Got turned on to this delicious tumblr this morning. Couldn't even post this until I went home and got my chomp on.
For you Jax cats, PK Noodles (Pho King) on Beach Blvd. has some unreal bánh mì for between $3 and $5. Great pho, too, if yr so inclined.
Dope new postage from our friends:
Barbate Ballatron, a spinoff site from the BiblioEd, always features a dope pic and some relevant accompanying text. It's got a pretty unique navigation system, in that there's really no way to get to any content directly without shuffling thru the posts or going to the image-centered archive. I enjoy how grand and frustrating it is. Kinda like going to a museum with a hangover.
Crooklyn-based food blog, Me So Hungry, is written by our buddy Jason Lam. Here's a taste of a recent post:
marcellus hall band plays the black betty. i eat the lamb tagine on cous cous. can lam eat lamb? can chicken eat omellete? what about chicken fried steak?
I met Jason years ago in Gainesville and ran into him by surprise a few months ago in Williamsburg. Found out that he plays in Justice of the Unicorns. Totally fun band. Saw them play a totally dope show last weekend at Union Hall, but I nearly digress. Jason eats out a lot and has an adventurous stomach. I'm cancelling my other subscriptions; stream of consciousness foodblogging is where it's at.
Justice of the Unicorns - McCarren Pool
About a year ago, Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues was performed at the Atlantic Theaters in the Ricotta Park headquarters of sunny Atlantic Beach, FL. The show was advertised on the marquee for a day or two before a woman - who had driven by the theater with her 12-year old niece - called and complained about the word "vagina" being displayed publicly..
After some arguing, threats, etc, the manager changed the marquee to read "The Hoohaa Monologues." I saw the sign the afternoon that the change was made, thought it seemed an odd change, called the theater, got the story from the manager and wrote about it. The Hoohaa story was also covered by the local alt-weekly, a local television station, as well as major national and international news outlets. People around the world were outraged with both the woman's ignorant repression and the theater's weak-kneed appeasement of her.
A few days later, the folks at bOING bOING linked to my post and my daily traffic went through the roof. More outrage, more comments, tons of inbound links from other sites and blogs. And while the story is long-since dead, the Hoohaa post - a year old and still getting dozens of direct hits a day - remains the most popular one on this site.
But the post's popularity hasn't endured because people are still incensed about a hoohaa in the lower fringes of the Bible Belt, but rather because people are searching for LOTS of other vagina-related content on the internet. Big surprise, I know.
Below the fold is a list of the most popular Google-based keyword searches from the last six months or so that have led people to my original post. The list ranges from celebratory (fantastic female vaginas) to supernatural (girl could put out fire with vagina) to creepy (12 year old girls vaginas) to international (how to say vagina in spain) to hell yeah bro (the coolest things that girls do with there vaginas) to complete shock (you can see her vagina!) to Canadian indie rock sirens (+""emily haines"" pic +vagina).
I've left the punctuation as-is. Feel free to discuss your favorites.
Biggie Tea's sure-to-be-dope Xmas Party is tonight from 5 to 7pm on the 2nd floor of the Modis building. I'll probably live-blog the proceedings from my iPhone just to make sure there's some documentation of Tony yelling at drunk, mid-level bank employees who request "Whole Lotta Love."
Brilliant spam email subject line illustrations from Linzie Hunter.
If you like your spam email-inspired art created by nomadic, avant-garde guitar legends, check out Lee Ranaldo's "Hello From the American Desert."
The Dirty Projectors' "Rise Above" dropped a few months ago, but we've only recently accepted it into our hearts. It's Dave Longstreth's re-imagining (from memory) of Black Flag's Damaged album. Think Prokofiev, Philip Glass, Storm and Stress + Sirens. Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
no more - Dirty Projectors
depression - Dirty Projectors
Joey's Urban Jacksonville blog party goes off early tomorrow night at TSI. Should be a great time, so do it to it. And remember to email us an RSVP for our Very Gotham Xmas at Eclipse, December 25th.
This really isn't a review, per se, as I only saw 3 1/2 bands in about 11 hours, but here are some notes and observations about what turned out to be a very successful first year for the festival:
1. I'm happily ceding victory to Tony as Best BlogJockey in Jax. PJ Pants and I took the laptop route at the Dance Pavilion and suffered through some bizarre mixing issues wherein 90% of our jams came through the PA vocalless. I'm not entirely positive that there wasn't some sabotage going on, but T played Dinosaur, Live Rust-era Neil Young and JSBX so I'm willing to give my suspicions a rest for now. He also garnered a noise complaint within the first 5 minutes of his set, which is an automatic victory in my book. Cheers, Tony!
