Kids play video games
Full immersion. My favourite might be the girl at 0:56.
Albuquerque & Breaking Bad
I spent a highschool year in Albuquerque, 13 years ago. One of my friends from back then, who was the Yente in a production of Fiddler on the Roof in which I was Motel, is now writing highly perceptive articles for various publications, including the New Yorker. This is one of them.
I'm a sucker for quirky maps
And here are fourty of them. Tip of the hat to Natalia Alfonso.
Theremins & Russian Nesting Dolls
Sounds like a strange combination, huh? It is.
Civil Forfeiture & American Freedom
One of the more shocking articles I have read recently. To sum up, sheriffs in Texas and some other states can legally seize assets from people they somehow "suspect" and then use said assets to pay themselves bonuses or throw lavish anti-drug parties (oxymoron?!). It's essentially self-serve policing.
Car Noises Are Fake
That engine sound? Fake. Turn signal? MP3.
Another Day, Another Photo Contest
This time by Red Bull. 28,000 entries by 6,417 photographers from 124 countries - here are some of the best.
Turning 30 soon? Here's some sage advice...
...from a somewhat surprising source, Olivia Wilde (no relation, I think) in Glamour.
Restaurant reviews from a spoilt 9-year-old
One of the many reasons I love McSweeney's:
“Mom said that all the women in her book club already went to the restaurant, but I didn’t know why that meant we had to go to the restaurant too. And I don’t know why Mom is even in the book club because she doesn’t read any of the books and, on the nights before the book club meetings at our house, she says “Fuck” a lot and asks me to look on Wikipedia. Then I have to read the plot synopsis and major characters to her while she vacuums, which is hard because the vacuum is really loud and I have to follow her around the house holding my computer and reading.”
Mumford & Friends
...record the best music video of the season.
Picasso, Baby
Jay-Z (or Jay Z, I guess. Poor hyphen.) takes a cue from Marina Abramović and raps for six hours directly into people's faces.
