May
19

I have eaten a lot of strange foods over the years in Asia…snake, frog ovaries, fish eyeballs, sea slugs, stir-fried hornets, intestines and wheat larva but the hardest to swallow and the worst smelling was this Taiwanese favorite—chòu dòufu—stinky (fremented) tofu. But I got it down and asked for more, thus giving big face to western civilization and fulfilling my destiny to taste everything in life. Stinky tofu at Raohe Street Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市) by Sinotology on Flickr.

I have eaten a lot of strange foods over the years in Asia…snake, frog ovaries, fish eyeballs, sea slugs, stir-fried hornets, intestines and wheat larva but the hardest to swallow and the worst smelling was this Taiwanese favorite—chòu dòufu—stinky (fremented) tofu.

But I got it down and asked for more, thus giving big face to western civilization and fulfilling my destiny to taste everything in life.

Stinky tofu at Raohe Street Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市) by Sinotology on Flickr.

Reblogged from taiwanesefood

“A cause may be inconvenient, but it’s magnificent. It’s like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.”

Arnold Bennett
Make your selection, drop nickels in slot, turn knob, lift glass door, take it & eat. These were once a high-point of civilization. Such decisiveness of action & clear reward, I so miss it! “Horn & Hardart Automats: You make your selection from an almost endless variety of delicious foods…from hundred of little individual show cases. Over half a million people enjoy Horn & Hardart Food every day, making possible lowest prices for the Finest Food Obtainable at Any Price.”

Make your selection, drop nickels in slot, turn knob, lift glass door, take it & eat.

These were once a high-point of civilization. Such decisiveness of action & clear reward, I so miss it!

“Horn & Hardart Automats:

You make your selection from an almost endless variety of delicious foods…from hundred of little individual show cases. Over half a million people enjoy Horn & Hardart Food every day, making possible lowest prices for the Finest Food Obtainable at Any Price.”

Reblogged from cardboardamerica

“Every commencement speech today:
‘You owe us $90,000. Some uneducated hillbilly just won $600 million dollars in Powerball. This is life.’”

Tweet from ‏@EvilJetsFan

“One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy. Your parents want you to have health insurance. Your friends want you to be a good friend. But everyone’s thinking about their own problems and nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, ‘Boy, I sure hope Sam finishes that chapter and gets one step closer to his dream of being a working writer.’ Nobody does that. If you want to write, it has to come from you. If you don’t want to write, that’s great. Go do something else. That was a very liberating moment for me.”

Sam Lipsyte

May
18

“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”

Mario Vargas Llosa (via wordpainting)

Reblogged from wordpainting