June 28, 2019

“For the most part, a whole potato is a whole potato is a whole potato”

Previously, Bon Appetit editor Amiel Stanek took us through every way to cook a chicken breast1 and every way to cook an egg.2 Previously
At last, the next installment of the saga is here: Every Way To Cook A Potato.3
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1. 32 ways
2. 59 ways
3. 63 ways [more inside]
posted by Going To Maine at 10:18 PM PST - 34 comments

RECLAIM PRIDE: QUEER LIBERATION MARCH - JUNE 30, 2019

A 30 minute video by Reclaim Pride NYC about why they're having a non-corporate, people's march reclaiming Pride for the people and replicating the route of the original Pride march a year after the Stonewall Uprising. [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 10:03 PM PST - 21 comments

The Nib is running out of ink

Iconic political cartoon site The Nib seems to be facing its biggest challenge yet: defunded and laid off by their parent company and struggling to find wherewithal to continue. The Nib is famous for its important and heavy hitting work featuring cartoonists Matt Bors, KC Green (who was mentioned here very recently), Tom Tomorrow, Pia Guerra, and many others.
posted by splitpeasoup at 9:35 PM PST - 16 comments

The Most Senseless Environment Crime of the 20th Century

"Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century." (PSMag) [more inside]
posted by meaty shoe puppet at 7:47 PM PST - 14 comments

How ‘This is Fine’ Dog Creator KC Green Made Money From Meme

The Six-Year Struggle to Regain Ownership of the ‘This Is Fine’ Dog
posted by Etrigan at 7:29 PM PST - 17 comments

Sis, that's a burial

Sina Grace, former writer for Iceman (twice) talks candidly about what it's like to write for an out gay superhero at marvel comics.
posted by dinty_moore at 4:40 PM PST - 6 comments

How to rob 30 banks and nearly get away with it

Hooked: A raging heroin addiction fueled a former Boeing engineer’s yearlong, 30-bank robbery spree.
posted by allkindsoftime at 4:07 PM PST - 40 comments

Friday Flash Fun: Naya's Quest, a game by Terry Cavanagh

I met a monk on the road here, trying to get away. Terrified of whatever it was he saw out here. He couldn't explain it. He told me he'd left something behind. Something I could use. A gift, to anyone who seeks clarity. Go to the edge of the world, and see the truth. [more inside]
posted by vibratory manner of working at 2:47 PM PST - 10 comments

What we don’t want to do is jeopardize the viability of the institution.

Town versus gown. An Ohio judge ordered Oberlin College to pay a local bakery $25 million in damages. The amount was trimmed down from $44 million initially awarded by a local jury, and represents relief for reputational and financial harm allegedly caused to Gibson's by Oberlin students and administrators during protests and related events in 2016 and 2017. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo at 2:23 PM PST - 51 comments

More than just a road trip

After Mary Latham’s mother died in 2013, the New York wedding photographer spent several years feeling adrift, wondering how long her emotions would be so raw. Her mind would routinely go back to something her mom, Patricia Latham, had told her after the Sandy Hook mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. “I’d been feeling terribly sad about it, and she said, ‘Mary, there are always going to be tragedies in the world, but there will always be more good — you just have to look for it,' " Latham, 32, recalled. (MSN | WaPo) [more inside]
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Now Is The Time

Nicole Cliffe profiles Alanis: Alanis Morissette on Pregnancy at 45, Childbirth, Postpartum Depression, and #MeToo
posted by Chrysostom at 1:21 PM PST - 9 comments

An Oral History of an Orgy

Staging that scene from Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick’s divisive final film.
posted by sapagan at 12:27 PM PST - 48 comments

If you're watching it, it is for you

twitter: @ryansimmons
got another capitalism greatest hit. i will give you one hundred thousand dollars if you can guess the brand by the end
[more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 12:24 PM PST - 52 comments

Sparkly like crazy to the break of dawn

A history of Champagne in hip-hop. A longish article going from the 1980s to the 10s, with plenty of quotes and data on the cultural and commercial symbiosis between hip-hop and Champagne.
posted by Wrinkled Stumpskin at 11:59 AM PST - 2 comments

This mysteriousness causes a destructive unease.

“The feminization is the spread of unpaid labor. Now the spread of unpaid labor means that, more and more, you work for a year without money, hoping they will give you the job. And so you do a year. The left, unfortunately, is always worried about technology replacing workers; they are not worried about how, actually, unpaid labor is spreading. What is shrinking is the waged working class, not work.” A long ranging interview between author and activist Silvia Federici and filmmaker Astra Taylor covering globalization, local support networks, feminism, welfare, automation, social reproduction, and how capitalists concede demands. (The Believer)
posted by The Whelk at 11:48 AM PST - 2 comments

In the future, see the past, night service, Saturday mass

Jacques Greene teamed up with Cadence Weapon and dropped a "club spiritual" deep house poetry single titled Night Service (Bandcamp), finally releasing the song that he and Cadence performed back in December 2018 (YouTube, Q on CBC). This is a continuation of his intellectual engagement with the idea of the club (interview with The Fader) that was the focus of his debut album, Feel Infinite (Bandcamp).
posted by filthy light thief at 9:08 AM PST - 1 comments

👸👷 Maker Time! 🚧📐🔨

Super Mario Maker 2: much more than a game design toolkit [Polygon] “Don’t let the title confuse you. Nintendo hasn’t merely made a game for makers; it has made a nearly full (and fittingly experimental) Super Mario title that just so happens to be paired with an exceptional creator’s suite. [...] That’s the magic of Super Mario Maker 2. Maybe you’re after Miyamoto’s title, an aspiring level-making genius. Or maybe you just want to kick back and experience the wide array of stages the game throws at you. Or maybe you want to make something that really pisses off your friends. In Super Mario Maker 2, these are all totally viable and accessible options.” [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 7:36 AM PST - 37 comments

'Today is the hottest day in the history of France'

Europe is sweltering under a historic heat wave -- France has set a new all-time record high temperature with 44.3C (111.7F) recorded in Carpentras in the Vaucluse; Spain is battling a wildfire in Catalonia that has consumed over 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) suspected to been started by a pile of manure that self-ignited; several deaths have already been attributed to the heat wave in Spain, Italy and France; Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland have broken high temperature records for the month of June with temperatures of 38.6C (101.5F), 38.5C (101.3F) and 38.2C (100.8F), respectively; London could see temperatures of 34C (93F) on Saturday. [more inside]
posted by andrewesque at 7:22 AM PST - 103 comments

The Aston Martin Lagonda - as reviewed by Doug DeMuro

The 1987 Aston Martin Lagonda - Doug DeMuro reviews any car he can get his hands on, and he says it straight. In this video, he reviews the 1987 Lagonda, from Aston Martin, famed maker of ultra-lux hyper-cars trying to muscle in on the performance luxury Brit sedan market dominated by Jaguar, Bently and Rolls Royce models in the '80s. It does not go well. [more inside]
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:35 AM PST - 39 comments

Imogen Heap's Tiny Desk Concert

Imogen performs several songs including a hauntingly beautiful version of Hide and Seek using her Mi.Mu Gloves.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 5:20 AM PST - 12 comments

Naval Readiness and the 5th Fleet

Trump Keeps Talking About the Last Military Standoff With Iran — Here’s What Really Happened
posted by axiom at 12:13 AM PST - 22 comments

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