Month: June 2010

25 Vegetarian and Vegan Meals from 2009
The Kitchn’s Best Recipes of 2009

[From 25 Vegetarian and Vegan Meals from 2009 The Kitchn’s Best Recipes of 2009 | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn]

Alan Brinkley’s comprehensive new biography of Time magazine co-founder Henry R. Luce, The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, has but one flaw. Then again, this “shortcoming” has more to do with my obsessions than it does with any inadequacy on Brinkley’s part. My idiosyncratic complaint: Brinkley doesn’t spend near enough space on the proselytizing enthusiasm the mogul and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, had for LSD and how that enthusiasm bled into Luce’s Time and Life.

[From How Time and Life magazines helped turn America on to LSD. – By Jack Shafer – Slate Magazine]

[From Udi Koomran: Ariel Pink with added Pizzazz]

AP: Yeah yeah. All the stuff that we hear nowadays, dripping with emotion and sincerity – it’s all a fucking joke, man. I mean for me, this is Broadway, this is like, ‘I’m takin’ it to New Yawk!’ (both laugh) It’s added pizzazz.

[From Ariel Pink interview – Hear – ThreeThousand]

Brought to you by the Coalition for a Safer Detroit – the same group that successfully got medical marijuana placed on the ballot in 2004 which passed – the ordinance amendment would allow anyone 21-years-old or older to legally possess less than an ounce of marijuana on private property, amending Chapter 38 of the city code regulating controlled substances.

[From Marijuana ordinance up to voters in fall | freep.com | Detroit Free Press]

This post is about the 25 most extreme female bodies ever from largest to smallest, most longest, most shortest, most pierced, most loud, most old and so on… Lets start with number 1, Svetlana Pankratova, she have longest legs in the world. Enjoy!

[From 25 Most Extreme Female Bodies | Indian Pakistani Men Magazine]

[From YouTube – Manifesting the Mind DVD Sneak Preview]

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ckquote cite=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/17/rachel-maddows-oval-offic_n_615515.html”> [From Rachel Maddow’s Oval Office Oil Spill Speech: What She Wishes Obama Had Said (VIDEO)]

You Are What You Eat is a series of portraits made by examining the interiors of refrigerators in homes across the United States.

For three years I traveled around the country exploring food issues. The more time I spent speaking and listening to individual stories, the more I began to think about the foods we consume and the effects they have on us as individuals and communities. An intense curiosity and questions about stewardship led me to begin to make these unconventional portraits.

A refrigerator is both a private and a shared space. One person likened the question, “May I photograph the interior of your fridge?” to asking someone to pose nude for the camera. Each fridge is photographed “as is.” Nothing added, nothing taken away.

These are portraits of the rich and the poor. Vegetarians, Republicans, members of the NRA, those left out, the under appreciated, former soldiers in Hitler’s SS, dreamers, and so much more. We never know the full story of one’s life.

My hope is that we will think deeply about how we care. How we care for our bodies. How we care for others. And how we care for the land.

Audio track is from a collection of sound recordings I have been making over the past year of people eating their favorite foods.

[From trickhouse#6: mark menjivar]

“I knew Cary Grant very well and he loved … what did they call it? Acid! LSD. He said he liked to take the trip.” – Debbie Reynolds

“I learned many things in the quiet of that room … I learned that everything is or becomes its own opposite … You know, we are all unconsciously holding our anus. In one LSD dream … I imagined myself as a giant penis launching off from earth like a spaceship.” – Cary Grant

[From Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD – WFMU’s Beware of the Blog]

According to CBS News, Ozzy Osbourne may help scientists understand how some people’s bodies can endure “excessive substance abuse.”

Osbourne, the former frontman for Black Sabbath and a notorious partier, will allow scientists to study his blood.

The Prince of Darkness, 61, battled alcohol and drug addictions for forty years and calls himself a “medical miracle.”

Scientists hope that mapping Osbourne’s genetic code will provide insight into why some–like Osbourne–can survive “excessive substance abuse.”

[From Scientists Study Ozzy Osbourne’s Blood To Understand Why He’s Still Alive Despite Drug Abuse (VIDEO)]

MONROE, Ohio – A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said.
The “King of Kings” statue, one of southwest Ohio’s most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati.
The lightning strike set the statue ablaze around 11:15 p.m., Monroe police dispatchers said.
The sculpture, 62 feet tall and 40 feet wide at the base, showed Jesus from the torso up and was nicknamed Touchdown Jesus because of the way the arms were raised, similar to a referee signaling a touchdown. It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, which is all that remained early Tuesday.
The fire spread from the statue to an adjacent amphitheater but was confined to the attic area, and no one was injured, police Chief Mark Neu said. The fire department would release a monetary damage estimate Tuesday, he said.
Travelers on Interstate 75 often were startled to come upon the huge statue by the roadside, but many said America needs more symbols like it. So many people stopped at the church campus that church officials had to build a walkway to accommodate them.
The 4,000-member, nondenominational church was founded by former horse trader Lawrence Bishop and his wife. Bishop said in 2004 he was trying to help people, not impress them, with the statue. He said his wife proposed the Jesus figure as a beacon of hope and salvation, and they spent about $250,000 to finance it.

[From 6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning – Yahoo! News]