January 2012
8 posts
Scenes From an Opium Den - LIFE →
A relaxing smoke of opium. An opium den in China in 1942 from LIFE Magazine
Man has been indulging in the pleasures of the poppy since at last 4200 B.C., but it was in the 15th century in China that the smoking of opium was refined into the culture we think of today. In the 15th century, the drug and addiction became such an issue that the Qing Dynasty attempted to ban opium. That led to...
December 2011
20 posts
Watchthanks Judith
food for thoughts about food, from France
Fricote - L’Epicurien Urbain
The assistant at the Artwords bookshop on Broadway Market kindly explained to me that they don’t do food magazines some time ago, we’ll see about that I said and laughed! Well they still don’t, but I now subscribe.
Top 15 Things You Didn't Know Where German
Ringbinder, Chicken schnitzel, Gingerbread houses, who would have thought! See the whole list at Listverse.
Not Russian?
November 2011
6 posts
October 2011
7 posts
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah with Tracy Jordan
Boys becoming Men, Men becoming Wolfs!
More info at Fricote Magazine
Good work Sweden!
“..sounds like a slightly drunk Swedish person speaking English”
– Wall Street Journal’s Geoffrey A. Fowler on the new Iphone’s voice funtcion Siri.
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Tomatoes + Onion + Butter + 45 minutes on the hob = Fantastic tomato sauce for pasta! Who would have thought!
Picture and recipe from Smitten Kitchen
WatchBrian Wilson hated the ocean
Its darkness and power terrified him
Every day he heard loud and terrifying screams inside his head
The only way to drown out the screams was to write happy songs
Quote from the amazing “It felt like a kiss” from 2009 by social documentary virtuoso Adam Curtis. Watch it on youtube or vimeo!
September 2011
8 posts
August 2011
11 posts
