June 2009
54 posts
Grant Achatz Meets David Fincher →
The people described in this article - storming out of the restaurant, crying, tearing into the staff - are caricatures of themselves. They went to the best restaurant in the country to feel “special,” and not actually to eat the food. Simply responding in such a fashion way deems them unworthy of special treatment.
“When you’re not told your being taped, you don’t know what’s...”
– Ilana Nunn, spokeswoman for Brandon Jennings’ agency addressing a leaked phone coversation in which Jennings talks smack about a million people, including some of his teammates.
A Two Goal Lead After 26 Minutes
Unreal.
Update: Well, that sucked.
Things You Will Not See On The Appalachian Trail
1. Bigfoot
2. Governor Mark Sanford
Another Reason To Go To Austrailia →
“MICHAEL JACKSON the first 2 english words i eva spoke . the future sucx!”
– M.I.A. on the death of MJ
From The Wiki Entry On S'mores
An alternative method for preparing the s’more is by heating the entire object in the microwave. Advantages of this method include the speed, relative ease of preparation, and the increased amount of melted chocolate. This method softens the graham cracker, which is distasteful to some. This method often removes the social element of preparation, which shies some away from them.
Fan Letters
dear sequentialist. please write about this on your website. i want to be famus. also, please quote this request, because I told my girlfriend I would write this to you, and you might put my photographs on the internet. i have also taken pictures of wild elk riding in a jeep. into town. http://cliftonchadwick.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/crow-eagle_1416847i.jpg everyone here thinks your...
I Got Weirdly Sad
watching a video of MJ dancing around on some riduclous stage during a performance in Europe while tons of white people freaked out. MJ’s dead. Crazy.
The only memories of music I have from being really young, about 5 or 6, are random Indian songs and MJ’s stuff - especially, the video for Smooth Criminal. I still try to do the lean sometimes.
“Jones: “For the fans that haven’t seen you play, which NBA player do...”
– Rocky Rubio on himself during a post-draft interview on ESPN
My Cousin Darwish Reviews Transformers 2!
azizisbored:
My cousin Darwish saw Transformers 2, I IM’d him for his thoughts:
Aziz: how was transformers dar? Dar: omg Dar: its really good Aziz: really? Dar: yeah, idk y reviews arent good Aziz: what’s so good about it? Dar: shia labeouf just doing his thing Aziz: what’d you think about the little racist black transformer twins? Dar: o those guys were hilarious Aziz: it didn’t seem racist?...
deepalc:
The thing about traveling with people is that you don’t really know anything about them and they tend to try to define themselves through their thoughts on the country they’re traveling through. This is unfortunate.
I Asked My Sister What She Was Going To Do This...
She told me she signed up for Netflix. Looks like she is taking after me.
More Than A Game
Saw it today and it was pretty sweet. Unfortunately, I missed the first showing opening night when LeBron and the rest of the guys showed up for a Q&A. I’m told the crowd lost it.
One thing impressed upon me by the film was LeBron’s commitment to his friends and Ohio. While every sequence that examined the background of the five friends/teammates was impressive, obviously the...
“what’s gonna happen now? :-|”
– tweet from Iran after Khamenei’s speech.
azizisbored:
Clipse - Virginia (Lost Woods)
As...
“Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when...”
– Rep. Pete Hoekstra
Sux, Or J. Hoberman on "Whatever Works" →
Nothing as sad as a blown opportunity.
Andrew O’Hehir interviews Robert Kenner...
“This issue is not about cheating (election) anymore. This is not about stealing...”
– a female medical student in Iran
“O yea congrats to sun yue, nee how”
– Shaq via THE_REAL_SHAQ (THE_REAL_SHAQ) on Twitter (via smalter)
10 year reunion
Auditorium
I speak it so clearly
sometime you don’t hear me
Terms for Groups of Animals, Birds and Insects →
(via youngna)
What Is A "Sequentialist"?
Thomas Crothers says:
Sequentialists believe that by first developing the rule of law, traditionally authoritarian societies will create the necessary mechanisms and habits of control and restraint to ensure that potentially chaotic or unpredictable processes of mass political participation do not get out of hand.
