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  • The Effort To Keep Things Out of My Mouth, and Also Jessica Alba

    You know what’s the worst? Time-exclusive food availability. For example, I got this candy cane hot chocolate from Second Cup last Christmas. It is absolutely delicious, either on its own, or in coffee, or in homemade Oreos, and it’s only available around Christmas time. I’ve been rationing it carefully, hoping it could last until next…

  • Children of the Corn

    There’s a commercial for bottled water on TV right now that shows kids frolicking in a swimming pool, and a voiceover goes something like: “your children don’t swim in high fructose corn syrup.” The conclusion you’re supposed to draw, I guess, is that your kids shouldn’t eat foods with high fructose corn syrup, and should…

  • Montreal

    I’ve been spending a lot of time in Montreal lately. This past week I was there for the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association. Here are the highlights of the trip, none of which involved the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association.1 The titular Mount Royal. Hahahaha titular. Habitat 67 sounds like a…