Season 3 of The Great British Baking Show (known as The Great British Bake Off in Britain) was my favorite yet. I cried through the Final (in a good way). Here is the chocolate well created by a contestant in Episode 9… …with a bucket that drops to the bottom to collect liquid white chocolate… Read more »
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Monday Randutiae
A few links for your Monday… Jon Almeda at Almeda Pottery makes the teeniest, tiniest stuff on his teeny potter’s wheel. Here’s his Instagram. Ack! So beautiful. (Thanks Alison!) ETA: Here’s a gorgeous collection of pictures at Bored Panda. In a similar vein, Althea Crome at Bugknits knits with needles sometimes practically as thin as… Read more »
Long-Overdue Randutiae (Yes, I’m Still Here!)
Lenny Kravitz’s Dick Fell Out, and Women Everywhere Are Being Terrible about It. So. The gorgeous rocker and everyone’s go-to Arena fashion designer had a wardrobe malfunction at a concert in Stockholm, and social media went wild, in a bad way. I appreciate this response, which is thoughtful about questions of consent, problematic double standards,… Read more »
Lengthy Linky Randutiae. Also, Rainbow Nails
Ready? David Levithan and Billy Merrell are putting together an expanded edition of The Full Spectrum and are looking for essays about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning and other queer identities by writers under 21. If you have a story you want to tell, go to www.queerthology.com for details on submitting. Deadline is August… Read more »
Rainy Tuesday Randutiae
Apologies for the broken link in my dresses post from May 5… the link was working for a while, then it broke, and I can’t for the life of me find that page anymore. Agh! Here’s a slideshow of dresses from the Met Gala, from another source entirely. From NPR, Here’s What People Are Saying… Read more »
Some Dresses to Go With Your Hats
I just finished a massive revision. I am celebrating by lying on the couch, staring at the ceiling, and occasionally taking bites out of a cheeseburger. It is THE BEST. Some End of Revision Randutiae for you, dear readers: Fancy dresses from the Met Gala. Some of these dresses are actually beyond my powers of… Read more »