenue. So even though Costco came in higher on sales -- same-store sales rose 12% when analysts expected 10% -- the narrow profit miss got most of the attention.
When Ackman, Buffett, Peltz and Jefferies all agree, you should listen.
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Family Dollar (FDO) reported better-than-expected earnings on Sept. 28, raising its guidance and announcing it would be buying back an additional $250 million worth of stock. But the shares slumped along with the rest of the market. Then, on Wednesday, the stock got a boost from an analyst upgrade. As of midday, it was up $1.50, or about 3% to $53.
It's time for the rest of Wall Street to sit up and take notice of the improving story here.
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Other asset classes such as commodities, oil and real estate also have fallen.
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The name of the voice-command app Siri translates into hilarity.
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These three stocks are already outperforming as we enter a seasonally strong period for the retail sector.
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Opinion: America's corporate bosses have won for us one of the highest standards of living in the world. They deserve some credit.
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Song - 'Kasam'
Artist - Raju Gurung
Album - B-52
Camera - Birendra Shrestha
Location - Tibet Guest House Thamel,
Post Production – Digital Dreams
Actors - Raju Gurung & Bota
About the music video in the director's own words:
Basically, the music video has a very simple concept. I have tried to blend the nostalgic theme to go along with the lyrics of the song. The duration of the shoot lasted for just five hours and Raju was as co-operative as ever. I have tried to portray the song in a very soothing manner which I feel I have succeeded in presenting it in the sense that it is very pleasant to the eyes. In the beginning, I was rather apprehensive about the concept of shooting it in just two rooms; the location we chose was the suite of Tibet Guest House, Thamel. But as we progressed, I kind of took it up as a challenge and I am happy to state that I am quite pleased with the outcome. However, the most challenging aspect of 'Kasam' was to get the right color tone while editing. It probably took me four days of continuously working on it before I could finally get it right. I take this opportunity to thank my editor, Himal Joshi who has done a great job as is evident from the music video.


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This was delicious, even better that it is quick! I used white high fiber pasta, linguini, because I couldn't find whole grain fettuccine. The lemon/pepper ricotta topping made the meal. It is being added to my top 25 quick meals.
Ricotta-Spinach Pasta
Photo: José Picayo
Ready in less than 20 minutes, Ricotta-Spinach Pasta is the perfect solution for a quick and easy weeknight meal.
Yield: Serves 4 (serving size: 1 cup)
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Total: 18 Minutes
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 407
- Fat: 20.5g
- Saturated fat: 5.7g
- Monounsaturated fat: 7.3g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 5.5g
- Protein: 14.9g
- Carbohydrate: 43.2g
- Fiber: 4.3g
- Cholesterol: 59mg
- Iron: 2.7mg
- Sodium: 442mg
- Calcium: 134mg
- 9 ounces refrigerated fettuccine
- 2/3 cup whole-milk ricotta cheese
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 1/2 cups diced red bell pepper
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
- 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 3 cups fresh baby spinach
- Lemon rind strips (optional)
- Orange and Olive Salad
- 1. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain in a colander over a bowl; reserve 1/2 cup pasta water.
- 2. Combine ricotta, 1 teaspoon rind, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and black pepper.
- 3. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add bell pepper; sauté 2 minutes. Add walnuts, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and garlic; sauté 2 minutes. Stir in 1 tablespoon oil and juice. Add pasta, pasta water, and spinach; cook 1 minute or until spinach wilts. Top with ricotta mixture and rind strips, if desired.
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I m looking for black and decker blender parts.. i have been searching for it since last two days.. cud anybody give me some online shops so that i can buy.. because in my locality its not available tat easy.. thanks in advance :)
Try Ebay. I was able to get a base for an old stand mixer after mine went bad. I hated to throw it away because I had so many attachments for it, so I was very happy to pay $23 for the motor/base.
Good luck.
I went on ebay & found parts for my mixer/chopper , mostly motors & that sort of thing. Pretty easy to find also.
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Corn my own beef?
I plan to corn a beef brisket for a St. Patrick's Day dinner I am hosting. I've done my homework and have what appear to be the right recipes, etc. But now I am looking for some advice from others who have already done it. Tips and suggestions, please?
I have been corning my own for several years and have converted many friends to that method. I don't think there is any magic to it, but the first thing I noticed that the meat isn't that funky red color that I was accustomed to seeing in the store-bought stuff. So the meat is kinda gray, which is to be expected. I have read that you can buy some stuff to keep the meat pink, but I can't imagine using it.
