January 2012
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The Walking Dead + Growing Pains →
From Entertainment Weekly:
Ever wondered what AMC’s zombie-tacular show The Walking Dead might look like if it was an ’80s sitcom? Of course you haven’t. That would be crazy! But this hasn’t stopped someone providing the answer in the form of a video mashup which boasts both the theme song from Growing Pains and some entertainingly retro, fake credits (“Guest starring Well Zombie”).
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Bob Knight's Self-Exile from Assembly Hall →
From the Wall Street Journal:
The T-shirts on the Indiana basketball faithful who pack Assembly Hall for home games say “WE’RE BACK” and the evidence on the floor supports them. After a 12-year trek through college basketball’s swamplands, the Hoosiers are 16-4 and, despite a recent slump, steaming toward a berth in the NCAA tournament.
But even as the Hoosiers are...
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tUnE-yArDs and the Pitfalls of Indie Fame →
Very competent take by Chuck Klosterman.
When (and if) you listen to w h o k i l l by tUnE-yArDs, you are listening to two things: a record that’s very good, and/or a record that will someday seem way worse than it actually is. And logic suggests the latter is more likely than the former, even though that’s no reflection on the value of the artist.
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“It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from...”
– The West Wing
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Some love for Declaration Clothing
At first glance, the T-shirts designed by Declaration Clothing appear undeniably hip but largely indistinguishable from countless others that have flooded the market in recent years, hoping to cash in on the emergence of the T-shirt as a high-end staple in our wardrobes.
But Declaration, a three-year-old company founded in Boston by two college roommates, has something these others designers do...
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An 'If They Mated' Approach to Recommending New...
Recommending music is harder than it looks.
Sure, you get the satisfaction of telling your friends, family or, in this case, readers, about an artist or song that becomes part of them in some significant way or just generally informs their experience. Who wouldn’t want to be that guy?
On its face, recommending music for someone is a relatively low-risk proposition. This isn’t coal mining or...
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Notes from a Kitchen →
From Esquire:
A book has landed with a considerable thud on my desk — a two-volume, 18.2-pound, 932-page production, entitled Notes from a Kitchen: A Journey Inside Culinary Obsession, by photographer Jeff Scott and chef Blake Beshore. It is a collection of photos, with very little text, showing the work of cooks on the line and focusing on 10 well-known American chefs — mostly Sean Brock,...
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Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the...”
– Margaret Mead
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“I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game, though,...”
– Omar Little, The Wire
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WatchWhy Tony Bourdain is the best. A clip from The Layover: San Francisco.
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Giving 'The Layover' some much-deserved love
Over the years, I’ve had something of a love/hate relationship with chef and raconteur Anthony Bourdain’s wildly popular travel show “No Reservations.”
At its best, the show is a poignant exploration of the role food plays in the social identity of places near and far.
At its worst, “No Reservations” is a show burdened by its reliance on a sometimes bizarre, muddy narrative that is often of...
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WatchTim Tebow + David Bowie = Tim Tebowie.