Sphinctertone
Children With Knives
Where Little Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and Dicing
Ángel Franco/The New York Times
Emily Rios, director of the Creative Cooks Culinary Center in Brooklyn, demonstrating how to make pastelitos. “Being prepared is half the battle in terms of keeping their attention,” she said. More Photos >
By the time lunch was over, flour coated all the workstations at the culinary school in Brooklyn. Shards of dough stuck to the surfaces. And a dozen or more flat yellow blobs festooned the floor — each indicating the spot where a chickpea had rolled off the table and been squished by the foot of a cook in training.
Whether any of the students learning how to debone a chicken or slice cheese for a Spanish pastry will ever oversee the kitchen of one of New York’s culinary temples is impossible to tell.
After all, the students are between 5 and 11 years old.
For the last nine weeks, more than 100 children have been slicing, measuring and baking at Creative Cooks, a children’s cooking school in Boerum Hill that treats the culinary arts as an anthropological adventure.
Sweden’s Got Schlongens
The Hot Tub And The Horny Twin With The Missing Cowboy Tattoo
from Eyewitness News 3 Connecticut
Police: Officer Pretended To Be Twin For Sex
Victim Says She Was Held Down After Realization
MILFORD, Conn. — An Orange police officer is accused of pretending to be his twin brother in order to engage in a sexual encounter with a woman.
Officer Jared Rohrig, of Milford, was arrested Friday in connection with the sexual assault.Police said a woman told police that she went to meet Rohrig’s twin brother, Joe, whom she was in a relationship with. The woman got into a hot tub with Jared Rohrig, thinking it was his brother, police said.
Police said the hot tub activity moved into one of the home’s bedrooms, where the two began having sex.
“During the sexual intercourse, she realized the male she was with did not have a tattoo on his left buttocks. The female victim said she immediately began to cry and asked where his tattoo went,” according to the arrest affidavit.
The woman said Joe, whom she had been having a sexual relationship with since March 2009, has a tattoo of a cowboy, according to the affidavit.
Before INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (and from a time when trailers were trailers)…
Bambi & The Deputy’s AR-15
‘Embarassed’ sheriff reprimands deputies in Midland, Texas for waitress posing on cop car
Friday, August 21st 2009, 1:51 AM
AP
In this photo provided by the Midland County, (Texas) Sheriff, an unidentified waitress at Twin Peaks Restaurant and Bar poses for a photo in Round Rock, Texas.
Midland County deputy and suspended three others without pay after a scantily dressed waitress holding a rifle posed for photographs on the hood of a patrol vehicle.
Round Rock officers were dispatched to the restaurant after someone reported the waitress with the weapon, which had been given to her by one of the deputies who had been attending a training session near Austin.
The incident occurred last week in the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant, which promotes its “fun, friendly and sometimes flirty atmosphere!”
The deputies told Painter that they had about three to five beers each.
“Autopsy results show a 3-inch nail had been driven into his head.”
Phoenix woman says she enjoyed torturing, killing man
Aug. 21, 2009 09:53 AM
Associated Press
A Phoenix woman accused of torturing and killing a man in a wheelchair says she did it because he was a snitch, and she enjoyed it.
In a jailhouse interview with television station KTVK, 33-year-old Angela Simpson said in a calm voice that she lured 46-year-old Terry Neely to her apartment with a promise of sex and drugs.
Once there, Simpson says she beat Neely with a tire iron, pulled out his teeth and strangled him with a television cable during three days of torture.
Simpson says she dismembered Neely’s body and set it on fire.
Neely’s remains were found burning in a trash container [at] Covenant Grace Christian Fellowship Church, near 7th Avenue and Peoria Road, on Aug. 5. Autopsy results show a 3-inch nail had been driven into his head.
The Old Man Stared At Her Naked Jugs, Until He Got The Shakes
STRIPHANGER
HERE’S PROOF NUDE YORK IS THE NAKED CITY
By JUSTIN ROCKET SILVERMAN
A strip club isn’t the only place in town you can see a pole dance — amazed passengers on an L train watched in awe as a naked young woman competed with straphangers for space on a pole.
The performance by actress Jocelyn Saldana, 19, lasted just 30 seconds, and some of the passengers probably thought they were hallucinating or dreaming.
