Food 52 gives Roberto Santibanez’ classic guacamole.

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Thanks to Matt B for pointing this out:

Still Diggin’.

Picture by Bags.

Remember?

Here is a classic short by Helen Whitney about a day in the life of the Baltimore Sun circa 1976. Newsroom was loud back when…and smokey.

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For those of you who live here in town, something to keep in mind…my dear friend Sherri, native Upper West Sider, has a reflexology practice.

She’s great at what she does, so if you are looking to do reflexology work, she’s your person. Highly recommended, for sure.

Check her out on Twitter: Blue Sun Reflexology@Sherri Oustalet. Or e-mail directly: sherrioustalet@aol.com.

Also, Sherri’s Facebook page and Linkedin profile.

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Ted Berg is now at USA Today and he’s  still funny.

Food 52 Says: Eat Your Beans.

Uh-huh.

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Flavorwire has links to 10 Oscar-Winning Short Films.

Nice piece on Larry Merchant by Stan Hochman:

When Merchant was 50 years younger, he was sports editor of the Philadelphia Daily News. He was taking names and kicking ass, surrounded by a posse he had hired, hard-driving guys with similar inclinations.

He’d yanked me out of San Bernardino, Calif., and told me where to park near Connie Mack Stadium so I’d find my hubcaps intact after games. And then he told me what we owed our readers.

“Inform ’em, entertain ’em, and every so often surprise ’em,” Merchant said. He wrote incisive essays about pro football. He called his column “Fun and Games” as a stark contrast to life and death. And he’d open his occasional notes columns with “Some questions answered, some answers questioned.”

Merchant informed, entertained, shocked. We were tabloid and proud of it. Not that everyone loved our swagger, our persistence.

There was that night in 1962 on the Phillies’ charter flight, Merchant in an aisle seat, typing away. The catcher, Sammy White, peered over Larry’s shoulder, unhappy with what he read.

“He yanked at the copy paper,” Merchant recalled, “and it stuck. He wound up throwing my Olivetti [typewriter] down the aisle. I went to get it and some of the keys were twisted and some vital parts scattered.

“That night, I dictated a story that said it was the best throw he’d made all season. About a month later, the Phillies sent me an invoice, paying for a replacement and indicating it had been deducted from White’s salary.”

“Manhattan of the Mind” by Becky Cooper.

Painting by Mark Rothko.

I was alone, I took a ride…

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Blogging will be light today what with the holiday and all.

Meanwhile, Chad Jennings has the recap of Derek Jeter’s first press conference of the spring. As well as some notes on Mark Teixeira and the WBC.

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“Please Make Up Your Mind”–Hank

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“Imagine My Surprise” Fats Waller

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When I worked as an intern on Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary I had the occasion to drive to New Hampshire one day with him. Just the two of us. I played him a few songs I wanted him to hear–from the Pharcyde, I think it was–and then he said, “I want to play you something special.”

He put a cassette in the tape deck and turned me on to Marvin Gaye’s version of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” performed thirty years ago at the NBA All-Star game.

Over at Grantland, Pete Croatto explains why it stands alone.

Go here to read some of the Good Doctor’s writing.