A hilarious worst-case scenario involving Facebook and a job interview. Contains some weird adult situations, which is why it’s so funny:
Author: Joey deVilla
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Last Night at Loser Karaoke
Another Thursday, another evening at "Loser Karaoke", the karaoke night at the cheap and cheerful Tequila Sunrise where a lot of people from Accordion City’s social music scene belt out tunes.
My number last night was the Violent Femmes’ two-chord anthem, Add It Up. Ethan Hawke ruined the song in Reality Bites, and it’s my duty to take it back:
[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
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I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This…
Thanks to Hamish Grant for this find!
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Words
I love this short film. When you watch it, remember that its title is Words:
Words was made by Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante of the New York/Los Angeles-based production company Everynone, with original music by Keith Kenniff.
The film is meant to accompany the Words episode of the radio show Radiolab. Here’s its abstract:
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour of Radiolab, we try to do just that. We speak to a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, and we hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke. Plus: a group of children invent an entirely new language in Nicaragua in the 1970s.
Want to hear Radiolab’s Words episode? Click here to download the MP3.
Thanks to Biella Coleman for finding this!
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In Case of Emergency…
You’d be surprised how often something like this would come in handy:
This is from “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Twitpic account (click the photo to see the original). Thanks to Oliver Meyn for the heads-up!
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Bairrada
I belong to a little club that holds monthly “meatings” where we gather for the purposes of good times, scintillating conversation and the savoury pleasures of meat. Last night, our meating was held at Bairrada, a churrasqueira on College, a block west of Dovercourt (1002 College). They have other locations: one at Keele and St. Clair and one in Mississauga at Highway 10 and Dundas.
People unfamiliar with Portuguese cuisine typically think that it’s just fish. They’re partly correct; being an ocean-facing nation that produced some of the world’s greatest navigators during the age of exploration, they know a thing or two about seafood. However, they’re also a meat-and-potatoes culture as well. In fact, they’re a meat, potatoes and sauce culture.
Bairrada, as is the custom with many Accordion City restaurants, is like Doctor Who’s TARDIS – bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside. There’s a fair bit of dining space inside the restaurant, but the real room is in its tree-canopied patio past the dining room. A barbecue lover would feel at home here.
One of their appetizers is listed in the menu in English as “flaming sausage”, and the name is truth in advertising:
Take a closer look — the dish used to flame the sausage is shaped like a pig:
We also had some fresh cheese, which had a very clean, baby mozzarella-like taste, which goes well with bread and sausage.
I had the house steak, which comes served in a pool of sauce with a sunny-side-up perched on top of it and a generous helping of fried potatoes sliced twice as thick as potato chips. I enjoyed it so much that I forgot to snap a photo of it, so you’ll have to use your imagination. I’ll have to snap a photo next time.
Wendy had the chicken, which comes served covered in piri-piri spice and with rice and potatoes to suck up the delicious juices:
You get a lot of bang for your buck at Bairrada: generous portions of delicious food cooked over an open flame, with appetizers typically below $10 and entrees typically $15 or less. If you’re looking for some meat and want to venture beyond the typical North American steakhouse, Bairrada’s a great place to visit.