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    Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors

    30% Less Meat Healthier For Hearts, Planet

    Four Myths About Vegetarian Cooking, As Seen On Top Chef (Plus Recipes!)

    Mackenzie: Hot, Steamy, Scrumptious Food Porn

    Natalie Portman: If We Don't Tolerate Rape, Why Do We Tolerate Meat?

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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    12/08/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    I didn't really care for Julie & Julia, but the sexual voyeurism aspect of this intrigues me. I'll probably rent a copy from the library. I usually buy new, to support authors, but I can't bring myself to do it in this case.
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    Image of Jenloveshercurves Jenloveshercurves
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    This seems so weird. Ugh, open relationships, I just don't get it. Maybe because when I'm with someone, I don't want anyone else. That's how I work. I want them. When I'm not monogamous, I'm always holding back, I'm never giving them my all and don't jump in with both feet.
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    Image of QoB QoB
    12/08/09

    @Jenloveshercurves: Whenever someone mentions open relationships as a way to "save" their current relationship, I always think of Dr. Tobias Funke:

    "Tobias: You know, Lindsay, as a therapist, I have advised...
    [falls off the bed]
    Tobias: ...a number of couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains emotionally committed, but free to explore extra-marital encounters.
    Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?
    Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... but it might work for us."
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    Image of Keep it cool Keep it cool
    12/08/09

    @Jenloveshercurves: Open relationships are not for everyone, but there are plenty of people out there in happy ones with both feet in :-) If you are truly interested, Opening Up by Tristan Taormino and The Ethical Slut are great starter books.

    #openrelationships
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    Jenloveshercurves promoted this comment Edited by Keep it cool at 12/08/09 10:21 AM Keep it cool was starred Keep it cool was unstarred
    Image of eleanorstrousers eleanorstrousers
    12/08/09

    @Jenloveshercurves: If only my ex felt the same way as you. I kept ending up in an "open relationship" that I never agreed to in the first place. I finally had to tell him, if I just wasn't enough for him, move on.
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    Image of Jenloveshercurves Jenloveshercurves
    12/08/09

    @Keep it cool: I'm not interested at all. My reaction would be, "Why are we in a relationship?" It's something that to my core I wouldn't understand.
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    Image of Keep it cool Keep it cool
    12/08/09

    @Jenloveshercurves: I meant interested in an academic sense
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    02:22 AM

    @Keep it cool: Ah.
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    "that newish breed, the personal-meat-journey"

    I ... feel I may have missed something.
    I ... feel it may not be a problem.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    "Instead, she felt unmoored and unhappy and entered into a torrid, bondage-tinged affair, which morphed into the world's most awful-sounding open marriage, which turned into obsession and depressing sex with strangers, which in turn made her become an apprentice butcher."

    I think that if they do a movie adaptation of THIS it's going to be a creepy art-house flick.
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    12/07/09

    @MargaretMoony: I can't tell you how much I think I do *not* want to see that.
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    Image of blackbird_pie blackbird_pie
    12/07/09

    @MargaretMoony: @Rooo sez BISH PLZ: I'd go see it. Especially if it stars Willem Dafoe.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    12/07/09

    @blackbird_pie: He'd be the guy that she has an affair with. There will also be an excess of plastic sheeting.
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    12/08/09

    @MargaretMoony: I'm getting REALLY creeped out by imagining it being packaged as a new kind of role for Amy Adams. She's not just fresh-faced and sweet! She's coved with blood and despair.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    12/08/09

    @alula: Yeah.....essh.
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    By 1974, Julia Child had written the introduction to the first edition of "The Joy of Sex," invented the modern ball gag, and was on the planning committee for the Folsom Street Fair.

    In short, Ms. Powell will never, EVER get out from under the giant shadow of Julia Child.
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    Image of Crackers in Bed Crackers in Bed
    12:45 PM

    @AndPreciousLittleofThat: no! the Folsom Street Fair???

    and how awesome is it that Julia Child loved Tu Lan? :)
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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    This is quite an interesting post to follow up the previous with...
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    Well, in her defense, anyone who is seriously studying cooking should learn basic butchery sooner or later (a young female relative of mine had to chop up a couple of more or less whole animals in her cooking course, at a very professional school). But I'm a little disappointed in Julie. I really don't give a rat's ass whatever she does in bed with whoever, but eeks a little sense of privacy? the blog and the first book had a nice funky charm (as an ex resident of Long Island City, I loved it) but now I think she's just stretching to fill pages.
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    You know, I didn't like her much in her first book, and I somehow suspect that this book isn't going to make me like her more.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    Instead, she felt unmoored and unhappy and entered into a torrid, bondage-tinged affair, which morphed into the world's most awful-sounding open marriage, which turned into obsession and depressing sex with strangers, which in turn made her become an apprentice butcher.

