January 2012
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October 2011
1 post
Things That Should Be Fictional But Are Actually...
1. ZAINESVILLE, Ohio — Law enforcement officials in Ohio on Wednesday said they believed they had captured all but three of the animals that escaped from an exotic animal preserve after the owner of the property released the animals before he fatally shot himself. 2. A USDA scientist has confirmed the identity of a strange grass-like sedge discovered in a Mississippi graveyard, and believes the...
September 2011
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Eating a Sandwich with the Earl of Sandwich at The...
Yes, the terms get a little confusing. Here’s a fairly in-depth thing I wrote for Bon Appetit:
The Original 1762 came wrapped in gold foil, a toasty rectangle of fresh bread, roast beef, cheddar cheese and horseradish sauce. And it was good. The Earl of Sandwich, a sandwich chain owned and run by John Montagu (the 11th Earl of Sandwich and a member of the House of Lords) and Robert...
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The New Inquiry: The Austerity Kitchen in Bon... →
thenewinquiry:
Austerity Kitchen’s Christine Baumgarthuber is interviewed for Bon Appétit:
The Internet is awash in food blogs, a lot of them pretty similar, but every once in a while something original, interesting, and relevant to our times pokes its head above the surf. The Austerity Kitchen is one…
Happy I got the chance to do a really interesting project a shred of e-justice.
August 2011
3 posts
Waltham: The City to Watch
The old folk’s home next door got torn down, and they’re building a 6-unit condo with an underground garage and a pool. Apparently my dad is trying his hand at sewing? Or maybe one of the boarders (for the curious art collector, I’m pretty sure I painted that sunflower, but not positive. Also, that’s my day-glo orange Russian paratrooper backpack on the floor!...
July 2011
6 posts
On the second day of marathon coffee shop blogging, I’m starting to notice other regulars:
-Outside with me, other men in varying lengths of short pants with macbooks and backpacks and hornrimmed glasses. Everyone has newer laptops than I do.
-A bearded black guy with a gym bag spent all day yesterday smoking spliffs out back. Today, he asked if I had a cigarette, and left after I...
Calling All Emersonians
For those hoping to become a transparent eye-ball, there’s finally a non-yuppy-in-the-woods model to follow—the sea urchin!
One of my grade school friend’s dads was a biologist (Boston biotech represent), and would let us play around in his lab. Besides the general memory of killing time in almost empty offices (a good 30% of my childhood), I remember:
Inflating rubber gloves by...
June 2011
10 posts
Reuters says that there are more than 2,000 companies registered to one address in Cheyenne, WY, “A Little Cayman Islands on the Great Plains.”
I can also attest from recent experience that there is a perfectly serviceable cajun-themed burger place in the boarded-up downtown that didn’t seem to mind when I had to yell at my littler brother for being cranky.
Cheyenne, city of...
Man robs bank of $1 to get health insurance in... →
motherjones:
America in a nutshell?
“You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black...”
– Republican New York State Senator Roy McDonald, explaining why he intends to break with most of his fellow Republicans and vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage in New York. (via officialssay)
“The victim asked, “Why are you carrying a weasel?” Police said the attacker...”
– Aaaand scene. (via motherjones)
Jeff Bridges pervades the culture #nicemarmot
May 2011
12 posts
“And that’s why you won’t be seeing another Roseanne anytime soon. Instead, all...”
– Rosanne Barr, daaaaaaaaaaaamn.
(via atencio)
Greatest Hits
Looks like the Indy somehow finally re-found its web archives! The formatting’s weird, but here are some old articles I wrote, if you’re interested in:
Conspiracy Theories
Do you feel like you’re under constant surveillance? Do you have unsettling encounters with strangers, co-workers, and street performers? Do you feel like Youtube memes, concert posters and even newspaper ...
Illth
dailywordboner:
illth (n.) a term and concept used by John Ruskin as the reverse of wealth in the sense of ‘well-being’. TheOxford English Dictionary recognises it as a valid word.
via!
