new power finally turned on this week. one more well placed outlet in the kitchen would have been nice. but i "cooked" with two devices on simultaneously for the first time today at lunch and it felt like i was breaking the laws of physics. already invested in my first soon-to-be underutilized appliance. got it for about $200. so if anybody has smoothie recommendations.... if i ever actually make soup in it, it might be a harbinger of the endtimes.
Congratulations Michelle!
Nile Southern first proposed a collection of his father’s letters in 1989, but Terry, at sixty-eight, “was not particularly interested in resurrections of his work, or his life,” Nile recently wrote. Today, we are more than a decade into the revival Nile had originally envisioned under the code name “Resurrection . . . NOW!” A thinly sketched biography, Lee Hill’s A Grand Guy: The Art and Life of Terry Southern, arrived in 2001, followed by a collection of Southern’s miscellany, Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, in 2002. In 2004, Nile published his own book, The Candy Men, about the controversial publication and reception of Southern’s 1958 erotic novel Candy, and Gerber published a memoir of her partner in 2009, Trippin’ with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember. In late 2015, the small publishing house ANTIBOOKCLUB released what might amount to the last piece of the puzzle, Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern.
via J-L
It is with great sadness that Zaha Hadid Architects have confirmed that Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE died suddenly in Miami in the early hours of this morning. She had contracted bronchitis earlier this week and suffered a sudden heart attack while being treated in hospital.
the bar is raised, ryley!
The Enduring Mystery Of 'Jawn', Philadelphia's All-Purpose Noun.
RIP Mac Klein owner of Mac's Club Duce, Miami Beach
the older you get....
rest in peace
garry shandling, phife dawg & the white shadow.
Just to update you, we've done the whole Black Sails. Pretty good. And now we are almost caught up (currently mid season 3) with Vikings. Similarly good in the soft-porn super-violent period piece sort of way. What's next Dave?
Enjoying Broad City on Hulu premium. Comedy central series about two dopey, young women in Manhattan.
LOVE THIS GUY......Americano PDX
Anyone know anything about this Casanova vinegar? From Germany. Completely mind blowing. So so good. I could just drink it right from the bottle. I think no one is importing it to the US, but someone should. Looks like you can buy online here, and it appears you can ship to the US. I will try and report back.
From the still-interesting-after-all-these-years Joho the Blog:
Sitterwerk Art Library in St. Gallen, Switzerland, has 25,000 items on its shelves in no particular order.... That the shelves have no persistent order doesn’t mean they have no order. Rather, works are reshelved by users in the clusters the users have created for their research. All the items have RFID tags in them, and the shelves are automatically scanned so that the library can always tell users where items are located.
As a result, if you look up a particular item, you will see it surrounded by works that some other user thought were related to it in some way. This creates a richer browsing experience because it is shaped and reshaped by how its community of users sees the items’ inter-relationships.
The library has now installed Werkbank, which is a plain old table where you can spread out a pile of books and do your research. But, unlike truly plain old tables, this one combines RFID sensors and cameras with recognition software so it knows which works you’ve put on the table and how you’ve organized them. Werkbench notes those associations, and stores them, creating a rich network of related works.
It also lets the individual save a research set, and even compile a booklet documenting those items, with notes. It can be printed on the spot and taken home … or put into the shelves as a user-generated lib guide.
i'm saddened to find that pretty much every movie theater has repaced twizzlers with the inferior red vines. who eats red vines? they're gross and taste like playdough. don't be fooled!
greenberg reader
Up Against the Centerfold: What It Was Like to Report on Feminism for Playboy in 1969
LEO STEINBERG (1920-)
Excerpt from Other Criteria: The Flatbed Picture Plane
I borrow the term from the flatbed printing press—‘a horizontal bed on which a horizontal printing surface rests’ (Webster). And I propose to use the word to describe the characteristic picture plane of the 1960s—a pictorial surface whose angulation with respect to the human posture is the precondition of its changed content.
post edit: Link / its a pdf. figured he was (AW). i cant post a comment yet w new system. duh.