That isn’t what this sequentialist is. And this isn’t it either.
When We Were Kings
The idea that the Lakers are now “automatics,” working the other team over through transcendent teamwork - an ability to simply look at the defense, make sense of the disorder (“read” it), and chose the right option at any given moment - is pretty sweet.
That would be what Winter called “the automatics,” a state where the coaches didn’t have to call plays because the...
Dharma Bums
smalter:
re http://smalter.org/post/118809192/does-the-special-relationship-a-mother-has-with
I asked my dad, “Do you ever wonder if I’m your kid?”
He laughed, and said, “No.”
I asked, “What about when I do stuff that’s really annoying?” (As I’d done that day.)
Another smirk from my dad. And he said, “That’s karma.”
It’s all dharma.
WatchThis is a joke, yes, but Judah looks like he’s decent.
On Flashbacks and Montages
The nearly silent, budding-relationship-to-marriage-montage in “Up” is that movie’s equivalent of Anton Ego’s ratatouille-induced moment of nostaligia in “Ratatouille”; which is to say, it’s really damn awesome.
The former backing band for Air as the French...
Taipei Times - archives →
smalter:
Chung made a living by growing tea and fruit in the mountains. Recalling that he was stung by an entire nest of paper wasps more than a decade ago, he said with his heart still fluttering with fear that he was patching a leak in the water pipes across a river valley that day and disturbed a paper wasp nest by accident. He said that his head and legs were stung by more than 300 furious...
Celebrations
mankad:
Dancing is the easiest path to intergration in Moroccan culture. More specifically, attending a wedding will have people calling your name you have never seen before. There were definitely some awkward moments, probably self-created, but I did enjoy myself during the festivities. Things again are not much different from the weddings I have attended before except the gender separation,...
We All Scream For... →
The key bit:
“There’s no question people are eating more,” Mr. Becker said as he darted around his shop in a blue pinstripe suit, a navy baseball cap and flip-flops. “This is an affordable comfort food. What kind of a life is it if you’re not eating something good?”
It is a sentiment shared by Melissa Lowinger, 20, a senior at Yeshiva University who visits the shop weekly with her grandparents...
“Too many craft brewers never get beyond the experimental stage—they learn...”
– The Atlantic’s Food Blog on Duck Rabbit Brewery. Their milk stout is one of the most delicious brews I’ve had in a long time. Plus, founder Paul Phillipon named the brewery after a famous picture in “Philosophical Investigations,” so he gets bonus points.
I believe this is...
Dr. Doom Loves To Party →
A profile of Nouriel Roubini linked to above the picture. For another shot click the picture itself.
I racked my brain, aka the Internet, to find this...
“Five Guys was good, this was better.”
– Barack Obama, upon touring the pyramids at Giza.
Vijay would be proud.
WatchFinally caught a Grizzly Bear show. I’d missed seeing them on two ocassions. Once was when they were opening for TV on the Radio at the 9:30 Club, only their tour bus brokedown in Baltimore and they never got to DC. The second time was when Janet, my sister, and I left extremely late to see Radiohead (for whom they were opening) in Philly because we tried to wait for my brother to get home...
New Takes On Old Photos Continue To Roll In Today →
Some previously unreleased color photos of Hitler.
These photos remind me of when Walter and I went to see Downfall. I believe at the time we were both sufficiently flummoxed by the movie (and the lunatic things it depicted) to describe it simply as “insane.”
A New Perspective On One Of Last Century's Most... →
While the original image of the “tank man” might be described as an icon (a representation with purely symbolic and decontextualized meaning), this photograph makes clearer (for a number of reasons that include all the other people in the photo running away and the eye-level perspective) that this was a regular dude carrying his groceries home, but then decided to do something...
“I have [Kobe shoes] at my house, but I’m going to play with Michael Jordan...”
– Mikael Pietrus on his apparel change now that he’ll be up against Kobe.
Unripe? Says, who? →
I’ve often eaten “unripe” fruit and enjoyed it. In India (and so, also at home), we nearly always have a pickle made of green, unripened mangoes. As the article suggests, the variety of mango that is eaten green is one that would not be eaten when mature.