“She’s doing great...without the negative influences of Daniel and the allure of Brooklyn,’’ said her lawyer John LoTurco. He said that Anderson needs to stay out of trouble for six months as part of her deal—which shouldn't be that hard now that she's living with her mom in Connecticut. “The allure of Brooklyn was her boyfriend’s circle of friends and the hipster lifestyle that was going on at that period of time — the drinking, the drugging,” LoTurco added. [ more › ] 
What are you telling your coworkers?
Not harsh enough.
I am the taste of month-old diarrhea in your mouth.
Fuck you, I'm classic and undefeated.
(My font).
I would add a shitty shithouse poet.
Alternative: I am Avatar.
UK supermarket chain Tesco, the focal point of the horse meat burger scandal , tweeted this on Thursday.
Just, neigh. I mean, nay.
And, the apology.
To their credit, they haven't deleted the original tweet.
Previous social media fuck up of the week.
An Arkansas 911 operator did not enter a call into a computer system that would have notified police and fire dispatchers of a mother and son trapped inside a vehicle in a pond, authorities said Wednesday. The woman died hours later, and her 5-year-old son was in critical condition Wednesday, police said.
The Little Rock operator who handled the call from 39-year-old Jinglei Yi has been placed on paid administrative leave while authorities try to figure out what happened. The operator has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
Yi called 911 about 8 a.m. Monday after her vehicle hit a patch of ice, went over a curb and ended up in the pond, Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Cassandra Davis said. A county dispatcher transferred the call to the 911 operator, who spoke with Yi briefly before hanging up and contacting an ambulance service.
An ambulance was dispatched a few minutes later to the west Little Rock pond, but police officers and firefighters weren’t dispatched until about a half-hour later — after the ambulance service called to verify that they were en route.
If Chinese media cared to report this in the same manner that some Western media occasionally reports Chinese stories of this ilk, here’s how it might look:
A Chinese woman has lost her life after an American emergency hotline operator bungled her call for help. America experts wonder whether the case — with all the customary trappings of negligence and laziness – is symptomatic of American decline.
That the operator is currently being paid to not work might be the clearest indictment of a system that has shown a disturbing tendency to reward carelessness and anti-intellectualism. The incident may also speak to America’s long, unfortunate history of strained relations, often characterized by violence, with immigrants and foreigners, as most clearly exemplified by Arizona SB 1070.
Here are what some American netizens said about the Arkansas incident:
Manly HA: If it was a couple having an argument they would have sent 20 cops with guns drawn.
Nameless Internet Guy: i was once in a head on collision and police and firefighters showed up, but the ambulance didn’t. the police officer had to radio again for the ambulance. fortunately everything turned out okay, but it’s scary to think that mistakes like this sometimes happen.
Dan: Was the 911 call answered by customer service in India or have we not got that far yet.
Jessepal: And these are the people we are to depend on to send help when an intruder with a gun is after us? I think I’ll keep my gun-thanks anyway!
The final comment is a reference to President Barack Obama’s latest attempt to restrict the private ownership of assault weapons, a proposed law that American politicians actually oppose!
As it turns out, at least one study has shown that laughter in the workplace can actually improve productivity.
Of course, that didn’t help our submitter in St. Louis from totally freaking out when she found this anonymous note on her desk at her “conservative” office, where she says that although silence pretty much reigns, “I giggle and talk loudly all the time.”
Our submitter later found out that the note was a “prank” from a friendly coworker. (But — paranoia alert — was it completely in jest, or a p-a power play?)
related: To my coworker, the thundering cow
The Federal Trade Commission is forcing POM Wonderful to stop exaggerating claims on their advertisements (see above). POM's main marketing campaign has showed that drinking the elixir from a bu...
Continue reading "Pomegranate Juice Not All It's Cracked up to Be" >The lede ran in a Toronto Star column Friday about a sexual assault victim testifying against a doctor who she said violated her while she was sedated.
Via: thestar.com
“Snowblind” plays similarly to producer Christoffer Berg’s work with Little Dragon and Fever Ray. Bouncy gargles of synth coexist with swanky woodwind arrangements and a suavely soaring female vocals. On “Snowblind” they belong to artist and designer Heidi Kilpeläinen, the voice and songwriter behind synth-pop project HK119. The lounge-y keys and expressively loose woodwinds throughout the verses build toward an explosive chorus, which is to be expected considering the very calm aroma of the first two minutes. Right at the two-minute mark arrives a sweeping chorus where Kilpeläinen slides her delivery from suave to highly emotive, aptly backed by a whirring synth pad that adds immensely to the anthemic transition.
