Things we’re reading today:
How to build a sushi empire. A good interview with sushi king Nobu Matsuhisa, from his humble beginnings cleaning dishes to the owner of 22 famous restaurants around the world.
Animals who hate baths. Ahaha, pictures of wet animals. Never gets old.
Fans of Death Saint upset. In Mexico, some folk worship a ‘death saint’ called Santa Muerte, the patron saint of crime, criminals and the dispossessed. I dunno, that’s just how the roll over there. Anyway, their shrines to the saint — featuring “the saint as a robed skeleton clutching a scythe in one hand and a globe in the other” — are being taken down, and they’re calling religious discrimination.
Mark Twain: Hot, relevant and dead. Mark Twain is so hot right now, says Vanity Fair.
The centenary of Twain’s death, April 21, 2010, is little more than a year away, and yet, in the next 19 months or so, fans of the author can look forward to the publication of a small treasure trove of previously unreleased work. By the end of next year, the first volume of Twain’s unexpurgated autobiography will be published as he requested, 100 years after his death.
WTF? Cursebird tracks people swearing on Twitter. Uh-maaah.
White Girls with Negro Lovers. Flappers, Wine, Cocaine and Revels. Raid Discloses Wild Scene of Abandon. That’s the headline from a 1928 edition of Melbourne paper Truth. Cultural historian Melissa Bellanta explores.
