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Sweet meats

By On December 12, 2005 · In From the Tombs

This weekend I was cycling manic and thus, at 5 pm Saturday, I decided I would make the Swedish Ginger Snaps from the Times’ “Style” supplement, which should really be called “An Assemblage of Articles So Fatuous They Make the Sunday Styles Section Look Like Foreign Policy Review.”

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I.M. Pie

By On July 26, 2005 · In From the Tombs

I like to make pies. This is mostly because I like to eat pies. But it’s also because making pie crust is the closest I get to meditation.

It’s the beautiful alchemy of it all. You have this recipe that has at most four ingredients, one being water, and it’s all in the ratios [...]

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Fait accompli

By On April 18, 2003 · In Danse Macabre, From the Tombs

The scale told me I’ve gained two pounds this week. This was not cause for alarm–and not just because I’ve spent years in sensory deprivation tanks and primal scream circles undoing the shame my mother instilled in me about my body. No, in this case, I know that it’s simply because I’ve still got two [...]

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