John Aravosis

Anyone in NYC, I'm doing a brown bag lunch talk on Tue Nov. 10 at Columbia about political blogs in the age of Obama. I'm the guest of Prof. Anya Schiffrin (who's married to economist Joe Stiglitz.) 1230pm - 130pm. Room 1302, 13th floor, Intl. Affairs Bldg, 420 W. 118th St, between Morningside & Amsterdam. Subway: 1 tr...ain to 116th & Broadway. Open to the public. If anyone does make it, come up and say hi afterwards.Devamı

Saw "Visual Acoustics" tonight. Wonderful documentary about architectural photographer Julius Shulman. Neat guy, great photos, and interesting documentary. And I learned a word to describe all the new-ish buildings in downtown DC that I've loathed for 25 years: post-modernism. Shulman loathed them too. It was like watc...hing the "No Rain" video and finally realizing there are other bees out there too... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_ShulmanDevamı

We met the guys who produced this video, they drove up to Maine, on their own dime, and skipped several days of their college courses (they're undergrads), to help out. You have to watch this video if you haven't. It's absolutely brilliant. The guys told me, this weekend, that they didn't cherry-pick a single intervie...w - they included EVERY single interview they did in the video, this is representative of who the Teabaggers really are. Several points had me laughing out loud.Devamı

Gougères. I made some tonight. They're French. They're absurdly easy. And they work! They're basically a cheese puff. Look fancy as hell. Taste fancy as hell. And my God was the recipe easy. You can find one online, I'm sure, but basically you melt butter, salt and boiling water, add a cup of flour, mix it ove...r a medium heat for a minute, then put it in a mix master, add gruyere cheese (a very good swiss, basically) and 4 eggs, and voila. Just dump it by the tablespoon on a cookie shoot, 425F oven for 20 minutes until it's a good golden brown, then eat them - or let them cool a tad. Really easy. Really good.Devamı