“Snowblind” is off Kilpeläinen’s upcoming album, Imaginature. Her third full-length, it will be released on March 25th by One Little Indian. Check out the track’s video below, which shows her recent fascination with the “natural world, taking inspiration from the simplest sound of a birdsong or waves crashing along the shore.” It’s a thematic contrast to her earlier works, which were more engrossed in the future rather than the contemplative and illuminated present.
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Letter to Romenesko
At 7:58 AM CT, I received this email from an editor who requested he only be identified as “an avid Romenesko reader.”
Subject: Fecal transplant story. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and predict that this will end up as the most-emailed story in the history of the NYT, with the subject line: “I was thinking you’d make a good donor.”
I don’t know if it’s on track to shatter NYT’s most-emailed record, but the story was #1 at 2 p.m. CT:
* Fecal treatment gains favor for some illnesses (nytimes.com)
UPDATE: The Wisconsin State Journal’s GEORGE HESSELBERG writes: “I would have to agree with the guy. Everybody was talking about this story by our medical reporter, David Wahlberg, and forwarding it.”
Jon SchubinTried to take K here are a few weeks but it was closed!
Dear Bushwick
Inside the long, narrow dining room, couples talk quietly and a cyclist massages a cramp from his bare, tattooed calf. A small kitchen relays smells of meat and vegetables sizzling in duck fat, of hot oil meeting battered shrimp. Jessica Wilson is the chef. She used to run the kitchen at Goat Town, in the East Village. Here, she cooks English-inspired dishes with American ingredients: A grand pork chop ($20), the centerpiece of the menu, sits on shaved brussels sprouts in a bacon-y vinaigrette. The sprouts pack flavor without adding weight to the dish. This is the sort of simple, seasonal food that might change your mind about contemporary English cooking. Tiny appetizers are ideal with the cocktails (all priced at $10) that make use of many gins and exciting tinctures. Fried potato peels ($4) are a tangle of see-through fairy wings, dusted with salt and vinegar. There’s a fine duck-sausage roll ($6) with ginger-cranberry chutney, but it has a sad, soggy bottom of undercooked pastry (no, this does not make it more traditional). Halved, smoked eggs ($6) with creamy yolks and horseradish butter are squeaky and wonderfully messy. As prices go up, so do portions. A slab of crisp-skinned pork belly on wilted beet leaves ($12) could make a light meal paired with dressed roasted carrots ($5) or a shaved vegetable salad ($9) studded with cheddar. Big, juicy oysters ($11) are hot under a blanket of bread crumbs, spooning with fennel stuffing. A blob of goose terrine ($12) tastes precisely of Christmas: racy game, pickled plums, and enough clove to numb the tongue—Wilson is not shy with spices. A mutton shoulder ($21), though cooked inconsistently, was terrific when it was served tender and pink in the middle. Service is scatterbrained but caring. Twice, something my party ordered simply never arrived (on both occasions, apologies were genuine). Despite this, and the long waits that can draw out between dishes, it’s easy to see why locals like to gather at Dear Bushwick: They can eat and drink well without much fuss.
More information here.
Chef and former Momofuku R&D guy Daniel Burns, who also cooked at the Fat Duck and Noma, is opening a beer bar and restaurant in Greenpoint with Danish brewer Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, Eater NY reports. Tørst, which means thirst, will open in March. A 25-seat full-service restaurant called Luksus will debut in the back of the space where Burns will serve "Scandinavian-influenced American fare." Meanwhile, Jon Langley, formerly of DBGB, will be the general manager. Construction is coming along, the taps are being installed, and Jarnit-Bjergsø says to get ready to try some beers that have never before been served in the U.S., and also, that they're hoping to be "the best beer bar in the country." [Eater NY]
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Filed Under: coming soon, daniel burns, luksus, momofuku, new nordic, noma, tørst, the fat duck
The Donald tweeted congratulations to Deadspin for their amazing Manti Te'o scoop . Deadspin's response was perfection.
Jon SchubinI hope he wins all the money. Cops frequently act with impunity, with all sorts of reasons why there should be more deference shown to them than normal citizens. You absolutely should be able to flip off a cop. Punitive damages will be the only way to modify behavior.
