Marc Penn's Microtrends is one of last year's most hyped books. "Book" is slightly inaccurate. It's a book the same way a collection of remixes and b-sides is an "album" but the contents of Microtrends could just as well (and probably should) have filled a magazine or blog. No, I'm not a big fan of...
Books I Recommend NOVELS My Latest Grievance, Elinor Lipman She is one of the authors whose books I always enjoy; this is my favorite. It is written from the perspective of a girl who grows up in a college dorm with her faculty parents. The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Munez A good 60's flashback The...
I finished Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: an eater's manifesto the other night. I wrote about how you should read this book earlier but you should also read all of Michael Pollan's books. I think, I am probably part of the Cult of Pollan. His books have put my views on eating and food culture...
I have started a book club at my church. A social concerns book club. And I have really been enjoying it. But last night, I wanted to read a little bit before falling asleep, and here were my choices: Ahhh, yes, this is some good reading! I wish I could at least say that it was so boring, that it...
The crazed genius who brings us indexed, has a new manifesto about careers on ChangeThis.com. In pictures, naturally: http://www.changethis.com/43.06.IndexingCareer Hugh MacLeod has a pretty good one there, too, on how to be creative. And Michael Pollan, who is well-known for writing about...
i want to write some more about my status as a hypocrite when it comes to eating meat as a means of socializing. according to the merriam-webster dic, a hypocrite is: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings. this describes me to the t. i virtually never prepare...
As we all should know by now...I LOVE HEART MICHAEL POLLAN. I said before that I would stalk him on the Berkeley Campus...but I'm not that crazy. He's amazing. I have not finished reading this book but I need to blog this quote: "If my explorations of the food chain have taught me anything, it's...
I just read an article that came out on Ap. 20th in the NYT titled 'The way we live now: why bother' by Michael Pollan. It was really a downer for the most part, but realistic and then he followed up with the benefit of gardening and made great points about it. I didn't see any blog or I would've...
I'm crying hysterically right now because I just watched a video of pigs being inhumanely slaughtered... it's not so much about it being an animal, but pigs are as sensitive and smart as dogs... (i don't know if smart is saying much though for some dogs) and they were just dragging them into a room...
