Babygirl, unpack yr sweaters and get FABULOUS in FALL gay homo queer &c 2012

Today I'm familiarizing myself with my new neighbourhood. Gym? Market? Pharmacy? Butcher? Hospital? Etc.

― you, your max is on fire (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, December 15, 2012 10:02 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

where did you end up finding a place? because if you're in my neighbourhood the Y is pretty affordable, although i can't really speak to the beefcake situation.

there's a pharmacy in the jean coutu and the uniprix and a couple of great family-run indian grocery stores.

also, i can think of three different butchers, including one kosher butcher within two blocks of the bagels.

I found everything! I bought and cooked a massive amount of cabbage and broccoli and kale for a couple days of snacking, and some beef and sausages at Vito's. Tomorrow it's a haircut and reinstating myself at the Y

Thank you ppl who've congrat'd me since I last thanked ppl for congrating me.

(Bit tipsy right now in celebration)

snacking on kale, u effing rockstar

Roast it for 4 minutes at 425 with oil, snack all day, rock all night

No better way to begin a Sunday than with Teena Marie and Chris Hayes.

in my case, hugging the bf for an entire sade album

SO HUNGOVER THO might die

in my case, hugging the bf for an entire sade album

lex!!

I listened to the entire 2-disc Tom Moulton Soul Jazz comp half-asleep on a Megabus from DC. That was nice-ish.

In fairness listening to that Tom Moulton comp anywhere is nice.

It is!! And it's so rare that I have a solid distraction-free 2+ hours to dedicate to listening to something like that in its entirety. On the ride down on Thurs morn I knocked out one of the equally long Disco Discharge comps ("European Connection" I think? The one w/ "Hills of Katmadu" on it, props to clouds for the tipoff)

:3

crypto, who is this Canadian poet? as a poet, and a fan of many Canadian poets, my inquiring mind desires to know.

also, HI GAYS. had fun in NYC, though didn't see any ilxorz, sadly. (morbz, come to my reading at Zinc Bar in March!)

now i am back in oakland and all goes swimmingly. got called off work today, so i'm going to take a bath, eat cookies, read Foucault, and listen to Stars of the Lid, wondering when they will put out a new album because dammit.

i am in hangover solidarity with you lex, oooooy

also it looks as tho i'll be up in the bay sometime next summer again (B got a writers' residency in the north bay)

nice! hopefully i won't be shirking all my worldly responsibilities to be a bum this time.

in my case, hugging the bf for an entire sade album

― lex pretend, Sunday, December 16, 2012 6:57 AM Bookmark

omg

tabes: Susan Holbrook. Published in quite a few poetry journals so if you follow contemporary poetry to a reasonable degree, there might be a good chance you've run across her. I'll know a lot more about this stuff in a few months time, as the class I'm GAing is her Canadian poetry course.

Everyone read her "Good Egg Bad Seed" (from the collection "Joy is So Exhausting") if it is at all possible for you to do so.

since i've started going out w/M, a lot of people have made comments along the lines of how they're glad i'm getting into cooking, now that i'm dating a boy who loves to cook. and i'm like, no, i'm further away than ever: watching people cook doesn't make me think, wow, that looks easy, i could do that; it makes me think, wow, that is actual MAGIC, i could NEVER do that, it would go so wrong! instead, i seem to have gone from zero to obsession with cryptic crosswords (which he loves). i'd never even tried one before august and now i'm addicted.

Just as long as you're doing the washing up, you're pulling your weight.

lex, does your boy make fun of, for instance, your absolute terror at the thought of having to boil pasta?

i can boil pasta, ACTUALLY, though he has made fun of (and indeed banished me from the kitchen in disgrace for) my inability to grate cheese

but he still cooks everything from sea bass to beef wellington to yule logs to seafood chowder for me, so it doesn't matter

Beef Wellington!!

music, cooking, boyfriends -- I'm trying to think of any of my betes noires u guys are overlooking these days.

Target?

I am a crossword fiend but I have never cottoned onto cryptics, after many many attempts

...wait what is a Yule log? Like a cheese log?

It's where Doug Yule recorded the indignities Lou Reed inflicted on him.

it's a massive chocolate and cream roll - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/dec/13/how-cook-perfect-yule-log

You hate food, song and sex, Morbs?

I mean, I only hate one of those three.

I thought "sex" made your list four.

BFs /= sex

and food is meant to prepared by others to save me precious time

I could easily have a boyfriend without sex in the equation.

I view cooking as a way to avoid listening to music, toying with the computer, or watching movies.

all of those things are better than cooking though, like why would i ever want to avoid them? apart from the internet obv but in that case i'm usually trying to avoid work and don't have time to cook

the only reason I do any paid work at all is so that I can afford nice ingredients to cook with

^^^gets it

Nice ingredients to eat drink with.

ll of those things are better than cooking though, like why would i ever want to avoid them?

cuz I'm doing them all day, even at work?

Cooking is my default setting for procrastination. Typically I know when work is going badly when I'm running out to buy chickens to roast for everybody

i made a humongous pot of chili last night btw

gonna be my dinner the rest of the week

gonna get real sick of chili after this week

i did the same thing with a peanut soup, except my pot wasn't big enough, so i had an overflow pot.

i always do this when payday is in a week and i have ten dollars.

(hat tip to ilx poster crabbits for the awesome peanut soup recipe btw)

i've always been in the same boat as lex w/r/t cooking, but a few weeks ago i decided i could no longer stand the crappy diet i've been on since moving to NYC and living solo. that frustration + the ILX paleo diet thread inspired me to look up some simple paleo recipes and give them a try and whoa! i can totally do this. it's like i have magic hands--everything that used to seem so impossible and unbearable to me is suddenly so easy. feels great to cut down on all the bread products and pasta i'd been overdoing. not being strict too strict with the paleo thing, though--mainly using it for meal ideas.

i'm amused at how cooking and traveling were two things i always avoided in my previous relationship but now i'm regularly doing both.

proud of u. <3