Melissa › Comments

I like her ponytail - Lindsey is Fierce!

"It was the most exciting thing to have happened so far today." <--LOL - Josh Haley

good selection - RAPatton from iPhone

thanky! this is probably in my top 5 favorite Elliot Smith songs - Melissa

Damn. - Derrick

YAY! - Melissa

"Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests. Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests - as did their children. The bigger the difference between a woman's waist and hips the better. Researchers writing in Evolution and Human Behaviour speculated this was to do with fatty acids found on the hips." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

hooray! - Melissa

Oui - Glen Campbell, B.A.

Burberry a Go Go ol' Chap! simply Shagadelic!! - Billy Warhol

Moving onto the Verrines du Japonais, it contained layers of hazelnut dacquoise, milk chocolate mousse, yuzu citrus crémeux, milk chocolate chantilly and dark chocolate glaze. It was a favorite of the employee who served us. I honestly have to say this verrine blew me out of the water. It’s rich and decadent without being dense and overwhelmingly chocolate-y even though pretty much everything I’m eating is chocolate based. There’s raspberry jam and yuzu-infused cake in the middle of the terrine that brightens up the entire flavor profile made it really interesting. The tartness of the raspberries shined through with the yuzu mingling in the background of the milk chocolate mousse with a touch of crumbly hazelnut dacquoise. - Derrick

I want. - tab thinks you're awesome

Thanks, Yolanda! <3 - Melissa

these photos are so much lovely win - Anna Haro

let me get a bite - Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch

I want the mac and cheese! - Rochelle

Posted via web from Moment of Clarity - Tsega Dinka from Posterous

I love it when downtown LA looks empty like this on certain days - Melissa

"On October 20, 1984, the Monterey Bay Aquarium first opened. Over 10,000 visitors came to the Aquarium the first day it opened, and after five months, it had seen its first million visitors. And it all started with a brainstorming session by four marine biologists on a scuba trip! Dr. Steven Webster told us all about the Aquarium’s legendary first 25 years, and how everything they’d planned in that first brainstorming session eventually came to be." - Melissa from Bookmarklet

Yay! Monterey blog used my photo :) - Melissa

nice! I was just there a couple weeks ago. one of my favorite aquariums! - holly

I think I just beat tiffany with this photo. SO CUTE. - Melissa from Bookmarklet

omg, too f'ing cute - Chieze Okoye

"Gratitude -- Keep a daily record of life's little blessings with this keepsake gratitude journal filled with a year’s worth of insightful prompts, inspiring quotes, and ample room for reflecting on all the things that make life great." - Melissa from Bookmarklet

WAAAAANT - Melissa

I just spent hours looking at stuff on this site, and it's all your fault! :o) - Mellissa Jane

go you :) - holly

Yay! I hope you have a great time! - vicster

=( I'm sending you big giant hugs! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

*cranks up 8 mm camera* Hey I like the "classic look" - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

"Here in Los Angeles there is a valued relationship between the food on our plates and the ground from which it comes. From weekly stops at favorite farmers' markets to digging in at a local community garden, the bounty of the land and its role in our eating lives has a profound meaning for many Angelenos, and Americans. Local Chefs are eager to share how they use the market to influence their menu, like Grace and BLD's Neal Fraser and Ford Filling Station's Ben Ford, while some, like Border Grill and Ciudad's Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger have partnered with the LAUSD to help reinforce the importance of garden-based learning and to be conscious of what we eat. The politics of eating has become a local focal point, thanks to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's championing a Food Policy Task Force this summer as we celebrated 30 years of farmers' markets in L.A." - Melissa from Bookmarklet

I will love this. - Eric @ CS Techcast

I hate that I love books so much, I can't keep track of what I actually have. This isn't the first time, neither. - Derrick

I hope mine this weekend come out half as good. :) - Derrick

"Want to know where those stimulus dollars were spent? Consider turning your smart phone into a government watchdog — then all you'll have to do is take it for a walk." - Melissa from Bookmarklet

"So, the day before I left this time around, I made these cinnamon rolls. I made a double batch - which came out to 29 rolls - because these little girls can gobble up these suckers so quickly. In fact, they can go eat 5 or 6 of them in just one day! Even though they ask for the same thing all the time, I enjoy making these for them. It truly is an enjoyable and relaxing labor of love." - Derrick from Bookmarklet

I see your buns. - Yolanda

I glanced over at the screen and thought that looks like pubic hair, but nah that couldn't be pubic hair... - Chris Rivait

Damn, LE. - Derrick

"That's where the tree gives each leaf a push, leaving it increasingly dangling. "So with that very slender connection, they're sort of ready to be kicked off," says Raven, and then a breeze comes along and finishes the job. So the truth is, the wind isn't making the leaves fall. It's the tree. The tree is deeply programmed by eons of evolution to insist that the leaves drop away. Why? Why not let the leaves stick around? Why drop? Raven explains that leaves are basically the kitchen staff of a tree. During the spring, summer and early fall they make the food that helps the tree grow and thrive and reproduce. When the days get short and cold, food production slows down, giving the tree an option: It can keep the kitchen staff or it can let it go." - Melissa from Bookmarklet

Cool. I'm always amazed at how tenacious leaves are in the wind. We get huge storms and leaves whip around like in a sky sized blender yet they stay on. This makes a lot of sense as to why. - Todd Hoff

"In the 1950s, photography was hardly considered art. If you wanted to be taken seriously as a photographer, you snapped mountains and models — not your neighbors. It also helped to be white. But Roy DeCarava, who died this week at the age of 89, turned all of that on its head. In one of his photos, a man sits quietly on a city stoop. Inside a row house, couples laugh and dance in a dimly lit kitchen. At a table, a little boy whispers something in his father's ear. This is Harlem. A mix of quiet, ordinary moments, everyday struggles, tiny triumphs. "In '52, there weren't many images of just normal, everyday people. Particularly black people," DeCarava told NPR more than 30 years later. In his application for a Guggenheim fellowship, DeCarava wrote that he hoped to show "not the famous and well-known, but the unknown and the unnamed, thus revealing the roots from which spring the greatness of human beings." "There was this big hole. There were no black images of dignity. Of beautiful... more... - Melissa from Bookmarklet

I'm very happy with the way these shots came out. I think I will try to fly east whenever Fall hits. I really fell in love with all of this. - Melissa from Bookmarklet

Uh no Tiffany Melissa's fall travel = Louisville. Don't be trying to take her away from us. - Michelle Jones

x_x - Derrick

No seriously, it's not even right how awesome this is. there is no more awesome left in the world because this has taken all of it. every last drop. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

*hugs - Shevonne

*smile* excellent (and one more round of *hugs* for good measure) - Michael W. May

I wish I could see these in person! - joey

Wow! Intriguing. - Martha

"It's Roy Lichtenstein, come to life" - Anna Haro from Bookmarklet

O_O - Danny Minick

Had this yesterday. SO FREAKING GOOD. WELL WORTH IT. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE from Bookmarklet

All of it is so good. She even sells ham hocks. I'm tempted to have one next time. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

really? - tiffany

right up there with those sumo wrestler costumes - T. Brent, technopeasant

:D - Melissa

"sneezy mcsnotnose" *dead* - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Well, YEAH. - Derrick

whuuuuuuuuut? :) - Melissa