Coolin’.

[Photo Credit: Simple Intimiste]

We roll along this afternoon and will not mention the Yankees until absolutely necessary.

In the meantime, dig these paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez.

I’ve made April Bloomfield’s Skirt Steak Salad twice recently and man, it’s a sure shot. I couldn’t find watercress so I used cilantro and mint instead. Here’s the recipe. And dig this demonstration.

Over at 70mm, please check out this piece on the shooting of Lawrence of Arabia by my dear friend Mike Fox.

I don’t feel tardy.

Collage by Richard Diebenkorn

The first date I had with The Wife was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in January, 2002. Home field advantage I figured. Little did I know that painting and drawing don’t move her. So I took her on a tour and she smiled as I talked and talked. She was probably bored silly and finally she was hungry. Still, she was too polite to stop me and I was so nervous I kept talking.

As she tells it, “You talked until I was limp.”

She has not been back to the MET since. Until this past Saturday. This time we didn’t look at paintings or drawings but we went through the Japanese collection–The Wife loves the Japanese aesthetic. She wasn’t bored and we left before she was starving.

Progress.

A Heppy Ket.

Cloud City at the Roof Garden.

A little Sunday morning funk fuh ya.

[Photo Via: Oxane]

“Take Me To The River”–The Talking Heads

[Photo Via: Vanilla-Daises]

Tools.

[Photo Via: Plenty of Colour]

[Photo Credit: Sophiebeatrice]

Here’s Jeff Feuerzieg’s short on Jeff Dowd the inspiration for Jeff Lebowski.

THE DUDE (Director’s Cut) from Jeff Feuerzeig on Vimeo.

Via Slate, dig this clip of Stanley Kubrick’s one-point perspective:

Sandness by original_ann.

Nicole Franzen’s summer pasta.

[Photo Credit: Alice Gao]

Over at Harper’s check out this 1947 contract between Kurt Vonnegut and his pregnant wife.

Form fitting.

[Photo Credit: Little Miss Lust]

Picture by Mauli Hans…via This Isn’t Happiness.

Serious Eats tries Nigel Slater’s recipe for a salad of summer leaves, cured pork and cherries.

Summer Jam.

Or maybe like this:

[Photo Credit: GabinoMphoto]