rebecca LANDO

Two computers at my desk at work but I still write first drafts by hand.

rachelfershleiser:

laughingsquid:

Last Location of New York City’s Legendary H&H Bagels Shut Down

I can’t even begin to handle this news, I really can’t.

And now I leave nothing behind when I move to LA.

wcfoodies:

Cookbookin’!

Here’s just a tiny part of what Brendan and I have been up to the last couple of days.

Buy all the eggs, make all the challahs. I am truly only a Jew culinarily. 

corinneleigh

newyorker:

The Caging of America; Why do we lock up so many people?

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Every day, at least fifty thousand men—a full house at Yankee Stadium—wake in solitary confinement, often in “supermax” prisons or prison wings, in which men are locked in small cells, where they see no one, cannot freely read and write, and are allowed out just once a day for an hour’s solo “exercise.” (Lock yourself in your bathroom and then imagine you have to stay there for the next ten years, and you will have some sense of the experience.) Prison rape is so endemic—more than seventy thousand prisoners are raped each year—that it is routinely held out as a threat, part of the punishment to be expected. The subject is standard fodder for comedy, and an uncoöperative suspect being threatened with rape in prison is now represented, every night on television, as an ordinary and rather lovable bit of policing. The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows—will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized. Though we avoid looking directly at prisons, they seep obliquely into our fashions and manners. Wealthy white teen-agers in baggy jeans and laceless shoes and multiple tattoos show, unconsciously, the reality of incarceration that acts as a hidden foundation for the country.

- In this week’s issue, Adam Gopnik writes about mass incarceration and criminal justice in America: http://nyr.kr/A75iOm

Photograph by Steve Liss.

rachelfershleiser:

flavorpill:

Yessssssssssss.

Okay, *now* I’m turned on.

In.

(Source: rachelmaddowheygirl)

justin:

celebzaredum:

Signed the lease on our new LA apartment today. Please take a moment to help me acknowledge the awesomeness of my new kitchen - it is at least 6 times larger than any kitchen I’ve had in NYC.

Blessed Be. Hallelujah. Amen.

KITCHENS

So, guys, are there any other vacancies in your building? And if not, can I just live in your kitchen? Dead serious. (And if not, congratulations on a fantastic find!)

“Yeah, Jurassic Park references are, like, very in right now.” - Kit

Elliott Smith, Bleecker Street, 1993. I think the photo credit goes to JJ Gonson?

wcfoodies:

Don’t let the open eye fool you; my research assistant is asleep on the job.

Interns these days.

In retrospect I may have been more drunk than I thought last night.