Cultural Musings of the Known World.: Archive

Asparagus Chicken Pasta

Today I was in the mood to cook something yummy! So this morning I found this recipe and it was so delicious, not too rich and it was just enough! Here’s the recipe: Ingredients 1 (16 ounce) package penne pasta 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1 red bell pepper, chopped 2 bunches asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces 1 cup chicken broth 1/4 cup chopped fresh...

May 25th

Getting into the Rhythm of Things

After graduating from a while ago and becoming gainfully employed for a while now I am trying to establish a rhythm of things. Which include, (but are not exclusive to!) doing more home cooking, going to Yoga at least a couple times a week and my belly dance class once a week. But most importantly, hanging out with the people I love! While, I do Belly Dance every week, Yoga is something I am...

May 25th

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The Motherland

For the past couple of months I have been thinking it would be fantastic to travel, especially Northern Europe, including Denmark (because surprise surprise I’m Danish!). It’s very surprising to me how little Americans know about other countries and those peoples’ cultures. This has led me to the point of saying screw the US I want to become a bit of a wonderer going from city...

Apr 27th

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This link will lead you to a movie of a bunch of 15 second home made clips of different parts of the movie that were all woven together in order to make the whole Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope without any commercials or anything.

Apr 2nd

Serious Inspiration

Hello Everyone! I am so so super excited to announce that I will be going to Matthew Inman’s “the Oatmeal” book signing this weekend. Now if you aren’t familiar with this quirky fact fact about me, I LOVE Comics and humor! Especially theoatmeal.com. It is hilarious!!! I love this comic, this website/blogger/comic/comedian is one of the few things really kept me going when...

Mar 18th

Sad Monkey in a Bunny Suit →

Mar 8th

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Feb 11th

Thanks to my bff jill at jill-andrada.tumblr.com these questions I stole from her because i thought they were pretty thought provoking. Question #1: If your company gave one-year paid sabbaticals, what would you do for that year? I would study medical anthropology in the Nepalese himalayas, as well as travel the world. Specifically, I would go to Denmark, Amsterdam, India, the Amazon...

Feb 9th

The facade

In Chicago, Facades are usually all buildings that are deemed important. The building I work in and the ones around mostly have gleaming aesthetically pleasing facades. When you go inside sometimes the story changes. Because of the era in which some of the buildings were built (before or after the Chicago fire), they are generally stone and are crumbling bit by bit. I pass these buildings...

Feb 7th

Sigh...

On my wish list is this beautiful Leather Aviator Jacket. I’m still on this kick of wanting an Aviator jacket that fits my two requirements, which are the following: real leather and (not really a requirement because it would make it super expensive) lambs wool or shearling, something warm and is real not that fake crap. Look at this hot piece of leather: ...

Feb 5th

The Gate to Hell is Darvaz, Tajikistan →

Feb 3rd

"You Can Have My Double Space, When You Pry it...

Taken from The Atlantic, Written by Megan Mcardle. JAN 14 2011, 1:49 PM ET http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/01/you-can-have-my-double-space-when-you-pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-hands/69592/ I am just reposting this article because it’s cute. I do not claim any ownership. I was going to write something on why Farhad Manjoo’s polemic on the double space after a...

Jan 17th

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Dec 27th

When Tumblr is down... →

Dec 20th

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/ju... →

Dec 10th

Dreams and Sleep

For a very long time now, when I dream, I have bad dreams. Not necessarily “night terrors”, yet nothing nice ever happens when I dream. Last night I had a dream where I kept on forgetting everything for this trip I am going on. The actual contents of the dreams probably do matter, but I’m worried about having bad dreams ALL the time. For the last few weeks I’ve been...

Nov 14th

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see more If Shoes Could Kill I must remind myself that I already have enough shoes that I barely have occasion to wear, but man if I could get my hands on these I might wet myself. I have a new website that will become my new crack cocaine. ifshoescouldkill.com I would be in their zombie of darkness, but at least I would have GORGEOUS shoes!!!!! Sigh, no Patty no you can’t buy things...

Oct 4th

Sep 28th

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Ethnocentrism Achieved Through the Stripping of...

TOP 100 BANNED BOOKS: 2000-2009 (the ones in BOLD are the books I’ve read) 1 Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling 2 Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 3 The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier 4 And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell 5 Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck 6 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou 7 Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz ...

Sep 27th

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Sep 18th

Pfc. Gibson Comes Home →

malbbad: A must-read Pulitzer Prize-winning piece from 1968 about a soldier who died in Vietnam and how his body was received in his small town back home. It was assigned reading in my feature writing class in college. Thanks to Tommy Tomlinson at The Charlotte Observer for sharing the link with me and thanks to the people who took the time to put in online.

Sep 14th

Confession

Please don’t judge me till after you finish reading this entire thing. It’s official: I like Lindsey Lohan. Not her herself, but more her as an icon. Obviously I don’t like her nasty drug habits, or DUI convictions, that’s a whole nasty mess, but she does what she wants and that is something I simply do not always have the courage to follow through with. Doing what...

Sep 10th

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The point at which you form a thought, you are analyzing something of interest, there is a whirl of ideas and this amalgamation becomes a soft whisper and then it’s a voice in your head telling you it’s stance on the subject at hand, but what is the it? Are the voices in your head people in your life who played significant roles? Ex-lovers, mothers, fathers, sisters, and friends? My...

Sep 8th

Sep 7th

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Chevron finds oil in the Southern states of Sudan-Darfur, in 1982-1983 a war starts because paramilitary groups begin to take over the area for money that the oil brings. The Unity State is where all of this occurs, the name is ironic.

Sep 7th

Sep 6th

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The Wilderness Downtown →

malbbad: coketalk: Arcade Fire and Chris Milk have created the most powerful interactive experience I’ve ever seen. Go to this site. Right now. Enter the address of your childhood home. Wait for it… wait for it.

Sep 5th

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“The search for an ideal mate is in reality the search a quest for alienated...”

Aug 26th

Walking on a Dream

When you live out of the country for weeks on end you develop your own habits, which often can be more originally formed than those that one has been previously accustomed to in their own home land. I’ve been yearning for that reformation of identity, but what’s more is, since I do not have a job-I want to travel, I want to go to a place of the world that will scare me, that will make...

Aug 26th

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

– Oscar Wilde

Aug 20th