Pretty pretty letters.

Dear Meredith:

I'm a sucker for creative lettering - if I can't actually produce it, at least I can admire it, right?

Friends of Type

PANCAKES!

Dear Jennifer,

For some reason, I can only stomach waffles. But this collection of pancake photos is almost enough to make me a believer.

PANCAKES!
(found through Jezebel)

Watch Neo go!

Dear Meredith:

I mean, sometimes some people have just too much time on their hands - but then again, without them, who would recreate the bullet time dodge scene from The Matrix?

Does fine dining exist at Costco?

Dear Meredith:

I have a mad mad crush on Eric Ripert, the chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin in New York. Yes, I've featured him on this site before. But now he's on the small screen, with a cooking show, featuring Eric Ripert being inspired by nature and then cooking a dish based on this inspiration. In the link below, however, Alan Richman of GQ takes Eric Ripert to Costco (ie, NOT nature) to see his reaction.

Some choice quotations:

I am freaked out. Costco depresses me. I know everybody doesn’t have the same opportunities I do to visit farm stands and little markets, but I will fight to the end for inspirational shopping. Costco doesn’t even look like it belongs on our planet. It could be on the moon.

Alan asks me to push the cart, and I will not. Yes, I know I am being a spoiled brat, but for me it is an acceptance of the system. I do not want to be seen as somebody who supports this kind of store and this kind of system.

I just don't push shopping carts because I am lazy.

Avec Alan

Bart-crastination

Dear Jennifer,

I don't recall if you are a SIMPSONS fan or not, but every episode always had a very entertaining bit with Bart writing a reference to something terrible he did on a chalkboard at school for punishment. Someone compiled the list!

(from Jezebel's post)

BART'S CHALKBOARD