how do you get so big eating food of this kind?

Thanks to Weird Universe, one can know re-create the healthful Jedi stew that Master Yoda prepared for Luke Skywalker. I’d have expected such detail nowadays for your space knights but was surprised to find this level of dedication sourced a long time ago and far away to the newspaper the Milwaukee Journal in 1983. The recipe does sound rather good, if not labour-intensive.

inky, blinky or yes we have no bananas

Purveyor of wonderfully hideous men’s fashions (although style is very much in the eye of the beholder) OppoSuits presents this Pac-Man bit of tailoring that seems the natural and dignified answer to pin-stripes (or at the very least, the natural consequence of novelty ties), via Neatorama. The gang’s all there but no ambulatory fruits to be found in the maze. We are in agreement with their suggestion that one ought to wear this for his court-arraignment and would also be appropriate attire for a job interview—or a televised debate. At only around eighty euro, it seems within anyone’s clothing allowance.

figleaf and fishcake

Kottke helps us make acquaintance with an expert remixer that that introduces snippets of film dialogue onto works of fine art. Popquotery allows us to better appreciate both.
This particular quotation is from the 1988 comedy heist A Fish Called Wanda, superimposed on a 1907 portrait called A Rose by Thomas Pollock Anshutz. Incidentally, Anshutz was a nudist and exhibitionist and helped (sat for) Eadweard Muybridge pioneer his animation and motion picture techniques, but ensured his success at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts by dismissing his competition for conduct unbecoming of a teacher in allowing a male model to appear before a sketch class of females sans loincloth.

…but satisfaction brought her back

Originator of the gothic genre with his novel The Castel of Otranto, Horace Walpole, was also an avid cat-fancier. His favourite companion was a tabby named Selima who was sadly discovered one day in 1747 to have drowned in a goldfish bowl, presumably while trying to extract her prey. To console his loss, the earl commissioned a poet friend to eulogise the cat’s death with an ode, which is really quite amazing and includes a warning clause for the morbidly curious:
From hence, ye beauties, undeceived,
Know, one false step is ne’er retrieved,
And be with caution bold.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts, is lawful prize—
Nor all that glisters, gold.

That tribute, however, was the last for beloved Selima. Painters captured her imagined final moments, mesmerised by the tantalising fish, including artist William Blake, who illustrated a publication of the ode. Private loss had quickly become public and wakes for felines became quite common afterwards.

our lady of the ladle

The utterly fabulous Messy Nessy Chic reports that one can be hostelled in Julia Child’s home in Provence. The small retreat in the countryside was built in 1966 by Child and her husband and called La Pitchoune, Little Thing, and the property has conserved Child’s famous kitchen exactly as she left it. During most of the year La Pitchoune is host to a culinary school, as homage to the palette-awakening work of the French chef, but during the off-season, guests can rent the place. We should model our kitchen off this one.