Adam Kuban: Kublog

Abandoned Building, originally uploaded by Adam "Slice" Kuban I keep saying I should squat this building. It’s a few doors up from me and has been abandoned since I moved in 5 or so years ago.

Jumbo Hot Dogs, originally uploaded by Adam "Slice" Kuban I’ve never been here for a hot dog, but I think this is the famous dollar dog place. It was closing as we passed. Like many of the really cheap Asian food places, it’s a hybrid space, here a pawn broker and hot dog shop. (There’s [...]

These are my links for Thursday, January 22, 2009 through Sunday, January 25, 2009:

• Wise words from Jeff Jarvis
  "When this thing is built – not a product, not a company, but perhaps a network or a looser ecosystem – it will work only when and if the community owns it. That’s why this news exec must help them build it. If he expects them to help him build his thing, they won’t – they’re building their own thing instead."
• News Organizations Spar with Obama Administration Over Access
  You know, I'm all for the press having access, and of course it's necessary to a functioning democracy, but please, you fucktard journalists, where was this concern and adversarial stance while W. was in office? Quit trying to make up for your complete and total failure as watchdogs for the last eight years. Can we say "overcompensation"?
• Response to SE Thread ‘Can We Retire the Word ‘Toothsome’ Already?’
  "I'm tired of people complaining about words because they're not used all the time in what they experience as normal, everyday conversation. One on the one hand people complain about the "dumbing down" of the Food Network and of cooking magazines and the like; but, on the other hand people complain about words used in restaurant reviews or to describe food because they're…what? Pretentious because they're accurate? Toothsome has a specific definition as do unctuous and cloying."

Ramen for Dinner, originally uploaded by Adam "Slice" Kuban I needed a quick dinner and didn’t have anything in the house. So on my way back from an errand, I stopped at the grocery store (Associated on Union and Fifth Avenue) to grab some ramen and some vegetables to mix in. It’s a true sign [...]

‘Eat My Meat’, originally uploaded by Adam "Slice" Kuban Nick "Beef Aficionado" Solares arrived at the Serious Eats happy hour wearing this shirt. As a meat writer and AHT reviewer, it’s completely appropriate.

DeliveragePizza blogger Crash Dazzlin "resides in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a pizza delivery driver." Pizza Delivery StoriesSelf-described: "True stories from a part-time pizza delivery driver." sexandpizza.wordpress.comThe actual title of this pizza blog seems to be "Diary of a single, almost 30 year-old, queer, college graduated, pizza delivery girl and phone sex operator," but [...]

Aftermath: Tears (and Snot) of Joy, originally uploaded by Adam "Slice" Kuban Worked from home to watch the Inauguration on TV. Obama’s rhetoric was perhaps not as soaring as expected, but the mere fact that we have a leader in office who actually seems to be listening to the people and whose version of reality [...]

If you’re a speculative-fiction fan and aren’t plugged in to Escape Pod, shame on you. There’s a great series of stories you’re missing by Jeffrey R. DeRego. DeRego’s Union Dues series is sort of the Revisionist Western of the superhero world, imagining all the mundane details of superhero recruitment, training, and PR spin that go [...]

Snowy Night, originally uploaded by Adam "Slice" Kuban Tried to shoot a photo of the show-sweeper machine that was brushing off the sidewalk. Fail. (It’s behind the subway staircase.) I’m not super happy with this one as my representative for January 19, but it’s not as bad as a lame self-portrait. Plus, it sums up [...]

‘Do Newsmags Still Matter?’"The magazines are facing the same problems as every other part of the news business: declining revenues, shrinking audiences and a speeded-up digital culture that makes them seem slow. Newspapers scramble to catch up with bloggers; magazines lag behind newspapers; network broadcasts are hours behind the cable news channels. The idea of [...]