I don’t have internet in my house and so I’m working at this lovely bakery for the day. Unfortunately, the couple next to me is talking about how date rape “isn’t a real thing” and that the current situation in Gaza could be neutralized with by flying in some bacon. Imagine I typed this very, very loudly.
- “Hacks” are smug, but I tried a couple of these productivity ones this week and they were kinda great. Have you done these?
- What is the difference between gelato and ice cream? The definitive answer, via Max Falkowitz.
- Everyone thinks the Victorians were so buttoned up, but lo and behold: THE CANNIBAL CLUB.
- In the last year or so, I’ve gotten TONS of listings for Alibaba.com products, and I didn’t really know what it was. Now I do, and you can too!
- Faulkner v. Hemingway: A Grudge for the Ages
- A guide to sampling in music through the ages.
- Just when you thought the GOP couldn’t get any crazier, here’s someone who claims his primary opponent can’t serve because uh, he has been replaced by a body double.
- Oh, law, I hope to grow into someone this colorful, zany, appealing, and opinionated about shellfish serving.
- I had forgotten about Phineas Gage, and his story never gets old. A fresh treatment from Slate.
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Tagged alibaba, faulkner, GOP, hacks, ice cream, lazy sunday, links, max falkowitz, music, phineas gage, productivity, serious eats, smithsonian, wsj
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.
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Tagged andrew bird, art, e.b. white, ed hardy, food, language, lazy sunday, links, marvin gaye, miley cyrus, strippers, wine
Here are some things to read so that you’ll have something insightful and meaningful to take to brunch.
- Girls who park in cars with boys aren’t really popular.
- Turns out, you probably do know how to make meth after watching all that Breaking Bad. They have a real-life consulting organic chemist for that ish.
- Here’s how to open a champagne bottle with a sword, you know, for the next time you need a mimosa while astride a horse.
- The real question this article posits is “how would YOU better squander $100 million?”
- Maybe you were wondering about Filipino seamen’s junk. Wonder no more. I can’t believe this is still a practice, in this, the 21st century.
- Stop eating food.
- This is seriously a business model I have considered and I’m so upset someone beat me to it.
- Last week, I realized that some people probably confuse my enthusiasm for Southern culture for some kind of pathetic neo-Confederate sympathy, and that made me really sad. Turns out I’m not the only person who feels like that.
- Alternate title: Some good tips for flying and several ways to be a complete and utter jerk (you are not very important, okay?).
- I do love a good story of successful social climbing.
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Tagged airports, breaking bad, cults, lazy sunday, links, meth, rich kids, seamen, sushi, the mile high club, video, wine
My babely friend Mel is visiting (a post on our kitchen adventures later!), so y’all can read while we’re out frolicking in the ocean.
- We should just have believed Liberace, since that’s what he wanted.
- Can you even imagine how unbearable each and every patron of this nightclub must be?
- If you’re feeling anxious about the PRISM stuff, here’s a guide to the internet sans tapped companies (yay for WordPress!).
- I no longer need this guide (hooray!), but I have some recently-graduated friends who may. Be productive! Don’t waste this time! Don’t ever say “funemployment” to me ever!
- Well, that’s one way to get attention for your new creative venture.
- America’s unregulated ghost tour market is something I grapple with nearly every day at work. I wish this were a joke.
- A liberal at Fox News.
- A roundup of anecdotes about summer jobs of the famouses.
- The case for being allowed to age out of being cool, as made by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Being polite is the death of art.
Well, friends, I got you these. Enjoy a quiet day.
- I don’t know that I would call them the “first couple of American letters,” but I really like this profile.
- Leading men age, but leading ladies don’t. Unless they win an Oscar. Then they age a little.
- Did you see Waitress? I loved it. I love this blog, too!
- As I embark on this new job, I plan to escape the cult of busy, as they say. Newsflash: I’m not important.
- Oh, my god, do I ever love Stevie. Never change, you doll.
- My internet friend, Snowden, wrote this about Barry Hannah, a Mississippian and great writer that I think of often and hope is resting well.
- For when you get your windfall inheritance and need to establish an offshore tax haven.
- They changed the pimento cheese at the Masters’ and people were really bad, but no worries: Wright Thompson is ON IT.
- E. L. Konigsburg was one of my favorite writers as a little girl, and she passed this week. I loved this piece about the Met, imagination, and her.
- Soy Bomb strikes again.
- To quote Mara Wilson, this is like the Social Network for NPR.
- Where can you pick an apple for free and eat it? This map tells you.
I got a surprise visit this week, so I’ll be having a very quiet Sunday here at home. Enjoy these links to see you through the day!
- I consider myself an adventurous eater, but I am still not recovered from the cicada summer of 2004, so this is not something I want to do.
- How do we feel about this? Because maybe I want to sign up.
- When I was a kid, someone asked my cousin what she wanted to be when she grew up and she answered, “a mermaid.” I will be forwarding this to her.
- A Barry Hannah reprint. He was a legend and a gentleman- irreplaceable.
- I would like to point to this when people say there’s no room for feminism anymore. And this is just publishing!
- This is riveting.
- Unemployment! Wine! Lotto! Art! This story has it all.
- When the new Gatsby got pushed back, it basically ruined Christmas. Also, I’ve been pregaming since October.
- Help the elderly learn about pop culture!
- SPIES.
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Tagged afterlife, barry hannah, cicadas, cocktails, feminism, google, instagram, journalism, lgbt, liberty u, links, mermaids, the great gatsby, the lottery, the nation, the oxford american, unemployment
As always, here are some things to think about before going back to work tomorrow.
- Zach Maher tells us a little bit about restaurant critics of yore
- On New New Atheism.
- Is baseball the best American sport? More importantly, will this be the summer I decide to like baseball?
- My friend’s little brother was on Kimmel! I think he made it, right?
- Leslie Jamison has this outstanding piece over at the Oxford American about…West Virginia and tax fraud and ultramarathoning and jail and…just read it.
- The April Fools Jokes that weren’t.
- Most movies aren’t shot in anything resembling chronological order, but here are some that were, and why.
- Fancy basketball player outfits.
- Why do we clap?
- My girlcrush, Rose Surnow, writes about Erika Christensen, my brand new girlcrush in NY Mag.
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Tagged applause, atheism, basketball, deerhunter, film, friends, links, matchamkers, religion, restaurant critics, rose surnow, west virginia
