misosouper, a shopping blog

When it comes to cooking, I am incredibly lazy.  I also try to be healthy, and the two don’t always jive.

As if the heavens opened and answered all my nutritional prayers, this steamer will prepare an entire meal–protein, veggies, and rice–all at once.  Memo to my family:  get ready for some serious salmon and green beans.

If I spied these well-priced rain boots splashing down the street, I might just have to bend down and touch them, creepy foot fetishizing notwithstanding.

Once upon a time, long long ago, I was a graduate student in English literature.  For a span of three years, I thumbed through, scanned, pretended to read, or actually read hundreds of books, as graduate students are wont to do.  I’m occasionally inclined to re-read some of these books (especially the ones I didn’t actually, um, read), but the explosion of marginal notes, dogeared pages, and bored doodlings make it difficult.

These Book Darts would have solved that problem; their minimalist, reusable design allows you to annotate, without actually annotating your text.  An elegant, useful, inexpensive solution–the total antithesis of grad school.

I wonder if Dominic Wilcox, the artist who created this sculpture out of plastic toy soliders, would take a custom order for a 700-billion-dollar-bailout bowl, made from tiny masters of the universe.

These shimmering beetles sealed in lucite make your arm look more elegant than goth.

Unless you’re wearing a spiked dog collar, in which case you’re on your own.