nerdluv

And happy year of the potato!

I like these little Chicago Tribune videos. Also Monica Eng is always a reliable read for the ethnic Chicago food reviews. Watch how the people eating shove the entire lettuce leaf wrapped piece of beef into their mouths. I love that they didn’t act like they usually nibble on it for the camera. Embarrassing yet authentic!

Babylon Fields, a pilot not picked up by CBS in 2007, about zombies coming back to live their lives (no brain eating, just working out their family issues) and trying to fit in with the non-rotting, is on google video for your watching pleasure:

“The show explores the emotional and societal ramification of loved ones coming back from the dead. You know, like in “Pet Sematary.” But by the end of the episode, the zombie thriller is crossed with a crime procedural. So small-town police detective Stevenson is given a murder to solve while zombies wander the streets. It’s “ZSI.””

pigeonman, originally uploaded by andrewc.

I was walking down Western tonight and saw that people had put together a memorial to the Pigeon Man who died recently. Along with a framed photo of Joseph Zeman aka the Pigeon Man, and flowers and a lit candle, there were bread crusts scattered on the sidewalk.

F_helv_sticker, originally uploaded by vizualone9.

Ha.

Forget Clinton vs. Obama; Which side do you stand on when it comes to the movie Juno? Sweet, little perfect film? Or overly sweet and wanna-be quirky junk? From what I’ve been reading online, it’s one or the other and we must all take sides and be ready to shed blood defending our positions. I have not seen it, but if they use Bright Eyes “First Day Of My Life” in the soundtrack I might cry.

rolex cuff, originally uploaded by superlocal.

Ugh. I hate most watches designed by designers, even the Marc Newson one featured on buzzfeed. It’s usually a lot of numbers that are hard to read or no numbers at all. I really want a watch that will tell me what time it is quickly, so I’d like numbers. But I’m not flying a plane so I don’t need any of that crono biz. Most of the watch designs are about as useful as the printed one in the photo above. But not as nice looking.

I still like this the best. Beautiful. And so cheap.

The Tord Boontje tattoo. It looks good! Taken with my iPhone, originally uploaded by sallyTV.

“In the Moore Loft Space, part of Design Miami/, DWR furnished a tattoo parlor organized by Tobias Wong, Josee Lepage and Aric Chen. …Boontje’s “Inflorescence Tattoo” is derived from a computer program that randomly generates floral patterns that users can capture in a screen grab.”

Nice. I wish they also had Murakami and other “superflat” artist doing them. Their art seems so perfect for tattoos.

I was really sad to read this on Metafilter today:

Terry Pratchett diagnosed with rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s

From his announcement on the matter:

“PS I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as ‘I am not dead’. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think - it’s too soon to tell. I know it’s a very human thing to say “Is there anything I can do”, but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.”

Have you read him? If not, you should, even if you don’t normally read “that” kind of fiction. I think he’s entertaining and funny enough to transcend genre limitations.