At this point in my life, I don’t absorb as much pop music as I did in my teens—which I’m blissfully ignorantly fine about since the bulk of it is crappity crap—but this lyric caught me off-guard when I was roped in by the melodic hook to listening to Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” this [...]
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Say what?
Posted in Language on October 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“It’s only heat.”
Posted in Language on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Training starts today, of course, on the hottest day of the year to date (woohoo!). I’m going to get all the cliches about sweating/heat/humidity out of my system, so I can really coin some new phrases while I’m experiencing a new level and duration of it. Sticky icky. Sub-Saharan. Hot as balls. Suggestions welcome.
Treats taxonomy
Posted in Language on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A curious thing about the names of sweets is that they’re not controlled like the names of plants (Kingdom: Dairy; Phylum: Whipped?), so it can get confusing. (It’s also very curious that I’ve thought about this for too long a time, but.) Let’s say, for instance, chocolate cake, or lemon tart. Fine, these items are [...]
Chocolove/You fit like a Choco-glove
Posted in Chocolate, Language on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I bought a Chocolove bar today just for the poem, this one from Shakespeare. I guess I would make a good customer for Lyric Bread. It was 55% cocoa, and I think there’s enough bitter to sweet ratio for a 55%. Please chime in if you disagree. from Venus and Adonis: Still she entreats, and prettily entreats, [...]
Poetr-eats
Posted in Chocolate, Language on June 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Watched HBO’s new show “Hung” last night and I snickered to myself quietly when Tanya, the poet/freelance proofreader played by Jane Adams, presents to her “I’m going to be a millionaire” class the idea of “lyric bread,” which consists of inserting inspirational verse into baked goods. She draws her inspiration from fortune cookies, and an [...]
Pastry-related jokes
Posted in Language on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Demetri Martin’s show, “Person”: “I met many chocoholics, but I ain’t never seen no chocohol… We got an epidemic of people, people who love chocolate, who don’t understand the rules of word endings…They’re probably overworkahol-ed.” “Cakes are the only food we write on. It’s always so encouraging, like, ‘Happy Birthday, Leo!’ ‘Congratulations, Eric!’ I [...]
What is a foodie?
Posted in Language on May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Just had this conversation with a friend who works at a food mag. Ah ha! So Gael Greene was the one. Related, here’s a “list” I submitted to McSweeneys which got rejected. It was my third submission. I can never figure out the criteria; it just has to be funny, smart and subversive, right? They [...]
Reading: Food-related idioms
Posted in Language, Reading on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From Harper’s Magazine, March 2004 issue, an excerpt from How Koreans Talk, A Collection of Expressions, by the NY Times reporter Choe Sang-Hun and Christopher Torchia. I’ve just culled the ones that had to do with sweets and food: Rice cake in the picture: Pie in the Sky The other man’s rice cake is always [...]