2. Aside from $3 bottles of water, the prices of food and drink were much more reasonable than any other festival I've been to in Jacksonville or elsewhere. Thumbs up.
3. Note to festival organizers: Next year, please exercise some discretion over which visual artists you allow to show at the festival.
4. Note to the footsoldiers of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office: I know none of you can read, so hopefully some charitable RP devotees will take the time to pass this advice on to you. Please do not run people over with your golf carts, make unnecessarily threatening remarks to peaceful concert-goers or push young women carrying their small children. You already have a reputation for being part of one of the more corrupt police departments in the country, so there's no need to widen the chasm between you and the citizenry with bullying and violent rhetoric.
5. The Polyphonic Spree get a huge thumbs up for an elaborately choreographed and costumed show as well as their fantastic cover of "Live and Let Die."
6. Spoon get an unenthusiastic shrug from the Park. It's not their fault, really. They're just more of a mixtape band than a festival band.
7. Julius Airwave get five gold stars for a charismatic, energetic and thoroughly uplifting set. Despite the aforementioned thuggery from the cops, their show was a great close to the festival. Fun times had by all. Can't wait for next year.
While I'm waiting for this creepy new Total cereal ad to pop up online (if you thought Bob Dylan shilling for panties and Cadillacs was weird, you'll love this new spot), here are some of the better finds of the past few weeks:
The Raven SIngs the Blues site is a great source for all of you longhaired-watery-domestic-swilling-resin-scraping-psych-metal-sludge-folk fans.
Dig David Cross' hilarious story about Bob Odenkirk fucking up his cellphone. An excerpt:
"Anywhosies, When I was in LA Bob fucked up my phone trying to fix it. Seriously. It was being cranky and slow and Bob offered to "fix" it. He pulled the back off and started to poke that tooth pick type thing into the reset slot and I panicked and ran over shouting, "wait, wait. Are you sure"? He tossed off my concern like a wet a.i.d.s. quilt and reset it."
FYI, kids: "A wet a.i.d.s. quilt" = Comedy gold.
Magnus Rembold and Jürgen Späth have created some pretty stunning infographics to portray the thematical content data of some essays.
And from there, you can link to the German Projekttriangle Design Studio and freak out on their disturbing corporate identity work.
Lastly, the 2nd annual installment of the 'Klept's Scary Stories is up and even more hilarious than last year. Check 'em out.
We also added some mpfrees to Whalebelly's Higgs post from yesterday. Allah willing, we'll have more contributions from him, Crowder and others in the weeks to come.
I haven't been able to find another instance of this word on the web, so I'm coining it now:
fontscious
font · scious [font shuh
s] (fŏnt shəs)
–adjective
1. aware of one's font use;
2. aware of what one is doing with fonts;
3. having the faculties to use fonts;
4. acutely aware or concerned about fonts;
ex. Pat Sajak's daughter is overly fontscious, as she spends more time deciding which font to use than she does on her actual homework.
Feel free to use this at will. To my design friends: Christmas come early.
Thanks to Bobby for this beaut.
Update: Thanks to Max for pointing out that the link was bad. It's fixed now! Watch the vid!
Our favorite Friedbergers are back with loads more oblique references, recollections of having no recollection, and lots of other really fun familial details. The new record's pretty much the most stoketifying release of 2007...as if regular visitors to this site had expected anything else.
Here's "My Egyptian Grammar." And just in case you wanted some Longlunch family trivia, my grandma went to Egypt once.
Fiery Furnaces - My_Egyptian_Grammar
The new Fiery Furnaces record Widow City will be out in early October on Thrill Jockey records.
Have a great weekend! Check out our friends at Urban Jacksonville, The Urban Core, and Inertia, for news of lots of fun things to do in Jax this weekend. There's a monster show going on in Riverside and the chance to hang out and eat hot dogs in a hot downtown parking lot with Tony Allegretti. If that doesn't sound like fun, I don't know what does.
Next week, we've got new stuff from Crowder and a few other exciting things to tell you about. Be excited. Please.
Hi guys!
The Park's back from our sweet, sweet summer break and beginning the slow road to recovery. We've got a new post from Crowder coming up later today. In the meantime, though, check out photos from The Color of Munny show and a new blog from one of our best buds, Falcon Hawksome.
And if you need any more of a reason to be confused on a Monday morning, you can also read some bizarre spam posted on the site last week. For you ideologically-sensitive folks, it's not that the Park advocates something so ridiculous as the destruction of Islam, but rather that we think you should be aware of what some "religious freedom" advocates really think.
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