Procrastination Cooking: Homemade Bagels

Some take theirs plain, toasted, with butter and salt. Others, everything, cream cheese on the side. Lox and tomato, for the classicists; cinnamon raisin, for the sweet-toothed. Peanut buttered. Chocolate chipped. Scallion cream cheesed. Blueberry jammed. Scooped out, toasted, schmeared with the works, or unadorned, uncut, and later, with bite marks.

Me? Oh, don’t sweat it. I’ll take mine homemade.

While some bakers delight in the delicate crumb of the perfect cookie, bask in the beauty of a three-tiered cake, I grin in the glory of a perfectly formed loaf. I’m taken with tackiness. I’m excited by elasticity.

I’ve got …

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Fun Drinking Game Round-Up

If you’re in college, even if you’re a freshman, by now you must know about, have participated in, or wish you hadn’t participated in at least one drinking game. There’s the classic “truth or drink” variation on truth or dare; “King’s Cup”; “Flip Cup”; “Beer Pong”; and countless others that involve pitchers, cards, or ping pong balls. Here a few games you may not have tried.

**Drinking Games for the Bar**

Sure, for the most part you go out in order to meet people or explore new places, but sometimes things can get boring out there, so here are a …

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