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in Hark! A vagrant, via biblioklept

Breakfast still-life by Pieter Claez

Instagramming Your Food May Signal Bigger Problem, Researcher Says.

Doing research on how Instagramming your food may signal a bigger problem is an even bigger problem.

And devoting space to an article about research on how Instagramming your food may signal a bigger problem is the biggest problem.

So there are people who feel compelled to share every detail of their daily lives as if the rest of the world gives a flying fig about their digestive systems. How does the media deal with this? By giving a flying fig. Try harder, people, you’ve got nothing.

That said, it is rude to delay meals by taking pictures of the food on the table. You can spend as much time as you want photographing your own food, but lay off our plate.

Nikolai Leskov’s The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories, a Pevear & Volokhonsky translation. Hardcover, Php1395 at National Bookstores.

There have been many great translators. There’s Gregory Rabassa, who translated Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. With our friend Chus we plotted to write a novel, have it translated anonymously into Spanish, and then have it translated into English by Mr. Rabassa. And C.K. Scott Moncrief, whose English Proust is still highly-regarded, even with the recent translations by Lydia Davis et al.

But the team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are the first superstars of translation: their names on the cover will sell books. For instance, we had never heard of Nikolai Leskov, but if Pevear-Volokhonsky did the translation then we had to get it.

Granted, the words “Russian author we’ve never heard of” will make a book seem almost unbearably attractive to us.

Read Done With Tolstoy at Humanities.

With brief surprise appearances on SNL!

Jaime

and Tyrion.

While we wish the Starks would crush the Lannisters, we do love these two. We don’t even hate Cersei and Tywin. Style matters.

Here’s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Did anyone see New Amsterdam?) on Conan, discussing an incident in the men’s room with George Clooney.

Haha he called Clooney “short”.

We’ll close with Peter Dinklage’s 2012 commencement speech at his college, Bennington.

We wake up in the middle of the night and there’s something fat and fluffy on our pillow.

Us: Are you trying to smother us?
Saffy: Of course not. I am snuggling.

We go back to sleep. Some time later we feel a tugging on our scalp.

Us: What’s going on?
Saffy: What do you mean?
Us: Are you eating our hair?
Saffy: Of course not. What a strange suspicion.
Us: What are you doing then?
Saffy: Flossing. Your hair is just right for getting the food particles between our teefs.
Us: Yuccch!
Saffy: The vet says we should take care of our teefs.
Us: By brushing them once in a while.
Saffy: That would be unnatural. Cats don’t brush.

Our sister is watching Aerosmith tonight so we wanted to post that Saturday Night Live commercial parody from the 90s in which Adam Sandler is performing Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits 1990-94 and they all sound exactly the same. We couldn’t find it, but it is mentioned in the SNL archive—the episode was hosted by Jeff Daniels and the musical guest was Luscious Jackson. If anyone finds the video, could you send us the link?

Until we find that bit, here’s that scene from The Sweetest Thing in which Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate sing an Aerosmith song to help Selma Blair get unstuck.