    Oh yes, I am intrigued.
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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    12/07/09

    @Penny: Me too. Sounded like a typical Saturday night until the last two words, but now I'm sold.
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    12/07/09

    @Penny: @MyNameIsChris: Didn't they do Sweeney Todd already though?
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    Image of JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing! JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    So I can dig up my old food journals and finally get a book deal? IN YOUR FACE! (Which might be the working title...)
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    Image of soykatrina soykatrina
    12/07/09

    @JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: ohhh I'd buy it. Especially if the cover were a picture of Marc Summer's throwing a pie IN YOUR FACE!
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    JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing! promoted this comment soykatrina was starred soykatrina was unstarred
    Image of soykatrina soykatrina
    12/07/09

    @soykatrina: Also, you would think since throwing a pie in someone's face was the point of Double Dare, it would be easy to find a picture of Marc Summer's throwing a pie, but alas, Double Dare is failing me today.
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    Memoirs, generally speaking, fall into two categories: "I can relate" and "I want to go on your adventure."

    You forgot the shockingly common, holy shit that is one fucked up existence I'd never wish on my worst enemy memoir.
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    Image of emfish55 emfish55
    12/07/09

    @Trulymadlyme: Very true. Which most commonly takes the form of the addiction memoir, but let's not overlook the "Look how my fucked up (and likely drug/alcohol/sex addicted) parents went crazy during my formative years" memoir.

    Of course, either of these could fall into "I can relate" or "I want to go on your adventure", depending on the reader. Just not for me.
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    Image of Crackers in Bed Crackers in Bed
    12:49 PM

    @Trulymadlyme: yes there is definitely 2 more categories for me: the "holy shit" version you mentioned, as well as the all-too-common "seriously you got paid for this mindless drivel?"
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    Image of BeckySharper BeckySharper
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    Ooh, I just bought this as an e-book, so between this and the NYTBR review this weekend, I'm really looking forward to reading it--in a voyeuristic, bloody-minded kind of way. Thanks, Sadie!
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12/07/09

    In reply to Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
    Yeah, good luck getting Amy Adams to sign on for that one.
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    Image of BeckySharper BeckySharper
    12/07/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: No shit. Although I suspect I'll like this book better in some ways, because you could tell in Julie & Julia that she was kind of a mess, but this promises to blow the lid off, which always makes for a better read than just being whiny and mopey.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    12/07/09

    @BeckySharper: Exactly, I couldn't even get through J&J.
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    Image of LoSpaz LoSpaz
    12/07/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: When "Julie and Julia" came out, Amy Adams was quoted in Allure (yes, I read it despite also reading the Jezebel Cover Lies that warned me not to) as saying "her" Julie Powell wouldn't have an affair. So, you might be right about that.

    I thought it was rather telling about the state of Hollywood that an actress had a particular perception of her character that was 180 degrees from how the character herself wrote about her own life in her own blog, but I digress.
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    Image of NeomaOrestes NeomaOrestes
    11/26/09

    In reply to 30% Less Meat Healthier For Hearts, Planet
    GAH, i'm so sick of hearing that if we stop eating meat the planet will be saved. how about start farming cows sustainably on a diet of grass rather than antibiotics and corn. just a thought.
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    11/26/09

    @NeomaOrestes: But then we can't all eat as much meat. No antibiotics means they can't be packed together, means less of them, means less meat. But really, how about instead of going vegan, fast food places stop selling triple-decker burgers?
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    Image of ZolaLola ZolaLola
    11/26/09

    In reply to 30% Less Meat Healthier For Hearts, Planet
    My only experience with Tofurky involved me scrubbing it off my friends kitchen walls. (It exploded, I didn't hurl it at the walls in carnivorous rage or anything!)

    Besides, Tofu Turducken is far superior. The name is funny AND technically, I saved 3 animals from my belly. Delicious, though they are.

    I should get bonus points for that, right?
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    11/26/09

    @ZolaLola: I like the fake version better (of your story, that is). 'I don't like this fake turkey crap, and her's what I'm going to do with it!' (Blam!)
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    Image of ZolaLola ZolaLola
    11/26/09

    @Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: HA! I probably would of, if I had the chance to eat it.

    The stuff took the paint off the walls. If that doesn't mean Tofurky was crafted by the hands of Satan, I don't know what does. I'll stick to plain O' tofu, thank you very much.

    Although, would Tofurky be considered an ORGANIC paint stripper?
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    11/27/09

    @ZolaLola: I made a Tofurkey last year and really, really wanted to love it.

    Nooooot so much.
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