scrawls.

scrawls

still cheaper than therapy*

4.5.06

game: PACK or TOSS

we're not getting rid of everything - for instance, the espresso machine and the rice cooker, each of which have american plugs, are both beautiful, lovely things, and we are SO KEEPING THEM. the things we're getting rid of are just clutter - not that important. The books we've already read, the movies we've already seen, the games we've already played. Worms Armageddon - keep. Rainbow Six - lose. Widescreen directors' cut lords of the ringsses - lose. Shaun of the dead - keep. Hardcover, shiny, illustrated Gunsliner septet - lose. Un-useful-sized, warped, or severely tomato-stained Tupperware - lose. Wok - keep. Brand new, unused breadmaker - lose. Maya Angelou's Soul Kitchen - keep. That lousy, badly illustrated, poorly described, and shoddily bound Sinatra cookbook - so, so, so lose, and i never want to see it again.

i think i have to be specific to keeping author's biographical cookbooks, as opposed to any biographical cookbooks. because the gertrude stein and isabel allende and hemingway ones are decent, but then nora ephron is an utter whore, and i think i hate the entire category of celebrity chefs (barring julia child, who is dead and therefore doesn't count). i feel bad for not wanting to keep the alton brown one, because i've heard he's very nice in person: but it's big, and heavy, and not very practical. Mario: i hate you. Skinny italian woman who is turned on by mozzarella: i really, really hate you, you skinny bitch - aren't we not supposed to trust chefs that don't fucking eat? Emeril: shut up. Snobby guy that does Food 911: you supercilious, rotten bastard, i'm sorry, i cannot let you enter my house. Hilde from Trading Spaces can come in my house before you can and if there's anyone that shouldn't be trusted with flour, water, and a feather boa (out in plain sight and probably extremely tempting) it's her. Rachel Ray: look, kid, i'm sorry. if i don't have time to cut up my one thing of broccoly NOW, why would i have time to cut up ALL my vegetables immediately upon arriving home from the store? on what planet does that make sense? tags:moving sale, celebrity chefs

scrawled @ 18:46