1. 7 Things For 1/15/12, And…

    A cat that enjoys Miller Lite

    1) The Per Se Waiter on Diners Who Vomit Up Their $500 Meals.

    Apparently cooks won’t spit in your food in New York City.

    2) Monday Night Lights.

    Profile piece in the New Yorker about Jon Gruden, and Monday Night Football.

    “He rented an office in a local strip mall, where he began presiding over irregular gatherings of a group that he calls the Fired Football Coaches Association. (He keeps boxes of F.F.C.A. visors and T-shirts in the bathroom, stacked in the shower stall.)”

    3) John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter.

    4) Encounters With The Calabrian Mafia.

    Pentiti is Italian for snitch. The Calabrian Mafia, a distributor of a lot of cocaine in Europe, doesn’t have many of those:

    “According to statistics compiled by the Italian judiciary, until 2008 there were about 1,000 pentiti affiliated with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, 2,000 with the Camorra in Naples — but only 42 with the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta.”

    5) Don’t let the green grass fool you: The Roots are one of the most respected hip-hop acts in the world; why can’t they leave the sad stuff alone?.

    “I just felt like we had to establish a range,” Trotter told me. “Like I’ve seen people who insisted on saying things about themselves, like, ‘We are only about acid jazz, man.’ And I look at them, like, fucking acid jazz?”

    6) How The Song “Seven Nation Army” Conquered The Sports World.

    via @hugesunglasses

    7) On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning.

    Old Murakami short-story. The lesson is, for lack of a better overused rap meme: YOLO

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