March 1, 2019
Katherine Helmond, star of "Soap," and "Who's the Boss?" has died at 89
Katherine Helmond, who played Jessica Tate on Soap, Mona on Who's the Boss? passed away at the age of 89 due to complications of Alzheimer’s disease at her home in Los Angeles on February 23rd. [more inside]
"Are you sure I'll still be a virgin?"
Bleeding is fucking weird. And the various contraptions that the feminine hygiene industry has come up with to “handle” it are also pretty fucking odd. I mean, at the end of the day, from pads and tampons to cups, sponges and rags, to each her own. But bleeding is still weird AF. And the culture that has arisen around it is also weird. [more inside]
So pour a shot in my glass and I'll forget forever
Sambal Stingray and Fish-Head Curry
A History of Singapore in Ten Dishes: “Today, tourists from India come to our restaurant and some of them are shocked to see that fish-head curry is on the menu, as the dish does not exist in India,” says Nagajyothi Mahendran, the third-generation owner of Samy’s Curry. Mahendran says her grandfather, M Veerasamy, started cooking the dish in a shophouse—a mixed-use building—in the 1960s. (SL Roads & Kingdoms) [more inside]
“Go Ahead,” She Said. “Take It.” So He Did.
In the annals of art crime, it's hard to find someone who has stolen from ten different places. By the time the calendar flips to 2000, by Breitwieser's calculations, he's nearing 200 separate thefts and 300 stolen objects. For six years, he's averaged one theft every two weeks. One year, he is responsible for half of all paintings stolen from French museums. The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief [more inside]
UC system drops Elsevier subscription
Bobcat A Go-Go
"a good night’s sleep a distant dream"
♪ The real Green Book's the racism we cured along the way ♪
Demi Adejuyigbe's YouTube Channel is a place where music and film are joined in clever and humorous ways. • Morrissey's End Credits Song from "Green Book" • Future's End Credits Rap from Avengers: Infinity War • Will Smith's "I Think I Can Beat The Black Panther" Should've Won Best Original Song • Fake Childish Gambino Rap I Made About Lando Calrissian for L-A-N-D-O: A Star Wars Story • Rejected Theme Song from READY PLAYER ONE • In Which Will Smith Raps the Credits for Moonlight
The real story behind the Afghan refugee photo
Photographer Tony Northrup explains the real story behind the iconic cover photograph for National Geographic taken by Steve McCurry (previously). For many; including Tony, the photo was inspirational when it came out in 1984. But there was a darker side to the story (SLYT).
Bee Poop
Apis mellifera (honey bees) and its subspecies worker bees are incredibly hygienic both in terms of their removal of disease in the colony and their keeping up with general housekeeping. [more inside]
The Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media
If you look up Dr. Damian Jacob Markiewicz Sendler online, you might think he has a MD and a PhD from Harvard Medical School. He presents himself as the chief of sexology at a non-profit health research foundation based in New York. His website states he’s one of the youngest elected members of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, and that Barack Obama gave him a President’s Gold Service Award for his contributions in medicine and mental health.
Based on the information available online, Sendler could be one of the most accomplished 28-year-olds in medicine.
But he’s not. Those are all lies. [more inside]
"I was becoming not only chauvinistic but fascistic, too."
Eric Clapton, by 1976, was an alcoholic former heroin addict who had recently succeeded in stealing the wife of his close friend, George Harrison. On the night of August 5, Clapton, who had already developed a reputation for erratic on-stage behavior, unloaded on the audience of the Birmingham Odeon: "Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands..."The Fairest Soul Brother in England—An unsolicited critique of Eric Clapton’s Unplugged [Andrew Marzoni, The Baffler]
Does not include Bergerac solving murders on Jersey
Based on questionable maths, Vulture list where you are most likely to be murdered in rural TV Britain. "We went with the bare basics of math for this: The smaller the village or county, the higher the chance is of being murdered. Read along, and maybe don’t plan on moving to Cambridgeshire anytime soon." But how realistic is this? The BBC investigates (previously), though looking internationally, don't buy a house in Cabot Cove (or Abbot Cove, whatever). (Post title: Charlie Hungerford did it)
"Clearly, we were not prepared for the amount of human remains."
Don Miller, a retired missionary in rural Indiana, kept a museum in his home. In 2014, a year before Miller died at 91, the FBI Art Crime team raided his home and discovered more than 40,000 items from North and South America, Asia, the Caribbean, Papua New Guinea, and China, including many human remains. The FBI, along with the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikatsa Nations, have spent years working to identify and return the artifacts. The CBC's article also provides audio from CBC Radio.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Clock-time no longer measures our temporal relationship to nature, but instead regulates our daily activities in relationship to capitalism. Clocks tell us when we need to go to work, when it’s time for lunch, when we need to wake up, when we really should go to sleep. We don’t do those things when we want to, we do them when others have determined they should be done. Those others aren’t the sun, stars, planets and moon of the pagan and animist worlds, but the bosses, the owners, the managers, and the bankers for whom we work.
Thank you everybody for coming out, again. This is weird as hell for me.
T-Pain's back with more of the autotuned vocals he's known for, with his new album 1Up (DatPiff via YouTube, DatPiff directly), which came out on the same day The (autotuned) Monster won The Masked Singer (yeah, you can guess the connection). But let's take a moment to appreciate T-Pain's natural voice, as heard a couple times on NPR: first, on NPR's most popular Tiny Desk Concert of all time (also on YouTube; 13:27, 2014), and then a year later in an expanded performance for NPRandB Front Row (YouTube, 27:09), which lead to his acoustic mini-tour in Fall 2017.
At the very least, gradients offer an opportunity to self-soothe.
"Gradients are the confluence of three different trends: Light and Space art, vaporwave, and bisexual lighting." (Vox) [more inside]
Flight Qualified by NASA for all manned space missions
Today, mechanical wrist watches are often considered expensive, superfluous jewelry, but they're also magnificent miniature mechanical machines, and many of today's watches have important provenance in Aviation, Auto Racing, Diving and Space Exploration. Perhaps the most important mechanical watch in the history of Space Exploration is the Omega Speedmaster professional. [more inside]
The real mystery is that they had no distinguishing features at all
The Cagots were a minority in the west of France and north of Spain. They were shunned, hated and persecuted, required to live in segregated areas on the outskirts of villages, restricted to the trades of butcher, carpenter and rope maker, prohibited from working with livestock, touching food in the market, entering churches through the main entrance or intermarrying with non-Cagots. They were not an ethnic or religious minority, speaking the same language and keeping the same religion as their neighbours; their persecution was based on their families being identified as Cagots, a status which was hereditary. [more inside]
Gruel New Deal
“The details of Twist’s plan for supplementary gruel have never been made entirely clear ...Asking for more is really out of touch with basic economics.” An Unprecedented Twist, A plan for supplementary gruel must be rejected (Harper’s Blog)
Baby Pumas are Not Having It
And they make many ferocious noises. (YouTube). Three orphaned mountain lion cubs get a checkup at their new home, the Oklahoma City Zoo.
If you have the notes to sling, you can buy 'most anything
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