“I always ask couples what their favorite things about each other are…”
“Well we aren’t a couple. We’re just friends. I’m helping him walk.”
“Oh, um…..”
“But we can still answer. I love his honesty.”
“And she’s my favorite person to have next to me.”
day-making sweetness
Source: humansofnewyork
Source: videohall
pardon the blurriness, but on my way to the gym on this gorgeous evening I spotted this giraffe outside a local bar. I took a quick snap without thinking much of it. On my way home I saw the other side of the sign…
for Michelle, of course.
Not sure that I’ve ever been so honored to introduce someone as I am right now.
Gac Filipaj is a refugee from the former Yugoslavia. For the past twelve years, he has worked as a janitor for Columbia University. His job title is “Heavy Cleaner,” which includes emptying the trash and cleaning the toilets.
During this time, he worked until 11pm every night during the week. After his shift concluded, he would start studying. This weekend, after twelve years of study, Gac graduated from Columbia University with a Classics degree. Rarely have so many qualities I admire been wrapped up in a single person.
such an amazing story. gives me chills.
Source: humansofnewyork
once you have an ear for hearing funny things constantly, it doesn’t sound that crazy
Mila Kunis on her ability to understand different accents without difficulty, The Late Late Show
My dad has given me this skill from birth, it seems. Mila and I have this in common.
homemade brunch deliciousness
About a week ago I came across a “recipe” for a BLT with chipotle mayo and my foodie bells went off. I have mayo. I have chipotle in adobo in a container in my fridge. I have bacon in my freezer. Why am I not making this right now??
So this morning I set out to remedy that, with a few twists. Who needs lettuce when you can have an egg instead? The B.E.T. (bacon egg and tomato) was born.
I decided to try making the bacon in the oven, thanks to Bobby’s suggestion. If this sounds odd or unnecessary to you, I suggest you try it. It’s easy, let’s you work on other things (like making coffee, for example) and makes perfectly crisp bacon. You just put your bacon strips on a foil-covered baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes at 375. One of the best things about this method is that the bacon doesn’t get as bumpy and curly as it does in a frying pan, which makes it ideal for sandwich use.
While the bacon did it’s thing (and by that I mean make my apartment smell amazing), I got my water boiling for my french press, and spooned out a few dollops of mayo and added a small bit of the chipotle stuff and mixed it up. Then I spread it thickly on two pieces of sourdough toast. I cut 4 thickish slices of a tomato I bought at the farmers’ market yesterday (literally couldn’t wait for summer tomatoes), salted and peppered them.
Timing is everything when you’re dealing with brunch, especially when it comes to eggs. You want to be ready to eat basically as soon as the eggs are done, so you have to have everything ready to go. Once the bacon was out of the oven and resting on some paper towel, I turned the heat on my cast iron skillet with a bit of butter and cracked an egg into it. Some how I managed to break the yolk. Fail. But I was still able to maintain a little ooziness in the finished project, so all was not lost.
Two slices of bacon went on each piece of toast, followed by the tomatoes, and then the egg on one of them. On the eggless slice, I sprinkled some crumbled blue cheese, and then cut the bread in half and created a sandwich out of the two halves.
The results were even better than I had hoped. Were I not now out of bacon, I would probably be making another round.
holiday’s
i was writing my moms a mother’s day card (using a cæesar cipher and invisible ink) when i got to wondering how mother’s day is supposed to be punctuated. is it:
- mother’s day (singular possessive)—a day that belongs to each mother
- mothers’ day (plural possessive)—a day that belongs to all mothers
- mothers day (plural attributive)—a day for all of us to honour mothers
it turns out that anna jarvis, the populariser of mother’s day was pretty specific with her apostrophe intentions, she stated:
it was to be a singular possessive, for each family to honour their mother, not a plural possessive commemorating all mothers in the world
so that settles that. but what about other u.s. holidays—do they all get the same treatment? it turns out that they don’t and like other aspects of government, the spelling of holidays is fraught with inconsistency. therefore i made us this handy crib sheet so we won’t embarrass ourselves when writing future columbus day and st. patrick’s day cards.
note: unbeknownst to me, presidents day is not the actual name of the holiday—it’s washington’s birthday. since presidents day is not official, there’s no official way to spell it and we are left to the mercy of car dealerships and furniture store circulars.
also inconsistent: is how it’s st. patrick’s day but columbus day.
then: there’s the odd case of veterans day.
finally: i would like to note that hallowe’en is a perfectly acceptable varient of halloween and therefore it is the only holiday that uses an apostrophe for purposes of contraction.
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is it lame or cool to note that this chart is set in itc barcelona? donald says lame but donald wears black socks at the gym
thank you pierce for your unwavering enthusiasm to all things u.s.
Now typo free! Deleting the previous post in 3 … 2 …
A totally useful chart.
Source: ragbag
When Obama endorsed marriage equality…
… he danced around the White House all like:
and:
and:
Source: whenobamaendorsed
Is there anything Kiernan Shipka can’t do? Here she is participating in Inside the Actors Studio with her Mad Men co-stars, like a boss.
This young woman is a triple-threat — she can act, dance, and dress herself.
Even Jon Hamm is hiding his face in shame because this twelve-year-old is outshining him in front of James Lipton.
She is my hero.
Love it.
Source: surisburnbook