I put the corning liquid in a big zip lock bag...you can get the 1.5 or 2 gallon size bags in some stores. Then I add the beef, squeeze the air out and put the bag flat in a 9"x13" pan or whatever size will fit. I put a smaller pan on top to weight it down so there's no floating. I don't think you can really screw up.
re: pcdarnell
pcdarnell would you mind sharing your recipe?
re: TDEL
Better late than never!
Home Cured Corned Beef
3 cup salt (kosher)
7 quarts water
1 6-9 lb brisket
3 garlic cloves, peeled
20 whole peppercorns
20 whole cloves
1 bay leaf
6 sprigs thyme, or 1 tsp. dried thyme
Dissolve salt in water. Add rest of ingredients. Place in large zip lock bag with beef. Place in another container (for support) and weight it down. Turn meat occasionally. Let it sit 5-12 days. Rinse before cooking as usual.
I use a smaller brisket and let it sit 5 days. I reduce the liquid and salt in proportion.
re: pcdarnell
2 weeks at least.
I too follow the ziplock plastic bag routine, sans the nitrites that keep the meat pink, but I usually corn pork instead. I follow Julia Child's recipe, and I dimly remembered responding to a similar question once before:
Julia Child's recipe for corned beef or pork is one I like, but I warn you, you need to cure it for at least two weeks, up to a month. You use kosher salt, a little sugar, cracked peppercorns, powdered allspice, thyme, sage, paprika, bay leaf for both; for beef ou add minced rutabaga, onion and carrot and minced garlic, and for pork you use crushed juniper berries. The recipe is in Julia Child and Company. You corn the meat inside a sturdy ziplock bag in the refrigerator, with a weight on top, and you turn and massage the bag every day. Then you soak it before cooking. It's a commitment. (see http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/366201)
re: Davwud
Thanks for this. I've been reading some recipes but there's nothing like this kind of advice. Curiously, some of the things I've read say corn the meat only for a few days (3-5 days) and others say, as above, that it should be kept in the brine for at least a coupla weeks. I like the longer-is-better approach. Regarding the "stuff" to keep the meat pink, I think it is salt peter (potassium nitrate). I'd appreciate any thoughts about this.
re: Ichabod
If you want the pink color just pick up some Prague Powder or Morton's Curing Salt. Either of these are easier and probably safer to use than saltpeter.
Also...3-5 days is definitely not enough time for the sure. I use 2 weeks minimum, and even longer is better.
re: Ichabod
It's impossible to be specific, since meat thickness, fat content, and temperature (and brine strength in a liquid cure) play major roles, but both statements are correct - though incomplete.
If you soak the meat completely submerged in a liquid brine, it can take less than a week. Injecting brine into the meat accelerates the process.
If you dry cure the meat (spice rub, no liquid), it can take 10 days to four weeks to cure a brisket.
As to red colour, saltpeter works but is an archaic method. The most common consumer product is Morton Tender Quick. The standard commercial product is Prague Powder #1 (called pink salt in the US). These are toxic, and you must follow reliable recipes scrupulously.
The nitrite curing salts don't seem relevant to making good corned beef, though they do give you that pretty red colour. Brined corned beef is prone to turning gray, though it tastes fine. Dry curing without nitrite can also come out gray though, as foodie jane mentions, it can also look more or less like cooked beef. There's no safety issue, since you can't get botulism (the main reason for nitrite curing) from a freshly cooked corned beef.
If you spice and smoke a brisket "corned" without nitrites, you won't get pastrami/smoked meat. You'll get smoked corned beef (not the same thing). The cure seems inherent to the taste of "pastrami".
Some good advice on corning your brisket. Make an extra one and coat it in cracked black pepper and corriander seeds then smoke and steam it for some home made pastrami
The last couple of years, we/ve gotten our Corned Beef from Whole Foods. It is outa site, and extremely tender and tasty. I know the guy who does the "corning", and he tells me it takes about 3 weeks to properly "corn" the beef. They do it in 5 gallon buckets and/or in big plastic containers that will hold several briskets.
We've been wanting to do our own, and I've seen recipes in our America's Test Kitchen cookbook, and then these on this forum. The "massaging" and stuff sounds like a good thing to do, especially since it's in a ziploc.
