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Thriller: Maybe it's a subconscious acknowledgment that MJ's corpse remains very much on view (word to the MSM and blogosphere: give it a rest), but Weird Vegetables' Kale Daikon took on decomposition today. Her overt impetus? A forgotten bunch of Tuscan kale, gone all limp and yellow in a shopping bag. Daikon takes it as a memento mori, but as something altogether more hopeful, too: The alarming signs of spoiled food -- here in particular th
Joe Eskenazi"I'm gonna clean up this city," was growing to be a hackneyed phrase even in the days when city residents were hop-scotching over mounds of horse shit as a matter of course. But cleaning and drying the city? That'd still be a fairly novel thing to do. Sighting appliances littering city streets is hardly noteworthy. Yet this washer-dryer combo was spotted in the counter-intuitive locale of Van Ness and Oak -- not exactly a residential hub, and a well-traversed thoroughfare where th