"Joe Klein goes out of his way to slime bloggers. Isn't Andrew Sullivan his colleague now?

Klein: Well I bow to nobody in, in my disdain for bloggers. They're all opinions and very little information."

readthebill.org

Ideas In Food: Improvisation and experimentation in the kitchen by Chefs Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

a woman on a jeopardy rerun on gsn just admitted that she has purloined all the toilet paper she has used for the preceding 8 years, not from stores, just from publically available resources.

i dont have much faith in someone like kerry when he decides to get netrootsy but whatever it takes to animate him should be viewed as a good thing. that said, he had his chance to speak out forcefully, and he, by all measures, didnt. id call that a slow learning curve.

barrett jackson classic and muscle car auction on speed network - gearing up for big day on saturday starting at 2 pm

"Considered the ultimate collector car auction and exposition, this festive five day extravaganza offers more than 1000 of the world's finest classic and collector vehicles, and provides world-class, non-stop entertainment. Visual feast include spectacular displays of classic, muscle, sports, and futuristic automobiles, designer fashion shows, and auto memorabilia."

jim, youre in luck. state fair is on fox movie channel at 6am. better set your alarm. hows that for coincidence?

beatles on video

old joy

ever the asshole...

The first thing Lou Reed does when he walks into the Steven Kasher gallery, which will open one-half of his first major New York photography exhibit, "Lou Reed: New York," on Friday, is make fun of my name (too punny). The second thing he does is make fun of my tape recorder (too low-tech). Then, after he scolds the genial gallery owner about the font of some signage that displeases him, he settles in across a table from me, arms arranged protectively before him, fixes me with that cold stare that's oft been called reptilian and takes my questions.

Well, he doesn't exactly take my questions, but he does talk to me, and over the course of the next 45 minutes -- longer, much to the surprise and confusion of the trio of press handlers eavesdropping on our conversation from behind a half-wall, than our scheduled time -- the rock icon reveals himself to be a man of opposites, as high-contrast as the Warhol-era photography that first seriously inspired him to pick up a camera nearly three decades ago.

Beastie Boys new concert film at Sundance: Awesome! I fuckin' shot that!:

But as the Beastie Boys set out to commemorate a concert at Madison Square Garden, the hip-hop group had a different idea. Why not smash the model?

They decided to lend hand-held video cameras to 50 fans, told them to shoot at will, and then presented the end result in movie theaters in all its primitive, kaleidoscopic glory.

The result of this brainstorm is "Awesome ... ," which will be shown Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, before being released by ThinkFilm in late March. The movie is more than a new twist on an old form. "Awesome" - its full title praising the fans' involvement in the final film cannot be printed in this newspaper - plugs into some of the currents surging through the media and entertainment worlds.

I saw the Beasties once at the Garden and I can safely say that no camera would have survived on the floor during Paul Revere. Maybe they didn't play that song this time.

linklater directs A Scanner Darkly. quite a rogues gallery of stars including: robert downey, woody harrelson and winona ryder along with keanu reeves.

trailer +

imdb is blogging sundance which opens today.

dogs can detect cancer on peoples breath.

sf chronicles podcast interview with stephen colbert

why we fight

i always feel like somebodys watching me.

vincent price fright night on tcm
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My new breakfast of champions: egg, speck, and cheese piada from Piada, 3 Clinton Street. $4.06. Yum.

anybody want to give this meme a go? im working on mine.

You have to explain America to someone from not here, but you can only use ten movies to do it. Which ten do you choose?

(Now, these do not have to be history movies, they can illustrate something unique about American values or character or “the American experience”.)

Not sure if it's art, but it makes for a pretty cool paint job: Notes on the Denial of Perspective 02 - Felice Varini.

new flip this house on a and e now

"The first push to delve into the mystery of beer flavor occurred in the mid-1970s, when a team of flavor chemists from 40 countries identified 800 chemical compounds in the beverage. These compounds—some individually, most in combination—contribute nearly 125 distinct flavors to beer. Brewers use the word flavor broadly, to include tastes, odors, and mouthfeel."

beer pairing with food.

burger blogging