thanks to Garth for sharing this with me, since this song is my new addiction. Everything about this song reminds me of everyone I grew up dancing with, from the dance style, to the lyrics, to the bleepy breakbeats. Plus, she's having so much fun just goofing the hell off in her bedroom and dancing her ass off.
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I think my colleague Anil is onto something huge with lastyearsmodel.com.
How To Play
Participating in Last Year's Model is easy:
- Choose to hang on to a gadget or technology product that you own, instead of just buying a new one.
- Join our Facebook Cause, or tell people on Twitter, your blog or Flickr why you're participating.
- Optionally put the Last Year's Model badge on your site or tag your story with #lastyears.
I absolutely hate the idea of buying NEW stuff just because it's new. The packaging alone both frustrates me and the cost annoys me. I've been rocking the flea market/thrift store shopping for a loooong time now, thanks to a deal I struck with my parents as a kid. Each semester of school, I got $200 to spend on clothes. I very quickly figured out that a thrift store would stretch that dollar a lot further, and thank god late 90's fashion fit the bill nicely. Here in SF, so many people get rid of REALLY cool stuff at thrift stores like Wasteland it's almost a shame not to get stuff there.
When I got old enough to start sorting out my own house, getting thrifty goods became the same way - fun, and necessary on a tight budget. Thing is, so many cool and sturdy kitchen gear things are still around because they were made to last and endure heavy, repeated use. (And thank goddess the mid-century modern look fits 2009 just fine too.)
My gadgetry...well, I still rock the same little digital camera I got in 2004, and my iPhone is cracked but still works fine.
I don't know whether all this says I'm cheap or with the lastyearsmodel.com game, but I'd like to think it's some of both.
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There's two challenges to shrimp thing: it's time-intensive, and the secret ingredient is butter. (and it makes a holy mess of the grill. No one cares.)
Shrimp Thing
a bunch of large shrimp, shells on, not frozen.
butter
more butter
cilantro
garlic
lemon juice & zest
a couple of chilis - dried or fresh
salt & pepper
other stuff as you see fit: sub in basil for the cilantro if you have one of those weirdos around who hates cilantro, srihacha, like I said, the secret ingredient is butter. Basically, you're aiming for a good balance of spicy/tangy. I like more lemon/lime than most folks, so I grill those along with them. Mmmmsmokeylimeygoodness.
Directions:
Chop, mix everything in a bowl. (except the shrimp, smartass.) You'll want that butter to soften first, so don't get one of those friends who wants you to make it too excited yet.
Recruit someone to help you with this step - you're going to sort of leave the shrimp in their shells, but devein them as well as you can.
Make a cut though the back of the shell straight down.
Send someone to bring you some wine. This next step takes forever.
Then, you stuff each side of the shrimp with that butter mixture. It's messy. I've used a spoon with some success, most mostly, it's just gettin in there with your hands. Your hands will be soft after this! Yay!
Put the shrimp on a cookie sheet or something like that. Put the shrimp away in the fridge for a couple of hours so that when they hit the grill, the butter doesn't just melt out everywhere.
Enjoy your newfound fame as someone who makes Shrimp Thing.
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I tell at least one person every day that they are AWESOME. Or that they are my favorite. Or that they just won the day for an excellent joke.
You, reading this post? You're awesome too.
Bok Choy Thing originally started from Nigella's cookbook as a dish made with salmon. I honestly don't care for a big honking slab of salmon - it's just really too rich for me. And also I ate a LOT of it living in the Northwest. If it ain't sashimi, I'm taking a pass.
So with Defattening Project 2K9 came the very explicit directions to eat more veg, especially leafy greens. Mushrooms are also good for ya. Hence - Bok Choy Thing.
Three (heads? bunches? units?) things of baby bok choy
big scoop of shiitakes/small mushrooms
ginger - chopped fine
garlic - chopped fine
chiili garlic sauce or srihacha
scallions, cut on the bias
tempeh/tofu if you want it
brown rice, if you want it.
toasted sesame oil
shoyu or soy sauce
Rough chop the bok choy, seperating the green leafy bits from the white, more dense bits. Slice your mushrooms if you're into that, Michel Richard says they're better whole.
Get your pan hot, throw in some of the sesame oil (not too much of this, it's strong) and the white parts of the bok choy. Mushrooms hit the pan about a minute after. Then the ginger, garlic, chili-garlic and soy sauce. Stir it all a bit. Chuck the green leaves in and cut off the heat, letting them just wilt a bit. Serve with lime wedges if you're a freak for limes like me.
Every recipe that I make is something my friends just call "thing." Spinach thing, mushroom thing, shrimp thing. I should do a Thing Cookbook. IMPORTANT IMPORTANT: Things do not include measurements. They do accept substitutions/suggestions.
Miso Thing, below, is for salad dressing, but would probably rock as a sauce for grilled veg (eggplant comes to mind) or for salmon/chicken too. I'd imagine you could bump this up with scallions or a thai chile.
Miso Thing
1 spoon white miso
1 spoon honey
1 count olive oil
2 count rice vinegar
salt
finely minced/pasted garlic
lime (zest and juice)
throw in a jar and shake until at the consistency you like. Taste. Adjust. Apply to yer pie hole.
most of my writing and stuff is on my beloved TypePad blog. :)
a photo from my mama.
If you're a word-nerd like me, this isn't so much a dictionary as it is a reference manual for words. To illustrate: the entries go something like this.
- hindrance (not hinderance.)
- compatriot for a fellow countryman. Not to be confused, in meaning or spelling, with expatriate.
- British Honduras. Former name of Belize.
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