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Happy National Grilled Cheese Day. [Wonderful Grilled Cheese Recipe from NPR]
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cracking up. these npr v-day cards are hysterical. see more here.
The Transportation Security Administration clarified its cupcake policy in a blog post. Cupcakegate — as the agency has termed it — was prompted in December, when TSA officers told Rebecca Hains, who was flying out of Las Vegas, she could not carry cupcakes in her carry-on luggage. The TSA said the icing on the two cupcakes was a security risk.
At the time Hains told MSNBC she thought it “was terrible logic.”
Yesterday, the TSA defended its action in a 500-word post written by the TSA’s Bob Burns, who drew a red line between a normal cupcake and a cupcake in a jar like the one Hains tried to pass through security.
The TSA issued this picture for comparison:
…The bottom line, Burns says, is that if you bring a cake, pie or cupcake expect some extra attention from TSA officials. - NPR
My immediate thoughts: Cupcakegate is one of the better phrases I’ve heard in awhile. ALSO (and more importantly) who puts a cupcake in a jar?
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This is great. I can’t decide which breaking news story I should root for…maybe, “Wait Wait, Don’t Objectify Me.”
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A big thank you to the NPR music interns. I’m loving this band, and cannot wait to hear their debut album come 2012.
Excerpt from NPR article:
This California band doesn’t have an album out yet or even MP3s to download online, but it has received frenzied standing ovations while touring the country with The Civil Wars. Like that band, Milo Greene also makes folk-tinged music with perfectly blended male-female harmonies, but they marry that sound with thunderous live drums and infectious singalong choruses. When my bosses ignored my emails about this band, I organized our own intern-produced Deskless Concert Series, and invited Milo Greene to perform three stripped-down, acoustic songs as our first guests. Watch that performance below. With the release of its debut album coming in 2012, Milo Greene is ready to blow up. —Clare Flynn
check out sandwich mondays (courtesy of the post below). so horrifying and yet so hysterical. just another reason to love npr, not that i needed another.
NPR’s conclusion? “Honestly, I haven’t been this afraid of a sandwich since the Arby’s Big Stabber. Don’t eat this. No one should eat this. These patties were kept separate for a reason.”
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The McDonald’s Land, Sea and Air Burger: a chicken patty, a beef patty, and a Filet O’ Fish patty on a single bun. It’s on the McDonald’s Secret Menu, not because it’s exclusive, not even because they’re ashamed of it, but because they’re protecting us. (via Sandwich Monday: The Land, Sea And Air Burger : Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!)
Two Plates. One Herbivore. One Omnivore. Which is Which?
Great article by Robert Krulwich on a underground supper club meal thrown by Mike Lee of Studiofeast.
Excerpt…
One night, somewhere, they won’t say where, but I’m guessing it was a Manhattan loft with a big kitchen, a food anarchist named Mike Lee got 40 people to perform a daring experiment in food camouflage.
Everybody sat down to what looked like the same meal. But it wasn’t the same. Here’s the first course. Half the diners got a spherified apricot puree in a coconut soup with mint. On the other half, salmon roe in Vichyssoise. One recipe for meat eaters. One for vegetarians. Very different ingredients. Yet at first glance they look almost identical, no?
How was I not at this meal?! Unfair. Hopefully I can make it to one of these at some point…
from ceo of sesame workshop to ceo of NPR?! this guy is living my dream.
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.
But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this.
And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.
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