The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:20:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Newts Dancing http://www.theawl.com/2011/12/newts-dancing http://www.theawl.com/2011/12/newts-dancing#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:20:49 +0000 Dave Bry http://www.theawl.com/2011/12/newts-dancing
"His demons have been dancing across the national stage for nearly two decades, since he emerged on Capitol Hill as the tantrum-prone enfant terrible of the mid-1990s Republican revolution. They’ve done the jitterbug, tango and gavotte, and at this late date can’t have too many new moves left or much more leg to show."
—Frank Bruni says that the public's familiarity with New Gingrich will play to his favor in his primary race against boring ol' Mitt Romney. As scary as this is (and, man, look at the face on that female newt after she chases off an unwanted dance partner in her fishtank), I think Bruni's right that it is actually better for people who would rather not have a Republican president. I am one of those people, and I think boring ol' Mitt Romney would have a better chance of beating Obama. Also, here's the Pointer Sisters.

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"His demons have been dancing across the national stage for nearly two decades, since he emerged on Capitol Hill as the tantrum-prone enfant terrible of the mid-1990s Republican revolution. They’ve done the jitterbug, tango and gavotte, and at this late date can’t have too many new moves left or much more leg to show."
—Frank Bruni says that the public's familiarity with New Gingrich will play to his favor in his primary race against boring ol' Mitt Romney. As scary as this is (and, man, look at the face on that female newt after she chases off an unwanted dance partner in her fishtank), I think Bruni's right that it is actually better for people who would rather not have a Republican president. I am one of those people, and I think boring ol' Mitt Romney would have a better chance of beating Obama. Also, here's the Pointer Sisters.

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@joshuafoer Please follow me so I can DM you.less than a minute ago via Mobile Web Favorite Retweet ReplyBill Keller
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"There are some people partial to direct messages on Twitter and others oblivious to that corner of the Twitterverse. There are some who look at Facebook messages before anything else, and others whose Facebook accounts are idle, deceptive vestiges of a fleeting gregariousness that didn’t survive their boredom with Rebecca’s bread dough ('It isn’t rising! Tips?') or Tim’s poison ivy ('Itching and itching! Remedies?'). I know only a handful of people with just one e-mail address, but I know many with three or more, and not all of these people understand automatic forwarding. My friend M. was recently reacquainted with an in-box unattended for a year. It was stuffed with hundreds of unread messages — some, remarkably, from people flummoxed by her aloofness."
—Frank Bruni examines the baffling complexities of communication in our new tech-savvy era. Above, a Twitter user illustrates his point quite nicely.

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@joshuafoer Please follow me so I can DM you.less than a minute ago via Mobile Web Favorite Retweet ReplyBill Keller
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"There are some people partial to direct messages on Twitter and others oblivious to that corner of the Twitterverse. There are some who look at Facebook messages before anything else, and others whose Facebook accounts are idle, deceptive vestiges of a fleeting gregariousness that didn’t survive their boredom with Rebecca’s bread dough ('It isn’t rising! Tips?') or Tim’s poison ivy ('Itching and itching! Remedies?'). I know only a handful of people with just one e-mail address, but I know many with three or more, and not all of these people understand automatic forwarding. My friend M. was recently reacquainted with an in-box unattended for a year. It was stuffed with hundreds of unread messages — some, remarkably, from people flummoxed by her aloofness."
—Frank Bruni examines the baffling complexities of communication in our new tech-savvy era. Above, a Twitter user illustrates his point quite nicely.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2011/09/94542/feed 4 The Best Turkey Sandwich In The World http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/the-best-turkey-sandwich-in-the-world http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/the-best-turkey-sandwich-in-the-world#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:00:54 +0000 Dave Bry http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/the-best-turkey-sandwich-in-the-world "They weren’t thinking about fusion per se. They were thinking about New York and approaching terroir, a French concept usually applied to the climate and natural harvest of a given area, in a new way. What ethnic foods had come to co-exist in, and define, the terroir of this city? The answer: Almost every kind. Their take on chicken fra diavolo gets some of its heat from sriracha, an Asian pepper blend. It sits on a slick of un-Italian yogurt."
—Frank Bruni's article about Torrisi Italian Specialties in this weekend's Times Magazine starts out seeming like a profiley thing about a hit restaurant, but gets into a more interesting discussion of fusion cooking and the essential differences between Italian and French cuisines. I've never been able to go to Torrisi's for dinner, because they don't take reservations and people are lining up outside two hours ahead of time. (I'm hoping the wait might be alleviated when they expand, come September, but it probably won't be.) I do go there for lunch sometimes, though, and while the picture of Billy Joel on the wall is best not to look while eating, their turkey sandwich is the no. 1 best turkey sandwich I've ever had in my life. They put this tomato/pepper sauce on it that mixes with the mayonnaise to make heroin.

