The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:51:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Important Political Video: The Scorpions, "No One Like You" http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/important-political-video-the-scorpions-no-one-like-you http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/important-political-video-the-scorpions-no-one-like-you#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:51:18 +0000 Dave Bry http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/important-political-video-the-scorpions-no-one-like-you There is a Scorpions song that should probably be posted today to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's called "Wind of Change." It's basically about the fall of the Berlin Wall. (The Scorpions are from Germany, you know.) The video has lots of news-style footage of very important geopolitical events of the era. Unfortunately, that song kind of sucks. So here's the video for "No One Like You," which takes place on Alcatraz, and has great white sharks and a mental patient with his head wrapped in bandages and forks stuck in his eyes and a sexy blonde in S&M gear throwing the switch to the electric chair and setting the whole place on fire. It might just be greatest video of all time. So watch that instead. But think about commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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]]> There is a Scorpions song that should probably be posted today to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's called "Wind of Change." It's basically about the fall of the Berlin Wall. (The Scorpions are from Germany, you know.) The video has lots of news-style footage of very important geopolitical events of the era. Unfortunately, that song kind of sucks. So here's the video for "No One Like You," which takes place on Alcatraz, and has great white sharks and a mental patient with his head wrapped in bandages and forks stuck in his eyes and a sexy blonde in S&M gear throwing the switch to the electric chair and setting the whole place on fire. It might just be greatest video of all time. So watch that instead. But think about commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/important-political-video-the-scorpions-no-one-like-you/feed 12 Gluttony with Mary HK Choi: Poore Brother's Salt & Vinegar Chips http://www.theawl.com/2009/09/gluttony-with-mary-hk-choi-poore-brothers-salt-vinegar-chips http://www.theawl.com/2009/09/gluttony-with-mary-hk-choi-poore-brothers-salt-vinegar-chips#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:54:14 +0000 Mary HK Choi http://www.theawl.com/2009/09/gluttony-with-mary-hk-choi-poore-brothers-salt-vinegar-chips Nothing's gonna ever keep you down!Here are the best kind of bags of salt & vinegar chips in the whole wide world. No big deal. They're made by the Inventure Group, the dudes who bring us vacuum-packed bits of magic like Burger King French fries with condiment chips and those TGIF-branded tater skins and quesadillas that are less food and more like drawings of food.

Oh, and I KNOW them's fighting words. And how people are gonna get all, "Suuuure but my crisps are better, they're tiny batch-fried in a 60:40 ratio of peanut and safflower oil in a 60-year-old kettle by an 80-year-old man of ambiguous (but unmistakably dusky) ethnic heritage who uses his blistered, calloused hands to fish out the pygmy micro-grown Yukon fingerling golds just 17 seconds before smoke point, after which he'll sprinkle just the most perfect amount of pink Hawaiian volcano magic salt and douse a jigger of aged vinegar over the top and, and..." And to those people I'll say, "Nah."

It's basically that scene in Indiana Jones where the Indian dude gets fancy with the knifeplay and Indie just shoots him dead. These chips, and by that I specifically refer to the Salt & Vinegar flavor, are the best Salt & Vinegar potato chips around. Boom!

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]]> Nothing's gonna ever keep you down!Here are the best kind of bags of salt & vinegar chips in the whole wide world. No big deal. They're made by the Inventure Group, the dudes who bring us vacuum-packed bits of magic like Burger King French fries with condiment chips and those TGIF-branded tater skins and quesadillas that are less food and more like drawings of food.

Oh, and I KNOW them's fighting words. And how people are gonna get all, "Suuuure but my crisps are better, they're tiny batch-fried in a 60:40 ratio of peanut and safflower oil in a 60-year-old kettle by an 80-year-old man of ambiguous (but unmistakably dusky) ethnic heritage who uses his blistered, calloused hands to fish out the pygmy micro-grown Yukon fingerling golds just 17 seconds before smoke point, after which he'll sprinkle just the most perfect amount of pink Hawaiian volcano magic salt and douse a jigger of aged vinegar over the top and, and..." And to those people I'll say, "Nah."

It's basically that scene in Indiana Jones where the Indian dude gets fancy with the knifeplay and Indie just shoots him dead. These chips, and by that I specifically refer to the Salt & Vinegar flavor, are the best Salt & Vinegar potato chips around. Boom!

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/09/gluttony-with-mary-hk-choi-poore-brothers-salt-vinegar-chips/feed 34 Video: You're The Slave http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/youre-the-slave http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/youre-the-slave#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:53:03 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/youre-the-slave
Leaving you with this, a gift from the gays.

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Leaving you with this, a gift from the gays.

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