Oh, Oakland. When I have more time, I'll actually explore all of your hip-ness and will stop resenting you so much.



Here's a very well-shot, super detailed and informative tour of the hipness Oakland offers. I've started compiling a list of things in the Bay Area I need to eat. The chicken sandwich from Bakesale Betty's is on the top of the list.

Pooping with Flannery O'Connor

So. Fucking. Busy. Working constantly on the Sungevity project w/the film dudes has taken its toll physically and mentally. My cold is three or four weeks strong, and I'm pretty sure that a breakfast burrito at Halfway Cafe gave me food poisoning, as I've been fighting nausea and the poops all day. The staff there are so nice though, I almost feel bad. Oh wait, my stomach says otherwise.


So, there's that. I've been reading Flannery O'Connor's Complete Stories and it's awesome, with the exception of being totally afraid to read it on public transportation. Oh, racial epithets! Hey, if you like the n-word, this is the book for you. It's like reading Birth of a Nation. Okay, not really. I have my explanation already worked out: "No, she's writing from a stubborn Southern character's perspective!"

Well, gotta go force some food down now.

i heart momofuku

AeRi sent me this. David Chang is under 40 and runs the Momofuku empire in New York City. Here you can watch him get wasted in K-Town, NYC with Vice TV and talk about how they got started.



OB and Hite FTW.

Spike Jonze & Kanye West - We Were Once A Fairytale

Kanye West took this video down on his site, I imagine because it came out after the VMA fiasco and the last thing his public wants to see is him playing an even more exaggerated drunken version of himself.

It's definitely not a flattering portrayal, and it goes into some bizarre territory. While Kanye isn't the greatest actor in the world, it's a pretty great short and hopefully they do some more stuff down the road.

2 Things

1.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead was gorgeous enough. As Ramona Flowers, it's just not even fair.

2. We made this:

BookTime: And Here's the Kicker

I've been devouring this book every time I get a chance to open it up. It's loaded with incredible interviews with the likes of Stephen Merchant, Robert Smigel, Bob Odenkirk, and way way more, as well as advice from long time writers of some of my favorite shows, including Late Night With Conan O'Brien and The Daily Show.

I'm not the only one nerding out about this. Click here to see Nathan "Backhanded Compliment to that one French Press Films Commercial" Rabin raving about it.

Alison Silverman, a former writer for Late Night and now a writer and co-producer of The Colbert Report, even discusses the Kilmanjaro Expedition sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. Fucking awesome.

The Chef

Raekwon the Chef speaks on KanyeGate and how "ODB pioneered it". Get Raekwon's new album. It's hot fire.