I just want to call attention to Law and Order Food because they’re doing serious quality work.
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Look at these classy and sophisticated violet candies. Look, and be glad that you can’t smell or taste them. They are wretched.
Every so often, too often, I get caught in this feedback loop of Mad Men and lifestyle blogs and “must have” lists and I need an inexpensive way to make my life more enviable. Enter C. Howard’s Violet Mints. The idea was that I’d be the girl who ate violet candies. I’d do a blog post on the lovely violet candies I’d picked up (um, on Amazon from “Bulk Candy Store”) and then I’d eat them any time I was in public, catching the eye and envy of anyone within three to five feet of me. Eventually a handsome man would fall in love with me, I’d get rich, the hearing would return in my left ear, etc.
Thus, I am saddened to inform everyone that these pieces of shit are inedible. They’re pez in ass flavor. I still have a headache from trying to eat one for about 10 seconds three hours ago. They also smell bad, so I don’t even want to use them as a decoration. I am a world class idiot.
To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.
RIP MCA
MG:
When the Beastie Boys remastered their catalog 2009, I was psyched and bought Paul’s Boutique the day it came (back) out. It’s my favorite Beastie Boy’s album and one of my favorite albums period. DV didn’t know I was even a fan and didn’t get it. He asked me to explain their appeal (out of unfamiliarity, mostly, if I remember correctly). For a second it was hard to put into words. The Beastie Boys are largely categorized as a hip hop group and that’s not inaccurate. It would have been easy enough to say they were one of the greatest hip hop acts to work in the genre. But there are a lot of other layers that I connect to. At the time I was a recent college graduate and very attached to Modernism. The Beastie Boys are the most Modernist music act I’ve ever come across. They mix high and low, the intellectual and the irreverent. Their sound is challenging and accessible. They have the sort of fun hits you’ll hear in a bar and deep cuts that you have to sit with for a while before they click. They’ve used their music to challenge and their music has had the power to change.
You could also like the Beastie Boys just for their music videos, many of which MCA directed. I’ve attached my favorite, bar none the greatest music video of all time, Sabotage. It’s very sad to lose anyone so young. MCA was an accomplished talent and his work will continue to influence and change and challenge. He is missed.
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“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” by the Flaming Lips ft. Erykah Badu
MG:
Full disclosure, I don’t have any experience with hard drugs. But I have done more xannies than were ever prescribed to me, so let me just go out on a limb here and say that this particular version of the Roberta Flack classic is druggy. Guitars distorted beyond recognition, hyper-slow bass drum pulses and the random keyboard plunk envelope Erykah Badu’s disembodied, Godly vocals. The song circles and swirls for 10 minutes of agony and ecstasy. Most of the lyrics are lost as wildly melodic garbled warbles but the song’s title always comes through. The whole effect plays straight to my feelings about love - it’s the most painful thing you’ll ever enjoy. Anyway, you should listen to this song because who ever thought Ms. Badu would work with Mr. Coyne? How could their egos have allowed this to come to fruition? The fact that it exists at all is to be cherished.
Are y’all following the new and improved Grooves ‘N Jams? What are you going to listen to tonight after you get high, then?
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stupidlittletuftybeard asked: Are you actually Crispin Glover? Because Crushable thinks you are actually Crispin Glover.
Lol, no. Crispin Glover’s blog would be a lot better than mine.
Crying: Don’t cover it up! Everyone cries. Probably 10% of the world is crying right now, so big WHOOP you had a cry in the bathroom at work. Also, crying is shorthand for “I need a hug!” Not convinced? Okay, try washing your face with cold, cold water and applying a cold compress to your eyes for a few minutes to counteract puffiness. If you’re in a bar, this might just have to be ice cubes from your drink wrapped in napkins. Next, a few eye drops. Then, reapply your eye makeup. You knew you were in a fragile emotional state when you left the house, so of course you have these supplies on hand, right? I find the less eye makeup you wear after a crying jag, the less attention you draw to your eyes, with one exception: a dramatic cat eye. If you make it big enough, the look is so disarming people won’t notice what else is wrong with your face.
Jane Marie’s Beauty Advice Column for Hairpin
I’m ashamed to admit I had never thought about trying clown make up to conceal the fact that I’d been crying at work.
