This held my attention.

This is a PSA created by the Italian government to remind people that when you purchase cocaine that you are funding the mafia. It is awesome for so many reasons:

-The animation is incredible and totally engaging.

-I don't speak Italian but I can understand the entire thing and also how weird it is.

-Having a squid people serving in your country's parliament is an awesome problem to have.

Mafia spa _ Postal_m@rket from Kalimera on Vimeo.

5th Grade Choir

The highlight of my 5th grade choir experience was when Michael Burke threw up on everyone during our Christmas concert rehearsal. I wish this ponytailed man was there to teach me about Surviror during my formative years. Alas.

I have lapsed, and Your New Fav!

OMFG I have again lapsed. Sorry to all three of my aunts who still check my blog daily. I promise to make a valiant effort to get to posting but it's summer time, the BSE by all accounts, so why spend even an extra 20 minutes inside. Especially when you could be on a patio somewhere sipping your drink of choice, or listening to this new and rad music:

Eat at Kaze

Erica’s 30^th birthday was a few weeks back. We celebrated like rock stars for a good two and a half days and capped off the ‘ol birthday weekend with a Sunday evening dinner at our favorite restaurant: Kaze Sushi. If you’ve never been to Kaze, it’s important to note, that it is not quite like other sushi restaurants. Their chefs innovate, hard. Since it was Erica’s special day, we told them that we’d be at their mercy and asked them to bring us whatever they thought was best as a meal progression. Eight courses and probably fifteen types of fish later, we were through, pleasantly full of exotic gourmet goodness. My favorite dish was probably flash fried Japanese river crabs. Erica was afraid to eat them unless I bit the legs off because they looked like bugs, but I thought they were quite tasty.

Why am I gushing about Kaze? As it turns out they were just named one of the top ten sushi restaurants in the country by Bon Appétit magazine. Or as Erica and I like to call it: Boner Petit.

Here’s the article. And here is Kaze’s website. Go eat there!

Where have I been?

I haven't posted to the BLRG lately, although, half of my gmail inbox is filled with messages that I have sent to myself with interesting links, etc worth blrgging about. I'm gonna chalk it up to busy-ness. So, to the three people who actually read this thing every once on a while, I have not forgotten you. I will be back with more tasty blrgging soon.

In the meantime:
listen to "Knotty Pine" by The Dirty Projectors ft. David Byrne because it is an incredible song.
eat at Sun Wah BBQ on Argyle in Chicago because their duck special is a feast and a half.
watch 30 Rock because it is the best 30 minute television program out there.

Fin

An anteater drinks wine...

Your new fav! - Vampire Weekend's "White Sky"

I jumped on the VW bandwagon very early and there was a certain amount of burn-out that was setting in every time Erica requested I play their debut album 30 times in a row on car trips. Thankfully, their new album supposedly is set to be released this fall.

"White Sky" has been floating around on YouTube in the form of shaky concert footage for a few months but now, courtesy of Jimmy Fallon, we have a HQ version featuring a full string section. Me gusta mucho.

8-bit hip-hop

Two of my favorite things, 8 bit-video gaming and hip hop have been mashed into a concoction of tender, toe-tappy goodness. Next time I play Mega Man, I'm hitting the mute button and jamming to this!

Thanks for the tip, Jason!

Dear Jerry Angelo,

If you aren't on the phone with whoever the "F" Jay Cutler's agent happens to be then you, my friend, are driving my beloved Bears into the ground.

We need Cutler. Now. He's the best of Orton and Grossman wrapped in one, plus, diabetes!

If it's true that Cutler is disgruntled with the fact that the Broncos were sniffing around Matt Cassel then he legitimately could be on a new team next year and there's no reason why it shouldn't be the Bears.

I don't talk sports that often on the BLRG! but come on people! Let's get this on the Blogsphere! (Also, I don't use the word Blogsphere on the BLRG that often either.)

(sighs)

I've had dreams like this for years.

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

Your new fav! - Passion Pit

I'm pretty obsessed with Passion Pit at the moment.

Their debut EP, Chunk of Change is a tasty aperitif to what will hopefully be an equally great full length album.



Try to listen without toe tapping, impossible!

I love coffee...

...but I am trying to quit. Just the perfect time for the internet to step in and present a short, progressively psychotic musical number - in French!

le Café - Oldelaf (english subtitles)
by Boebis

Erica's Battle

As many of you know, about a month ago my amazing wife Erica was diagnosed with breast cancer. It's been an rough but eye-opening couple of weeks. However scary this has all been we're both very confident that we'll beat this thing. Please check out her progress as she blogs it all out The Battle Blog.

1, 2, 3... Mos Def + Talib Kweli

This takes me back.

I am without shame, I will self promote...

I lost my digital camera on New Year's Eve. As a tribute I give to you a link to my favorite photos that I took with my Sony DSC-T7. Will someone please buy me a new one?