"Many point to the Momofuku classic "Shrimp and Grits" as the breakthrough dish - the precise moment where Chang, colliding Korean ethnicity, Franco-Japanese training, and Virginian roots, found the personal style for which he is now widely known and admired."
TheAwl.com put together a report on eleven Nickelodeon classics - who created them and what have they done since.
Taken from Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny (The Village Voice)."For more than 11 years, a New Jersey man named Jesus Leonardo earned an annual salary of about $45,000 by gathering up and cashing in horse-racing tickets that had been accidentally thrown away by the people who bought them. (Read more.) I suggest we make him your role model and patron saint for the coming weeks. Like him, you are in line to capitalize on discarded riches and unappreciated assets. Be on the lookout for the treasure hidden in the trash."
"The crew’s best pure rapper, Earl Sweatshirt, has been absent from public view for the last couple of months. The group won’t discuss his absence, though the most prominent rumor is that his mother, having heard his music, shipped him off to a restrictive boarding school."
"Earl's father, Keorapetse Kgositsile, is a celebrated South African poet."
"KOLKATA, India (AP) — A snarling leopard mauled 11 people in an Indian village and terrorized wildlife officials trying to drive it away before it was tranquilized and died of injuries from the fierce showdown."
Not actually based on the movie.
"Once the mind begins to focus on the depressing parallel, similarities seem to abound. You have in both cases a group of wealthy, unaccountably angry white men (owners, congressional Republicans) insisting that they are the real victims of the current recession facing off against a tall black guy (National Basketball Player’s Association head Billy Hunter, Obama). Women are largely absent from the negotiations on both fronts. And in both cases, the people looking for givebacks are oddly unwilling to admit their own role in creating the disaster."
“As both a collectible and competitive game, Magic: The Gathering has evolved its own primitive stock market,” says [Kelly] Reid.
"Magic cards fluctuate in value based on their use in tournaments played around the world. The game, created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and launched in 1993, now boasts 6 million players worldwide according to Wizards of the Coast, Magic’s Hasbro-backed publisher. The most valuable card, Black Lotus, is currently worth $840, up 16% since the start of 2010. The S&P 500, by contrast, is up 12% over the same time period."
"Some twelve years ago, Dave Eggers started a literary journal. It was called McSweeney's. It is now a literary empire... ...Their publications have won oodles of awards from AIGA and Print, amongst many others. Their work has appeared in the Pasadena Museum and in that one museum in Washington, D.C. called the Smithsonian."
Out of the 3 days, 45 acts and blazing hot humid summer weather the biggest takeaway memory of the Pitchfork Music Festival was Los Angeles hip-hop group OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All)."There were pieces of the Beastie Boys, MF Doom, the Sex Pistols and more in its act, and yet it felt like something new, in no one’s shadow." (the final sentence of Carmanica's Pitchfork Music Festival review)
I unfortunately, don't have an answer, but WSJ did a little piece on the more prevalent product placements in this summer's blockbusters.
The upcoming third album, Ritual Union, by Swedish band Little Dragon can be streamed for free on NPR.org.
Watch the Throne, the Kanye West and Jay-Z duet album, has a confirmed tracklist (below) and a supposed release date, August 2, 2011.
"Not sure about the name Rainbowmonkey, but the German artist created this series of "Islands," floating installation pieces that have tiny, intricate details that make each surface a time-consuming observing experience."
^ Above photo by Austin McManus for TheFlopBox“Why aren’t they doing these anymore? These are awesome.”
R.I.P. sign was added by children's book author/illustrator Dallas Austin in memory of Shel Silverstein.
"As for us? We might lose a season because of their obstinance, which means we'll miss out on Year 2 of "Yes We Did!", Boston's last run with Garnett, Pierce and Allen, Duncan's last decent Spurs season, Kobe's trying to stay on top (and doing anything to do so), Durant and Westbrook continuing their Stringer/Avon plot, another year of Blake dunks (counting his missed rookie season, that means we'd have gone 1-for-3 during this jumping-out-of-the-building apex), contract seasons from Howard/Paul/Williams, our last David Kahn season before he gets fired and becomes my BS Report co-host, our first full Carmelo/Amar'e season, a year of Jimmer, Tyreke, Salmons and DeMarcus impersonating a giant black hole in Sacramento, Dirk's defending his Mavs title, a year of Love/Rubio outlets and Wall/Vesely alley-oops, the remote possibility of LeBrondown III … I mean, have you really thought about what's at stake here?"
Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra (free mixtape)Did not like this movie, but did find this video interesting.
Reminds me of the accidental microphone/TV Star Wars lightsaber story.
Interesting profile of 6-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Champion Takeru Kobayashi by Deadspin.com."Today's MLE [Major League Eating] stars train hard for contests and consider themselves athletes.
This is intensely personal. It's primal. Most of the world snickers at these people. To Kobayashi, eating is life."
"New York becomes a gameboard.
The boroughs of New York City become the playing field for a giant game of digital Risk, World of Fourcraft, a game conceived during Game Hack Day NYC 2011, led by NY hacking collective NY Hacker and sponsored by Riot Games.
Fourcraft requires players to log in to the game site and swear their allegiance to a specific NY borough. From there, they check into Foursquare to conquer various neighborhoods."