Most were blasé. But one woman started screaming and an elderly man next to her got the shakes.
The Lady Didn’t Want To Look At His Willy, So He Punched Her In The Face
Man Strips Naked On Flight; Assaults Passenger
OAKLAND, Calif. — A 21-year-old man is in custody at a hospital in Oakland after allegedly exposing himself to a female passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight, punching her and then stripping naked, an Alameda County sheriff’s spokesman said.
Darius Chappille, who has residences in both Oakland and Jefferson City, Miss., was arrested after causing a scene on a plane that took off from Oakland International Airport at about 7:15 a.m. Thursday, sheriff’s Sgt. J.D. Nelson said.
During the flight, Chappille exposed himself to a female passenger, according to Nelson. When the female passenger screamed, Chappille punched her, he said.
At that point, flight attendants and other passengers intervened and subdued Chappille, who continued to strip down during the struggle until he was naked, Nelson said.
RAPE STOVE: The Stove That Rapes People
via TC
James Frey on THE LATE LATE SHOW w/Craig Ferguson Tonight (Repeat)
On the late night couch…
- The Late Show with David Letterman: Renee Zellweger, Gary Mule Deer
- The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien: Jonah Hill, Cheryl Hines, Dan Naturman (R 7/21/09)
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Lisa Kudrow, James Frey, Chairlift (R 6/26/09)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Quentin Tarantino, Rachel Nichols, Doug Benson (R 8/7/09)
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Cameron Diaz, Universal Records Database, Grizzly Bear (R 6/26/09)
Sun Ra: ‘The embodiment of… the mid-century wave of Afrocentric science fiction spectacles’
Pathways to Unknown Worlds:
The Afrofuturism of Sun Ra
By Rick Sawyer
It was more than just jazz for Sun Ra. The pianist and band leader created a total, collaborative artwork that comprised his music, his album covers and iconography, his band and its costumes, his record label, and even his public and private persona. In many substantial ways, Sun Ra was the embodiment of what came to be known as Afrofuturism, the mid-century wave of Afrocentric science fiction spectacles. For Sun Ra, it wasn’t a show. Doctor Funkenstein might have gone back to being George Clinton when the Mothership was packed up, but Sun Ra never stopped being Sun Ra.
The totality of Sun Ra’s art was recently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968 showed the breadth of Sun Ra’s iconography and even gave visitors a chance to see his storied band in action—offering a live performance of the surviving Arkestra members last May along with vintage video and photographs. The show, which had been curated by John Corbett, Anthony Elms and Terri Kapsalis for the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, consisted of album covers, stray instruments, videos, audio recording, and even corporate memos, each evincing Sun Ra’s total commitment to his aesthetic.
Sun Ra was born Sonny Blount in Birmingham, Alabama, but he wouldn’t let you believe that. He claimed that he came from Saturn, and he took his name from the Egyptian god of the sun. His story, a fusion of the ancient and the otherworldly, would take on a changing array of particulars throughout the years, but the core would remain the same. Sun Ra is not like us, he’s not human, but his music can save the world.
Garlicky Grilled Soy Skirt Steak
Enjoy the great outdoors and a fabulous meal with grilled soy skirt steak. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel/Mark Randall)
Garlicky grilled soy skirt steak
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
1 / 4 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 teaspoon minced peeled ginger root
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon Hoisin sauce
1 / 2 to 1 teaspoon sriracha chili sauce or Thai chili garlic sauce, optional
Fresh-ground black pepper, to taste
Juice of 1 / 2 lime
1 (16- to 24-ounce) skirt steak
1. Preheat a gas or charcoal grill to medium-high heat.
The Mother Of All Funk Chords
Paramount Releases New Adaptation of Brothers Karamazov
Film Adaptation Of ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ Ends Where Most People Stop Reading Book
The Brothers Karamazov, a new film adaptation that concludes at the precise moment most readers give up on the classic Russian novel.
The 83-minute film, which is based on the first 142 or so pages of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s acclaimed work, has already garnered attention for its stunning climax, in which the end credits suddenly appear midway through Katerina’s tearful speech about an unpaid debt.
