Some Baseball Art To Enjoy With The World Series

There’s some great baseball-related abstract art available on eBay, but it’s gonna cost you. Each of these original oil-on-canvas paintings (16-by-20 inches) by the artist Tommervik have a Buy It Now price of $1 million. (Not to mention another $9.99 for standard shipping.) According to his website, the artist “has developed a personal vein of Pop Cubism to produce his very own reading of American iconography. All-American icons are thus deconstructed and rebuilt to emphasize a given attribute.”

If a cool million isn’t in your art budget this month, you can make him a below-asking-price offer and see if he takes the bait. All auctions end over the next month, so make your bid now and have it hanged and framed in time for the first pitch of the 2012 MLB season.

Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Player

Pete Rose Smile

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Montreal Expos Baseball Player

Pete Rose

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Los Angeles Dodgers Baserunner

Montreal Expos Baseball Player

Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Runner

Rick Paulas is just hoping for a good, clean, honest contest where the players finish healthy and walk away with a newfound respect for one another.

From the Internet that brought you Barely Feral Dot Tumblr Dot Com and Animals In Casts and Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses Dot Tumblr Dot Com, please welcome Animals In Places They Shouldn’t Be Dot Tumblr Dot Com. [Via]

“The mental ability of teenagers can improve or decline on a far greater scale than previously thought, according to new research. Until now the assumption has been that intellectual capacity, as measured by IQ, stays quite static during life. But tests conducted on teenagers at an average age of 14 and then repeated when their average age was nearly 18 found improvements — and deterioration.” Big deal, my IQ fluctuates pretty much every day. Although that is probably related to alcohol.

Ladies and gentlemen, Awl pal Mat Honan.

It is cold and grey and dull out there and the rain soaks you through and leaves you uncomfortable once you finally get indoors. You feel the weight of it all settling into your shoulders, burrowing under you skin, filling you with a sadness so severe it makes Duane Reade at dusk seem like a surprise party where all the people you love have gathered to tell you how much you mean to them. I could try to cheer you up by telling you that the rest of the week won’t be too bad, but I think we all know that that’s not going to keep you from the current crushing despondency that the darkness of the day has brought about. So here’s something that will help.

We are only a little more than two months away from Christmas.

There, that whole weather thing doesn’t seem so bad now, does it? You’re welcome.

Other dishes that will haunt my memory include the spinach garganelli that Mark Ladner cooks at Del Posto, and the stuffed rotisserie duck available at Momofuku Ssam Bar only by reservation (it took me two months of trying), and the wild mushrooms you get at Craft, glistening with butter. There was a lentil soup at Veritas. A plate of pork ribs at Fatty ’Cue. A small pile of shaved razor clams with caviar at Le Bernardin.

I can call up the flavor of the split-pea soup at La Grenouille just as some can see a turkey and remember what Thanksgiving smells like. Likewise the veal chop at Ai Fiori, with its sweetbread choux farci and sauce Périgueux; and the chili lobster at Marc Forgione (with Texas toast!); and the barbecued fish at Hunan Kitchen of Grand Sichuan; the lamb ribs at DBGB; the codfish fritters with lamb ragù at Recette; the chicken adobo at Purple Yam; the crisp pork belly at Daniel — all my friends

From Sam Sifton’s summary of 700 meals as food critic; of course, add to that the gnocchi and the cavatelli at Frankies Spuntino (I put so much of that gnocchi in me on Monday night!) and pretty much everything at Roberta’s.

“Our phones already know more details than our moms ever will: where we are, who we are with, what we’re saying to them and what we just did (possibly with photographic evidence). Tomorrow’s models are going to be smarter, learning from our mobile behavior and feeding a digital experience more closely geared to our lifestyle choices and the brands we love — or who are loving us.”

Who will prevail in the titanic struggle between pachyderm and reptile? CLICK PLAY TO FIND OUT.

Will billionaire Naveen Jain be the person to finally make my dream of destroying the moon come true? One can only hope.

Today is Keith Matthew Thornton’s birthday. No one seems sure about how he old is (Keith is famously mysterious.) Wikipedia says he’s 48. But who knows? Today might be his 50th! In any case, he is one of rap’s true originals, and from his work with the Ultramagnetic MCs to Dr. Octagon to his solo records, has amassed a catalogue to rank with the all-time greats. Surely he’s somewhere nice, celebrating in style — and will probably be in a mask and cape and interesting underwear before the day is through.