13 Ways to Find Christmas When The Spirit Ain't High

It's unanimous: This year it just doesn't feel like Christmas. Between mass job losses and the otherwise bleak economic outlook, peo...

"Milk," and That Irritating Little Voice in the Back of My Head

I saw Milk yesterday. It's very, very good, making me by turns tearful, inspired, devastated, resilient, etc etc etc, for hours after I...

Venn Diagram

When do we stop "liking" and start "loving"? And can you retreat back from love into like? Must one precede the other? I...

From My Family to Yours: An Xmas Eve Tradition

Among the many wholesome family traditions that my ancestors have bequeathed to me, my favorite might be the Christmas Eve stinger. I've...

Thoughts About My Potential Food Job

As most people who read this already know, there's a very good chance I'll be going to culinary arts school sometime within the next...

PoopGroup: Identity shift?

Lukas once said (and it is one reason why i love him) that he wished he could get his period once so that he could understand what women go ...

Ghee: You Know You Want It

Take a couple sticks of butter, put them in a saucepan. Set the heat low. You're going to melt the butter and watch for the milk solids ...

Don't Speak, Memory

There are things we wish to forget, and things we wish to forget but on principle feel the need to remember. One such thing of the latter ca...

Things I Thought about while Meditating This Morning

Dinner with Kathryn and Izzy: Will leek risotto be good with the braised chicken? Cigarette: What if I had one on my way to the train? Dishe...

Cold weather: Stock

I love making soup, especially in weather like this (it is positively autumn outside). Among many of the things I finally realized while los...

Sober October

Sober October. I had never heard of this incredibly bleak-sounding concept until it came up at PoopGroup founder Meghan's debate-watchi...

Don't be a jerk.

I was waiting for the train this morning, reading a book, caffeine giddy, and when the train pulled in I did my customary sweep of the avail...

Ugly Marriages

I saw this play Fifty Words last night. It's an ugly play about Jan and Adam's ugly marriage and their ugly resentments and ugly in...

College, cigarettes, and surrender

I just went out for coffee and the crisp fall weather that has settled in made me instantly nostalgic for college. Oh, it was so nice at Hun...

Cooking at Home: Why is it such a pain in the ass?

I just moved into a new apartment, with the kitchen, though very small, being one of its selling features. I'm also now living with my b...

For the record

I do not "like" Sarah Palin anymore. I don't know that I ever really "liked" her--I know I said that I did--but I t...

Identity politics are dead.

There must have been a time and a place for identity politics; in fact, I know that in the sixties and seventies it was a mobilizing force. ...

Sarah Palin is Causing Me an Identity Crisis

I have something terrifying to say: I kind of like Sarah Palin. I watched her speech last night, I scoffed at it, went through the motions o...

Top search results for this blog. Not as boring as it sounds.

I got Google Analytics a few months ago and am now learning how to use it. There are many very interesting things going on--in particular, h...

PoopGroup: Is there a cure for the summertime poos?

Multiple theories run through my mind when I ask myself why I have been so ejecta challenged: 1. I am homeless, again. (side note: I swear t...

PoopGroup: Infiltrating Your Dreams

Over dinner, we discussed our recent stomach issues, wondered if we are victim to a mild salmonella outbreak because we both have had long s...

The Gospel According to Rickie Lee Jones: A Heathen Explains

I saw Dame RLJ last night at Le Poisson Rouge . She's always amazing, but this was particularly good. She sang for two and a half hours...

Weekend recap

I was in Charlotte last weekend, and I have a myriad of events to report: - My brother and I surprised the bejesus out of my Dad for Father...

Poopgroup: new home, new dome

I am sitting in my almost empty bedroom on the eve of moving day, thinking about poop. Tomorrow I will take up residence with my best friend...

Service industries

A few times over the past week or so I have had this euphoric, gaze into the soft light, Coors commercial-style epiphany that I'm finall...

Perspiration

Since childhood, I’ve maintained a very romantic notion of my body’s ability to sweat. I’m a dainty thing. I was the last to get hair in my ...

I don’t hate Mother’s Day

I’m going to use Mother’s Day this year, first, to bemoan the lack of women in my life. Yes, most of my friends are women, but there is a th...

My new Tumblr account

I just got a Tumblr account to add to the Thanks for Sharing empire. It is very fun. Given its ADD bias, I'll do the photos and links...

A new blog

It's just me, Izzy Pride and Prejudice (5:31:17 PM) izzyf7: OH! (5:31:21 PM) izzyf7: mr darcy showed up (5:31:33 PM) lukas: liveblogging...

Poopgroup: Hold the almonds!

I began an almond love affair when I was taking calculus during my senior year of high school, after my mom read in Ladies Home Journal tha...

State Rep. Nicole LeFavour might be my hero

The Idaho Statesman was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize! For its "tenacious coverage of the twists and turns in the scandal involving t...

Cindy McCain may or may not eat raw fish

In an attempt to ingratiate themselves to Americana, the John McCain website now has a corner called "Cindy's Recipes." And th...

Problems with Butt-Enhancing Underwear

I don't think I'm much of a prude when it comes to sex and, say, the economy of sex, and the coexisting complexity and baseness of h...

What year are we living in? How come I haven't heard about this until now?

I guess being gay is a luxury. It is probably good to remind one's self that it hasn't been all that long that one could freely chec...

Bad Ideas

So the blog Stuff White People Like : you’ve probably seen it. Like me, if you’re white and live in a gentrified outer borough and work in s...

“What I Wish I’d Known”*

Boys only have one haircut option: shorter. Even gay boys. * Lifted directly from I Feel Bad about My Neck by Nora Ephron

Shakshouka

I am not Jewish, in case you were wondering. But I have lately developed a palate for Jewish cooking, having read a really awesome profile ...

"I think it's just and I think it's proper to have Pro-Life on the ballot. If I save one baby's life, it's worth it."

Words fail me here. But it IS kind of funny that I almost titled this post "Idaho the Innovator, Part II." CBS News Jezebel

Some Thoughts about the Apocalypse

It seems like no one wants to work anymore. I should know, because I don’t want to work anymore. (Perhaps this is one of those posts that ...

The French Plunge

I love coffee, and have for a really long time now. In Idaho, I dragged my brother out of bed at 4:00 AM sometime in the fall of 1998 so th...

"Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!"

Yes, I saw it on Gawker first, but.... OK, I feel bad that I despise someone who is so young and so clearly does not have agency in terms o...

Idaho the Innovator

I suddenly recalled a program that my mom had helped organize when my brother was in elementary school, where students asked friends and fam...

PoopGroup: Yoga Gas

I recently enrolled in an introductory offer at an amazing yoga studio where one can take unlimited classes for a week. I have done a smat...

PoopGroup: Jezebel weighs in

Jezebel does a nice little survey of some current poop lit today. Has anyone ever heard of a turd twister ?

PoopGroup: Top Three

Today I propose a challenge: what are your top three? Top three what? Top three most satisfying poops? Top three inopportune (but worked out...

Reprehensible Acts

I've been spending the past four days in Reno and Tahoe—I met my Dad here and we visited my brother and his fiancée to go skiing and to ...