December 2011
9 posts
Recipe: Mother's Ruin Punch
For your holiday festivity needs.
Mother’s Ruin Punch 1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup chilled club soda
1 1/2 cups gin
1 1/2 cups fresh grapefruit juice, plus 3 thinly sliced grapefruit wheels, for garnish
3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
3/4 cup sweet vermouth (Blanco)
2 1/4 cups chilled Champagne or sparkling wine
Ice
Hannah Gersen: Review: The Art of Fielding →
hannahgersen:
Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding would make the perfect graduation present. That’s not to imply that one will necessarily outgrow this novel, only that it is preoccupied with the sort of questions most of us first grapple with in early adulthood. What are my ambitions? Who are my friends?…
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Favorite Movies of 2011 (so far...)
My #1 favorite movie so far is Drive.
Other favorites so far are (in no particular order):
Young Adult
Shame
Midnight in Paris
Cedar Rapids
Moneyball
Bill Cunningham New York
The Artist
Take Shelter
Other good movies I liked, and would recommend, but wouldn’t call my “favorites”:
Melancholia
Source Code
Bridesmades
Super 8
Tree of Life
Contagion
The Trip
Movies...
Hannah Gersen: Review: Then Again →
hannahgersen:
(Photo by Annie Leibovitz)
In 1977, Dorothy Hall went to a screening to watch her daughter, Diane Keaton, star in a new Woody Allen film, Annie Hall. She wrote about the experience in her journal:
I only saw Diane, her mannerisms, expressions, dress, hair, etc, the total her. The story…
