Posts from — December 2008

Proof 7 wishes you all a happy healthy 1….be safe and make sure you light up the night up.

Bong Bong!

Daniel Boulud may live and work on the Upper East Side, but he doesn’t eat there. The chef told the London Independent where he likes to nosh for meals and after hours, revealing that his stomach takes him all over Manhattan. Boulud gets his pizza at Una Pizza Napoletana, his tapas at El Quinto Pino, Cuban sandwiches at Sandy’s Lechoneria in Spanish Harlem, báhn mì at Nicky’s, and “the best sushi after midnight” at Sushi Seki. He takes his staff to Daisy May’s BBQ, but his favorite meal of all can be found at the Four Seasons. “If I want great food I can cook it for myself, but if I want an experience I go to the Four Seasons,” Boulud said. He described the vanilla ice cream and cotton-candy dessert there as “playful, witty and very American; it’s childish but very professional, too.” Childish but professional? We can live with that. We guess. Jeez.

Where Daniel Boulud Eats in New York

The car industry might be at its lowest point of esteem, but there’s still room to celebrate the basics — at times the automobile is a wonder of engineering and design. Design is a monograph intended for internal use at Mercedes-Benz, celebrating an often overlooked aspect of the companies success. Thanks to Wallpaper* a few choice images have emerged for public consumption.

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Chins has been working on the judo throw sex mount.

feather weights

ON Thursday, Dec. 11, Jim Donnelly got the call at his office on Jay Street in Dumbo for the biggest job he had ever had. Emmett Beliveau, the executive director of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, told him that Precise Continental, Mr. Donnelly’s 26-year-old printing company, had won the bid to produce one million gold-and-black engraved invitations for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama.

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check  out the New York Times ‘08 Year in Ideas, a full scale alphabetic compilation of the brilliance, and not to much, of 2008. Definitely some crazy ideas, worth a peak.

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Looks like Mr. President to be is smokin somethin here, and he has quite a resemblance to the Bambu man. All you well wishers can say what you want but i never seen anyone smokin a cigarette like that and his eye lidz look like they slippin. I have HIGH hope for his presidency.