“Sink” by Richard Diebenkorn. Mid-60’s.

It’s gunna be a Diebs week around here. Man, how I love this drawing.

We’re all sensitive people…

[Illustration by Stanley Chow]

Mental Floss has an exclusive interview with Bill Watterson. This is a must for all you Calivn and Hobbes knuts out there.

More pictures: here.

Twenty-two hours in Balthazar. 

[Photo Credit: Raul Gutierrez]

“Seated Woman” by Richard Diebenkorn (1968)

Nice group of Big Lebowski links over at the consistently rewarding movie site, Cinephilia and Beyond. Includes this picture of Steve Buscemi and John Turturro taken by Jeff Bridges (the guy in the middle is Bridges’ longtime stand-in). Ah, my Zelig moment. You’ll see in the background right near Buscemi’s head, a blurry figure wearing a Clippers jersey. That would be me.

Ha!

Memories Of You

[Photo Credit: Danielle Hughson]

“I’d Rather Be With You”–Harlem Hamfats

[Photo Credit: Wai Lin Tse via MPD]

What does Mario Batali eat after 10 hours of cooking?

The penne looks damn tasty no matter what time it is.

[Photo Credit: Marcus Nilsson for The New York Times]

Photograph by Rebecca Reeve via MPD. 

O.C.’s debut album, Word Life, was released on this day in 1994. It’s a good one.

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There are four new movies that have been well-reviewed and have got me excited to go the theater. They are Captain Phillips, Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, and All is Lost. Oscar time came early this year, huh?

It’s starting to hit me. That we won’t see Mo pitch again. Small pangs at random times, but it’s sinking in. His playing career is over.

In this article about Rivera over at Broken LeaguesI was impressed with the picture by PJ McQuade.

Stephen Rodrick profiles Robert Redford in Men’s Journal. Redford is supposed to be wonderful in the new movie, All is Lost:

It’s hard to watch “All Is Lost” and not focus on Redford’s mortality – or, hell, your own mortality. It’s the type of unvarnished role his advisers had been urging him to take for years, but he’d become encased in his own dilemma. He’d spent his entire career rebelling against just being another good-looking guy but only partially leaving his comfort zone. Every film Redford has been involved in for the past half-century has him playing a hero; it might be subverting the cliché – like in ‘The Candidate’ – but it’s still the hero. In ‘All Is Lost,’ Redford doesn’t play a hero; just an old man trying to survive.

Robert Redford turned 77 a few weeks before Telluride. He still carves turns on his own mountain, but it is now easier for J.C. Chandor to raise money for his next film than it is for Redford. In a grand irony, the actor’s next role is the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the sequel to Captain America, the type of blockbuster that led Redford to flee Hollywood for Sundance.

“This is the new deal,” Redford explains. “This is the way the film business is going, with high-tech, high-budget, high things. So many parts of it were not recognizable to me. I thought it’d be interesting to have the experience.”

While he now claims he’s trying harder to stay in touch with his past, there is little evidence. I mention that I’d recently interviewed James Salter, a former Redford confidant who wrote ‘Downhill Racer.’ His face lights up. “I’ve read his new book twice. My daughter asked me who from my past I’d like to reconnect with, and I said ‘Salter.’ ” What is left unsaid is that he never called him.

Photograph by Tim Walker via MPD.

Jam it on the One.

The Wife and I stopped in to a charming new Belgian spot on the Upper East Side last weekend. They serve special little meringues. The Wife took a picture. Spot is worth dropping in on for a treat if you’re in that neighborhood.

Oven-roasted tomatoes. 

Via Ego Trip: Wonder Wrote It.

“Incoming Tide” by Winslow Homer (1883)