all rêve-d up

Torch: 1, Lira : 0

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:54:08 -0400

Oops.

Ow.

Shut up birds. It’s too early. …Seriously, stop.

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:07:44 -0400

Shut up birds.

It’s too early.

…Seriously, stop.

evanfleischer: How does “the investigation continues to develop” = “You can get back...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:49:50 -0400

evanfleischer:

How does “the investigation continues to develop” = “You can get back out?”

I’d like to know myself…

On the food blog: Lucky Charms Macarons with Cereal Milk...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:48:00 -0400

On the food blog: Lucky Charms Macarons with Cereal Milk Buttercream

At least something good came of this whole lockdown mess…

Someone fix Boston

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:33:52 -0400

theadventuresofmichaelpawlak: Today’s posts cut deep into...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:23:30 -0400

theadventuresofmichaelpawlak:

Today’s posts cut deep into women’s issues.

Nite

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:58:00 -0400

Nite

New York Sour

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:35:00 -0400

New York Sour

“…naked material signifier”

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:40:04 -0400

“…naked material signifier”

Blueberry Sage Pancakes on the food blog.

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:32:00 -0400

Blueberry Sage Pancakes on the food blog.

rawrnold: This is everything I love about my alma mater: 1. The...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:52:00 -0400

rawrnold:

This is everything I love about my alma mater:

1. The Campus Kitty Miss Hendrix pageant is an officially sanctioned event and the highlight of the school year. Alumni and faculty fight with students for the best seats.

2. It’s an honor, for anyone, to tryout and be selected to compete in a drag show for charity.

3. Everyone on campus can dance like a motherfucker.

4. The Veasey Crawl (see 3:22).

Undergrad wasn’t so long ago but it feels like a lifetime. It’s strange to think that I will never again be in environment that was so challenging and so supportive at the same time. I’ll never again live in a community where I know every single one of the thousand faces I see everyday.

There are far better things that lay ahead, et cetera. But right now I just miss college.

Word.

nprfreshair: I drank my morning coffee to these songs from Nick...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:43:13 -0400

nprfreshair:

I drank my morning coffee to these songs from Nick Drake’s mother, Molly Drake, and it was the right way to start the day:

Squirrel Thing Recordings, the label behind the mysterious lost recordings of Connie Converse, is proud to announce the release of Molly Drake—a self-titled collection of never-before-heard songs recorded in the 1950’s at the Drake family home, and lovingly restored by Nick Drake’s engineer John Wood. According to Joe Boyd, legendary producer of Five Leaves Left and Bryter Later, “this is the missing link in the Nick Drake story.”

Here’s a Fresh Air interview from 2007 with Joe Boyd about making music in the ’60s.

vicemag: This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again You know...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:38:27 -0400

vicemag:

This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again

You know what’s a complete waste of time, money, and effort? Eating. I mean, wouldn’t you rather just ingest a tasteless form of sustenance for the rest of your life and never have to go through that tedious rigmarole of opening and eating a premade sandwich or feasting on a pile of fried delicacies ever again? Rob Rhinehart—a 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta and, presumably, an impossibly busy man—thinks so.

Rob found himself resenting the inordinate amount time it takes to fry an egg in the morning and decided something had to be done. Simplifying food as “nutrients required by the body to function” (which sounds totally bulimic, I know, but I promise it’s not), Rob has come up with an odorless beige cocktail that he’s named Soylent.

I wasn’t sure if he was trolling at first because that’s the name of a wafer made out of human flesh and fed to the masses in the seminal 1973 sci-fi film Soylent Green, but then I read the extensive post on Rob’s blog about how he came to make the stuff, and I started to believe he was serious. Soylent contains all the nutritive components of a balanced diet but just a third of the calories and none of the toxins or cancer-causing stuff you’d usually find in your lunch of processed foods. Despite the fact that it looks a bit like vomit, Soylent supposedly has the potential to change the entire world’s relationship with food, so I spoke to Rob to find out how.

VICE: Hi, Rob. Why did you decide to boycott eating?
Rob Rhinehart: It was a combination of things. I was home for Christmas and saw an elderly family friend get admitted to the hospital after losing an unhealthy amount of weight. He was losing strength in one of his arms and found it very difficult to cook. I started wondering why something as simple and important as food was still so inefficient, given how streamlined and optimized other modern things are. I also had an incentive to live as cheaply as possible, and I yearned for the productivity benefit of being healthy. I’d been reading a lot of books on biology, and I started to think that it’s probably all the same to our cells whether it gets nutrients from a powder or a carrot.

What was the next step?
Hacking the body is high risk, high reward. I read a textbook on physiological chemistry and took to the internet to see if I could find every known essential nutrient. My kitchen soon looked like a chemistry lab, and I had every unknown substance in a glass in front of me. I was a little worried it was going to kill me, but decided it was for science and quickly downed the whole thing. To my surprise, it was quite tasty, and I felt very energetic. For 30 days, I avoided food entirely, and I monitored the contents of my blood and my physical performance. Mental performance is harder to quantify, but I feel much sharper.

So what’s in Soylent, exactly?
Everything the body needs—that we know of, anyway—vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients like essential amino acids, carbohydrates, and fat. For the fat, I just use olive oil and add fish oil. The carbs are an oligosaccharide, which is like sugar, but the molecules are longer, meaning it takes longer to metabolize and gives you a steady flow of energy for a longer period of time rather than a sugar rush from something like fructose or table sugar. I also add some nonessentials like antioxidants and probiotics and lately have been experimenting with nootropics.

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