HONEY RUM-FIZZ

omg yes bring it on.

[via The Design Sponge]

your belligerent face

... the feeling is mutual.

車展

車子想去看車展，但是它怕老闆去了會想要買新車，所以乾脆不提算了。在它的夢想中，showgirl 也會來躺在它的身上，給記者拍照... 想到這點的時候，車子有點飄飄然..

Reminder to self

read more Jean Rhys and Christopher Isherwood.

Incidentally I've only just realized that Rhys was one very nice looking lady.

Like. Very Much.

I know when you complicate things just to confuse me.

Girl Lego

This appeared on Emma's facebook stream recently. I'm keeping it aside because I might do something with it later.

"apparently Lego are launching 'a product line for girls'. Silly me, I thought they already had a product line girls played with. It's called Lego."

My Antonia

We used to linger a long while over our coffee in that sunny corner. Lena was never so pretty as in the morning; she wakened fresh with the world every day, and her eyes had a deeper colour then, like the blue flowers that are never so blue as when they first open. I could sit idle all through a Sunday morning and look at her. Ole Benson's behaviour was now no mystery to me.

'There was never any harm in Ole,' she said once. `People needn't have troubled themselves. He just liked to come over and sit on the drawside and forget about his bad luck. I liked to have him. Any company's welcome when you're off with cattle all the time.'

'But wasn't he always glum?' I asked. 'People said he never talked at all.'

'Sure he talked, in Norwegian. He'd been a sailor on an English boat and had seen lots of queer places. He had wonderful tattoos. We used to sit and look at them for hours; there wasn't much to look at out there. He was like a picture book. He had a ship and a strawberry girl on one arm, and on the other a girl standing before a little house, with a fence and gate and all, waiting for her sweetheart. Farther up his arm, her sailor had come back and was kissing her. "The Sailor's Return," he called it.'

- by Willa Cather

Heal

In some ways, as one would expect, or at least hope.
In some ways, not as you'd expect, or I'd expect you to understand.

I showed you the envelope and when you were done and I took it away you said I'm sorry and held me simply. That again, from you and others, does just that.

Getting inked and pierced? So long as it does me good.

Nothing lasts forever, or is right always.

在台北如何連吃三天小吃

舒國治：在台北如何連吃三天小吃
【聯合報╱舒國治】
2011.12.10 01:52 am

前幾天北京一個記者問我，外地遊客在台北連吃三天小吃，該吃什麼？ 以下是我個人粗擬的行程。

第一天。

早餐——永樂布市對面清粥小菜（南京西路二三三巷廿號）。湯湯水水的台式傳統早飯，高麗菜、刺瓜、油條、滷豆腐，配稀飯或乾飯。吃完逛迪化街、貴德街，有餘裕，可逛延平北路。

午餐——半畝園（東豐街卅三號）。北方小館，最好吃綠豆稀飯就著冰涼小菜，如酸豇豆肉末、榨菜丁四季豆、藕片、雪裏蕻百葉、燒茄子等。再來一、兩個牛肉餡餅。吃完，沿著大安路向北，至忠孝東路。若有興致，可逛誠品書店。

晚餐——清真艾家黃牛肉麵（忠孝東路四段二二三巷四十一號）。清燉牛肉麵最好，我偏嗜麵煮得爛一點。 早上的北部大稻埕，到中午卻來至東區，便為了有新舊差異之感。

第二天。

早餐——康樂意包子（汀州路二段四十六號。近廈門街）。可點三個菜包、一個肉包，一碗酸辣湯。它的菜包，全台第一。吃完沿著廈門街，向北穿過和平西路，再轉至牯嶺街，這條當年的「舊書攤一條街」，亦是電影《牯嶺街少年殺人事件》的發生地。再乘計程車至龍山寺，逛看萬華老區，與「剝皮寮」，亦可參看此地人眾的模樣，顯然不同於昨日東區所見者。

午餐——肥前屋（中山北路一段一二一巷十三之二號），點一客鰻魚飯，速速吃完，然後逛中山北路。自晶華酒店的廣場逛至國賓大飯店，便可折回。其間ＬＶ精品店的四樓書舖與小畫廊不妨輕聲細氣的參看幾分鐘。老爺飯店對面的「光點」與捷運公園亦值散步及之。

