While poking around on the internet this morning, I discovered a shocking statistic. Over half (58%) of IMDB’s Worst 100 Movies were produced in the 21st century. As in, within the last 8 years. On a list that includes both foreign films and films dating back to 1954, that’s quite an accomplishment. I know IMDB is not the final word in all thing cinematic, but it’s certainly an oft-used source.
What I want to know is whose decision it was to make SuperBabies:Baby Geniuses 2 after Baby Geniuses had already made the Top 100 Worst Movies list.
I got Sarah and I reservations for Le Bernardin on July 7th. It’s going to be the fanciest, classiest, most expensive and, hopefully, most delicious meal either of us have ever had. I’m insanely excited. Here is, according to menupages, the Chef’s Tasting Menu, which I fully intend to get:
Conch - thinly sliced conch marinated peruvian style; dried sweet corn.
Sea Urchin/Caviar - warm sea urchin ravioli; osetra caviar; sea urchin emulsion
Halibut - poached halibut; grapes and sweet and sour saffron shallot; verjus-lemon grass emulsion.
Wild Salmon - barely cooked wild alaskan salmon; daikon, snow peas and enoki salad; sweet pea-wasabi sauce muscat
Surf and Turf - white tuna and seared japanese kobe beef “korean bbq style”; fresh kimchi; lemon brown butter emulsion.
Lobster - baked lobster; wilted romaine, squash and candied ginger; lobster, port and tamarind reduction.
“Egg” - milk chocolate pot de crème, caramel foam, maple syrup maldon sea salt
Chocolate-Corn - soft chocolate ganache and sweet corn in three textures: crunchy corn and hazelnut base, corn sorbet, and corn tuile.
Bring it on, Ripert!
What am I doing.
I’m very happy to announce that I’m going to be on the new “Office” spinoff on NBC!! I haven’t been this excited since Lisa lost on “Top Chef.”
Click the link above for more info.
Yay Aziz! This is some of the first news about this mysterious spinoff, and it makes me psyched for the new show where before I was nervous. Also, Paul Feig as a new writer on ‘The Office’? All the information in this article rules.
A friend of mine was wearing this last week. I haven’t liked anything so much in a long time. It says:
“It’s 100 degrees in New York and 73 in Los Angeles. It’s 30 degrees in New York and it’s still 73 in Los Angeles. There are 8 million interesting people in New York, and 73 in Los Angeles.”
L.Morells FTW. Glad to see you’re still on Team NYC despite your current address.
Do New Yorkers somehow feel threatened by Los Angeles? I’ve always found that really weird. I don’t know many Angelinos that talk about how New York sucks, but I know plenty of New Yorkers (most who have NEVER ventured west) that are very quick to pass judgement on Los Angeles (as if the pages of US Weekly are a fair representation of what it’s like to live here).
It’s as if they forget that New York is full of douchey bankers and mindless office drones. It’s not a community of 8 million artists.
And also, the weather in New York does suck! Stop being such babies about it!
Rebuttal! I think, at least for me, my admittedly irrational ill-will towards LA stems purely from the fact that many important and fun people in my life have moved there (and rightfully so, don’t get me wrong). It’s based in my own (again admittedly) selfish desire to have everyone I love in the same place.
Clearly both cities have their faults, and I personally have nothing against LA itself. It would be foolish to discount its obvious draw. Maybe New Yorkers just have a more confrontational allegiance to/pride in their city than ‘Angelinos’? Just like us New Jerseyians are far more passionate and quick to defend than people from other states.
A friend of mine was wearing this last week. I haven’t liked anything so much in a long time. It says:
“It’s 100 degrees in New York and 73 in Los Angeles. It’s 30 degrees in New York and it’s still 73 in Los Angeles. There are 8 million interesting people in New York, and 73 in Los Angeles.”
L.Morells FTW. Glad to see you’re still on Team NYC despite your current address.
Listening to Chris Martin sing about “when [he] ruled the world” in Coldplay’s new single Viva La Vida, I was reminded of the only scientific hypothesis I have ever formed: that upon closer inspection, Mr. Martin’s lyrics conclusively prove he is an alien. I published this theory months ago in the form of the article below, but it was mostly ignored by the scientific community. I hope the Tumblr crowd takes my discovery more seriously.
Can you name the songs these Coldplay lyrics are from?
(A) You and me are drifting into outer space
(B) All of the stars and the outer space
(C) Look at earth from outer space
Everyone must find a place(D) The future’s for discovering
The space in which we’re traveling(E) Look up, I look up at night,
Planets are moving at the speed of light
(F) Hundreds of years in the future
It could be computers
Looking for life on earth
(G) You can climb a ladder up to the sun(H) Come on, oh my star is fading
(I) Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you
(J) Can anybody fly this thing?
(K) I am a f*cking alien
Why don’t you people understand?
I am an alien from the Nebulus subsector of the
Andromeda Galaxy
I’m spelling it out for you as clearly as I can(L) Smorgax weeblezod!
Veeble quoznar florgenblox!
Answers:
(A) X&Y (B) White Shadows (C) Politik
(D) Square One (E) Speed of Sound
(F) Twisted Logic (G) Talk (H) Amsterdam
(I) Yellow (J) High Speed
(K) Seriously Guys I Came Here Under Orders From Supreme Commander Gorgax Flerm To Drink The Bone Marrow of All Humans
(L) Zarquon Quorblezar (“I Tried To Warn You”)
God I love this article. If you’re not following CHTV super-writer Dan Gurewitch’s tumblr yet, consider this your impetus to start.
(via adamfrucci)
Thank God. After Clinton concedes we can finally stop being a party divided and rally behind one candidate. And what a candidate he is.