Zeke Turner

Those primitive hunter gatherers, at age 30, had the same odds of dying as a modern Swedish or Japanese man would face at 72.

5:28 am • 26 February 2013

He describes his cuisine as “innovative satoyama,” a word used to describe the Japanese mountain landscape, and attributes the award to his restaurant’s uniqueness.

5:12 am • 26 February 2013

theparisreview:

In honor of what would be the late Edward Gorey’s eighty-eighth birthday, we bring you a full series of his Gashlycrumb Tinies as GIFs.

4:23 pm • 23 February 2013 • 291 notes

The term is a neologism obtained by merging precarious with proletariat.

2:16 pm • 21 February 2013 • 1 note

Ach ja, die viel besungene kreative Szene? Sie mag ja kreativ sein, aber sie ist vor allem eines: nicht erfolgreich.

amazing berlin hitpiece

2:12 pm • 21 February 2013

Lo, Kasper, who didn’t eat soup for 5 days and died.

12:39 pm • 19 February 2013 • 1 note

some swimmers behaved more like schoolboys than Olympians at a pre-games camp.

3:19 am • 19 February 2013

For the 21 fourth graders in Tim Jensen’s class at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights, Lincoln’s birthday is something worth celebrating. To culminate a three-week lesson on Lincoln’s life, Jensen took his students on a trip last Tuesday, Lincoln’s birthday, to Grand Central Station, where they recited the Gettysburg Address to passing commuters and held signs reading “Today is President Lincoln’s 204th birthday” and “You may ask President Lincoln a question.” Eventually, the group was forced to leave because they didn’t have an assembly permit.

9:58 pm • 18 February 2013

I wrote an item about this entrepreneur who makes perfume from Afghan and other essential oils.

7:47 pm • 18 February 2013 • 2 notes

Letter from Berlin: In the Cut

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/02/12/letter-from-berlin-in-the-cut/

8:14 am • 13 February 2013 • 6 notes