“We are very excited to be able to bring several chapters of this timeless masterpiece to the big screen,” Paramount CEO Brad Grey said of the movie, which was shot, on and off, for two years. “Anyone who’s ever tried to sit down and trudge through this incredible book is going to be absolutely blown away by the faithfulness of our film.”
“It’s all here,” Grey added. “The opening scene, that part a little bit later on where some big commotion is taking place but you’re not quite sure what it is, that monastery thing they all go to—everything, just as you half-remember it.”
Diane Vincent Shoots James Frey In Berlin
“Manny, look at the pelican fly! Come on pelican!”
Traces of cocaine found on up to 90% of dollar bills in American cities
by Ed Pilkington in New York
Photograph: Getty/Piet Mall
It’s an image much beloved of Hollywood directors: the head lowered over a mirror, a crisp greenback tightly rolled and inserted in a nostril, then applied at the other end to a line of white powder.
Researchers from the American Chemical Society in Washington have discovered that the practice of consuming cocaine through rolled up paper money is far more than just a cinematic cliché. They found that in big cities in the US, up to 90% of the notes tested positive for traces of the drug.
In Washington itself, the percentage of notes with cocaine residue reached 93%, a prevalence almost matched by other urban areas such as Boston, Detroit and Baltimore.
Any film directors hoping to be authentic in their portrayal of cocaine snorting should note that the researchers found that in the US the bills of choice of cocaine consumers were $5, $10, $20 and $50. Both the modest dollar note, and the more elusive $100 note appear to be rarely deployed as an aid to nasal intoxication.
Apache Man Gone
Remembering Michael Viner, The Man Who Recorded “Apache”
8/14/09, 1:35 pm EST
Michael Viner, the record producer whose 1973 recording of “Apache” by the Incredible Bongo Band is the cornerstone of hip-hop, died in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 8th, from cancer. He was 65.
Viner held a number of positions in the entertainment world. He was an executive for MGM Records in the 1970s, signing Debby Boone (whose “You Light Up My Life” was Number One for 10 weeks in 1977) and helping produce Sammy Davis Jr.’s “The Candy Man,” which topped the charts in 1972. He also produced the second Nixon inaugural ball in early 1973, a result of his association with Republican MGM head Mike Curb, lieutenant governor of California from 1979 to 1983. (Viner’s politics were more liberal; he’d worked as an aide for Robert Kennedy in the ’60s.) Later, Viner’s Dove imprint pioneered books-on-tape, and he later made a name publishing books based on tabloid scandal. Still, it’s the much-sampled Incredible Bongo Band recordings that stand as Viner’s lasting achievement.
Viner was born in 1944 and grew up in Washington, D.C. In 1970, as a joke, Viner released the infamous Best of Marcel Marceau — a live LP of a mime, consisting of two sides of silence concluded by audience applause.
Suicide Stash
from the San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Suicidal man dumps cash on Glendora freeways
Posted: 08/16/2009 05:10:38 PM PDT
An emotionally disturbed man dumped cash out on two freeways in Glendora Sunday, prompting motorists to pull over and try to pick up the money from the roadway, authorities said.
The 56-year-old man, whose name was not released, then went to the Azusa Police Department where he told officials he wanted to commit suicide, Azusa police Lt. Steve Hunt said in a written statement.
The incident began about 11:50 a.m. when the man started throwing money out of his car on the westbound 210 Freeway between the 57 Freeway and Grand Avenue, California Highway Patrol Sgt. Kurt Stormes said.
Six or seven vehicles pulled over, and about 10 people ran into traffic lanes to grab up the cash, Stormes said.CHP officers recovered about $1,000 from the freeway, in 20-, 50- and 100-dollar bills, he added.
Officials ask that anyone who picked up some of the money to turn it into the Azusa Police Department so it can be returned to the man.
Police also cautioned motorists against trying to pick up money on the freeway.
Please do not stop on the freeway to look for money,” the police statement said. “Stopping on the freeway can be hazardous or even fatal.”
