Monday, November 16. 2009
Coupon codes and discounts for 40,000 online stores at RetailMeNot
Tuesday, November 10. 2009
An unembeddable montage at Youtube
Tuesday, November 3. 2009
Dozens more colleges pass the $50,000 mark this year.
Addendum: Greedy college presidents rake in the dough. That's Big Academia for you, and the Academic-Governmental Complex.
Monday, August 3. 2009
Italian TV talk show host (correction - Argentinian):
American TV talk show host:
Saturday, August 1. 2009
A friend of a friend emailed this photo of an either dead or pixillated fellow in his whitey-tightys in the early morning rain in NYC's financial district this week:
Friday, July 3. 2009
We are about to enter the BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking activity. When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion:
 Routine...
(1) The woman buys the food.
(2) The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables, and makes dessert.
(3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils and sauces, and takes it to the man who is lounging beside the grill - beer in hand.
(4) The woman remains outside the compulsory three meter exclusion zone where the exuberance of testosterone and other manly bonding activities can take place without the interference of the woman.
Here comes the important part:
(5) THE MAN PLACES THE MEAT ON THE GRILL.
More routine...
(6) The woman goes inside to organize the plates and cutlery.
(7) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is looking great. He thanks her and asks if she will bring another beer while he flips the meat
Important again:
(8) THE MAN TAKES THE MEAT OFF THE GRILL AND HANDS IT TO THE WOMAN.
More routine...
(9) The woman prepares the plates, salad, bread, utensils, napkins, sauces, and brings them to the table.
(10) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes.
And most important of all:
(11) Everyone PRAISES the MAN and THANKS HIM for his cooking efforts.
(12) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed“her night off”, and, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there's just no pleasing some women.
Thursday, June 18. 2009
Not really. They sure can communicate, though.
Seraphine
"Séraphine is one of the most evocative films about an artist I’ve ever seen—and in its treatment of madness one of the least condescending." (New York Magazine)
Séraphine, which swept the Césars with seven wins earlier this year, is a dramatic new biopic from French director Martin Provost. Once a humble servant in a small town, Séraphine de Senlis rose to prominence as a self-taught “naïve” painter. Her discovery by art critic and collector Wilhelm Uhde, however, led to the fame and fortune that eventually cut her off from her inspiration, and ultimately to her unraveling. This film—a throwback to the European tradition of vintage arthouse storytelling—was described by the L.A. Times as “an examination, both unsettling and deeply touching, of the sources of creativity, the vagaries of renown, and the complexities of relationships.”
Martin Provost. 2008. 125 m. NR. France/Belgium, French/German/with subtitles. Music Box Films.
Official website/Trailer | L.A. Times review
For those not living near a foreign film theater, go see The Hangover for some fun and big laughs.
Monday, June 15. 2009
Reviewed here. Sounds like good fun.
Thursday, June 11. 2009
Ron Rosenbaum muses about the Salinger archives.
Monday, June 8. 2009
Old expression: If you want a friend (on Wall Street, in politics, etc), get a dog.
Sunday, June 7. 2009
The week before and after the 4th. A good deal. Info here.
Saturday, June 6. 2009
 From S.L.A. Marshall's First Wave at Omaha Beach, in the November,1960 Atlantic:
Able Company has planned to wade ashore in three files from each boat, center file going first, then flank files peeling off to right and left. The first men out try to do it but are ripped apart before they can make five yards. Even the lightly wounded die by drowning, doomed by the waterlogging of their overloaded packs. From Boat No. 1, all hands jump off in water over their heads. Most of them are carried down. Ten or so survivors get around the boat and clutch at its sides in an attempt to stay afloat. The same thing happens to the section in Boat No. 4. Half of its people are lost to the fire or tide before anyone gets ashore. All order has vanished from Able Company before it has fired a shot.
Friday, June 5. 2009
Actually, what I am listening to in the car: Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer.
Monday, June 1. 2009
The reporters of this series were never allowed back into Cuba. This is Part 1 of 6, in Spanish:
Monday, May 25. 2009
Nobuyuki Tsujii played Chopin's Twelve Etudes in round one of the 2009 Van Cliburn competition, at Youtube.
Saturday, May 23. 2009
 Nantucket summer rental prices are getting reasonable this year. Recession pricing. Places that were $55,000/week now $45,000/week.
Polpis cottage in upper photo now available for only $20,000/week in August.
Lower cottage only $2700/week and available now in August. Seems a lot more reasonable to me, and less pretentious. But outdoor shower "not enclosed"? What? OK, watch me shower in the sun if you want to.
Once you have showered outdoors, you never want to shower indoors again.
Friday, May 22. 2009
In Australia. With excellent video. The end of the video is the best part.
Saturday, May 9. 2009
Comment from the B: Nice pic. Anybody who has never had Canada Goose breast, sauteed rare and sliced thin on the bias with a wild mushroom, port wine and huckleberry sauce cannot truly appreciate these wonderful big birds.
And maybe a nice parsnip puree on the side.
Thursday, April 30. 2009
Our readers are already clued in to the Met Live in HD which, at least around here, is rapidly growing in popularity. The theaters sell out.
Now the Met has something even newer: Met Player. 200 Met performances in HD and state of the art sound. From May 1 - May 3, unlimited use of Met Player will be offered as a free trial. Sounds like a no-brainer.
No opera glasses needed.
Wednesday, April 29. 2009
I would say the Catholics win this round.
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