March 2011
32 posts
Sad Math
New Order
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David Brent vanity video
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George Michael’s god-awful new video
“In sous-vide cooking, ingredients and flavorings are prepared and put in a plastic bag, from which all the air is subsequently extracted by suction. The food is then cooked in a circulating water bath at a highly precise temperature—and this precision is what chefs love. A sous-vide steak, for instance, is not cooked rare or medium rare; it is cooked to 126 or 131 degrees Fahrenheit, respectively. At these low temperatures, cooking times can be as long as seventy-two hours, and the results are often extraordinary.”
—John Lanchester: The mad genius of “Modernist Cuisine.”
“So far, at least two reviews of the new Destroyer album, “Kaputt,” have been accompanied by images of Bejar instead of Bejar.”
—Artist, who shares the musician’s full name, impersonates Destroyer lead singer as part of his art project ‘The Googleganger’
“I want the world we live in to include a comic book written by Alan Moore and drawn by Banksy.”
—A humble plea to Alan Moore and Banksy - Neven Mrgan’s tumbl
February 2011
10 posts
January 2011
25 posts
“Let me state that The Wire owes no apologies — at least not for its depiction of those portions of Baltimore where we set our story, for its address of economic and political priorities and urban poverty, for its discussion of the drug war and the damage done from that misguided prohibition, or for its attention to the cover-your-ass institutional dynamic that leads, say, big-city police commissioners to perceive a fictional narrative, rather than actual, complex urban problems as a cause for righteous concern…”
—http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2011/01/simon_responds_to_bealefelds_c.html
