Wow. Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema takes blogger and Time magazine food writer Josh Ozersky to task over a column Ozersky wrote in Time ostensibly giving people advice on how to really cater a wedding. In short Ozersky says don’t hire a caterer but instead grab local chefs to do the cooking. Here’s Sietsema: [...]
I remember thinking how cool and “European” this video was. Mostly because it looked like something a repressed German would have made. Oh, and I LOVED the Isetta in the video.
While browsing Wikipedia yesterday after getting hit by a Bones Brigade flashback, I began to see a pattern in which many ’80s skateboard luminaries had converted or gone back to Christianity. I suppose Christian Hosoi was either fated to accept Jesus as his lord and savior or just become a batshit-crazy Satan worshipper. Steve Caballero [...]
From McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the [...]
This video uses Sims to act out the story in Kenny Rogers’ “Coward of the County.” At about 1:43 in, when Tommy’s love, Becky, is introduced, things get a little creepy. She basically looks like Tommy but with longer hair — and bad teeth. This video is really strange.
The Space Between: Arch, originally uploaded by Adam Kuban. Took this Monday night while walking home along 33rd Street in Astoria from El Mariachi Mexican restaurant. I enjoy walking around Astoria. It’s probably due to the novelty of it all — I was thoroughly familiar with Park Slope after having lived there for eight years. [...]
Locals and Tourists #2 (GTWA #1): New York, originally uploaded by Eric Fischer. Heat map of Flickr photo volume around NYC. Red is tourist-generated, blue is locals, yellow might be from either. [via City Room]
A) Haddaway, the original “What Is Love?” artist, actually has a pretty fascinating bio. B) Diane Birch, who’s covering the song above, also has an interesting bio.
The Girl Who Ate Everything: Back from Honolulu"My ol' Canon 20D died. Out of nowhere, the shutter went berserk, which doesn't seem to be an uncommon problem, although one that costs a few hundred dollars to repair. While I was looking to buy a less expensive camera, I ended up getting a new Canon 7D [...]
I’m writing this from the cabin of a JetBlue plane somewhere over the Atlantic. I just looked out the window and saw the engine read “www.jetblue.com.” Now why would they advertise their URL to people already on board, I thought. But, aha! … It’s there for all the people who like to take photos out [...]