Gado Gado and the History of Us
Indonesian Appetizer GADO GADO (Vegetable Salad) INGREDIENTS ¾ pound Yukon gold or new potato 3 eggs ½ head Chinese cabbage or Napa cabbage 1¼ cups spinach 1¼ cups bean sprouts (aka mung beans) ½ pound […]
Year: 2021
Doo-Wop Castrati Tell Painful Truth About Falsettos
DETROIT. For Marvin Deshields, former lead singer of the 50′s doo-wop group The Fabulous Croutons, every excursion out into public is an occasion for anxiety. “Somebody like you,” he says to this reporter, “you don’t think twice […]
Taliban Invites Gloria Steinem, Amy Schumer, and Megan Thee Stallion to Join Afghan Transitional Cabinet
Desperate to modernize its policies toward females, the Taliban is seeking input from these three high-profile American women. “We want to do the right thing by our womenfolk,” claims a confidential Taliban source. “We’ve made […]
A Hamster, By Any Other Name, Is Still a Rat
Let’s get this out of the way right now: Hamsters are rodents. Mice are rodents. And yet one elicits an “Aw … cute …”, while the other delivers “Eeeeeekkkkk!!!!!!!!” I don’t get that. It’s true […]
Why Is That Librarian Hopping on One Foot?
“When you are a small-town librarian, you say ‘yes’ to everything.” Librarian of Weare, New Hampshire, population 8,915, quoted in The Atlantic It’s a quiet life, being a librarian in a small town in New […]
Fantasy Football, Existentialist Style
At first, I had no idea I was in hell. I was lying in the same street I walk every day at noontime on my way to lunch. “What happened?” I asked the man who […]
