The Value of our Elders and Ancestors
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events, Off the beaten path
Last week, an 85 year old woman named Boa Sr, died off the coast of India in a chain of islands known as the Andaman Islands. She was the last member of the Bo people who inhabited the islands for 65,000 years, becoming the very last person to speak their ancient tongue, which “officials believe.. is probably the world’s only surviving Paleolithic people without contact with any other community.” As was the case with much of the 19th century, the British wiped out nearly all of 5,000 remaining Bos, with all 150 children born there at the time not surviving beyond the age of two. You can read the full story about the group bringing this to light, Survival International at their site, or the CNN article here. The following video is Boa Sr recounting the 2004 Tsunami which she survived, speaking the words of her ancient tongue, the last time her language will most likely ever be spoken again:
Tags: Boa, British, imperialism, Paleolithic, Survival International, tribe, Tsunami
Please Help Haiti: UNICEF and the Stories on Twitter
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events
15 January 2010
Two days ago, the potentially worst disaster in my lifetime hit the nation of Haiti. A 7.0 Earthquake devastated their nation’s capital. People are still stuck under the rubble, texting their loved ones “Where are you?” to no avail. One man trapped under his house even called his family in Brooklyn, which CNN featured on TV last night along with his address in Port-Au-Prince in hopes that the few rescue crews in the devastated city may save him. Millions of dollars have been raised, but many charities don’t have the open routes or possibility of going in yet.
As a Katrina evacuee, it brings me to my knees to think there are people yet again stranded for days after an event like this. Please, please donate to any charity with the resources to get in as soon as possible and start saving people. CharityNavigator.com is a great site that lists the most efficient, accredited charities. UNICEF and Doctor’s Without Borders are 4-out-of-4 stars, so I highly encourage you to donate to them.
In the meantime, please follow CNN’s Twitter feed here to realize how real this is.
Tags: CharityNavigator, earthquake, haiti, twitter, UNICEF
Total Solar Eclipse over China
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events
This went fairly unnoticed in the United States, but was a massive news story in Asia. This is a 9-minute video, so unless you know Chinese, forward to about 1:45 and watch through about 2:30. What a crazy, crazy planet we live on.
Tags: 2009, cctv, china, eclipse
Oh My God
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Current Events, Stick it in your ear.
The concert of the summer in NYC is taking place August 6th at Asser Levy/Seaside Park at West 5th Street and Surf Avenue in Brighton Beach, across the street from the New York Aquarium as part of the Seaside Summer Concerts. Hall and Oates will be playing. Yes they will. Be there or be not there.
you’re welcome…
Tags: awesomeness, free summer brooklyn, hall, heaven, oates
Local Wine Events (Everywhere)
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Beverages, Current Events
A site I spent a great deal designing has finally launched. It’s the biggest collection of beer and wine tastings on the web and if you google “wine event” you get this site. So, if you’re into wine and beer culture, check out your city at LocalWineEvents.com
Tags: beer, events, localwineevents, wine
“Cheerios is a Drug.” -The FDA
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events, Food Glorious Food
In a letter sent by the Food & Drug Administration to General Mills stating “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed the label and labeling of your Cheerios® Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal. FDA’s review found serious violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,” Cheerios is apparently a DRUG on the factual claims it lowers cholesterol in just 4 weeks. A full article from the Denver Post may also be found here.
You better watch out Michael Phelps. That’s gotta be at least two drugs in your system now.
Tags: cheerios, drugs, FDA, general mills, michael phelps
Bad Paintings of Barack Obama
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design, Current Events, Off the beaten path
Somebody’s a genius for collecting this art. Granted, some of the paintings are not actually that bad, some are probably done by six year olds, but most of them are just plain terrible and hilarious.
Tags: bad paintings of barack obama
A bittersweet Mardi Gras: Antoinette K-Doe has moved on.
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events, Stick it in your ear.
Mardi Gras 2009 will forever be in dedication to “Miss Antoinette” K-Doe, the wife of blues great Ernie K-Doe, the caretaker and mother of Mother-In-Law Lounge, the leader of the Baby Dolls of Mardi Gras. She was a spokesperson for Katrina relief through Hands on Network after spending 7 days stranded by flood waters in 2005. So whether or not you celebrate Mardi Gras, raise your glass to Miss Antoinette. Just before her trip to the hospital this morning, she said just like any proud bar owner in New Orleans: “Keep my bar open and call me an ambulance.” She’s finally with her man now.
Ernie, Antoinette, and family:
Antoinette with the Baby Dolls:
The Mother-In-Law Lounge:
Mardi Gras 2001:
Thank you, Miss Antoinette!
Tags: Antoinette K-Doe, Baby Dolls, Ernie K-Doe, Hands on Network, Kador, Katrina, Mardi Gras, Mother in Law Lounge, New Orleans
QuenchPad 2009: “… Don’t know which way I’m gonna turn”
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events, Stick it in your ear.
Just figured this was the absolute best way to describe my outlook for the new year, as this is QP’s first post for 2009: As sung by the great Neil Young in his upcoming album, “There’s A Fork In The Road, Don’t Know Which Way I’m Gonna Turn”…
Specifically he says “Download this, it sounds like shit. Keep on bloggin, till the power goes out, your battery’s dead, twist and shout.” Don’t know if that’s a comment about blogging, about the quality of mp3s, or what, but he did this in one take so rock the F on Mr. Young.
Tags: 2009, neil young, new year, there's a fork in the road, turn
QuenchPad: Adios 2008!