Or rather, from being hassled by the NYPD. In October 2011, Aneury Peralta of East Harlem got stuck between a garbage truck and another car so he tried to maneuver into a curbside parking spot, but the other driver wouldn't move and started honking incessantly. Peralta “did what virtually everyone does in New York. He gave him the finger,” his lawyer tells the Daily News. The only problem: The other driver turned out to be a plainclothes cop. Peralta's ticket for disorderly conduct was dismissed, and a separate charge for resisting arrest, which Peralta says was a set up, was never prosecuted. Now Peralta is suing the NYPD for $2.1 million for violating his civil rights, as well as his right to flip off fellow drivers with impunity.
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Filed Under: middle finger usage ,nypd ,lawsuits
Jon SchubinUm, this is a little generous. The hot food at Stewart's is pretty God-awful.
Casey Normile
Stewart's is a local favorite, of course. Whenever you see their famous maroon and white signs, you know there's a place to get a cup of coffee, a buttered hard roll, snacks, or ice cream.
But a part of the Stewart's lineup I had never tried was their spinning shelves of hot food -- things like the eggwich, hamburger, and... pizza.
So I decided to try it.
there's moreJon Schubin1-2-4-3-5
Also: "People seem to be split on mayonnaise. I love it."
Hate this guy.
People seem to be split on mayonnaise. I love it.
I love eggs. I love oil. Put the two together in a rich and delicate emulsion and I’m in heaven. I’ll slather it on a BLT, dunk my duck-fat fries in its stiff peaks, and smash my nearly perfect hard-boiled eggs into its voluptuous bosom.
Sure, there are problems with the commercially made version. Most are made with nasty solvent-extracted soy-based oils. And I shudder to think about the cruel and unusual conditions to which the chickens who laid the eggs were subjected. But these aren’t matters that concern me right now, because mayo is off the diet.
In some weird twist of fate, somehow the Mayo Clinic has come up with recommendations for eating to reduce your cholesterol numbers that does not include its namesake condiment. Bummer. So, what do they think I should eat instead?
Let me clarify something. I’m not on a low fat diet. Really, I’m not on any prescribed diet at all. Mostly I am trying to lose the weight I put on by eating fried foods, sour cream, fatty meats, extra pieces of crispy roast chicken skin, white flour in a variety of wonderful forms, ice cream, cheese and butter with reckless abandon for the better part of a month.
I’m doing this primarily by eating less overall and moderating my portion sizes. But I’m also severely limiting my intake of all the foods listed above for the next couple of months. The goal is to show that I can lower my cholesterol numbers with diet alone.
However, I have to admit that I just bought a Kinect. Hey, any movement is a start.
Anyhow I was encouraged to see this report come out from the Mayo Clinic. Because it seems to indicate that I’m on the right and righteous path. Still, based on their recommendations there are some more foods I should be eating to reduce my numbers. However, one of their recommendations I’m totally staying away from.
1. Oatmeal, oat bran and high-fiber foods
This one I own. I’m all over this and winter is the season for oatmeal. As a snack, I’ve been eating organic heritage flakes (which are high in fiber) either plain or with a bit of nonfat milk. Fluid dairy is one of those things I’m trying to avoid, but I just love milk with cereal sometimes.
2. Fish and omega-3 fatty acids
I could be doing better with fish. A lot of the problem is that fish is crazy making. Either it’s over fished, or the fishing gear degrades the environment, or the fish is highly contaminated with mercury or PCBs. However, after looking at the list of heart-healthy fish I realized that herring are on it, and pickled herring is one of my favorite snacks. Granted, Mrs. Fussy hates it when my breath smells like pickled herring. But I think “for worse” was included in our wedding vows.
The Mayo people also suggest ground flax seeds and canola oil. I know that one Shop Rite dietician rolled her eyes at me when I said my plan was to grind whole flax seeds with my teeth, but that remains my intention. Bah, science. And we do occasionally use some organic expeller pressed canola oil in the Fussy household. But mostly we use…
4. Olive oil
You really wouldn’t believe the amount of olive oil I have in the house these days. It gets used for pretty much anything. It’s drizzled on popcorn, rubbed onto potato skins, and is the first fat I reach for when cooking anything in a pan. A while back I even did a blind tasting of several oils, but I need to dig up those notes before I can share with you the results.
3. Walnuts, almonds and other nuts
With all the excitement about olive oil I skipped right over number three. I’ve been going through bags of walnuts a small handful at a time. I like chewing them with a small amount of very dark chocolate and letting the two flavors commingle in my mouth and form a rich, dark, complex paste. This is really all the sweets I need.
