Spoiler alert: It’s April Fools’ Day. Everyone’s on board now, yes? We’ve already come across some real gems.
Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink: 144 character stories for the New York Post would be one thing, but the Guardian? Come on. We kid cause we love.
Guantanamo ‘fun’ – Miss Universe: There goes the British press taking the piss again. Except the BBC didn’t make this one up.
Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity: Google going deep like you knew they would. Needs more math jokes though.
Fiction world rocked as woman claims no sexual attraction to Neil Gaiman: True story, but we’re not sure about this one.
Björk joins Led Zeppelin: Like peanut butter and jelly. Read More »
Back in January we spoke with Matthew “Chili Takedown” Timms about the growing popularity of his themed cook-off series and his place in foodie culture. On Sunday, he threw his most successful event yet, the Bacon Takedown, where amateur chefs competed over the most tasty and improbably pork-packed treats. Some bacon lovers braved long, pungent lines to sample and eventually vote for their favorites among 30 bacony dishes, including avocado ice-cream, cupcakes, soup, applesauce, and truffles. Even Good Morning America was in attendance (back in the studio, one host got excited enough to describe the bacon bourbon ice-cream as “Kentucky porn” — good morning, indeed). Flavorwire checked in with Timms again, and then spoke with two of the event’s winners, Jonathan Proville (Judge’s Winner) and Mike O’Neill (People’s Choice/Grand Prize) to discuss the competitions, food trends, and swine. Read More »
A new site called Omegle is totally stoked to help you chat anonymously and one on one with complete strangers. A high-school student just launched it, which makes total sense. Founder Leif K-Brooks (who endorsed this parody) says the site has been taking off in a big way and that’s understandable. While railing against Omegle as an insidious, malicious time-suck, I still found myself telling friends about it. Sorry, world! I wound up contacting five people from Boston to Germany. Read More »
Today at Flavorpill, we got off on panda love — and a TMI from the commentating British reporter. We didn’t like this helveticake’s kerning. We thought of our poor, be-babied friends after discovering a baby-mama-dissing blog. We were in disbelief over the power that marshmallow Peeps have over the Wii console. We geared up for the Final Four with a look a good/bad NCAA mascots. We bugged out over a new Takashi Murakami-like toy. We thought that Britannica is a little late to their own game. We started holding our breath for Robert Crumb’s version of the Book of Genesis. And finally, we cowered at the vast, right-wing Snuggies conspiracy.
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We just saw a piece in the New York Post about a forthcoming FOX (of course) reality show called More to Love that’s about big girls competing Bachelor-style for the heart of a Johnny Lunchbox. In fact, the creator of that cringe-inducing exploration into the on-camera mating rituals of the generically attractive and vapid has the executive producer reins on More to Love. Could FOX possibly be making an attempt at even-handed portrayal of “normal” Americans honestly interacting with each other? Read More »
What happens when all-American Jack Bauer is called upon to save millions of innocents on a lovely Parisian Saturday? Naturally, with a full 24 hours to respond, he calmly eats a croissant, dallies with his beautiful woman, finishes his Camus, and dreams of bocce and boating in the sun. Stella Artois commissioned this 24 Hours send-up for their Smooth Originals campaign, which also packs classic, cliché French New Wavisms into spoofs of 8 Mile and Die Hard. Read More »
Finally, Four. With a mix of lopsided blowouts and down-to-the-wire nail-biters, everyone’s office bracket came one step closer to irrelevant, as Connecticut, Michigan State, North Carolina, and Villanova made it to the Final Four. While the field is Cinderella-free, these final contenders are all on a fairly even keel, helping to secure the NCAA’s reputation as the US sporting championship most worthy of non-fans’ attention. Thankfully, the attendance should find more actual students in the stands of Detroit’s massive Ford Field. Read More »
The Flickr pool from our favorite all-purpose food blog Serious Eats has some of the best amateur porn on the Web, but this submission is too much. Forgetting lighting and composition, the model here (which according to the caption is a shaved ice garnished with red bean, matcha, mochi, and fruit, with condensed milk) just doesn’t belong in front of a camera. What other lurid grub shots have you come across lately? More importantly, has anyone sampled this dish at IPPUDO? Maybe it tastes better than it looks?
Comedian Matthew Timms has the market cornered on populist NYC food competitions, from his Chili Takedown series, to cookie and fondue variations. He’s also an award-winning cinematographer, whose indie drama Up With Me took home a Special Jury Award at last year’s SXSW Film Festival. After the jump Flavorwire asks the Renaissance blogger about the roots of his competitions, his thoughts on the local food scene, and the effect he’s had on lingerie sales in Brooklyn.
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