David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.

Ham is undoubtedly one of the most universally beloved of meats, at least in those parts of the world where it's not prohibited.

The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.