But I’ve also been snacking on cashews. Hazelnuts too. In fact there is a very special hazelnut that I’ve been meaning to tell you about, but that’s been waiting in the wings too.
5. Foods with added plant sterols or stanols
Nope. Not going to happen. I’m trying to do this on as much of a whole foods diet as I can. That means avoiding things like margarine or anything that’s specifically modified to help take off weight or improve your cholesterol.
From the perspective of taking off weight, so far so good. I’m finally letting an occasional beer, cocktail, or glass of wine back into my life. Seltzer with a splash of bitters has been accompanying most of my dinners lately. I’m trying to eat my vegetables first, and eat a ton of them before moving onto other items on the plate. And as I mentioned yesterday, I’m opening myself up to things that are explicitly marketed as vegan.
Now all I need to do is to remember to make an appointment and have my blood taken at the end of March so I can show all the progress I’ve made and leave this nonsense behind.
Let me tell you, when it’s all said and done, that deep fried Buffalo burger is going to be so much fun.
Jon SchubinThese beers were getting way TOO cheap for the area at $5. Disappointing, although last time I was there, the $5 limit was meaning some smaller pours. Overall, still good value.
It’s sad, but it’s an inevitability in a world of rising beer prices. Effective January 1st, both The Pony Bar HK (637 10th Ave. at 45th St., Hell’s Kitchen) and The Pony Bar UES (1444 First Ave. at 75th St., Upper East Side) will raise the price of a pour of beer to $6 from its current $5. While the news is likely to disappoint some bar-goers, it’s the rising cost of beers at wholesale - especially small-batch, specialty kegs - that has made it difficult, the bar’s owner says, to absorb the cost any longer.
BUY HOLD OR SELL?
We all jumped to conclusions on this one.
Turns out he just wanted to spice up his interior decor and maybe save his wood floors from a bit of wear and tear. Classic media blunder.
Source: hypervocal.com
Image by Courtesy of Harpo Studios, Inc., George Burns / AP
Jon SchubinWhat is a Bunker Party?
We were at the Wythe Hotel on Saturday night. It's a taste of the Meatpacking District in Brooklyn, which is terrible. Although sometimes you want to be classy and still be able to go to the dive bar for the next drink. But no MEGACLUBS please.
A monster club is slated to open in Williamsburg soon. It sits right next door to Andrew Tarlow's hip and wildly popular Wythe Hotel. Here are the specs:
· The name is "Output"The people behind Output are planning to build up the hype for this project by hosting a Bunker party on February 22. Will Output and the Wythe Hotel coexist on the same block, in perfect harmony? Or will the technoheads clash with the hipsters that frequent Reynard and The Ides? Only time will tell.
· 452 person-capacity main club
· A back room and rooftop area
· High-end "Funktion One" speakers
· Full bar
· Some type of dining component
· Techno and house music
· That name again is "Output"
New Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has announced an upgrade for the country's military equipment: socks. Shoigu says that by the end of this year, the armed forces must phase out the traditional "portyanki," or footwraps, that Russian soldiers have worn for centuries.
Claire Bigg explains the tradition:
They were introduced into the Russian Army by Tsar Peter the Great, who first saw Dutch soldiers bandage their feet during a visit to the Netherlands.
Advocates say footwraps are more resistant than socks and offer better protection from the cold.
For many war veterans, the art of bandaging one's feet is an important hallmark of a real soldier.
But critics say footwraps are unpractical and cause blisters. Since foot cloths are designed to tightly hug the foot, sweating can also be an issue.
Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltic countries have all done away with the footwraps since the fall of the Soviet Union, but they've stubbornly hung on in Russia despite the efforts of several defense ministers to move to socks. We'll see if Shoigu has more success.
On Wednesday, December 12, North Korea successfully launched its first satellite into space, a triumph that lasted all of a few hours. Later that day, NBC News reported that the satellite was "tumbling out of control." By Monday, a Harvard astronomer had concluded that the satellite was "entirely inactive at this point."
Obviously, what this means is that the North Koreans are now officially "space conquerors":
A recent editorial in the paper repeats the usual exhortation to each and every North Korean to “devote oneself to building an economic giant with burning patriotic enthusiasm to fully demonstrate Korea of the sun.” What’s interesting is that the state-run Rodong Sinmun seems to employ a new, unofficial name for the North Korean people: “space conquerors.” In only 365 short words, it refers to North Koreans five different times as “space conquerors,” according to the official English translation.
