January 2011
“Anthony Kiedis wanted to avoid “the anal retentive vibrations of the...”
– Basement tapes and cabin fever: 24 unconventional recording spaces |The A.V. Club
The Crisper Whisperer: Andrew Carmellini's... →
dang y’all.
Honey, I'm Not Going To Stand Here And Debate The... →
I have found my heart in an Onion article.
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WatchExcept for the way these two otherwise excellent-seeming gents make tuxes look stupid, there’s basically nothing to dislike about this.
“but you see here i go … now i’m starting to talk to the very bob...”
– A Word From Todd Snider: What Would You Say If You Met Bob Dylan? - New York Music - Sound of the City
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gordonshumway:
It’s finally time to wash your faded Murmur shirt, because we’re less than two months from a new R.E.M. album. From the clips I’ve heard so far, Collapse Into Now seems less aggressive than Accelerate1, less flaccid than Reveal and less overproduced and whiny than Around the Suck Sun. 2
Also at some point in the past two years, Michael Stipe completed his...
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Canned Tomatoes on NPR →
]]> Yo! Alex.
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“While we wait for a wise mixto-maker to use huckleberry jam, oatmeal stout, or...”
– Drinking the Bottom Shelf: What to Do With Cheap Tequila | Serious Eats
Listen to some good Yo! Miles while this guy points out the virtues of buying the cheap tiny grapefruits (they fit in your orange juicer, which means you can juice them—yeah, stick that in your hat and call it macaroni)...
18 Disturbing Things We Wouldn't Know Without... →
wilwheaton:
So far, WikiLeaks has released less than 3,000 cables from the 251,000-document cache, but already the media, politicians and the public are questioning the value of the leak. “It’s important,” Mitchell writes, “to review a small sample of what we have learned thanks to WikiLeaks since April and the release of the ‘Collateral Murder’ US helicopter video, which showed the killing...
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My Pink Half of The Drain Pipe
A New York Sour improved for the eccentrics:
1 part sugar
2 parts lemon juice
2 parts dry vermouth
4 parts cabernet sauvignon
6 parts bourbon
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“Also, I really think that shitting where you eat has gotten a bad rap. Pigs do...”
– Why Doesn’t My Boyfriend Get Boners When I Want Him To? Plus Anal Sex and Whining | The Hairpin
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The Microwave Makes Holiday Candy Making Easier -... →
The late holiday reblogs continue, but it’s kinda not the point, because I just found out about THIS PLACE: The Brooklyn Brainery.
Line break. Row of exclamation points. Point made? Okay.
Seriously, just knowing about a place like this, even far away from it as I am, is inspiring and exciting and wowing. In a way that I’ll be checking back in on the website regularly to find out...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
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CHOW Ginger Beer Recipe →
Started this tonight, along with some yogurt.
Regarding the recipe, RossGK commented, “[…]Trying to culture a random yeast bug out of the air seems crazy - we have a century or so of yeast husbandry that saves us the work. Use bread yeast, or even better get a good quality beer yeast and benefit from a few generations of work.”
Still, macrobiotics are fun, so if you have a...
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From AVClub's interview of William Gibson
almostbirds:
AVC: History deals partly with the Hounds, a clothing line that’s based on utility and authenticity. Do you think this speaks to a current need in our culture? WG: There’s something going on now—there’s a quest for the genuine. I find that really interesting. Marketing has pitched this genuineness for a very long time, and very, very seldom does it ever deliver. I find it...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-9) →
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The Only Good Christmas is a Dead Christmas →
But dead Christmas trees are good for a lot of things!
irreverend:
“Nature takes enormous time and effort to produce something that we use only briefly. Why don’t we make greater use of this living tree, as we make use of so many other kinds of plants on earth, by eating it?”
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The Giving Tree - NYTimes.com
Great idea to eat your Christmas tree, but the recipes in this story are unnecessarily...
Dinner Tonight →
Plus tomatoes and butternut squash subbed for potatoes.
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Producer Chris Zane on the Sick and Twisted... →
“While it might be frustrating how into their vintage shit they are, you end up walking away feeling like you just got schooled by your grandfather who showed you that with like a oil can and a wrench he can fix his ‘57 Chevy and it’s still going to outperform your 2009 Corolla.”
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