As far as "salt peter", not such a good idea I think? It's been used in the past in boot camps to help keep the male population from having nightime problems.
re: jclarke
I've used the ATK recipe and it came out great!
I've got a whole brisket in the fridge now waiting to be broken down and corned.
And the meat isn't "grey"at all, it's brown, like all cooked beef. I like the fact that it's not so overpoweringly salty. Juuuust right.
re: toodie jane
To avoid copyright issues, can you paraphrase the ATK recipe and post it here?
re: Scagnetti
The dry rub is so simple. Take about 1/2 c kosher salt, add some herbal seasonings. You can vary the spice components to suit your tastes.
for 1 whole 4-6 pound beef brisket(both the 'poin't and 'flat' cuts before separating), I use:
1/3 c kosher salt
1 tsp crushed coriander seed
3 bay leaves, crushed into bits
1T. coarse cracked black pepper
2 tsp paprika (I used smoked, all I had on hand)
2 tsp whole dry thyme
1-2 tsp ground allspice (I like 2)
pinch ground cloves
2 tsp mustard seed
You can also buy Pickling Spices already mixed at the grocery store. The one I get for pickling vegetables has whole cloves in it and some red pepper flakes, which I think would work fine.
Mix flavorings in a jar. Pat meat dry and remove any silverskin. Pierce on both sides with a fork (or knife tip on the fatty side) a couple dozen times per side. Rub the spice mix into the meat with fingertips. Give it a good ol' massage. Place the neat in a large gallon size zip (or any heavy plastic bag) and press out the air. Get as much air out as possible. Seal bag tightly and place in a shallow dish or pan. Find something heavy (a brick, etc) and wrap in a plastic bag, place it over the meat to press it down. Place in fridge.
Cure for 5 to7 days, depending on the thickness of the brisket, turning every couple of days.
Rinse the cured meat and place in a covered dutch oven with about 2-3 cups liquid (broth or water) and cook in the oven for about 4 hours at 215-225. You don't really want the liquid to boil, just want the surface to shimmer. Just like with a dry roasting of tough meat, you want low-and-slow for best texture and juiciness. Test near the end of estimated cooking time for tenderness
You can add some peeled potato and carrots chunks the last 40 minutes, and cabbage the last 20 minutes for the so-called (...?...) Irish Boiled dinner of corned beef and cabbage. (I don't really know if this is an old-country dish, or something from the Irish-American immigrants--anybody know?)
Slice against the grain on a slight diagonal.
Don't forget to save some to make some hash!
re: toodie jane
Thank you!
re: Scagnetti
just to emphasize, the cooking time is approximate. Depends a lot on the thickness of the brisket. You just have to test. I've done it overnight at about 215 degrees and had good luck, meat still slices nicely. But allow yourself more time if it is needed.
Theres an outfit in Houston that has everything you could ever need for home meat processing. Their on the web, just punch in Allied Kenco, it's fun just to look at their catalog.
re: Bengaliwife
Typically simmered, but can be steamed or baked in a tightly covered pan. Smoking and grilling don't produce what most of us would think of as "corned beef".
I've been making this corned beef for years. It's incredible. Here's a link to the recipe:
re: hankstramm
In this recipe, being that the meat is only brined for 5 days, do you still get the full brine taste in the meat?
re: Scagnetti
This comes from one of the premier authors of home curing of meat in the country--Brian Polcyn and Michael Ruhlman--food writer. The recipe is better than anything you'll get in a store--I'm no hack cook--I cure a lot of my own meats and this is 1st class. My local butcher--one of the tops is San Francisco cures his a week, so I'm not sure about the 12 week cure.
Bruce Aidell has a very similar recipe with about the same time frame.
re: hankstramm
I use the Cook's Ill. cure recipe, and inadvertantly let it go about 3 weeks. Very salty and dry, which has never happened before.
I'd love to try the Pastrami recipe--may have to check out this book.
A Sicilian friend's family --the Turcos--used to make Pastrami every year (with old family recipe) and sell it at the Santa Clara Co (CA) fair every year. Those sandwiches were soooo good, on good San Jose Italian bakery bread rolls. It was juicy and moist, not too salty. Heaven!
That might have been my very first Chowhound experience. A group of us pre-teen girls always went to the fair, and I'd make a beeline to the Turco's booth. Had to have my Pastrami sandwich. G'friends thought I was nuts, as we were invariably on our way to the carnival rides. Didn't bother me!
re: hankstramm
Haven't tried the corned beef recipe out of the Charcuterie book, but everything else I've made from that book is excellent.
