1. Flipboard for iPad
Folks…I finally got my iPad 2 and it’s fabulous! I’m still getting to know it and testing out different apps to decide which ones I want to use. Flipboard is definitely a keeper.
Flipboard takes all kinds of web activity (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, blogs that you follow, and more) plus other content that you select and puts it together in this really cool magazine-like format. It is gorgeous and it makes reading mundane status updates much more fun.
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2. Inner City 4th Graders Photography Project by Judy Gelles
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| Image from www.judygelles.com |
Another great thing about Flipboard for iPad is learning about great sources for art, photography, and design. My Modern Met is one of those sources. Thanks to Alice, I was able to see these emotionally moving photos/interviews by Judy Gelles that completely blew me away. Read more about this heartfelt project and see more photos here, then check out Alice’s post about Judy’s related projects.
When I lived in L.A., I had the best chocolate cookie I’ve ever had in my life. It was from (the now closed) City Bakery in the Brentwood Country Mart. Ever since we moved to Seattle in 2008, I’ve been dying to have one of their Melted Chocolate Cookies. In 2009 we went to New York City to celebrate my 40th birthday. Awesome! I can have a Melted Chocolate Cookie (or five) from City Bakery! But guess what…it wasn’t “in season.” Yep…you read that right. IN SEASON. WTF? It’s a non-holiday themed cookie! Non-holiday themed cookies are always “in season!” I’d also eat Santa frosted sugar cookie in July. Whatever. It’s a COOKIE.
This week I decided to email City Bakery and just ask them for the recipe. I’ve never said that I wasn’t delusional. Then I asked if I could order some cookies to be shipped to Seattle if they decided not to release the recipe. Allison Dees, the General Manager of City Bakery and Birdbath Neighborhood Green Bakery was kind enough to get back to me quickly and reject both of my requests. Oh well, it was worth a shot.
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| Photo from This Week in New York |
Lucky for me, my husband loves to cook and bake. Otherwise I’d still be eating microwaved Boca burgers and yams for dinner every night. Drew tried this recipe last week. It was pretty chocolatey and good, but not melty enough and wasn’t even a close fourth to the City Bakery cookie. This week I found Molly Wizenberg’s Chocolate Rads recipe and sent it to Drew. She uses cake flour to help with the “melted” part. I’m hopeful about this one.
One of my favorite sweet treats is Nutella. Alice at Savory Sweet Life has been posting some incredible looking Nutella recipes lately. I emailed this one and this one to Drew this week. O…M…G. I want these. Right now.
5. Gay Couples Still Can’t Get Married…SERIOUSLY?!?!
This is one of my constant obsessions, but two things that I saw this week got me all worked up again.
First, and this made me laugh hysterically, was San Francisco’s response to that crazy church who likes to tell everyone that “God Hates Fags.” On a side note, do you know that if you type “crazy church” in Google, a Wikipedia entry about Westboro is second on the list? This story actually took place more than a year ago, but one of my Facebook friends posted a link to it this week. Awesome response to those freak shows.
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| Photo from Sir EDW Flickr Photostream |
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| Photo from Rubin 110 Flickr Photostream |