It's Bird Week at the NY TImes.
the horse boy
heard an interview with the father of this boy on the radio yesterday. the boy has autism and the parents have brought their son to work with shamen in australian, africa and mongolia. the shamen say that the qualities this boy has, "autistic" qualities are the very same ones which in their societies would qualify them to be shamen's apprentices.
MAY POLE

May Day 2011
Donald Trump is here tonight but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate to rest than The Donald. Now he can get to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened at Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?”
had to eat dinner so went with pan fried crispy leeks, asparagus, ramps in a herb/little neck clam broth.....add panko coated pan fried cod....surf & turf
cod
taste test this am 2 wild organic vs cultivated from a great farmer whom wins this test on other fruits/veggies....wild won today, more grassy
asp1 end result w/ ramps, spring chive/onion.....breakfast of champions asp2
more bob, jasper, etc.
sugar
Paley’s Place Gets Salted
Portland’s own artisan salt expert Mark Bitterman joins Vitaly Paley and team for the next Sustainable Seafood Sunday dinner.
after-birthers
k goldsmith, epiphanies
Children's book. Don't miss the editorial reviews.
umami burger
heading to a symposium in berkeley tomorrow and just realized we are staying 5 min away from chez panisse. just got lunch res.
Kerning II -- The Layering
The mafia and NYC pizza cheese (via kottke.org)
True??

IMPORTANT ATTENTION! FRIDAY - APRIL 29, 2011, Facebook will become owner of the publishing rights to ALL your private photos. You need to make a simple change: got to 'Account', 'Account Settings', 'Facebook Ads' (along the top), go to 'Ads shown by third parties', choose 'NO ONE' then SAVE. It's just a 2 minutes job, and please Share, share, share, share (for those who haven't done this yet...)
they say "the worlds first chain of green general stores" two so far in PDX
its too cold hot outside.
this is from six months ago but i just watch it. wanted to post because i loved that springsteen went on as retro bruce and he seemed to get a kick out of it.

rip ira cohen

more
onion skin egg dying
Restrained animated gifs.