Mississippi Mud Baby Cakes

 Here are the links I love for this week:

• The foreign language of Mad Men from The Atlantic
• The benefit of bilingualism in The New York Times
• It's lonely at the top -- is China the world's loneliest superpower? 
• Daniel Drezner's So you want to get into a PhD program in Political Science? part one and  the best paragraph he's ever read in a dissertation prospectus. Clearly, I enjoy reading his blog. 
• A recipe for steak salads (but let's not trim the fat!), what I had for lunch yesterday and what I'll have for lunch tomorrow. You're welcome. 
• Another recipe for oreo cheesecake cookies, because what's life without the sugar and spice? 
• In your honor, a recipe for Mississippi Mud Baby Cakes (pictured up top, with marshmallow cream).

Here we come, in praise of the sun

In the summer of 2010, my good friend K put up an "Endless Summer, Endless Youth" mix and let me tell you, what a gem of a mix it is. It has, among many things, a fun Major Lazer track, Foster the People's Pumped Up Kicks (Yes, y'all are two years too late), Let's Go Surfing from The Drums  and  my personal favorite--the "I wish I had a boyfriend, I wish I had a loving man in my life..." intro to Girls' Lust for Life. I'm not going to post a mix but I figured I'd do a little list of the old and the not-so-old songs I've been listening to because a.) it's summer and b.) I kind of miss the beach. Not just any beach though, this.

• Swimsuits - The Cool Kids ft. Mayer Hawthorne
• Beautiful - Pharell & Snoop Dogg
• Lust for Life - Girls
• Call It What You Want - Foster The People
• My Sun - The Temper Trap
• Honey Bunny - Girls
• Georgia - Yuck
• Learnalilgivinanlovin - Gotye

What will you be up to this summer? Traveling elsewhere, I hope.

Real or not real?

 

 

 

The bad, we choose to forget. The good, we always remember. 
In which I sleepily write about the most fun I have had in quite a while.

Summer is here!

Happy Friday! Here are the links I love for the week:

• What are the chances of you being here? A graphic-heavy but celebrate life-y poster on the miracle that is Y-O-U! 
• The poverty line: What does being poor actually look like? (A photo essay of food a person living below the poverty line could buy from Foreign Policy.)
• Happy International Women's Day! Amy Chua profiles four female tycoons in China who bucked tradition to get very, very rich. I especially like the first sentence, "Like a relentless overachiever, China is eagerly collecting superlatives."
• Baked omelette with asparagus recipe from La Tartine Gourmand (You must recreate this but not before checking out the lovely photos of eggs and things in the same post!)
• How can you be smart, pretty and (less) awkward?
• The Myth of Funemployment from Thought Catalog. Look, I know I shouldn't be wasting your time by linking TC articles but this one's too close to an impending quarter-life crisis to resist.
• On Art & "Literature": The end of an era--Prospero writes that the beguiling lure of Chick Lit is finally waning. Also, a really nice article about the Steins in Paris, acquiring Matisse and Picasso like it's nobody but their family's business.
  
  

Random, but greatly recurring thought: I want a bulldog so bad.

Ogling puppies at the pet store every weekend is counterproductive but I can't help it,
Reisha