Progress is not the practice of those in the business of sweeping success. Progress overawes—but its work is slow and grim. Progress waits on people to die, and more enlightened people to take their place. Progress works even as the unenlightened abound, but find their ranks thinned and their positions exposed.
Specifically, democratic progress is not revolution and can never be the gospel of people who measures success by complete victories achieved in singular life-times. Instead it is reserved for those who are unrelenting in struggle, patient beyond their mortal coil, and willing to wage wars across generations.
1. Wiz Khalifa x Phantogram | Move Up 2. Mayer Hawthorne x M83 | One Midnight With You 3. Ma$e x Notorious B.I.G. x Penguin Prison | Fuck With Mo’ Money 4. Kanye West x Snap! | Power² 5. Beastie Boys x Santigold x Weird Tapes | Don’t Play No Trash 6. TLC x Holy Ghost! | Some Creeps 7. Tyga x Neon Indian | Polish City 8. Snoop Dogg x Dillon Francis x Kill The Noise | What’s My Noise 9. The Cool Kids x Ford & Lopatin | World Of Swimsuits 10. Taio Cruz x Foster The People | Houdin-o-mite 11. Only Children x YACHT | Tripped And Didn’t Stop 12. Travis Porter x Daft Punk | Make It Rezz 13. Whitney Houston x Chromeo | When The Night Knows 14. Sisqo x The Rapture x A-Trak | How Deep Is Your Thong? 15. Dragonette x The Kickdrums x Kutcorners | Hello Something 16. Sims x Win Win | Burn It Again 17. YC x Knife Party | Knife Rack 18. tUnE-yArDs x Rihanna | GANGS&M 19. Big Sean x Kanye West x Wolfgang Gartner | The Way Marvin Was 20. Quad City DJs x Deadmau5 | Ride Some Chords 21. Ace Hood x The Black Keys | Hard And Gone 22. Wiz Khalifa x Too $hort x SBTRKT | On My Wildfire 23. Chris Brown x Busta Rhymes x Rustie | Look At My City 24. Flosstradamus x Kid Sister x Symmetry | City Luuks 25. Kreayshawn x Gang Gang Dance | Gucci Goth 26. Wale x Rick Ross x Kavinsky | Nightchain
1. Eating is a submissive act. Assume the chef knows what he does well better than you do and ask for a tasting menu.
2. Avoid menus that try to be everything to everybody. The smaller the menu, the better. The perfect restaurant would only have one dish: “We have ramen noodle soup, but it’s the best damn ramen noodle soup in New York.”
3. Simple is hard to do right. A bad chef with no pride can find a way to fuck up anything.
4. If you see a chicken Caesar, it’s time to get up and run.
5. Forget about eating out on weekends; those are amateur nights. Tuesday through Thursday nights around 9:30 is when you should be going out to dinner—you’re not going to be in the mosh pit with all the people who are in town to see The Lion King.
I would add to this list that the smaller the restaurant, the better.
In this week’s Food Issue, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Aida Batlle, “a fifth-generation coffee farmer and a first-generation coffee celebrity.” Sanneh maintains that “brewing a proper cup of coffee is a lot harder than uncorking a bottle of wine and a lot easier than cooking dinner.” Which leads to a natural question: how does he brew his own cup?
Michael Agger: Give me your coffee method when travelling.
Kelefa Sanneh: When I travel, I pack my hand grinder and some beans and the AeroPress. I have that in my bag right now. You can use a hotel coffee maker as your boiler, even though it doesn’t heat the water quite hot enough. With those tools, you can make a reasonable facsimile of a decent cup of coffee. If you are staying in a B.&B., you can barge into their kitchen and insist on making coffee with your own gear. In my experience, they don’t forbid that, though they don’t necessarily appreciate it.
Frank Miller Was a Cranky Old Man All Along: A Retrospective
By Chris Sims
By now, you’ve almost certainly heard about the statements about the Occupy protests by legendary comic book creator and hat enthusiast Frank Miller, in which he referred to the protesters as “louts, thieves and rapists” and suggested that they “go back to your mommas’ basements.” They are undoubtedly pretty polarizing statements, but we here at ComicsAlliance have been a little perplexed by people saying that they were surprised by them. If you’ve been reading his comics closely over the years, you could spot this coming a mile away. That’s why today, we’ve decided to take a look back at Miller’s earlier works and identify the moments where these ideas begin to emerge.
