• Let’s Get High

    Cultural etiquette can be a tricky thing.   Gestural greetings are no exception and can differ greatly from culture to culture.  People in Thailand greet with the Wai, placing palms together, fingers pointing up, with the head slightly bowed.  The Chinese use a slight nod and bow of the head while Egyptians greet with a handshake followed by a touch on the elbow.  Botching any one of these can be embarrassing and even inadvertently insulting.  Which is why I always try to offer patience and assistance to those with a desire to adapt to the social norms of my culture.  Sometimes barriers of communication can be as simple as technique.  This leads me to the topic for todays post – my favorite platonic physical communication: the high five.

     high five   

    While personal style is a key element of an impressive mitt-hit, all too often is the attempt made to do the strut before the crawl.  Such a mistake can often sacrifice valuable thenar (palm muscle) contact, which is no good for anyone.   

    So at this point you may be wondering, “How DO I deliver a righteous fiver every time?”   

    The answer is simple really. Scope the ‘bow.  That’s right.  For consistent sonic booms that will make you wish you had a reason to keep on walking, keep your eye on the approaching elbow.  Never again will you suffer from disappointing babypats when you’re 178 gigaton up-highs are leaving cool-dust debris on the palms of their beneficiaries.  And when you’ve got enough cool that it exfoliates, you’re cryogenic.  So practice a few times on you’re little brother and when I see you, you know what I want.  Let’s do ‘dis like Brutus.   

    On a related note, look out for Gimme Five: History of a Handshake, “an independently produced video documentary examining the history and origin of the handshake a.k.a. daps, pounds, grips and soul shakes.”

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    Three Little Pigs Sandwich

    shhcago.gifI couldn’t really find anything to post about today; I was going to put something up about this art history website or this cookie monster cupcake.  That is, until I stumbled upon Eat Me Daily dot com.  I read a lot of music blogs and hope that food blogs are not going to be a new obsession.  Tv and commercials decide what I eat:  I went to Chilli’s the other night cause I was hungry and their commercial came on.  I sometimes go to Taco Bell if they advertise about a new burrito.  I get excited about restaurants from Check, Please.  So I don’t need the internet to tell me what to hunger for also.

    tlpb.jpgI don’t have cable here at the house, so Top Chef or Ace of Cakes or Anthony Bourdain can tell me what to eat either.  But Anthony did slip through the cracks through a post on EatMeDaily.com talking about a place in Chicago called The Silver Palm.  They eat a sandwich called the Three Little Pigs Sandwich, which is smoked ham, a breaded pork cutlet, two strips of bacon, and two fried eggs, blanketed in a thick coat of gruyere, all on a brioche bun. Try not to get excited about eating that (If you can get past Mancow being a tool in the video).

    The Silver Palm reminds me of Kuma’s Corner, my favorite place to eat in Chicago.  It’s a heavy metal bar that serves awesome food like the pulled pork fries, like the make your own macoroni and cheese where you have the option to add Bacon, Prosciutto, Andouille, Chicken, Roasted Red Peppers, Caramelized Onions, Sun Dried Tomatoes, Broccoli, Peas, Mushrooms, Scallions, or Sweet Corn, and burgers like GOBLIN COCK that has Bacon, Cheddar Cheese, ¼lb. Vienna Hot Dog, Tomatoes, Onion, Neon Green Relish, Sport Peppers, Pickles, Celery Salt Mustard or the IRON MAIDEN that has Avocado, Cherry Peppers, Pepper Jack, Chipotle Mayo.   Sorry to have to list all that.  I don’t know how else to describe it’s awesomeness.  They have a burger of the month that last month featured the #!@%¿ Blagojevich Burger that comes with bologna on wonder bread.  Its $10.00, but the price is negoitable.

  • Snag Films

    I know that I love documentaries.  So when your done watching Viva and Jerry Beck’s Country Videos, you can go on over to Snag Films.  It is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free.  And if the half hours shows on Hulu aren’t enough of a time-suck, then you can check out The Times of Harvey Milk, Dig!, or What Would Jesus Buy.  All you wanted to know about Alicia Keys in Africa, the Homeless World Cup, heavy metal in Baghdadand so on.  Via PopCandy.