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Archive for December, 2007

We interrupt your weekend: Whatsies housekeeping

by TGW Staff

Here’s the plan for this year’s Whatsies — our way of looking back on the TGW’s 2007 daily doses.
Anyone who reads this site (contributors, commenters, lurkers) is welcome to nominate a favorite post from 2007. All you have to do is invent an idiosyncratic category for your nominee and write a introduction of 30 words […]

Eat, Pray, Love… and then eat some more*

by Wendy West

( Food and Love )

Don’t know about you, but this time of year, I feel like a Baleen Whale…

Walking through holiday buffets with my mouth wide open, food sifting through my gaping maw and into my gullet. Is it that time of year or the newly-discovered Ramsay BBC specials or the crazy hormone pills my vagina doctor gave me […]

Thursday playlist: Best music videos of 2007

by Farrell Fawcett

It’s a hard thing to compile a list like this. The great majority of music videos suck. And I’m a very intolerant critic. Which means there are precious few videos that make my year’s-end list. The ones that make the list meet certain criteria that I’ve honed over the years: First, a video can’t be […]

Listen, Listen

by Jen Mandel

( Commerce and Sounds and Work )

I really love my job. Most people can’t say that, but I’m proud of what I do for a living. I work for a company that does music composition for commercials, but we have a small music licensing department, for which I’m one of three music supervisors. We work on commercials as […]

Phthis and Phthat

by Lisa Parrish

( Words )

I just started reading Eat, Pray, Love. I resisted for a while, because it’s one of those books that comes out of nowhere to become the “must-read!” book of the year. Everyone seems to be reading it, and […]