Posted in Alice Waters, Dalia Sofer, Elizabeth Hand, Fave Food LA, Food, House of Meetings, Jamie Oliver, Mario Vargas Llosa, Martin Amis, Nancy Silverton, Nigel Slater, Psychology, Recipes, Russ Parsons, Septembers of Shiraz, Simon Hopkinson, The Bad Girl, books, reading on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now that I’ve put Scrabulous in its place, I can get to the posts I wanted to write at the end of last year.
My top reads of 2007:
The books that moved me the most this year are ones that took me to a contemporary place revealing a world previously unknown to me.
In Martin Amis’s House [...]
Posted in POST, Personal, Psychology on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t going to weigh in on the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech, but after 3 days of watching NBC’s Today Show host Matt Lauer’s petulant, reactionary coverage, I just have to join the fray.
Take this exchange on Tuesday between Lauer and Omar Samaha, whose sister Reema had been murdered:
Lauer: is there anything [...]
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