“The ladies love me. On the subway I think I’ve got about at least over 300 numbers — and I’m not lying, I’m so serious. You know there be a lot of good-looking 30-year-olds. That’s why I can’t wait ‘til I hit 21.”
Damn straight.
3-D Ocean Farming: Saving Our Seas
Our friend Bren of Thimble Island Oyster Company has launched a Kickstarter campaign to scale up his innovative and sustainable “3D” approach to ocean farming, which makes the most of the water column by growing several different species of shellfish and kelp, from the seabed to the surface.
At Drink Like A Fish, we highlighted kelp’s nutrients and flavor — but it also restores depleted ecosystems, absorbs five times the carbon than land-based plants, and has huge potential as a biofuel. A network of kelp farms half the size of Maine could replace all the oil in the U.S. — incredible!
Bren has gotten a lot of media attention because what he’s doing is cutting-edge and truly brilliant — but in order to be world-changing, he needs our help. This campaign will help him get to a scale where he can establish kelp’s new place in our diets, our ecosystem, and our energy system, as well as teach his methods to other ocean farmers, building a blue-green economy, job by job.
As someone who has worked in sustainability for six years I can tell you — this is about as close to a magic bullet as we’re going to get.
I do hope you’ll join us in our support. And please spread the word!
![iOS 7’s most important new feature (viatheweekmagazine)
If you took out thefts of Apple products,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently told the New York Post, “our total [major] crime rate would be lower than it was last year.”
Woah.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/7579a8ce785f5238b2fc75874e78902c/tumblr_mo8ozxotAH1qdjbb7o1_500.jpg)
iOS 7’s most important new feature (viatheweekmagazine)
If you took out thefts of Apple products,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently told the New York Post, “our total [major] crime rate would be lower than it was last year.”
Woah.
popculturebrain (via imwithkanye):
Ummm. Peggy is allergic to cats.
So is my boyfriend and the poor guy someone found himself with two. And I seem to recall Emily and her husband telling us about that time she got a cat for her NYC apartment for the very reason Peggy did — despite being sneezing-and-wheezing allergic. I consider this plot development believable.
(I mean it’s New York real estate. People have done crazier things.)
This evening, Fifth Avenue shuts down to traffic from 82nd to 105th Streets for the Museum Mile Festival — aka, “New York’s biggest block party.” We’re looking forward to enjoying this gorgeous, culturally rich stretch with our fellow New Yorkers.
I have a raging hangover after last night’s Citymeals benefit — hundreds of the best chefs, restaurants, cocktail bars, and wine producers in the country bringing their A game to Rockefeller Plaza* — but maybe you don’t? This looks like an awesome way to spend a Tuesday evening.
* We were with my 8-month-pregnant friend Katie so I felt like I had to drink for three. That’s what friends are for.
Sylvia Plath on her first day at Mademoiselle, 1953 (via awritersruminations:nudewave)
Mentioned it before, but I really loved Pain, Parties, Work. A quick and juicy little read. (Did she really throw all her nice new New York clothes off the roof of the Barbizon? Oh lord she did.)
Let me tell you a story about the Night Heron…
In support of my we’re-not-really-hipsters thesis, I hadn’t even heard of this place ‘til after it closed. So there you go. Definitely not.
(via mandarinorientalnewyork)
Cocktail Pop-up Cripple Creek Returns May 31
If neo-speakeasies bore you and swanky rooftop bars just leave you chilly, consider the next round of Damon Boelte and Aaron Polsky’s Cripple Creek, the occasional series that showcases the drinks made by the Prime Meats and Amor y Amargo bartenders. At their next event, to be held at Webster Hall on May 31, $40 gets you a tasting flight of eight original cocktails and an earful of “boot-stomping” rock. Polsky and Boelte also promise “a few surprises.”
This is going to be cool … imagine a rock band that makes strange and interesting cocktails. M. would have been in it but I’m stealing him away for Julie and Aaron’s wedding. So instead he’s been helping them prepare, which means there’s some sort of gellant slowly hardening in my oven and clinical bags of food chemicals all over my dining room table. Science!
MCC 2013. One thing I’ll say about these galas — and I’ve been to a few — is that I’ve learned how to dress for them. Though black tie is acceptable — and there are plenty of serious gowns and tuxes on display — a cocktail dress and frivolous pink thing atop your head is by far the way to go. (Clutches are also a non-starter: if you can’t double-fist, what’s the point?*)
Another thing I’ll say: a good 75% of my enjoyment of the event is the sheer thrill of being in the New York Public Library. What a triumph that building is. If it ever fails to leave me breathless, put me on a plane and send me back to Minnesota. My time here will be done.
* Related: the one and only rule of MCC.
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