They Don't Care About Us

Michael! Michael! We miss you.

I wish the media would have left you alone so that we could have heard gems like this till the end.

Marmite Love

I have always had an insane craving for all things salty, spicy, and sour (someday I will tell you about my pickle fetish, or my S&M relationship with kim chi, or how many extra hot pepperettes I am embarassed to consume in a day). Other people love cupcakes, I love all things strange and savoury.

(I recently named the groundhog who lives on our property Polskie Ogorki, and I think if I ever got into meditation, UMAMI would be my chant word. UMAAAAMI UMAAAAMI.)

This morning, I made my idea of heaven on a plate: my new favourite breakfast is an open-faced toasted sesame bagel with a runny overeasy egg on either face, both bagel and egg slathered with MARMITE (a present from my sister who currently lives in the land of Marmite-lovers). A slight touch of sweet under the egg was the secret ingredient - a few very small dabs of President's Choice Spicy Szechuan Peanut Sauce rounds out the flavour and gives it a heavenly oomph.

Ooo, yeah. MArMIte, baby.

Facehunter June Crush

Have I mentioned how much I love street style? This was taken in Antwerp, Belgium.
I think I travel first for the food, second for the people-watching.

Yard Sale Bloodbath

I have always loved yard/garage sales, and they have become so important in my life for stocking my homes and closets. B and I have moved 9 times in 4 years and it is always heartbreaking how much we have to end up throwing out, so we always try to put off buying a household item until we absolutely have to, and when we do, we scour the yard sales and sidewalks first. So what a fantastic theme blog I encountered in Yard Sale Bloodbath! As well as a motto to live by that couldn't capture my sentiments better.

FYI, I always love hearing about awesome yard sale finds, so leave a comment and tell me about the last awesome thing you found!

Check out Jenny's free bag of hands. GOLD.

I always wanted one of these...

... the blackboard door, I mean, not the baby (though she is cute). A Friday picnic would be awesome too.

What every absent-minded professor-in-training needs to not forget the milk again.

via Design Sponge

Apron Dress

I've been looking for a breezy dress with big POCKETS all summer long. (Who wants to carry a bag when you can dance around, free as a bird?) Finally Bleubird Vintage has one in the works, coming soon. Can't wait.

Critical Mass St Catharines!

This is where I will be today.
Join us in your own town the last Friday of every (warm) month, 5:30pm.
This is not a protest, but an opportunity for cyclists to use their legal right to the streets in the safety of critical mass. It's a celebration of bikes!

Info for St. Catharines Critical Mass here.

Pentagram Takes On Marlboro

Loving these designs.





See Pentagram's write-up here, which talks about Obama's new legislation to crack down on cigarette advertising.

via seesaw designs

Procrastination-tagion

This graphic novel ate a friend's work day yesterday so she kindly lent it to me today. On the first sweltering day of summer, it was the perfect companion for a hangover.



Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel is a memoir of her closeted father and a kind of literary detective story deciphering the mystery of his life and death through Camus, Proust, and Joyce. It was named best book of the year by Time Magazine. An incredibly rich read.

(Click on the link above to sneak a peek on Google Books)

Persistence

The author's byline seals this one. Gold.

"He's so determined that I don't have the heart to tell him it's impossible to swallow something longer than your body."

My boyfriend showed me this video a week ago and I still can't get over it.
via CollegeHumor

bacon vodka

I am drawn to this recipe like a car accident. Would you try it if I made it?

via Brownie Points

Fucking A.

I love old man style.
via The Sartorialist