vogue yarns
weakly world noose
more streamo-o-files.

im not going to suggest either of these are first rate comedies but wet hot american summer, a send up of movies like meatballs, has a minor cult following owing to its cast mostly members of the state comedy troupe among others while easy a, a contemporary take on john hughes type high school comedies has good performances by emma stone, patricia clarkson and stanley tucci.

Maybe there can be collateral benefit of cops infiltrating peaceful demonstrations.
bus2
Software engineer Kyle Conroy has compiled a list of how much money you would have today if, for example, instead of spending $5700 on a Apple PowerBook G3 250 when it was released on November 10, 1997 you'd spent that same amount on AAPL stock. The answer? Instead owning of a laptop that's probably worth all of twenty bucks today, you'd own $330,563 of AAPL stock.
Called Land Arts of the American West, the classes take place in a pair of heavy-duty Ford vans or wherever the vans and the camping gear they carry end up stopping during a 7,000-mile, two-month drive that a handful of participants — mostly architecture graduate and undergraduate students, but also artists, art historians and students recruited from other disciplines — make throughout the West.
aww, sweet
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)