To be fair, if anyone could use a completely unwarranted morale boost, it's the people of North Korea.
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Filed Under: dear leader ,north korea
A ginger cat named Orlando beat out three professional investors and a group of students in a yearlong stock-picking competition, the U.K.'s Observer reports, after the stocks he chose by "throwing his favourite toy mouse on a grid of numbers allocated to different companies" ended up making more than 10 percent on the year. Orlando is just days away from getting hired by Goldman Sachs and demanding an eight-figure bonus and a promotion to partner.
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Filed Under: business ,wall street ,stock-picking ,orlando the cat ,masters of the mew-niverse
Jon SchubinWANT WANT.
[Photograph: Robyn Lee]
How do you precede a mighty bowl of comforting chicken and coconut broth at Midtown's Tabata Noodle? These mild nuggets of juicy chicken ($6) with grated radish on top. The thin craggy batter emphasizes nooks and crannies over absolute crispness, but for the price, and the mild sweet onion flavors that accompany the chicken and subtle radish, it's a fine start to the meal. A sprinkling of white pepper only helps.
540 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 (map)
212-290-7691
tabatanoodle.com
About the author: Max Falkowitz is the editor of Serious Eats: New York. You can follow him on Twitter at @maxfalkowitz.
Look at that face. That is what true terror looks like.
Image by RIA Novosti / Reuters
Image by RIA Novosti / Reuters
Eye-grabbing outdoor ad for the best named spirit on the market.
I love good 3-D billboard work.
If you know where this is located, please comment.
I've only seen it here @ Pretty Bits.
Update: It's in Chicago.
Jon SchubinChan, who clearly takes the bible very seriously, is also careful to avoid ham, rounded haircuts, tattoos, men with injured genitals, fortune tellers, gossip, shrimp, lobster and pre-marital sex
Hong Wrong puts it perfectly:
Thousands of Hong Kong Christians were unified in intolerance yesterday during a protest against homosexuality at government headquarters…
In a city that loves to protest — everything from its chief executive to luxury brands — this might be the worst: people demonstrating against a perceived brave new world in which they’re no longer allowed to be openly bigoted homophobes.
The sadly named event, “Inclusive Love Praying Concert,” was organized by the Evangelical Free Church of China Yan Fook Church at Tamar Park. Police say 5,000 people turned up, while organizers claim 50,000, continuing Hong Kong’s laughable trend of wildly disparate big-number estimations.
The concert was convened to protest legislation that would, in SCMP’s words, “outlaw discrimination against sexual minorities.”
Fuck that! Amirite, reverends?
“If this becomes the law, those who oppose homosexuality will have their freedom of speech restricted,” said the Reverend Jayson Tam, convenor of the “praying concert”.
Good job, Reverend Tam. You’ve played the “bigotry should be protected as free speech” card, which happens to be one of the oldest and most pathetic arguments in the book, not just because we as individuals have always understood the basic difference between one’s right to do something and whether doing it is right, but as a society we’re constantly endeavoring to improve our lot as a human collective. You won’t join us, I take it, preferring your own crusade? So be it. There’s a box over there, with your own pulpit. Just keep walking, you’ll bump into it. Keep going and going, and see for yourself whether there’s an edge of the earth you can fall off.
Because its summary of the event was awesome, we’ll give the last word to Hong Wrong:
Ann Chan, 22, said “I don’t want the legislation as homosexuality goes against our Christian values.” Chan, who clearly takes the bible very seriously, is also careful to avoid ham, rounded haircuts, tattoos, men with injured genitals, fortune tellers, gossip, shrimp, lobster and pre-marital sex – all of which are also banned by the outdated bestseller.
Full Lowdown: Thousands of Bigoted Christian Homophobes Gather for Demo (Hong Wrong)
This week in my Bloomberg column, I reviewed Bill’s in Midtown, the Nello-esque revamp of the old Bill’s Gay Nineties space. The new venue has retained a third of the original name and even less of the spirit.
I awarded half a star.
In case anyone’s curious, here are my other half-star reviews, along with At Vermilion, which wasn’t technically a starred review, but I think it qualifies anyway. And you know what, let’s throw Brasserie Pushkin in there too.
Editor’s Note: Before publication, I redacted one restaurant from this list because the chef left shortly after the bad reviews.
