How's Your Face?

dyfl:

Enjoyed this quite a bit, even though Tosches overwrites pretty badly in a few spots. But go fig.

I don’t know that I have ever read a Nick Tosches piece before, but I really enjoyed this. Becasue:

1.) I had to look up 3 new words and a few foreign phrases (favorite: “estivating”, because I do it a lot)
2.) The balance between being snobby and mocking oneself for being snobby
3.) The artisanal description of the cultivation and process of chandoo, which reminds me of all the other trendy homebrew type things, and is probably already happening at secret clubs in Portland or Vancouver or something.

There’s something oddly twee about opium, too. Decadent and twee.

hydeordie:

Now, O’Neal is branching out yet again by taking on the art world. The Cleveland Cavaliers athlete is curating a gallery show in New York that is appropriately titled “Size DOES Matter,” which explores the idea of scale in contemporary art, according to a Bloomberg report.

The show is scheduled to open in February at New York’s Flag Art Foundation, an exhibition space in the Chelsea neighborhood.

“It was a little harder than I thought it would be,” O’Neal told Bloomberg. “When you think about what each of the artists put into their work, what they are expressing and want to share with the world, you feel bad about having to narrow it down.”

Seriously? If you live in New York you can’t miss this. I won’t let you.

I look forward to the follow up exhibit, curator Wayne Gretzky’s “Ice-Hockey Hair: Mullet Dialectics”.