December 2011
4 posts
WatchI don’t reblog things just because they’re important or serious or blahblahblah. But I do when they’re that and hilarious.
cracked:
Rick Perry’s Really Gay Creekside Christmas Party
YouTube took our Rick Perry video down again, so here it is in our own video player so you can watch it whenever and forever. We will not remove it. It only took YouTube an hour to remove it the...
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Intelligence Upgrade
Anyone even pretending to write, read, or think needs to get Lapham’s Quarterly. It’s the closest a real publication has ever come to videogame books, where simply owning them makes you permanently better at something. Of course you still need to read it, in the same way someone ordering a rare Kobe steak still “needs” to eat it. Every issue has a theme, like “Food” or “The City”, and collects...
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Brilliant Bottle Openers
Beer Magazine proves several stereotypes false just by existing, including the idea of alcohol only damaging your career and bank balance. Some people have elevated opening into an art, and I’ve found everything from flickity-dickity-butterfly openers (you can practice without losing fingers!) to the Brewzer multi-tool, which makes McGyver look useless.
This has more useful prongs and...
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The True Names Of Taste
TAPS magazine continues to expand, succeed, and hire me. Of course I’m claiming those are related. In the Fall 2011 issue I submit the beer flavor wheel to true science, and find it’s even more enjoyable that way.
Esters are incredible. People know that all flavors are chemicals, and if they’re stupid they say ‘just’ chemicals as if all of life were a bit beneath...