A portrait of Ben Bernanke

This is currently on display at the portrait gallery in D.C.

Batman, Turkey

Today I was trying to book travel for a Harvard Professor traveling to Irbil (aka Erbil or Arbil) in Iraqi Kurdistan. It turns out it's a really hard place to get there. I also learned that there is a nearby city in Turkey called Batman. It's not rinky dinky. It has an airport and it's apparently a little self-conscious about its name. In 2008, the mayor of Batman sued Warner Bros. and The Dark Knight Director Christopher Nolan for using the name without permission. Read more about that here.


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SJDK on Conan

Conan O'brien looks tired in this video. Sharon looks good and so does my boy Binky Griptite. He is so cute I want to eat him up. This song "If You Call" is one of my faves from the new album. It's almost haunting.

Song of the Day: "I need a dollar"

Another gem from Stones Throw Records, Aloe Blacc's latest album Good Things rocked my world on the way to work this morning. Enjoy.

http://www.aloeblacc.com/

Trees and Stuffing

I wish I had more to say. I feel like I've been eating so much that my brain is clogged with stuffing and bacon fat. I've already attended one gluttonous "Friendsgiving" and this weekend's "Slapsgiving" doesn't promise to be any less hedonistic. I just hope I can still move at the end of the month.

Here's an interesting Thanksgiving recipe for Turkey Cake.

Recently Wyatt and I explored Forest Hills Cemetery. It was my first time visiting the massive place of resting places, now home to the likes of EE Cummings and Eugene O'Neill. The cemetery is full of neat things to look at, including strange sculptures like this wire tree coat.


Signs that include the words "water feature" or "waterfowl" always make me laugh. I think because those words that are rarely spoken outside the realms of landscape architecture and ornithology.

I'm glad they specify that you can't feed any kind of waterfowl. It would be unfair if you could feed the ducks but not the geese, even if geese are less cool and more annoying.

Please share with Obama haters

WTF has Obama done so far? Check it out:
http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/

This is a lot like WTF should I make for dinner, but instead of recipes it provides help with dispelling Tea Party untruths about the useless nature of our President.

Thanks for this Dan.

Halloween 2K10: Boston & Providence

The men of 6 Westerly St as freaky Warhol Monroes at Emily Stone's
We Can't Belize It goodbye bash.

Macrotones jack o lantern at the MacroShow at the Spot Underground in
Providence, Rhode Island.

Wyatt and I made a dual-sided pumpkin with one side celebrating the election

and the other side celebrating hipsters and the advent of Movember.

Madonna Rocks the Vote

Thanks to Ruthie for turning me on to these.



And then this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSM9eLptGsY&feature=related

I can't imagine either one of these actually motivated people to vote but you never know. I guess being stupid and on drugs was cool in the 90s, right?
It's amazing how different Madonna sounds in these videos. It's a far cry from the faux-British accent she sports today.