I’m Not Going to Do This Every Day

This is the greatest interview Charlie Rose has ever done:

The photos here are fantastic, and the title is even better:

Tormenta eléctrica en erupción del volcán Chaitén

How can you not click on a hedline like that?

This, from the wife of the mayor of Kansas City, is the Best Christmas Letter in the History of Best Christmas Letters.

Also, their Website is Most Excellent.

AN UPDATE: Thanks to all for your comments. Yes, I know that we’re talking about Kansas City, Mo. here. I grew up 30 miles on the Kansas side from the city. I am familiar with State Line Road. I tagged this post ‘Kansas’ because, well, I talk about Kansas a lot on this blog and, as Grandpa Simpson would say, I’ll be cold and dead in the ground before I recognize Missouri.

Today in parallelism: Right now I’m reading Gain, the Richard Powers novel that draws parallels between capitalism and cancer, and I came across this project by the Chicago photographer Brian Ulrich that explores some of the same themes (h/t Frangry). Some really great pictures that cover some of the same ground that my friend Matt Nighswander hit in his Chicagoland project a few years ago.

The new ad campaign for milk is pretty amazing:

The excellent Jesse Ellison has a nice interview in Nwk with the author; I loved the book, and the interview is almost as good.

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This is pretty friggin’ amazing: Emails from mothers to their kids. Sample post:

COMPUTER

Honey, when I treid to use my computer without plugging in the internet it would not connect to the internet thus proving I am NOT using someone’s wireless. Can’t you use a wired connection? I think it is only logical to avoid as much bathing in wireless showers as possible - and PLEASE don’t put the thing on your belly - the number of people that mention knowing someone who has a child with “disorders” is pretty scary to me and lots of people think this. I think my computer proved wireless is not everywhere all the time….

Our impossibly cool art director R showed me these guys, and I’m totally hooked:

from www.youtube.com posted with vodpod

from www.youtube.com posted with vodpod

This is fantastic: