Caine Blog

Went to a party on Friday night.  An n+1 party.  Yeah.
n+1 parties, it turns out, are precisely what you’d expect.  The veneer of enlightenment - of serious, critical theory - is mostly manifested through name-dropping and job-dropping and school-dropping (speaking of which, I ran into a couple Carleton people, which was what it was), and [...]

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Just saw Let The Right One In at Angelika, and I liked it a lot.
First, it was beautiful: the color is skewed toward eerie blues, which provides a certain nuance to the the film’s subject - vampires, basically - by desaturating the blood.  The cinematography, which focuses on the juxtaposition between Scandinavian modernity and barren [...]

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Computer is broken, sitting in the shop like dead weight.  No posts.  But I had to be roused from my postless coma to mention how shitty the following NYT piece is.  Entitled “12 Year Old’s a Food Critic, and the Chef Loves It,” this is the worst piece of journalism for the entire month of [...]

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New job.  Details forthcoming.

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Had only one day to try some of Fergus Henderson’s menu items at Momofuku Noodle Bar.  Henderson is the chef at London’s St. John restaurant, has earned renown for using offal, and last night completed a one-night-only guest appearance at Momofuku.  Whaddya know, a lot of offal last night - on the menu, if not [...]

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