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]]> "They weren’t thinking about fusion per se. They were thinking about New York and approaching terroir, a French concept usually applied to the climate and natural harvest of a given area, in a new way. What ethnic foods had come to co-exist in, and define, the terroir of this city? The answer: Almost every kind. Their take on chicken fra diavolo gets some of its heat from sriracha, an Asian pepper blend. It sits on a slick of un-Italian yogurt."
—Frank Bruni's article about Torrisi Italian Specialties in this weekend's Times Magazine starts out seeming like a profiley thing about a hit restaurant, but gets into a more interesting discussion of fusion cooking and the essential differences between Italian and French cuisines. I've never been able to go to Torrisi's for dinner, because they don't take reservations and people are lining up outside two hours ahead of time. (I'm hoping the wait might be alleviated when they expand, come September, but it probably won't be.) I do go there for lunch sometimes, though, and while the picture of Billy Joel on the wall is best not to look while eating, their turkey sandwich is the no. 1 best turkey sandwich I've ever had in my life. They put this tomato/pepper sauce on it that mixes with the mayonnaise to make heroin.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/the-best-turkey-sandwich-in-the-world/feed 3 Bruni/Foer Gabfest http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/brunifoer-gabfest http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/brunifoer-gabfest#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:40:55 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/brunifoer-gabfest Mark your calendars for Monday, December 7th, when novelist/polemicist Jonathan Safran Foer and former New York Times restaurant critic/recovering bulimic Frank Bruni will have a conversation at the JCC in Manhattan on whether or not it is moral to throw up animals.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/brunifoer-gabfest/feed 1 Frank Bruni: "There are a lot of reviews I would write differently." http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/frank-bruni-there-are-a-lot-of-reviews-i-would-write-differently http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/frank-bruni-there-are-a-lot-of-reviews-i-would-write-differently#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:49:57 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/frank-bruni-there-are-a-lot-of-reviews-i-would-write-differently BRUNIAlso! In other things That Should Be Read, here is an extensive exit interview with outgoing Times food critic Frank Bruni. It took place at Babbo-and, most telling about our current time, the meal's waiter wrote his own account of the meal. I'm sure the busboy has a Twitter account somewhere.

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]]> BRUNIAlso! In other things That Should Be Read, here is an extensive exit interview with outgoing Times food critic Frank Bruni. It took place at Babbo-and, most telling about our current time, the meal's waiter wrote his own account of the meal. I'm sure the busboy has a Twitter account somewhere.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/frank-bruni-there-are-a-lot-of-reviews-i-would-write-differently/feed 5 But What Will Happen To Frannie Von Furstinshow? http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/but-what-will-happen-to-frannie-von-furstinshow http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/but-what-will-happen-to-frannie-von-furstinshow#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 13:43:46 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/but-what-will-happen-to-frannie-von-furstinshow I bet he can't WAIT until people start using a new picture.The Observer is reporting that New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni is leaving that position to become an editor-at-large at the Times Magazine. Bruni's rumored replacement on the food beat is a previously unknown reviewer named Charlie Thin, who is said to favor Mexican cuisine.

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]]> I bet he can't WAIT until people start using a new picture.The Observer is reporting that New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni is leaving that position to become an editor-at-large at the Times Magazine. Bruni's rumored replacement on the food beat is a previously unknown reviewer named Charlie Thin, who is said to favor Mexican cuisine.

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