January 2011
13 posts
How a Gentleman Cooks Breakfast →
kateoplis:
You may think that a fried breakfast is something that doesn’t need a recipe but I guarantee that if you follow this one you’ll never regret it.
1. Wake up in a Georgian country house with a hangover of biblical proportions. Slide your arm from beneath the slender alabaster neck of the recumbent debutante and silently pick your way through the detritus of last night’s party to the...
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DJ Streggato →
NYE Aperitivo 2011 remaster
David Bordwell on Wong Kar-Wai's constant... →
youmightfindyourself:
Like many Hong Kong movies, nearly every one of Wong Kar-wai’s films went through multiple versions. But unlike many directors he seems to enjoy tweaking and rethinking his work. In production he shoots scenes, watches them, reshoots them, recuts them, and reshoots again. Editing and mixing involve the same play with variants. He adds different shots, juggles the order,...
Backhanded Compliment of the Day
An El Al security guard gruffly pulls me out of line at the airport.
(After interrogating me about the purpose of my trip to Israel)
Guard: Where do you go to school?
Me: Tufts University.
Guard: Oh, in Boston, right?
Me: Yes.
Guard: Isn’t that the one that’s not in the Ivy League, but is pretty much considered to be one?
Me: …I guess so?
(Guard abruptly shoves me back...
zhangfa:
Let’s invent a brail Kindle/iPad.
Do you have a Mac? On your computer, look for VoiceOver Utility. It is what is known as a “screenreader”, and is designed to let blind people navigate and use the computer. Try closing your eyes and using it!
YMFY: Douglas Adams, Last Chance To See →
youmightfindyourself:
I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn’t weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the…
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