Serious Eats gives us three ways to grill corn.

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Matisse at age 83, 1953.

[Photograph by: Hélène Adant/Rapho]

White Lines.

Food 52 gives pasta with cherry tomatoes.

Picture by Joe Webb via This Isn’t Happiness.

Bango:

I don’t know if girls ever did this but boys usually have specific cars they love. My cousin dug any Volvo, though I suspect he just liked to say the word.

I had a few cars that I loved–Cadillacs, cause I dug the tail lights; Mustangs, and Citroens. What about you?

Head on over to Kottke and check out the two videos on the making of a Steinway grand piano.

Painting by Hadas Patryk via Supersonic Electronic.

The Woolworth Building by Dan Poharyskyi.

And more.

Before “Blurred Lines” there was Marvin:

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Baked Tofu? What the hell? This sandwich from the Flourishing Foodie looks damn good anyhow.

Gothamist gives the 7 best milkshakes in New York.

Photograph by Maury Postal via This Isn’t Happiness.

Gifted.

[Image by Bill Sienkiewicz]

Rest in Peace, Dennis Farina.

I love this scene from Out of Sight, starting at 0:45 in this clip…

Here’s a 2009 interview with Farina at the A.V. Club:

AVC: What do you think makes Elmore Leonard’s work special and so adaptable for movies?

DF: First of all, they’re usually short. I read somewhere that if a book is over 250 pages, it’s iffy for movies. That sounds very pedestrian, I guess. But I think people like that. That’s one of the reasons they’re good sellers, because they’re not 700 pages long. And he writes very clearly and very distinctly and very succinctly. I think everyone can identify with his characters.

AVC: When you’re reading the script for an Out Of Sight or Get Shorty and you see the character you’re going to play, can you tell right away what you’re going to do with that character? Does it jump off the page?

DF: With Get Shorty, I read the book as a matter of course because I’m a big Elmore Leonard fan. I remember saying to myself, “Boy, I would sure like to play Ray Bones.” As luck would have it, I don’t know how long afterwards, I got a call to go to a table reading in L.A. I got a call from Danny DeVito’s office. They wanted me to read Ray Bones. About six months later I was doing the movie. I thought he was the most honest guy in the whole story. He wanted his money, and that was it. There was no pretense. He wasn’t trying to make a movie. He wasn’t trying to be anything else. He was a gangster who wanted his money. I thought he was funny, but I don’t think he thought he was funny. He thinks he’s very serious and that he should be taken seriously, but no one else took him seriously.

Food 52 keeps it simple.

Mornin’.

[Image by Cheryl Ghosts via Etsy]

My father did some work for CTW in the 1970s. He’d bring us home Sesame Street albums and once we cleaned our rooms were allowed to listen to them. One time, Dad took my sister and me to visit the set of Sesame Street. We sat on this stoop and looked into Mr. Hooper’s store. Nobody was filming. The crew was busy. I remember a kid riding a bike around. We sat there, next to Oscar’s garbage can, quietly, and wondered where Mr. Hooper was.

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“The Morning Paper II” by Hobson Pittman (1952-53)