I am currently corning beef with a recipe from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's book The River Cottage Cookbook. It's my first attempt, so we'll see.
Alton Brown has a recipe as well. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/al...
re: elekta
That corned beef was way too salty.
I did end up making pastrami from Charcuterie, and it came out great.
I made 2-3 recipes for 5 days, no good. Made the rest of the recipes for 12-weeks. Very good. Honestly whole foods is great. Even my grocer has one that is good. I love to do it, just not worth it. No room, no time. But it is a great flavor. Honestly I can't tell the difference and neither could the chef at a very fine restaurant from here. So I gave up. Sometimes I think a lot is in perception, but that may be me I got some kobe beef for a very elite party. All were chefs and restaurant people. They shorted me 5 steaks, The five who got the regular beef said they could definitely tell the difference and that was the best beef they ever had and they would never go back. I never told. 2 who got the meat were the head chefs, 2 were the soux chefs. So much for quality wins. Ever since then I don't worry. And in the same event, my stove broke, I used premade made hashbrowns and made my own potato cakes and sauteed spinach over a grill and a side burner. So I have learned taste some times is fueled by expectations and talk and not so much taste. I eventually told the chef and the price was altered, but they never knew.
So I love good corned beef, but honestly, it for me is not worth the effort and less you are just doing it for fun.
re: kchurchill5
KChurch--I guarantee the recipe that I listed is great--five days and all. Try it and if you don't like it, send me the bill...That site Letia's Culinaire is full of great recipes. I actually use the recipe directly out of Ruhlman & Polcyn's Charcuterie--which is my bible for curing meats...Been using it for years and it has Eric Ripert's and Thomas Keller's seal of approval.
re: hankstramm
I might try never had one in five days. I had fun, just never really had time or room, but 5 days I could manage.
re: kchurchill5
If your brisket isn't too thick, five days in a brine cure should be enough. I've never made the Ruhlman recipe, but it sounds reasonable. With a very thick double brisket, though, you might need more time.
One thing you can do is to inject some of the brine. Then soak the brisket as usual. Commercial injectors with hundreds of needles can cure a brisket in a couple of days - sometimes in a few hours. That's obviously not feasible at home, but injecting clear brine (all spices and other grit must be filtered out) into the center of the meat - especially in thick areas - will get the job done faster. These needles cost as little as a few dollars, though really cheap plastic ones don't last long.
If you cure without nitrites (e.g., do NOT use the "pink salt" called for in the Ruhlman recipe), you can accelerate the cure by increasing the salt concentration of the brine. I can't recall the proportions vs time, but the info is widely available if nobody posts it here. I can't tell you what spice adjustments, if any, would be needed.
re: embee
I've always cured retail sized cuts from the butcher or supermarket--nothing more than 2, perhaps 3 inches thick at the widest. I never tried anything thicker than that--actually, I didn't even know they existed.
I think having it very brined is not that important, since if you read the recipe, you use quite a bit of the pickling spice in the cooking process too which permeates the beef with the flavor. Having the flavor of the fresh spice is what matters the most--not having it totally transformed to a mutant cut--this is what I imagine would happen after 12 weeks--was that a typo that really meant 12 days?
re: hankstramm
I've always done at least 12 days, that is why I am leary at 5 days. I may try, but I don't have 12 days, I'm busy before so I have very limited time and usually not home and can't get to the store until Friday so ... you can understand my predicament ... why I don't usually do long things like this. Just too busy
re: kchurchill5
Don't worry, 5 is enough. A lot of curing or brining things depends on the salt concentration. I'm not sure what your salt to water ratio is in the 12 day recipe, but this one is pretty concentrated.
re: hankstramm
At twelve weeks, whatever the curing method, the meat would not be edible to anyone with a remotely normal palate.
re: kchurchill5
Just replying to hankstramm's Mar 4 - 10:58 post about a possible typo, which we all agree it must have been.
