IIRC, "eat a muffin, whitey" originally applied to coffee -- it's not about whitey liking muffins, but about whitey liking muffins so very much that whitey wants to make everything else taste just like a muffin.

It was definitely bagels, because you get that added element of "oh, I'll just have a bagel" that ties into whitey's insistence on assigning moral value to food choices.

Kitty~ma for Byron, and continued ~ma for Jo.

Congrats, Hil and juliana!

Um, there was some other stuff I meant to say but have forgotten.

It isn't that unusual to laugh manicily as food scrapes get pulled down into the disposal, is it?

I believe that is related to the glee me, my whole crew, and at least one of the professors whose offices we cleaned used to get watching trash bags with light loads in them waft downwards as we dropped them over the edge of the top floor of an open stairwell in a venerable old academic building. Lovely fluttering.

The Dean of Students walked into the stairwell on the ground floor just as one bag hit the floor, one day. He looked up and said, "You missed me."

There was no possible reply but, "Aw rats, I'll have to try again."

I lived in fear of losing my job for a couple days after that.

Here's the Rio original quote:

the bagel thing fits in with my larger theory about white people and muffins. I don't have time to go into detail right now, but basically the thing is: White people just want to eat muffins 24/7, but they are ashamed of this fact, so they take totally good yummy foods like bagels and coffee and ice cream and turn it all into muffins. Hence stuff like the blueberry bagel. The caramel latte. The chunky chocolate-almond-caramel-fudge ice cream. JUST EAT A FRELLING MUFFIN, WHITEY! That is what I say.

Oh, and the guy I learnt "ilchon" from is basically a younger, semi-Asian Baltar, with an Aussie accident and presumably fewer psychoses. [link]

For those Bitches who like eye candy.

For those Bitches who like eye candy.

raises hand

Awww, I miss Rio.

Dear god, Raq. That's like.... that's like the first time I saw Keanu. You know, before he opened his mouth.

(Also, I've been dying to ask what conference you're at -- it sounds fab.)

You know, before he opened his mouth.

And released demons from the bottomless pit of...well...nothing, actually.

Hil, what fantastic news! Congrats!

Etech. [link] Is fab. erinaceous was supposed to speak at it, actually, but had to cancel.

I have about 50 blog posts colliding in my head from conference ideas, and I'm rather delighted that I attended a meeting back at my real job yesterday via Second Life.

Yes, I am pretty close to geekgasm.

Etech

jealousjealousjealousjealous

(but we'll have to trade SL thoughts at some point, as I both want and need but the kool-aid keeps utterly eluding me)