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...particularly eccentric walker: "The most extreme Los Angeles walker I know is called Mudman, a persona of the artist Kim Jones. In order to become Mudman, Jones coats his body in mud, pulls a thick nylon stocking over his head, puts on a foam headdress, and then straps to his back a large lattice structure made of wooden slats, tree branches, wax, wire, tape, sponge, and whatnot. Sometimes he also wears a glove on his left hand from which a number of long wooden spikes protrude all the way to the ground. The effect is visually and conceptually compelling, especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History of Walking | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...type to show up at the bar with his face painted and with a foam finger,” Thompson said, alluding to Silverman’s future as an executive. “In order to be a good manager you have to be in some sense removed from the game...

Author: By William N. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Sox Nation to Rays Country | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...chefs looking to make something more exotic than green-bean casserole this holiday season are in luck. Fall brings a trio of cookbooks from world-renowned molecular gastronomists whose kitchens look a bit like chemistry labs, with all those centrifuges and tanks of liquid nitrogen used to make carrot foam and whiskey jellies. This hyper-whimsical style of cooking has caught on at many a celebrated restaurant, but are these books--whose recipes call for ingredients like calcium lactate--even remotely useful for home cooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Cooks, Meet Molecular Gastronomy | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...inspired, the Blue Dog Democrats he courted, the new arrivals from purple and even red districts whose shelf life depends on a centrist agenda? He has talked about the need to fix entitlements, but try to pin him down on the Audacity of How, and he vanished in a foam of contingency. He has promised to end the war in Iraq responsibly, but the tension between end and responsibility tightens now. He voted for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, but there are bound to be far more claims on that pot than there is money available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Rewrote the Book | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...lowers brain-wave frequencies. It did work, as long as I kept looking at the glowing blue saucers, though my obsessive worrying returned whenever I closed my eyes. But after some ebb and flow, I eventually drifted off. That said, even if you don't "turn on" the snuggly foam mask, it still has great coverage and is out-of-this-world comfortable. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eye Masks: Deep Sleep Prescription-Free | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

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