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Fool, if it wasn’t for Sergei here, you and your cuz’ both would be cadaverous motherfuckers.
—Prop Joe, The Wire: Season 2
Rewatching Season 2 with my dad. I know this season is underrated, but I still think it’s great. Nice to see another side of Baltimore.
The Wire is too sad and realistic. I like my entertainment entertaining. Can’t they give one of the cops a flying a skateboard or something?
They do love to make Clooney look like a buffoon.
PITT: They might top it with Pitt.
CLOONEY: They might. This one might end two careers in one shot.
PITT: I said to them, “I don’t know how to play this, I mean, he’s such an idiot.” And there was a pause and then Joel goes…
TOGETHER: You’ll be fine!
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Yes, he harbored a sort of admiration for cadavers, these wax-skinned, soft, suddenly ceased machines.
—Benjamin Black (John Banville), Christine Falls
Somewhere Back In Time
In an historic first, Iron Maiden, their 60-strong crew and support staff and over 12 tons of equipment will be travelling around the world en masse for the first leg of the tour in a specially commissioned and converted Astraeus Boeing 757 decorated with Maiden and Eddie designs! Vocalist Bruce Dickinson, who is a qualified Airline Captain flying for Astraeus Airlines, will pilot the plane on its epic mission, flying over 50,000 miles.
Comments Bruce Dickinson, “We had the idea last year of converting a jumbo jet into effectively what would be a flying 113 ton ‘splitter bus’ for touring and we have been working seriously on it ever since. It’s pretty complex but in the end we were able, with a lot of help from Astraeus Airlines, to overcome all the technicalities of customising the plane for our purposes. We are taking out the back 10 rows of seats to fit in a customised cargo hold that we can use again in the future if this jaunt works. This is in addition to all the standard storage holds. By taking band, personnel and equipment in one form of transport it makes all the touring so much easier and overcomes the logistical difficulty of people and equipment going in different planes. We can even work out exactly how big our carbon footprint is and take care of that responsibility! We will be packing as much of the show into the plane as we possibly can for this first leg and intend to give the fans something very special to remember. And it allows me to combine 2 of my greatest passions, music and flying!!”
Related to the hotdog theme for today, here’s a pretty great clip of Bill Murray filling in for Harry caray in ‘87. I remember watching this game at the time. It’s pretty great to have Murray do the whole game and just goof off. There are some other clips on youtube from the broadcasts. WGN broadcasts with Harry and Steve Stone are some of my favorite MLB memories. I think Steve Stone is filling in on White Sox broadcasts at the moment, but I haven’t been able to catch one yet.
“The writer begins by describing the combination of euphoria and fear he felt while eating a frankfurter sandwich—an act forbidden by his mother—on an Istanbul sidewalk in 1964.”
–Abstract from a paywalled awesome NYer article about street food in 60s Turkey. Plus the guy keeps calling them ‘frankfurter sandwiches’ which is weird because the article as it appears in the NYer is a translation. Apparently the NYer relies on Google Translate nowadays.
translating it “frankfurter sandwich” is the equivalent of nazis in the movies speaking english with a german accent.
regardless, that abstract is amazing. it would be fun to write those.
Turns out The New Yorker does not own thenewyorker.com
(↝via Serious Eats)
Japalicious!
I still dig those kimchi hot dogs.