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events
Thanks to the 20 or 30 of you who have followed QuenchPad since it launched in June 2008. While QuenchPops and Slake are the founders and primary authors, we’ve had one or two guest authors, the band Grizzly Bear commented, and many, many talented artists and freaks alike were featured on the site. Thanks to everyone for a great year.
The following are some Google Analytics stats for Q4, when we actually started tracking y’all.
International Audience, in order of use: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Germany, Australia, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, China, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Argentina, Finland, Poland, Thailand, South Korea, Slovenia, Croatia, El Salvador, Turkey, Greece, Romania
U.S. National Audience: See map below, biggest audience is New York (NYC specifically).
Overall usage statistics:
Average Time on each visit: 3 minutes 15 seconds
That’s all folks. See you in 2009!
Tags: 2008, 2009, adios, bush's last year thank god, quenchpad
Coldplay Are Thieves
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events, Stick it in your ear.
Not that I like Joe Satriani, but come on… They are gonna get their asses sued and they are going to lose.
From Pitchfork: “According to Reuters (via Billboard.com), virtuoso guitarist Joe Satriani filed a lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles federal court claiming “Viva la Vida” contains “substantial original portions” of his 2004 instrumental tune ‘If I Could Fly’. Satriani wants a jury trial, damages, and “any and all profits” from the song. Which would be a hell of a lot.”
Tags: coldplay, copyright infringement, joe satriani, stealing, stupid guitarists, stupid pop music
Non-Profit Quenching-Charity:Water
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Beverages, Current Events, Off the beaten path
Charity: Water is a non profit organization that enables areas of the world where people have to walk hours to get water and bring back to their communities to build wells and provide clean, safe drinking water. It is an amazing project that lets the water situation in a community go from this….
to this……
Tags: charity, quenching!, water
World Record BASE Jump - 160 stories, 1 mile high
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events, Off the beaten path
In Dubai. Gives me chills.
Tags: base jump, current tv, dubai, world record
Movember: United We Believe
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events, Off the beaten path, Stick it in your nose
From Movember.com:
Men have thrived on challenges throughout history. The challenge to discover new lands, climb higher mountains and solve seemingly impossible tasks. It is now evident men need to unite and embrace a new challenge - to improve their collective health.
The aim of Movember is to change this attitude, make men’s health fun by putting the Mo (moustache) back on the face of fashion and in the process raise some serious funds for key men’s health issues.
So grow a mustache, donate some money, and help fight prostate cancer!
Props to Randy for the tip on Movember.
Tags: mad style, moustache, movember, mustache, mustache party, prostate cancer
Blackberry Thunder (BOOM!!!)
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Current Events, Stick it in your ear.
We at quenchpad tried out RIM’s new Blackberry Thunder (INSERT STORM NOISES HERE) today. Now it’s not really out for “the masses” yet, but we here at Quenchpad are pretty special. I can say one thing is for certain - It is a telephone/emailing device that is kind of similar to the iPhone. 2 words…GENIUS!! The touchpad is a bit reactive when you touch it which lets you know that you are typing on a touchscreen. And the qwerty keyboard is definitely more intuitive for typing at the outset than the iPhone. In short….It’s aight.
Tags: blackberry, RIM, technology, thunder
QuenchPad welcomes Clint!
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events
QuenchPad is happy to announce our new writer Clint! Clint has been featured as the producer and actor in the following episodes for Vice TV’s “Girls Night Out.” Welcome Clint!
Warning: Offensive and Hilarious -
Tags: 9/11, clint, clowns, gallagher, girls night out, vbs tv, vice tv
The World’s Biggest Barbecue
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events, Food Glorious Food
More than a thousand barbecue fanatics in Uruguay grilled up 12 metric tonnes of beef on Sunday, April 14, setting a new Guinness world record while promoting the country’s succulent top export.
Army personnel set up a grill nearly 1.5 km long and firefighters lit six tonnes of charcoal to kick off the gargantuan cookout.
Some 1,250 people grilled the beef and about 20,000 spectators cried with joy when a Guinness judge confirmed the barbecue record had been broken.
“I’m very proud to be Uruguayan. We have the best beef and now we have the world’s biggest barbecue,” said one of the volunteer cooks, sporting an apron and chef’s hat.
The South American country bested a Mexican grilling record from 2006 by a resounding 4 tonnes.
The barbecue was organized by the National Meats Institute, or INAC in Spanish, which tracks beef sales abroad.
Beef exports raked in $817 million last year for Uruguay, a laid-back country of some 3.2 million people squeezed between larger neighbors Argentina and Brazil, also major cattle producers.
“Uruguay is very small, it’s not known for other events so we have to use these kinds of gimmicks so people find out where Uruguay is and what it has to offer,” said INAC’s vice president, Fernando Perez Abella.
Tags: barbecue, bbq, guinness book of world records, montevideo bbq, uruguay, world's largest bbq
Tonight in NYC - Quintron
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Current Events, Stick it in your ear.
Tonight (Monday) at 10pm at Santos Party House (100 Lafayette St) come and see New Orleans’ Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat.
Tags: drum buddy, miss pussycat, puppets, quintron
The Future of Quenchability is Now
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Beverages, Current Events
It’s official, we are in the future. The company Element 4 brings the world a machine that can transform water from the air into delicious filtered water in your home. It can bring water to places in Africa that have no easy water sources. Pretty amazing stuff.
Tags: future, sustainability, water
Vote Today - For either very qualified candidate
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Current Events
or
Tags: democracy, did i mention freedom, freedom
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