When The Saints Go Cataloguing
courtesy of Hi-Grade Lenny the Puglistic Dopeman
Honey-Soy Beef Dippers
Honey-Soy Beef Dippers
by Meghan Pembleton
1 pound flank steak
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup honey
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons olive oil
Metal or wood grilling skewers
Cut beef crosswise about 1-inch thick and cut each slice into cubes. Place meat in a zip-top plastic bag. Add lemon juice, honey, soy sauce and oil. Seal bag and turn to coat meat. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes, up to overnight. (If using wood skewers, soak them in water while meat is marinating.) Heat grill to high.
Death Cab For Kerouac
Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar Team Up For Kerouac Soundtrack
by Michael D. Ayers, N.Y.
In an ode to iconic author Jack Kerouac, alt-country veteran Jay Farrar has teamed up with Death Cab for Cutie‘s Ben Gibbard for a collaborative album entitled “One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur,” Billboard.com has learned.
The twelve song set is due October 20 via F-Stop/Atlantic and will serve as the soundtrack to the Kerouac documentary of the same title. Farrar and Gibbard were approached by the filmmakers in 2007 about writing music for the film, which documents the events surrounding the author’s time spent in the Big Sur region of California.
Both musicians are long time Kerouac fans and according to Farrar, about 90% of the album’s lyrics draw directly from the Big Sur text, including the poem “Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur.” The recordings came to fruition over the course of three years, with the initial session taking place in San Francisco during summer 2007.
Pickled Kiwi In Nude
Drunk nude man wanders into wrong hotel room, scares woman into the bathroom and falls asleep
REUTERS
Thursday, August 13th 2009, 10:27 AM
WELLINGTON – An extremely drunk, naked man lost his way at a New Zealand hotel and ended up sleeping in the wrong room, forcing its female occupant to hide in the bathroom, local media reported.
“He was a bit surprised that there were two people in his room and he was butt naked,” Sergeant Steve Watt of Queenstown police told the Southland Times.
As the intruder slept, the startled woman took refuge in the bathroom as her husband summoned hotel staff.
The man, who could not remember whom he had been with nor what room he had been in, and had no clothes or wallet.
Police gave him a ride home clad in a hotel bathrobe, but let him off after the guests and hotel decided not to press charges.
“It was far too funny,” said Watt.
It Might Get Loud
Jimmy Page, Jack White, and The Edge Say Guitar Heroes Are Here to Stay
Jack White, Jimmy Page, and The Edge in a publicity still from It Might Get Loud. Photo by Eric Lee, 2008, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
The new documentary It Might Get Loud, which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, is a love letter to the guitar. Director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) managed to enlist possibly the most iconic guitar players of three generations—Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White—for what Page calls “an abstract, almost metaphysical” exploration of the instrument’s power. If the climactic “summit,” in which the trio gather at a soundstage to play together, inevitably falls short of the stratospheric expectations, the film does feature such priceless scenes as Page air-guitaring to a favorite Link Wray single, White hammering together a one-string “diddley bow” on his porch and making a joyful racket, and Edge demonstrating just how simple his playing is when the effects are all taken away.
Outstanding.
“Like The Fist Of An Angry God”
from Discover Magazine’s Bad Astronomy
Like the fist of an angry god
Deep in the outer realms of our solar system, well over a billion kilometers away, something bizarre happened at Saturn’s F ring.
I mean, seriously: what the hell happened here?
This is one of the latest pictures returned from the remarkable human achievement that is the Cassini spacecraft, a probe the size of a school bus that has been orbiting the ringed planet since 2004. It’s returned one incredible picture after another, and lately — as Saturn’s orbit has brought it to a point where the rings are nearly edge-on to the Sun — things have gotten not only spectacular but also really weird.
All Night Long
James Frey Reading 7pm Tonight @ Amagansett Public Library
Doing the first, and most likely, only public reading from my new book, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible –
Next Friday at the Amagansett Public Library at 7:00.
215 Main Street, Amagansett, NY.
The book doesn’t come out until next year and I won’t be touring.
– James Frey
Library Science
Cucumber Soup
(Chicago Tribune/Bill Hogan)
Cucumber soup
There are numerous recipes for cucumber soups, some served hot, others chilled. This hot one has its roots in Guatemala and is adapted from “Healthy Latin Cooking” by Steven Raichlen.
Prep: 20 minutes
Cook: 10 minutes
Makes: 4 servings (7 cups)