Archive For November 29, 2018
They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me. – Donald Trump Choosing insight from your gastro-intestinal tract instead of your brain like believing the word of foreign dictators instead of your own intelligence agencies. My stomach told me I…
Alice B. Toklas’s Recipe For Hash Brownies IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP OUT IN THE KITCHEN THIS WEEK By Emily Temple Yesterday, I published a list of unusual literary cookbooks—and in doing so was reminded of perhaps the most notorious recipe ever included in such a volume: “Haschich Fudge,” printed in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book in 1954. Since…
What keeps you going isn’t some fine destination but just the road you’re on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, ‘What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and…
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Routines have their purposes, but the merely routine is the hidden enemy of high art. – Cecil Beaton When a new day begins, dare to…
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ― Epicurus Have a question I like to ask. Never stay around for the answer. Don’t give a shit really. The answer is yours. Somebody asked you when you…
President Powers, Provost Fenves, Deans, members of the faculty, family and friends and most importantly, the class of 2014. Congratulations on your achievement. It’s been almost 37 years to the day that I graduated from UT. I remember a lot of things about that day. I remember I had a throbbing headache from a party…
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. – Will Rogers What would you get if you crossed Zonker Harris with a Rubik’s Cube? Benji Durden. Multiple sweatsuits in the humid Southern summer. Always thinking. Running the race of his life to make the Olympic…
Mary Schmich writes a column for the Chicago Tribune. I admit, we share many childhood memories. But think I’ve finally figured out how Mitch McConnell was created.- JDW Ah, The America of My Childhood. So Full of Bunk and Bigotry. In the America of my childhood, the Crayola box contained a crayon labeled “flesh.” Flesh was…
How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. – Trina Paulus Let me ask you a personal question. What was the worst decade of your life? Gave this some thought. Lived life like a leaf, floating on a rare swift…
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife. – Prince Philip “And then . . . we’re going to get in my car.” I waited for him to elaborate on a destination. “And?” He gently kissed the nape of my neck. “What do you think?” I couldn’t…