February 2012
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Duke Vest →
Met the woman who runs this company in downtown LA. They make rather affordable made-to-measure or off the rack reproductions of vintage clothing. This wool vest costs as much as a Filson, but with amazing slanted pockets and a V-shape for all you high-waisted panters.
January 2012
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Know Your Composers - A Top 40 Lizst (sorry,...
My parents bestowed upon me a gift that keeps on giving. No, I’m not referring to an inherited midwestern Catholic neuroses. I speak of my abiding love of classical music. From the moment my mother sat me at the fusty upright grand at four and taught me to plunk my way through Ode to Joy they instilled in me a devoted appreciation of the greatest music the world has ever known.
That last...
[dis]Service Industry
I get it, you moved to here hoping to create the future of your dreams. You followed passion, art, culture, and/or your girlfriend and embarked on a journey to discover your true self and shed the shackles of your false existence. Gone are the polos and boot cut jeans of the oppressor. Fading into obscurity are family dinners, first run movie theaters, and Two for Tuesday’s at...
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This is what Santa Monica should look like. →
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Weekend Perspective #1
A nugget, from David McCullough (via Sullivan):
Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a makeshift boat down the Little Missouri River in pursuit of a couple of thieves who had stolen his prized rowboat. After several days on the river, he caught up and got the draw on them with his trusty Winchester, at which point they surrendered. Then...
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Know Your Booze: Applejack
Every man should be able to drink and appreciate whisk(e)y. It’s a gruff elixir that has inspired as much poetry as it has destroyed the poets themselves. Winston Churchill drank it for breakfast. Don Draper probably drinks it on the shitter. Medics in the civil war used it as their only anesthetic during some field surgery amputations (when the chloroform napkins ran dry).
We can all...
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The Tatt that Saved Civilization
Ok, so the world ends. Knowledge is lost, marauding gangs rampage, you know the drill. However, before it all came tumbling down, you had the foresight to tattoo a brief phrase that holds the key knowledge to restart civilization…
Don’t forget, you’re limited by the remaining infrastructure, or lack thereof. E.g., “invent the internet” involves everything from...
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Resolution: Be A New Year's Hack →
Are you already 7% body fat? Have you already received your certification as a master saucier from Le Cordon Bleu? Did you sweep a Victoria’s Secret model (Ed. Note: stayaway from Swanepoel, she’s mine) off her feet on NYE and are left with nothing left to achieve this year?
Well then this resolution’s for you.
My acquaintance at Techcrunch posted this opportunity and my...
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December 2011
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Go Fly A Kite →
Play = happiness. Simplicity = happiness. Kites = simple play. Double syllogism for the win(d).
And since we’re on the topic…
Wind occurs when molecules heat and thusly rise, leaving space for colder molecules to fill in. That “filling in” results as wind. Of course, this filling in isn’t uniform across the planet, as the sun heats our atmosphere unevenly,...
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Know Your Painters: Henri Rousseau →
Oft lambasted for being a “Naive Ignoramus”, post-impressionist Henri Rousseau came to be a lode star for Picasso, Kandinsky, and Klee. Whether it was by choice or by necessity of his being rejected by the more established traditional galleries of Paris, Rousseau displayed his charmingly “wrong” works at the Salon of the Independents. Yet even amongst outcasts he was...
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Your Suit is Too Big
Yes, you. The one with the Bluetooth earpiece. Your suit is too big.
I’m also talking to you, the guest at the wedding who just pulled it out of the closet, dusted off the shoulders, and said “This looks great.”
It doesn’t matter if you’re big or small, tall or short, wearing a suit that is too big is a fundamental crime against your own waning masculinity. You...
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linguine w/ shrimp, rosemary and garlic
what are your objectives at this juncture of time and space?
get laid?
prove to your mom that you were old enough to move out on your own?
survive?
Whatever the case may be, food is the vehicle to reach your goal. Lets start slow
linguine w/ shrimp, rosemary and garlic
Ingredients (What you need to make this dish):
1 pound (lb) Extra Large (26-30 Count) Shrimp
2 teaspoons (tsp) Kosher...
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Playing With Conversational Fire: Dangerous Beauty →
A jocular Holiday Party discussion on this article’s subject matter could either win you a snog under the mistletoe or coal in your stocking and nutcracked. As one who lives for verbal peril, I’m eager to deck the halls. A few choice morsels from the article to get the ball rolling:
- A 1991 survery reportedly showed attractive men make 14% more than their unattractive male...
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Know Your Photographers: Ryan McGinley →
You likely don’t know him by name but his work has made your eye smile. Most broadly appreciated as the visionary lens behind Levi’s invigorating ”Go Forth” campaign, McGinley was named Photographer of the Year by American Photo Magazine at the ripe old age of 25. He also holds the distinction of being one of the youngest photographers to ever have a solo show at New...
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Future Dog Names #1
Hubble
Bucky
Satchmo
Bothan
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Film as More Than Film: Save Saint Ferris
It’s indisputable fact that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is one of the finest celluloid achievements of Reagan’s 80s. There is zero debate to be had on the timelessness of each and every frame - should somebody render critical argument they immediately indict themselves as unworthy of your attentions, a career killjoy and quite possibly subhuman.
Beyond its superlative quality as a piece...
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Know Your Architects: Rodney Walker →
Rodney Walker- one of the most criminally overlooked US architects of the 20th century. If you’ve ever admired the Southern California style of sleek, open-aired living spaces that blur the boundaries between indoor and outdoor with a liberal use of glass, it’s high time you meet one of its foremost progenitors.
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Put this in your color wheel and smoke it. →
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Digging this →
As an adamant Sufjan Steven’s fan, it took me a while to make the transition to his glitch, downtempo experimentation.
This is nothing new, but it warrants revisiting if you’re a non-believer of The Age of Adz.
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Made from sailcloth →
Made from Dacron which is the same cloth you run up the mast. Salt and weather proof. Yes, this will get dirty. Yes, this will last forever.
20% off right now if you’re an ASA member.
WatchCathedrals and the city lights form constellations in your eyes.
That's A Real Loulou →
Slender is the night.
Wax floor. Put on new socks. Press play. Jimmy...
RUMI TEST
Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense.