i'm thinking tommy wrote this to me under a pseudonym or something; just replace wife with girlfriend, and the celebrity-crack-whore he's talking about is basically me:

Fate has been very kind, introducing you to me. I’m luckier than anyone I know. But why Fate would have introduced you to Us Magazine, I’m not sure. I think Fate wants to mess with me. Maybe hurt me a little. Maybe Fate thinks I’m a little too lucky. Kind of like poor Christopher Reeve or M.C. Hammer. They had it all, then Fate sucker-punched them. I understand them now. When I see you reading Us Magazine, it’s like a tiny dagger in my soul. Sometimes a bigger dagger, depending on who’s on the cover.

So, please, stop reading Us Magazine.

so...can i still read people?

via hackmuth

can anybody give me some cd recommendations? i'm itching for a trip to tower. stuff i've had recommended to me or read about lately: the delays, elefant, the killers, the fiery furnaces. help me out! i'm outside of the cool music loop and i'm only 24! embarrassing and unacceptable!

note to self: do not look at your new obsession of food blogs while anxiously waiting for your father to get to your office so you can make him pay for your lunch. oh good god. i am going to die:

my dad is in dupont for some sort of conference today, so i'm deciding where we should go eat lunch. i have taken on the new daughter role of "vinyl broker". remember when i posted about my dad selling lots of his 1,000 LP collection to help me raise money for my lombardi fundraiser? well, i've spent the past couple of days hiking around d.c. to drop off albums and arranging meetings between my parents and vinyl lovers so they can comb through his collection out in their house in vienna. last friday they had some guy come over who spent three hours looking at every last record. he also mentioned that he owns a $1000 record cleaning machine. madness. fortunately, he also bought almost $250 worth of records, and i've had several other nice people pick up some here and there. so the "LPs for cancer research" thing played out pretty nicely.

in other nonvinyl foodie news (my segues are becoming more and more...well, they're not becoming anything. they're just nonexistent), tommy and i have a reservation at yanyu's tomorrow night, because it is restaurant week and we can actually afford a meal out in the city! apparently during restaurant week a lot of the uber-snooty restaurants get frustrated with the swarms of the common people, so they serve a very reduced, unspecial menu. but not yanyu. check it out:

1st Course - Lily Bulb Dumpling (Delicate egg white wrapped with minced chicken & Asian vegetables)

2nd Course - Big Duck (yanyu signature item. Peking roast duck served with pancakes, scallions, cucumber and homemade plum sauce)

3rd course - Crab Cucumber Sunomono (Tossed with chef special sauce)

4th course - Honey roasted Seabass (Roasted with bed of scallions, Shanghai style).

5th course - Crispy Garlic Shrimp (Jumbo shrimp flavored with garlic, spicy salt & pepper)

oh god. am going to die of hunger.

It's too easy, but I can't resist:

Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston, conservatives are deploying a series of covert signals to identify one another, much like gay men do. My allies are the ones wearing crosses or American flags. The people sporting shirts emblazoned with the 'F-word' are my opponents. Also, as always, the pretty girls and cops are on my side, most of them barely able to conceal their eye-rolling.

Democrats are constantly suing and slandering police as violent, fascist racists -- with the exception of Boston's police, who'll be lauded as national heroes right up until the Democrats pack up and leave town on Friday, whereupon they'll revert to their natural state of being fascist, racist pigs. . . .

My pretty-girl allies stick out like a sore thumb amongst the corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons they call 'women' at the Democratic National Convention.

Those are the opening paragraphs of an Anne Coulter column killed by USA Today, who then decided they weren't so interested in having her as a convention correspondent after all. Via Howard "Colonel" Kurtz.

UPDATE: Here's the whole thing, via kos.

yup, ezra. i'm getting little democrat-excited chills up my spine. how lame is that?