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25 Cheat Sheets For Taking Care Of Yourself Like A Damn Adult. Love Is a Fallacy. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: First Faculty Meeting of the Year Bingo. Look Away, Dixie Land — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER. 11 Magical Books to Read If You Love Harry Potter. If you’re a true Potterhead, chances are you’re missing the magical world of Harry and his friends.

11 Magical Books to Read If You Love Harry Potter

Sure, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is coming to theaters in 2016, but the wait is maddening! If you’re wondering what to do in the meantime, here are 11 books to read if you love Harry Potter. These fantastical novels are full of magic and mystery, and are sure to please the grown-up Harry Potter fan. The Magicians by Lev Grossman Like everyone else, precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater assumes that magic isn’t real, until he finds himself admitted to a very secretive and exclusive college of magic in upstate New York.

Why Harry Potter fans will love it: Grossman’s series has been hailed as the Harry Potter for adults. 30 Recipes You Should Know By the Age of 30. When you first start cooking it's natural and tempting to work on the beautiful, complicated recipes you see in fancy cookbooks.

30 Recipes You Should Know By the Age of 30

What you soon discover, however, is that cooking has a lot of building blocks. Your favorite chicken tikka masala recipe, for instance, will benefit from you having previously made a simple dish of chicken thighs. History of Boston's transportation infrastructure in a film of the city from 1906. To make this short documentary of Boston streets, cinematographer Billy Bitzer stood on an electric streetcar operated by the Boston Elevated Railway and filmed what he saw.

History of Boston's transportation infrastructure in a film of the city from 1906

The vantage point offers a view of the way wagons, streetcars, and pedestrians jostled for space and dodged around each other in hectic early-20th-century traffic. The New England Historical Society, which recently shared the film on its blog, called this "one of the first films of the city ever made. " The film captures a mix of traffic emblematic of a city that had embraced streetcars but was not yet under the sway of the automobile. 36 Pictures To See Which Muscle You’re Stretching - Be Young Be Green. It doesn’t matter if you’re a chronic sitter, a daily exerciser, or a weekend warrior, most understand the benefits of stretching.

36 Pictures To See Which Muscle You’re Stretching - Be Young Be Green

It sends blood stream to your muscles and offers your joints assistance in moving through their full scope of movement. Stretching enhances your stance and athletic execution while reducing your risk of pain and injury. English is weird. English speakers know that their language is odd.

English is weird

So do nonspeakers saddled with learning it. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn't spoken, there is no such thing as a spelling bee. For a normal language, spelling at least pretends a basic correspondence to the way people pronounce the words. But English is not normal. Even in its spoken form, English is weird. Foreign Cinema: Hosting a Dinner-and-a-movie party - Hither & Thither. Ever since Aron and I first went on a date to Foreign Cinema in San Francisco (over 15 years ago), and ate dinner while La Dolce Vita was screened on the giant white-washed wall in its courtyard, I’ve been wanting to set up a similar scenario at home.

Foreign Cinema: Hosting a Dinner-and-a-movie party - Hither & Thither

When Bertolli reached out to see if we’d like to try their skillet meals, it sounded like the perfect time to give it a go. To make a fairly spontaneous (mid-week) dinner party—my favorite sort—work, I need the food to be uncomplicated. I was able to pick up everything here at the grocery store in the morning with the kids, and borrow the projector from Aron’s parents in the afternoon. 21 People Share Something Someone Said That Forever Changed Their Way Of Thinking. 8.

21 People Share Something Someone Said That Forever Changed Their Way Of Thinking.

I'm the oldest of three kids. I'm older than my little brother by 2.5 years and my little sister by 9.5. The Best Strawberry Cake Ever. Ingredients 1 (18.25-ounce) box white cake mix1 (3-ounce) box strawberry-flavored instant gelatin1 (15-ounce) package frozen strawberries in syrup, thawed and pureed4 large eggs½ cup vegetable oil¼ cup waterStrawberry cream cheese frosting, recipe followsStrawberry Cream Cheese Frosting¼ cup butter, softened1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened1 (10-ounce) package frozen strawberries in syrup, thawed and pureed½ teaspoon strawberry extract7 cups confectioners’ sugarFreshly sliced strawberries, for garnish, optional InstructionsPreheat oven to 350 degrees F.

The Best Strawberry Cake Ever

Lightly grease 2 (9-inch) round cake pans.In a large bowl, combine cake mix and gelatin. Add pureed strawberries, eggs, oil, and water; beat atmedium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Pour into prepared pans, and bake for 20 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.Let cool in pans for 10 minutes. Does the Dog Die? Best Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe - How To Make Chocolate Fudge Cake. In_praise_of_the_auntie.