November 2009
22 posts
Breaking news for my mother.
[Los Angeles, CA - November 12, 2009 - Iconic musicians Carole King and James Taylor announced today that they will embark on a “Troubadour Reunion” world tour. The world tour will kick off in Melbourne, Australia on March 27 and will travel to New Zealand and Japan before coming to North America and Europe.The set list will include a breadth of material including songs they...
Judith Jones, Haggling Hero
“Once, years ago, I was in a supermarket, and they had only these giant heads of broccoli,” she said while standing in the produce department of the Whole Foods P Street. “I broke off one stalk and took it to the cashier, who told me I had to pay for the whole head. I was humiliated.”
No more. As she writes in her new book, “The Pleasures of Cooking for...
Matthew Weiner lays it out.
loszambos:
“Texaco used to pay for the Metropolitan Opera to exist. Armstrong Tile used to pay for Jacques Cousteau. Sponsorship. If American Express said that they wanted to take care of Mad Men, not put any ads in it, and say, “American Express presents Mad Men,” and even have Don Draper throw the card around once in a while, that incredible purple card, the one Eisenhower had — that is the...
My brain is a hodgepodge, musically, today. But...
WatchThe Atlantic’s “Farm to Table” series with Dan Barber. Love this, down to the elevator music. Last night I made this recipe for Dan Barber’s brussels sprouts with balsamic in a cast iron pan, and it is the best variation on that dish I’ve ever tried.
I'll Have 24 Tacos and the Filet Mignon →
This piece about what death row inmates can really choose for their last meal makes me think that author Christopher Beam has read a galley copy of Sam Lipsyte’s killer new novel, The Ask, which won’t be out until March but pretty much covers all of these quesitons and takes them to their strangest possible conclusions. In it, the protagonist pitches a reality show that is Top Chef...
“I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he...”
– Lucien Freud, to Michael Kimmelman, quoted in a smart essay by writer Samantha Peale, whose novel, The American Painter Emma Dial, I am reading now and thoroughly enjoying. Whew.
Wingman Violence
From today’s NYT:
There were two shooting incidents last night, one on Fulton Street in which two teenagers were shot, neither life threatening, and one incident on Flatbush and Fulton Street, also non-life-threatening. There was also a stabbing in the vicinity of the Atlantic Center Mall. All incidents, although not directly related, were the result of a promotion for all high school kids...
WatchGirlcrush o’ the day: Historical Gastronomist Sarah Lohman.
WatchYeah.
[So what’s driving sales of these garments? “It’s like this competitive thing we have with other women,” says Mary Pantier, a 40-year-old yoga instructor in Erie, Colo., who accidentally flashed her Spanx, worn under her workout ensemble, while in a downward-dog pose in class.]
Ms. Pantier’s husband, Hank, 35, doesn’t get it. “If you stuff five pounds...
WatchA new song from a new band. And on and on and on. But I do like this—it sounds like being young a long, but not too long time ago. So what I’m trying to say is, I get it.
meltzer:
Sometimes I like to fantasize that someone hires me to create Marisa magazine or, while we’re firmly in fantasy territory, Sassy 2.0 and I start putting together my dream team of writers and editors. (Does anyone else do this?) I think Joon would get the back page.
Um, I have that fantasy constantly. Also, if you ever start this—which you totally should, I would read the shit...
[Really, New York Times? A tossed-off remark about Jeff Dunham fans’ weight? This is seriously why middle America hates the New York Times, and why Rush Limbaugh and pals win. What a lazy, poorly thought out comment! Did all the editors get fired last week and this article just got rushed straight to print? No one thought “hey, let’s not call all of Jeff Dunham’s millions...
