"Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, said the White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to gather sensitive information on Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who writes an influential blog that criticized the war."

blotters

25,000 big mac's 1 man
http://bites.today.com/_news/2011/05/16/6654634-one-man-39-years-25000-big-macs-

excited to taste this new and mostly vegan spot that's also heavy on gluten free

deff going to Jane next week, soup, morels, risotto.....3 app purrfecto menu

no kitchen use yet, but went to the market and put together a salad of porcini and couple greens, herb salt and Napa Valley olive oil...

cookbook round up

A study found that citrus juices enable more of green tea's unique antioxidants to remain after simulated digestion, making the pairing even healthier than previously thought. The study compared the effect of various beverage additives on catechins, naturally occurring antioxidants found in tea. Results suggest that complementing green tea with either citrus juices or vitamin C likely increases the amount of catechins available for the body to absorb.

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Botanical evidence indicates that India and China were among the first countries to cultivate tea. Today, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, second only to water. Hundreds of millions of people drink tea around the world, and studies suggest that green tea (Camellia sinesis) in particular has many health benefits.

Introducing Tom Philpott

One more reason not to move out of Bay Ridge: local restauranteur revealed as Ted Nugent love child.

high priced kiddie art

mark it down, skinny. your first porthole and a lot of other good stuff incl. alela diane.

this is notable as i grew up with sam and some of us know him.

HBO’s consistently great TV shows have always had a literary bent, but recently the cable network has been going straight to the source to develop new shows. Perhaps spurned by the success of Jonathan Ames’s Bored to Death (based on a short story published in McSweeney’s), HBO announced last month that it was adapting Jenifer Egan’s Pulitzer-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad and this month has announced it is developing a comedy with TFT favorite Sam Lipsyte. Hollywood Reporter has the scoop:

The offbeat comedy, People City, centers on a 25-year-old man hired by an eccentric New York couple to be their child’s caretaker.

Sam Lipsyte, whose most recent novel The Ask was published by FSG last year, will write and executive produce alongside Michael London and Jocelyn Hays Simpson (both of whom are also producing on A Visit From the Goon Squad). Exciting news for fans of great writing and interesting television.

the climatron 1960

quandra gallery posters

Pizzagate

my partner went hiking before our first dinner together

nothing new but as heat begins to rise it strikes me how twisted religion can be.

this has got to be the goofiest sports event i have ever seen.

Put the words “psychedelic” and “art” in the same sentence and chances are most people will conjure images of groovy rock posters and fluorescent mushrooms. But a new book by art critic Ken Johnson, who writes for the New York Times, aims to broaden the scope of what constitutes psychedelic visual culture. /via afc

via ree

Logical punctuation. Thank god. I usually follow this as it just makes sense. Putting the period inside the quotation marks, even though it's marking the end of the whole sentence and not the sentence inside the quotation marks, just seems wrong. When I started coding the outrage seemed even greater.

just saw my landlord as i was exiting the building to drop off my laundry and tried to engage in niceties as quickly as possible before i could squirt away. i get back home and peel off my already damp t-shirt while filling a glass with ice for my newly purchased liter of coconut water, deciding then to turn the fan back on despite the racket (now i know why it was on sale at century 21) only to feel heat emanating from the back of the fan. my initial thought that it was hot from the motor as it had been on for the better part of three days but then i realized the base was hot as well. did i mention that the fan is perched on the radiator?

so i call down to the landlord, and yes, i know my cell phone is shitty but we get into an abbott and costello routine over who he is actually speaking to. maybe he had an even louder fan purchased sometime in the mesozoic made from teradactyl wings. (i have no idea if dinosaurs existed then. another demerit for myself and the american school system.) he calls me by nearly every name of every other tenant in the building including that of his eighty plus year old best friend living on the floor below. at first i was sure he was making a joke but by the end while literally screaming into the phone i just accepted whatever name he was calling me at the time, that being "al", my upstair neighbor.

once the name puzzle had been solved we got on to the meat of the conversation. i shrieked into the phone at least a half a dozen times that the heat was on in the building before the pilot light in his head caught wind of what i was trying to impart, and undoubtedly the knit in his brow at that moment turned from confusion to consternation. "i'll go switch it off," he said with an exasperated tone. "that's costing me money!" i couldnt argue with that logic and shouted my approval before hanging up.