Using Morton's quickcure seems to do the job well. I have been doing it dry . just following the suggested recipe on the package. About 1/2 tablespoon to a pound for the dry rub. I add a good amount of pickling spice that i bought in a large sort of McCormack's seasoning BJ's sized container. Trim a 6-8 pound piece of BJ's brisket of the top fat and fiber and just rub both sides. I have a wide flat plastic container that I put the brisket in,refrigerate at about 35 degrees turn the meat every three days or so and have corn beef in about a week to ten days depending on the size. I am still experimenting with soaking after rinsing to lower some of the salt content but I like some saltiness in the meat. I steam the brisket in a wide steamer ftted into a braising pan keeping a heavy pan cover right on the meat inside the steamer. Three hours and it's cooked corn beef very close to the kosher styke I grew up with in the G&G in Dorchester,Mass. in the 40's and 50's.
re: bob tichell
Bob, very interested in your recipe as I too am a lover of kosher corned beef. Couple of questions:
- what do you mean by BJ's brisket? Is it a flat, 2nd cut or whole brisket? I am assuming BJs is some kind of warehouse type store (we have Sam's club & Costco).
- trying to figure out how to improvise a large enough steamer. Would this work in the oven with a large turkey roasting pan, big rack and foil to cover? Think I would be better off boiling it? I do have a 16 gal stock pot and cover.
- can I freeze the corned beef? There is no way I can eat all the corned beef, even in a week. If I freeze in small packages, I would be much more amenable to doing this.
Thanks for your help! Please share your comments.
re: Diane in Bexley
BJ's is a warehouse store out of Natick,Ma.Their briscuit is a flat cut ,, sometimes with the smaller upper muscle attachedby a fatty ,fibrous layer. The rub doesn't penetrate the fat well so that is why I do both sides. I have improved the rub with granulated garlic and some brown sugar. I just mix it in with the the Morton's cure and pickling spices and put in on , about half on each side, using about a tablespoon of each. I dab a bit on my tongue to get an idea of the flavor but the final product seems to always be good. I find steaming time, to 195 degrees , is about 90 minutes. A friend of ours , from the south, said it was the best he ever hd.
re: bob tichell
I used Morton's tender quick in a wet brine for 10 days. I also used pre-packaged pickling spice in the brine. The result was wonderful, with a nice pink color. One weird thing was that the very middle 1/2 inch was gray. No impact on taste or texture. Cooked it for 3 hours and it was perfect.
re: mkleinbart64
Interesting, sounds like the TC didn't get to the middle.
This year I am going to go traditional and skip the corned beef (tired of my Irish friends laughing at me).
I am going to cure a pork butt instead of a beef brisket. Same process and procedure, just a different (and by most accounts, more flavorful) end product.
This is totally artificial, but I like to have some degrees of separation between corned beef and pastrami, otherwise pastrami just becomes smoked corned beef, and vice versa. I like Craig Claiborne's corned beef recipe and James Beard's pastrami recipe.
Corned beef: wet brine with lots of garlic and traditional Northern European pickling spices: pepper, cloves, bay leaf, thyme, mustard seeds. A sprig of fresh dill is nice.
Pastrami: dry cured with garlic, pepper, and ginger in the cure. Rinsed, rubbed with ginger, ground coriander, and black pepper, then cold smoked before braising or simmering.
The ginger in the pastrami cure is brilliant, but consider the source.
Obviously, you can mix and match, but that's how we do it at the Sling Garbo Memorial Test Kitchen.
re: carbonaraboy
Now...is the brisket in brine kept in the refrigerator?
re: sgracieuse
re: carbonaraboy
Smoked corned beef is roughly speaking Montreal Smoked Meat.
re: carbonaraboy
Pastrami basically IS smoked corned beef.
It gets brined the same way, but gets the coriander and pepper coating before the smoking.
Also, after being smoked, good pastrami should neither be braised nor simmered...it is at its best when it gets a _long_ steambath.
re: The Professor
If you dry cure, you pretty much have to simmer or braise to get out the excess salt. By "braise" I mean put on a shallow rack in a deep roasting pan, add water or beer half way up the meat, seal well with HD Al foil, bake at 350, turn meat halfway through.


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Exotic Animal Incident Report
Reported: Jul 18, 2012
Animal: Python
Facility Type: Exotic Pet
Category: Abandoned animal, Escape of animal, Injury to animal, Injury to animal by human
Summary: A large snake, possibly a Burmese python, is thought to have been set free by an owner, has been seen constricting an oppossum at a restaurant parking lot. One of the kitchen staff stabbed it with a knife and it slithered into the underbush and had not been seen since.
Source: The Daily Progress
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