晚餐——秀蘭（信義路二段一九八巷五號之五。近永康街），幾可稱為最佳的上海菜私房小館。涼菜點芥菜、辣椒鑲肉、豇豆、蔥鯽魚、油燜筍。熱菜點白菜獅子頭、蝦仁豆腐砂鍋、筍丁蠶豆、茭白筍絲炒蛋，主食點菜飯。飯後甜點，則是酒釀芝麻湯圓。 飯後可至「冶堂」（永康街卅一巷廿號之二）小坐。它是個茶文物空間，亦售茶葉與茶具。無數的文化人在此一停，也有無數的日本觀光客按索地圖，來此買一小包茶葉回去送人。

第三天。

早餐——金華街燒餅油條（金華街三六號。近杭州南路）或華山市場阜杭（忠孝東路一段一○八號二樓之廿八），當然點燒餅油條與豆漿。吃完乘計程車至重慶南路衡陽路口，兩條街皆逛。這是五十年前台北的辦公大樓集中地，亦是銀樓、藥房、茶莊、綢緞莊、菜館與書店的聚集處。逛渴了，喝一杯「衡陽果汁吧」（衡陽路近桃源街口）。

午餐——林家乾麵（泉州街十一號）。點乾麵，加一碗魚丸湯。乾麵是福州式，拌汁清隽。魚丸有餡，此店所製最佳。吃完可逛植物園，有時園內的歷史博物館有于右任書法展，最是驚喜。若有興趣看一眼南門市場，亦可獲知台北最世故市場之所售。

晚餐——鼎泰豐（信義路二段一九四號。近永康街）。點小籠包、鮮魚蒸餃、煎餃。涼菜點泡菜、醬燒苦瓜、烤麩。麵則「紅牛湯麵」，主要嘗它紅燒的湯滋味，是六十年代我高中時台北紅燒牛肉湯之早年標準版。飯則蝦仁蛋炒飯。甜點或豆沙小包或赤豆鬆糕或千層糕，樣樣皆好。吃完，可細逛永康街。昨日若只去了冶堂，今日不妨再去Truffe One（永康街四十五之一號）吃它一顆柑橘巧克力。 永康街的店景與人景，皆是台北最雅緻的風景，處處透出歡樂，若遊人離台前能匆匆獲得一瞥，則最能懷念不捨也。

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I hadn't realized

'Amittai was a man of action - the kind of guy who would have cracked his own arm off and stabbed his way out with the jagged end.'

- Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!, by Jonathan Goldstein  (2009, p. 217)

Down, wanton, down

Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame
That at the whisper of Love's name,
Or Beauty's, presto! up you raise
Your angry head and stand at gaze?

Poor bombard-captain, sworn to reach
The ravelin and effect a breach--
Indifferent what you storm or why,
So be that in the breach you die!

Love may be blind, but Love at least
Knows what is man and what mere beast;
Or Beauty wayward, but requires
More delicacy from her squires.

Tell me, my witless, whose one boast
Could be your staunchness at the post,
When were you made a man of parts
To think fine and profess the arts?

Will many-gifted Beauty come
Bowing to your bald rule of thumb,
Or Love swear loyalty to your crown?
Be gone, have done! Down, wanton, down!

- Robert Graves

Pine, intrasitive verb

...2. to yearn intensely and persistently especially for something unattainable.

Already

your absence is conspicuous, palpable, and overwhelming. Best I get to bed and forget about your sorry face.

Q: Do you actually want this to work out?
A: No, I want nothing more than for my relationships to burn to the ground.

... and you call me dumb.

Lunch

Always wanted to try the noodles place next to 公園號酸梅湯。

Old emails exchanges

Taking a gander through old email exchanges makes me marvel at the wonderful and brilliant people who have passed through my life (and those who are here still). Steadying influences; roller-coaster love affairs; buddies in bad times; pseudo-intellectual sparring matches and inspirations both culinary and musical.

Yes, love,  you have been lucky

Ask yourself

WWDJD?

(Small spoons know best.)

Come live with me and be my love

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of th purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.

- Christopher Marlowe

Think again, batman.

There was a young lady from Bude
Who went for a swim in the lake
A man in a punt
Stuck an oar in her ear
And said "You can't swim here, it's private."

Holy Sonnet XIV

Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy ;
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

- John Donne