The sheer volume of shots on this site allows for little coherence, but there are some real gems.
FILE Magazine – The Collection – omens.
Yoko Ono is forever associated with the Beatles, yet her aristocratic family life in imperial Japan, long before she met John Lennon, was equally intriguing. For the first time, she opens up the Ono family album.
She may not look it, but Yoko Ono, a woman who has survived three decades of tragedy, debunking and myth, is now 77 years old. For many of those years, she has been blamed, perhaps unfairly, for the break-up of the world’s best-loved musical partnership: she was the woman who came between John Lennon and Paul McCartney, insisting on being in the studio as the band disintegrated.
She also cradled Lennon just a few seconds after the fatal shots from a revolver rang out on a cold New York night in December 1980.As she has grown older she has become — perhaps inevitably — more reflective about her past. She has mellowed and in recent years visits to Japan have become more frequent. She returned with Lennon several times in the 1970s at a point in his life when he had all but disappeared from public view.
Yoko is back in Japan for a three-week trip and, for the first time, has agreed to a journalist accompanying her to write about this side of her multi-faceted life. This is also the first time she has agreed to open up in depth about her childhood, her awkward, distant upbringing in a quasi-aristocratic family in Tokyo, and Lennon’s relationship with her parents. Only now is she truly comfortable returning to Japan.
via Yoko Ono: Back to where she once belonged Times Online | IMAGINE PEACE.
Customer: “Does this honey baked ham contain real honey?”
Me: “Yes, it’s a honey glaze.”
Customer: “Oh, I won’t get it then. It was for my daughter, she’s vegan. She can’t have honey, as she doesn’t believe in eating any animal products.”
Joel-Peter Witkin Love & Redemption.
Many years back I saw a JPW show at the small gallery upstairs at the Gugenheim in NYC— It stuck with me but I couldn’t remember the artist.. So I e-mailed a currator at the Gugenheim somehting to the effect of — “looking for the name of a photographer with a show sometime in late 1994. It was really weird”— bingo, the next day I get e-mailed the name…LOL
Lateral Science – The Young Mans Book of Amusement – Galvanic Reanimation.
The above article is an account of experiments carried out upon the corpse of Matthew Clydesdale at the Glasgow University anatomy theatre by Dr. Ure and Prof. Jeffray on the 4th november 1818. The galvanic reanimation was performed in public, as had Mr. Clydesdale`s hanging, for murder. It is of note that Mary Shelley`s novel “Frankenstein” was published earlier in the same year.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
During a live broadcast February 10, the grandfatherly Italian cooking expert noted that in decades past, Italians in the region of Tuscany did eat cat meat. Bigazzi, 77, told viewers there was a saying for this time of year that “if you don’t have meat, kill the cat.”
The popular TV chef then went on to describe how you can tenderize the meat by letting it soak for three days in running spring water. As Chef Beppe continued, his co-host of “La Prova del Cuco,” Elisa Isoardi looked aghast. The young hostess declared “My Othello in a stew? No!” Othello is the name of her pet cat. But Beppe wasn’t finished.He told viewers he had dined on cat many times and that the meat tasted better than chicken or rabbit.
By this point, Isoardi was trying to hide behind a cart filled with vegetables.Management at RAI-Uno suspended him immediately. The chef said he has since been told he will not be appearing on the show again.
Interviewed at his apartment in Rome, Bigazzi told CNN: “It was a custom [to eat cat] all over Italy.”
“In Parmas the cat was nicknamed ‘the rabbit that runs on roofs,’ in Liguria, the cat is nicknamed ‘the rabbit with short ears, in Piemento it is called the ‘rabbit that meows.’ Today we are scandalized by this. Why? Because times have changed. The cat has become a domestic animal. This was not the case before.”
TV chef dropped for cat recipe comments – CNN.com.
MMMM Kitty Pie
