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10 Burgers, 10 Ways

The burger is having a renaissance. No longer is it associated with a McDonald’s Big Mac Meal but with gourmet burger restaurants competing for the coveted title of best burger in the city. In the name of randomness, a Paris-based burger-lover has translated his love for burgers into a Tumblr and it’s gained quite the…

Was Homer Simpson stolen from this Vintage Cartoon ca.1949?

Seen this guy somewhere before? Meet Adamson – Homer Simpson’s vintage doppelganger. This cartoon comic was published in an Icelandic paper called Fálkinn in July 1949. It is the creation of Swedish cartoonist, Oscar Jacobson who enjoyed relative success as an illustrator, even in America where Adamson was known as Silent Sam. Could it be that Matt Groening’s iconic cartoon…

Ryan Gosling starred in ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark’ ca.1995

Hey 90s kids! Remember this show? The one you’d race home from school for to watch on Nickelodeon with an ice cold bowl of cereal? Good times, good times. Well today I learned that Ryan Gosling starred in an episode called The Tale of Station 109.9! Not the spookiest one I’ve seen I have to…

The Era of Automatic Dining lives on in Amsterdam

I‘ve been clinging onto these old photos of an Automat diner in New York in the 1930s, thinking I would one day have a reason to show them to you. Having just returned from a long weekend in Amsterdam where I found this old-fashion fast-food style of dining still in existence, I think it’s time…

Visit the charming little Village of F*cking in Austria

I‘ve heard Fucking is fabulous in the Spring. Too old for schoolyard humor? Never! It has a population of just 104 and lies 4 kilometres from the German border in west Austria. And it’s name really is Fucking. The unfortunately-named village (pronounced fooking) is a peaceful place. The only crime ever reported here was for the…

A Michelin star Restaurant on the Paris Underground

All aboard the Badoit Express! Just a few weeks ago on the RER line C commuter train into Paris, the sparkling water brand Badoit decided to surprise tired commuters on their way home with an astonishing and unusual gastronomic treat. Two-star Michelin chef of the Paris Mandarin Oriental and judge of the French version of…

Underwater Crop Circles Discovered

They could be the work of a talented scuba diver using precise tools and measurements, but they’re not. Japanese underwater photographer Yoji Ookata, discovered these mysterious circles after almost 50 years of exploring our underwater world. Eighty feet below sea-level and approximately 6.5ft in diameter, Yoji, nor anyone else, had ever seen anything like it. So who…

A French Girl’s Search for the Meaning of Hipster

You know there’s something seriously wrong with a generation when most of us don’t want to admit what we basically just are. Whether extreme or moderate, hippies were proud of being hippies, punks were proud of being punks, but hipsters?! Well how very dare you call us hipsters! A French ex-pat living in New…

The Misunderstood Nomadic Women who Danced Their Way to Liberation

Centuries before Betty Friedan and the sexual revolution challenged social mores in the West, the women of the Ouled Nail in Algeria enjoyed the freedom to earn their own fortunes, choose lovers and engage in sexual relationships outside of marriage in a society that placed no shame on these choices – and indeed valued these…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXIX)

1. Elevator Girls, by Miwa Yanagi, 1994–8 For Japanese artist Miwa Yanagi, “elevator girls” (the hostesses employed to greet shoppers in department stores) have proved a potent means of exploring the role of women in Japanese society. Her first solo show featured various uniformed models standing beside fake elevators, performing ritualised actions. Yanagi expanded upon…

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