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Lazy Sunday, 1 December 2013

I’m still nursing a tryptophan hangover, so you’ll have to fend for yourselves.

  • URGENT MATTER OF NATIONAL IMPORT: Watch this before it goes away because of copyrighty nonsense and ruins all my fun.
  • Actually, Thanksgiving food does taste better, according to Science.
  • I knew someone in college who was really, really into lucid dreaming and he was always pressing books on me and trying to talk quietly to me until I fell asleep/was asleep and explaining how to take control of my astral plains or whatever and maybe he was on to something.
  • Lettering does not equal type, and here are the distinctions. (This is very interesting, contrary to the way I set it up.)
  • I was completely and utterly hooked after the first line of this excellent article about the international art dealing community.
  • Albert Camus killed JFK.
  • Almost everyone my age who is interested in food credits Alton Brown of Good Eats with feeding that kernel of curiosity in the late 90s/early 00s. He didn’t have the stupid construct that I was following along (wasn’t allowed to use stove) or that I could buy expensive ingredients (couldn’t earn money because childhood), and instead focused on teaching you how things worked, and this is what made him so great.
  • Paul Walker died last night, and this is a mediation on fame, masculine beauty in the extreme, and dying young. If you were born between 1985-1992 and you say that Paul Walker + Usher were not completely formative in your understanding of your own sexuality, you’re a liar and I want you to stop reading Chronderlust.
  • Quick reminder: The internet is not anonymous and you are not so smart, even you, Miss OBGYN Smartypants/Drug Dealer.
  • I can’t bring myself to click this, since I’m already afraid of EVERYTHING, but maybe you will want to. Even the lead up is creepy. I need to lie down.

Lazy Sunday: 1 September 2013

You know what the best part of a three-day weekend is? A four day work week comes along with that. Enjoy your day.

  • I could lose hours looking at this scientific flavor map.
  • Andrew Bird talks about the puzzle of writing a love song in the New York Times!
  • Consider the abandoned art museum.
  • Buying wine based on the (back) label.
  • A modern dictionary of linguistic signifiers, modeled on Flaubert’s (I swear, this is actually funny).
  • E.B. White and James Thurber: hilarious, a little smutty, and complete with line drawings.
  • This will probably disappear from the internet very shortly, so watch it ASAP.
  • I did not know that Ed Hardy is a serious and academic artist, and I am sad about how sad he is about his big mistake.
  • I could not be more bored with the Miley Cyrus “controversy” but I don’t want to be like “meanwhile, in Syria” or “Trayvon Martin” about it, so here are some actual strippers critiquing her VMA performance.
  • Ladies and gentlemen, the only Marvin Gaye-related thing you will ever, ever want to hear ever again.

7,000 Chinese Restaurants, No Chopsticks

Check out this great story of a Chinese-American attorney who has gone to nearly 7,000 Asian restaurants across the country and documented his culinary adventures at each. He STILL can’t use chopsticks.

Avocados: Fruits of the Gods

My friends Erin and Michael posted photos on Instagram of this bizarre avocado and broiled egg thingamabob the other day, and I decided I would try and make it for myself.

All things I like. No things I don't like.

All things I like. No things I don’t like.

I must admit, I’m pretty impressed with myself. This was easy and comprised mainly of things you probably already have. Recipe after the jump!

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The Land of Milk* and Honey

Have you read Steven Marche’s excellent article about Manna in this month’s Esquire? I won’t give anything away, but mind that asterisk and PLEASE take a few minutes to enjoy this.

Inconvenience, Thy Name is…

Finally, someone fesses up to being the person not putting enough money into the group check. An idea? Go to less expensive restaurants. Another idea? Take turns paying the whole check and don’t make your waitress hate you.

Getting Out: Cincinnati

Despite the fact that Kentucky is the South and Ohio is the Midwest, we share a lot of border. I’m talking a lot. Cincinnati is only about ninety minutes away from Louisville, so I go there sometimes, just for kicks.

I am usually morally opposed to going to Ohio, because what do they have that I don’t, other than IKEA and some pro sports teams? Admittedly, those are some pretty big things to not have, but I also discovered they have some OTHER stuff that I like/want.

There is some amazing art deco architecture and the like, some beautiful museums, great food, and all kinds of stuff like that. All in all, it wasn’t at all what I was expecting from the third largest city in Ohio. A lot of people gave me amazing suggestions, and I followed them accordingly.

The Delta Queen steamboat, and a view of the city at night.

The Delta Queen steamboat, and a view of the city at night.

Don’t take my word for it. Photos and a city guide after the jump. Continue reading