Hugh Millais as Butler, from McCabe & Mrs. Miller
From his Wiki page:
“Millais was a noted raconteur who loved nothing more than to sit his six foot six frame on a high bar stool, pick up a guitar and sing Calypso songs.”
“There was the meal he made for Orson Welles after the actor-director had hired his house in Andalusia, Spain for a year while filming, then left him...
first draft
Tired of scaring children with the scorbutic pulp barely clinging to your gums? Does the smell of your yellowing “teeth” make janitors vomit their early-morning roast beef sandwiches into the street when you bike past their shithole apartments? Have you ever thought to yourself: I wish someone would just kick me in the goddamn mouth so I could get it over with and live a bedentured...
WatchSpring Song!
Chick Corea & Gary Burton—What Game Shall We Play Today?
April 2011
4 posts
“I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the...”
– A proclamation by Texas Governor Rick Perry asking Texans of all faiths to pray for rain in the state of Texas. According to the proclamation, the state “is in the midst of an exceptional drought.” (via officialssay)
Happy Birthday, Herbie
I just hope any new thing is ever as cool as synths were to you:
Bonus: Baby Tatyana Ali!
abulia
dailywordboner:
noun
an absence of willpower or an inability to act decisively, as a symptom of mental illness.
Winter
Nathaniel Dorsky screened four of his most recent 16mm silent films today.
After three whole layers of professorial introductions (it was playing at SVA, part of some thing about Kandinsky), the man himself took the podium, and charmed the pants off of everyone, talking shop about film stock and making jokes about film projection becoming a live performance, since all the machinery’s...
March 2011
14 posts
Old Boston, Uptown Birthers, Obama
I went up to Harlem yesterday to interview Mr. Maysles about his childhood as a Jew in Dorchester. The fact that there were any back in the day is probably surprising to non-Jewish Bostonians under 50 or so, or maybe just us coddled kids from the ring road region, less Bostonians than highway-eyed subjects of the Burger King.
The takeaway: to be a Jewish tween in Dot in the ’30s meant...
0s & 1s
“The story is simple. James Pongo is a young Angeleno with a boring job and a ?girlfriend (trying to get that orthography off the ground: meme it, readers!) who never calls him back. He goes to a townie party out in Torrance with his HS friends, gets blotto, and wakes up to groggily discover his computer bag has gone missing. Thus bereaved, he sets out to track down the thief using...
“YOU ARE MARKED TO BATTLE THE FORCES OF JUDGMENT”
Great New Yorker article on the Hollywood Aggro-Jungian therapists-to-the-stars:
“Michels taught him a tool called Cosmic Rage, which entailed his shouting “Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!” in his head to a roomful of faceless critics.” http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/21/110321fa_fact_goodyear?printable=true#ixzz1HGyrUL8S
John Doe's Dead
In the day since losing my wallet, I’ve made a point of carrying an old business card around with me, for some abstract ID purpose.
It’s strange to not have eight things with your name on them in your pocket at all times. I keep thinking of what would happen if I somehow died, in some disfiguring way. Would I go in an unmarked grave? Be a John Doe in some case file? Are either of...
cf. Harald Dahl
“In reality this beautiful utensil is unlike anything else on the market. And the proof is in the use. Incorporating critical modifications to the ages-old fork design, the KNORK enables a user to both cut and spear food using only one utensil - and one hand.”
Roald Dahl’s dad made a knork of his own after breaking his arm, if I remember my Boy correctly. Something like he...
Past Lives
Enough black pixels and golden fronds have probably been tumbl’d about this movie already, but it’s hard not to want to comment on Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
If I were pressed to give a __-meets__ description, I’d go with Lynch-meets-Ozu, for the lighting, and the wide seated shots, and the jumble that nature puts in the frame. Specifically, I’d call...
