November 2011
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“Live standup, since it’s a gratuitous hijacking of people’s attention, always...”
– Standup Comity - The Morning News
Funny, when I’m enduring a bad comic’s set, the darkness makes me feel as if my whispered conversation over the set is quieter. A good read on standup from a comic’s perspective as he watched and performed at a comedy competition at a scholarly...
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“Across the room, Pepsico representatives blended fine dining and American...”
– In Napa Valley, Worlds of Flavor Conference Points to Future - NYTimes.com
Stop, you guys. Seriously. Stop it. The pig is tired of wearing lipstick and mash-ups are only awesome when the parts click together.
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“Florida prisons serve meals with 50 percent soy and 50 percent poultry three...”
– Soy Diet Is Cruel and Unusual, Florida Inmate Claims - NYTimes.com
Soylent Green, it’s being served in Florida already! Why not have vegetable gardens and chicken coops in prison yards and have the prisoners grow their own food? Maybe prisoners can pay their so-called debt to society by...
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“I nibbled on some raw cacao beans. There was a hint of greatness in them, but...”
– In Search of Bolivian Dark Chocolate | Bolivia | OutsideOnline.com
Spectacular modern-day Heart of Darkness tale about the procurement of wild cacao beans to be made into gourmet chocolate that sells at $60/lb. The concept of fair trade is the new colonialism. Beer and wild cacao are the currency...
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“Not the classic old axes of rich and peasant, nor the more modern bourgeois ones...”
– Try this at home | Prospect Magazine
Adam Gopnik’s super beautifully-written review of the new Ferran Adria cookbook of restaurant family meals. There are so many awesome tidbits, like Alice Waters metaphorically shooting scorpions out of eyes for Adria saying he uses regular (processed)...
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“The company’s research has shown the stomach to be the most respectful part of a...”
– What Women Want: Porn and the Frontier of Female Sexuality - Culture - GOOD
R-E-S-P-E-C-T means no frosted cupcakes.
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“At the U.N., he wrote, on a blank piece of paper, so that the TV cameras could...”
– Muammar Qaddafi’s Death and Legacy : The New Yorker
Is there ever a boring dictator? The Qaddafi feature in the New Yorker is a one-stop shopping read for the Libyan dictator’s eccentricities, his rise, his fall, and his final minutes.
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“Also, since I wrote it, I can also be the person who can be the most...”
– Interview / Salman Rushdie is not afraid - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Sometimes, a writer must disrespect the text in order to respect the story.
A lengthy interview with Salman Rushdie. There was a bit of a Twitter fatwa on Rushdie because he mentioned in this interview that he...
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“Perhaps some of us misremember the past. But the racial, religious, cultural,...”
– Twelve Pretty Racist Or Just Crazy Quotes From Pat Buchanan’s New Book | TPMMuckraker
A bunch of nutbag shit Pat Buchanan said. America, whattacountry! These words got written, edited, printed, published and are being sold. Sold! People would buy to read this! My mind is baffled at how well...
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“REED: When you’re playing a place like that, what are you going to do? There are...”
– Q. and A. With Lou Reed and Metallica’s James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich - NYTimes.com
Lou Reed is an awesome ornery small gig guy. Also, no matter how hip the NY Times reporter, he/she refers to a rock show as “concert.”
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'Princess Bride': An Oral History | Inside Movies... →
So worth reading before your next re-watch of Princess Bride. Mostly heartwarming stuff, with a glimpse of Andre the Giant as a tragic figure.
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“Since yoga was once primarily the domain of men, we believe the way to lure men...”
– Not Your Girlfriend’s Yoga | Yoga Buzz | Yoga Blog | Yoga Journal
A men-only yoga conference with promotional material that asks, “What if you could be more virile than Hugh Hefner, more motivated than Tony Robbins, calmer than Buddha and cooler than James Bond?” This just seems...
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WatchA delightful stop-motion animation short film by Spike Jonze. Everything is made of felt! Plus, it gets naughty over the credits! Watch watch watch!
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“The sandwich that another person prepares is not “preconsumed” in...”
– The Food & Drink Issue - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
The Times explains, citing a Carnegie Mellon study, why sandwiches made by another individual tends to taste better.
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“As millions watched on television, Nosrati appeared to be trying to push his...”
– Iranian soccer players could face lashing after victory groping - The Washington Post
Click through for the video of the grope. It does look a bit WTF because he goes for the crack, but not worth corporal punishment whatsoever.
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“Of Salman Rushdie, who once gave him a terrible review in the New York Times, he...”
– Maurice Sendak: ‘I refuse to lie to children’ | Books | The Guardian
Maurice Sendak, so gangsta.
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