What a nut optical illusion. See if you can switch the spinning direction of the dancer. I look away and she changes direction.

Baby you could invite me and I’ll invite you (http://www.zefrank.com/social_2.mp3) via Tim

Hairvetica
Free Forms
Death Waltz
Letterpress Postcards

The front page photo of yesterday’s New York Times caught my attention while standing in line to pay for for my lunch.

New York Times‘ Alex Berenson reports:

Dentists’ incomes have grown faster than that of the typical American and the incomes of medical doctors. Formerly poor relations to physicians, American dentists in general practice made an average salary of $185,000 in 2004, the most recent data available. That figure is similar to what non-specialist doctors make, but dentists work far fewer hours. Dental surgeons and orthodontists average more than $300,000 annually.

“Roc Boys (And The Winner Is),” the boss is back:

Red Porsches, rare portraits
Rare guns if you dare come near the fortress
This apple sauce is from
The apple orchid
This kind of talk is only reserved
For the bosses

Sounds like Jay Z’s new album, American Gangster, is going to be tight.

… last night I played Meditations
& it told me what to do
Live, you crazy mother
Fucker!
Live!
    & organize
    yr shit
    as rightly
    burning!

By Amiri Baraka

My boy has been blogging again. Congratulations on the switch. I am telling ya: Once you go Mac, you won’t go back.

Monking (Thelonious)

NPR profiles my personal favorite jazz pianist Thelonious Monk:

Monk was almost as well-known for his unpredictable behavior as for his unique musical techniques. He would get up from the piano and dance around the bandstand, and was often labeled as aloof, eccentric and weird. Even Monk’s son, drummer T.S. Monk, described his father as an “unusual guy.” Critics dismissed Monk, and even ridiculed him, but he persevered despite the bad press.

I am loving NPR for providing listeners with such wonderful programs like this one.

By the way, If Monks was still alive, he would by 90 today.