December 2010
20 posts
July 2010
13 posts
WatchYeah. Definitely going to try the whole popcorn-dipped-in-pickle-juice thing. (I already eat mine covered in Frank’s Red Hot sauce.)
Nike Mayfly →
I know it’s incredibly wasteful, but I’m fascinated by the idea of a shoe designed to be used only a few times (or in a few races, I guess) before it’s thrown away. Or put in a odor-proof trophy case.
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DYFL?: Just gonna put this out there →
…since I’m following the Apple press conference. Yeah, I have an iPhone 4. Yeah, I’m that guy.
It is a fantastic phone. Better in every way than any other phone I’ve owned, including the first-generation iPhone. And it is a massive improvement in signal strength. My house used to be a total…
As I often say when I reblog DYFL: “What he said.” I love my iPhone 4.
Louis C.K. gets Terry Gross, Fresh Air run out of... →
While I am all for getting Terry Gross off the air in general, I certainly don’t think this is the best way to do it.
Also, Tim and I listened to this interview while driving home from Wisconsin last week. It was pretty tame, as Louis CK stuff goes.
Body Talk, Part 2! →
Part 1 is still getting heavy plays around here—I love everything on it! Can’t wait for the follow-up (and then the promised Part 3)!
'Tenderoni' (Larry Tee & Beckwith Remix) -- Free... →
While good, this remix doesn’t hold a candle to the original, one of my favorite songs of the year so far. Still, it is free music that’s actually good. Go for it!
The City and the City →
An almost seamless mash-up of two seemingly disparate genres (“alternate universe” and “noirish police procedural”), The City and the City has been an absolute blast to read, even if its conclusion was a bit of a letdown (the bad guy was a surprise, but the motivations behind some of the crimes in the book seemed less weighty than I wanted them to be). The writing here is...
Dinner at Alinea →
I just don’t know if I have the vocabulary—or the reflective distance yet—to describe what it’s like to eat at Alinea. I mean, there are tons of reviews that give you the general idea (the decor, the funky sliding door that opens into the dining room, the award-winning service), but I don’t know if anything can really capture the experience of the whole thing. It was,...
June 2010
40 posts
First Listen: Kylie Minogue, 'Aphrodite' : NPR →
dyfl:
Full album streaming on NPR’s site if you haven’t heard it yet, which is a pretty good PR coup for Kylie’s American label, considering NPR’s market force these days!
My early impressions of the album: it’s good, but not great. They made the baffling decision to put the weakest tracks in at 4 and 5; it’s a huge trough after a run of three sharp, single-worthy tracks up front. It’s quickly...
The 50 Fattiest Foods in the States →
Since we leave on a road trip tomorrow, it’s like the universe needed me to see this. Such a helpful planning tool!
Fluxblog:What’s The Point Of Living If You Don’t... →
“I think the sheet music for Kylie’s ‘Better Than Today’ would be all smiley faces, rainbows, shooting stars, and maybe a few unicorns on the bridge. This is Kylie in hyper-Pollyanna mode, and I love it.”
—All I can do is agree here. It’s a great track (follow the link and you can hear it for yourself). She sang this at her concert in NYC last October and the...
Quiet Earth →
A blog about all things post-apocalyptic. As long as this remains fictional, I am down with it.
Shows to Watch on The Cooking Channel →
I don’t think the Cooking Channel (occupying the space in your cable linep where Fine Living used to be) is going to be a wild success like The Food Network—most of the shows are not new enough or “personality-driven” enough to catch a big audience, I bet. Still, I prefer it to most of the Fieri/Giada/Paula/Bobby clown-show nonsense on TFN. If you do happen to watch the...
Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories By... →
For some reason, I was in the mood for short stories yesterday—scary or creepy ones, to be more precise. So I jumped on the Kindle store and got this collection—no disappointment here. These stories (some of which may seem familiar, since a few ended up as Twilight Zone episodes) are perfectly compressed and just scary enough to linger in your mind a bit before you move on to the...
The Results Are In! →
This is an awesome site—nothing but screencaps and transcribed quotations from various episodes of The Maury Povich Show. Read it and laugh (and then weep for America)…