This one’s for my Dad. Street vendor food for dinner is always a good idea: The prices are in HKD, not USD.
Lobster Balls
Author: Sam Kornstein
Yer Blues
This is pretty amazing. The Dirty Mac, with John Lennon and Eric Clapton on guitar, Keith Richards on bass, and Mitch Mitchell on drums, playing Yer Blues for a Rolling Stones TV special in 1968:
The Economist Gets Beer Wrong
And it’s too bad, because I usually really like The Economist. They’ve published an article this week titled “Coming to a head: Mathematicians invent a new way to pour stout.” It’s mostly a useless article about how a scientist claims that Guiness wouldn’t need to add those little nitrogen gas spheres to their beer bottles if the bottles were lined with — wait for it — coffee filters. I won’t even comment on why someone thought this might be interesting and relevant news. But the worst part is what the article gets wrong: ON MARCH 17th, St Patrick’s day, countless pints of Irish stout will be poured in pubs and homes around the world. As they sup their beer, revellers might do well
Swear Jar
I usually try to avoid promoting commercial breweries, such as Anheuser-Busch, but this is too good: Via Blog About Beer.
Bright Eyes
I couldn’t make tonight’s Bright Eyes show at the House of Blues. Here’s what my friend, who is at the show, just texted me: “God came down with a symphony of angels and landed on Conor Oberest’s shoulder and quietly whispered ‘play son’ into his ear. And the crowd took a knee and gently wept from the beauty.” I’m not yet a huge fan of the new album, but now I regret my decision not to go.
The Happiest Man In America
Is a tall married upper middle class retired Asian-American Jew living in Hawaii. His name is Alvin Wong. From the NYT: For the last three years, Gallup has called 1,000 randomly selected American adults each day and asked them about their emotional status, work satisfaction, eating habits, illnesses, stress levels and other indicators of their quality of life. It’s part of an effort to measure the components of “the good life.” The responses are plugged into a formula, called the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, and then sorted by geographic area and other demographic criteria. The accompanying maps show where well-being is highest and lowest around the country. The New York Times asked Gallup to come up with a statistical composite for the
Wasted and Ready
Ben Kweller put on a great show at the House of Blues last night. It was just him, his acoustic guitar hooked up to a distortion pedal, and a piano. And he wasn’t shy with the acoustic distortion. Here’s a clip I shot of the encore: I first saw Ben soon after Sha Sha came out in 2002 at the long-gone Axis club on Lansdowne. I’ve seen him four times since, and have never been let down. Especially after he added a pedal steel player for his Changing Horses tour. He says he’s got a new album coming out in a few months.
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At first I didn’t find this funny: I changed my mind.
Come Pick Me Up
I’ve been listening to too much Ryan Adams lately: Listen to that pedal steel.
Server Attention Span
Via xkcd, another dorky comic: I recently heard that the xkcd author lives in Cambridge, and decided to check out his about section for the first time today. Here’s what I found: Who are you? I’m just this guy, you know? I’m a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Before starting xkcd, I worked on robots at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. As of June 2007 I live in Massachusetts. In my spare time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around. What does XKCD stand for? It’s not