The Buckeyes Can March

This video of the Ohio State Marching Band doing a Michael Jackson tribute has been bouncing around for at least a few days now.  I didn't watch it until Questlove said to on twitter.  He was right too, jump to 4:20 in the video to see why...

Go Read A Book

I really, really like books. I like reading them, I like holding them, I like having them on shelves, I like browsing for new ones to read whether that's in a store or a library, or once upon a time a bookmobile.

Bookmobiles are awesome, this is a fact.  It's sad that they aren't around anymore for the most part if you ask me.

Messy Nessy Chic took a look back at the history of the bookmobile and dug up some great pictures to help tell the story of their rise and fall.

Lots more where that came from...

(via LS)

Eat Good Meat

Seriously people if you put a little effort and concern in to what you're eating and where it's coming from and how it was raised and processed (especially if it's meat), you'll not only fell better about yourself you'll be eating tastier food and probably feel better because you're eating healthier as well.

Which is all really to say this Banksy piece from his current NYC show is pretty brilliant...

Jimmy Fallon & The Roots Continue To Win The Internets

With an assist from the denizens of Sesame Street...

What We Eat Matters

For a whole host of reasons, and in a slightly gimmicky and certainly self-serving but still pretty brilliant short (or ad if you prefer) Chipotle drives that message home with brutal efficiency...



There isn't much about this video that really makes you feel good though, and I kind of feel like I need a trip to the farmers market and a shower now.

Eating Invasives & Foraging In The Thimble Islands

I'm a big fan of eating invasives, although I have yet to go catch and cook a snakehead despite the fact that I hear they're delicious.

This looks like it was a fun and tasty trip regardless of the bottom line impact that eating invasives can have on protecting and restoring our local ecosystems...



Now who wants some garlic mustard salad?

Ike Was A Prophet

Well, he said some fairly prophetic things at least; and he coined the phrase military industrial complex and where would we be without that?

Ike gave a speech titled "Chance for Peace" in which he said:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies,in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. 

This from the dude who was the Supreme Allied Commander during WWII.  Not everyone in the military is a warmonger and that's worth remembering.

 

Jill Lepore touched on these issues in a current day context in her piece in the January 28 New Yorker on how much military is enough these days.  She had the Ike quote above and it's well worth sharing.  Her article is available in full and is worth checking out.

I think I might need a biography of the man.