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Kristen Bell Meets Sloth, Has Stage-Five Meltdown
31-year old actress Kristen Bell really loves sloths…so much that she has a full-blown, meltdown of happy when she meets one on her birthday. Ellen barely holds it together herself.
Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel
Reader Submission: Title by GQ contributor, Dennis Tang.
See the original Better Book Title for this book here.
HA!
‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are taught about Benedict Arnold, the first traitor in America, but I’ve never heard—until I went onto the [National Women’s History Museum] Web site—about Deborah Sampson, the first woman to take a bullet for her nation. She was 21 years old in the Revolutionary War. She enlisted on the American side under a man’s name, wore boys’ clothing, was cut with a British saber across her forehead, and took a musket ball in her thigh.’ She’s a good storyteller, with a warm, urgent voice. ‘And her compatriots carried her six miles to the doctor’s, and he stitched up her head and she wouldn’t let him take her pants off—because he would discover she was a woman!’ So did she die of her wound? ‘No—she was very good with her needle, so she cut the musket ball out and sewed her own leg up and served another eighteen months. In 1783 she was discharged, went home and had three children.’ Sampson was granted £34 by the state of Massachusetts for exhibiting ‘an extraordinary instance of feminine heroism by discharging the duties of a faithful, gallant soldier, and at the same time preserving the virtue and chastity of her sex unsuspected and unblemished.’ Amazing story. ‘And I am 60 years old and I learn this story,’ says Streep. ‘I should have learned that story in the fourth grade. Because it helps you as a child to know that it is not just Paul Revere riding a horse and calling, ‘The British are coming, the British are coming.’ It’s not just Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and the battles won, it’s the bravery of all these people that are undiscovered, unknown.’
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‘Sh*t Cats Say’ Adds Fluffy Dimension to Gratuitous Meme [VIDEO]
By now you’ve likely come across one of these videos, triggered by the viral success of the original “Sh*t Girls Say.”
This being the Internet and whatnot, it was only a matter of time before we found the cat version.
Via Googling “Sh*t Cats Say.”
It may not look impressive, but I’m really proud of this dish because I’m eating my long-hated enemy, brussels sprouts.
I crisped up diced pancetta in olive oil, sauteed onions, garlic, and then the brussels sprouts. Added just a touch of chicken stock and some red pepper flakes, and tossed it all with some whole-wheat penne and some parmesan cheese. Omnomnomnom.
OK, so, I know I’m late to the party with this one, but this whole concept of interactive re-imaginings and interpretation of classic movies is pretty damn awesome.
For more info on the Star Wars Uncut Project, visit http://www.starwarsuncut.com/about
Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut (by ragingpugh)
First: Blueberry files is on tumblr!
Second: Baked goods for charity!
Baked! Pop-Up bake sale this Saturday in Rockland, next Saturday in Portland.
Oh hey, cupcake for charity.
I can get behind this delicious idea.
Dancing traffic cop - just figuring out a way to survive his long work day. This traffic cop in the Philippines brought a little MJ to the job.
On my 30th birthday, my friend and co-worker, Tara, helped me celebrate the day in my own special way: booze and hair dye (which is how I celebrated my 21st birthday). Here’s to a colorful decade!
