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Do you suppose Nigella really makes fresh strawberry sauce at 1 in the morning while wearing satin pjs? Hilarious crack!AU: Nigella and Eames are related, cue hijinks.

Which brings me to:

Competency Meme (do I need to put Inception on this? I mean, I don't really talk about anything else here right now besides cooking, right?) I know this will appeal to several of you.


I'm feeling very virtuous as I signed up for this seminar on Friday THAT STARTS AT 8 IN THE MORNING even though I could have put it off for another month and not gotten up at what amounts to the middle of the night for me. But I sucked it up and just went ahead and got it over with. When I got home there were three posts BACK TO BACK on my lj of Tom Hardy ready to ruuuuuuuuuuumble. I believe you're probably familiar with this picture by now since it was also on your flist. This was the universe saying "good job, now you get to fuck off with a clear conscious!" THANK YOU, UNIVERSE, I BELIEVE I WILL WRITE COMMENT FIC!

(The Nigella and Eames thing is really cracking me up. And it's barely even crack compared to...say juicebox inceptions--which is a work of genius. What juicebox inception, you ask? boggle! You can thank me with picspam.)

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Copperbadge makes some remarks about charities. This is seasonal in a way, but it's applicable all year long (obviously). I have a list of grudge charities I avoid for various reasons having to do with money management, colonial perceptions of the world, and just because I can be a judgmental bitch. Get your own list.

This reminds me that the other day I heard the "Do They Know It's Christmas" (is that the title?) for the first time this holiday season which officially signaled the beginning of Christmastime for me. I actually laughed out loud thinking about how utterly ridiculous the lyrics to that song are in conjunction with the white/post-colonial guilt that pervaded the entire enterprise. Literally, I was driving down the street singing along thinking "bless their hearts!" over the song. Do they know it's Christmas time at all? Probably if they have tv or the radio, but they don't care since Somalis are mostly Muslim.



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There's a doco on PBS right now about the Lewis and Clark expedition, kind of. It's more about Sacajawea. There was just a whole interlude about how the "Indian Princess" stereotype is bullshit. Looks promising. Federally unrecognized Indian bands. Ok, turning this off.