John Spence 
A ‘60s-era Rolex Ref. 6241 Daytona “Paul Newman” recently sold at auction for $92,500 USD. It was merely the fifth most expensive lot, with a platinum Patek Philippe pulling in $722,500. The Antiquorum auction garnered over $4M in total, distributing 340 timepieces among 464 registered bidders competing to see who can have … Read More
Rachel Beller, author of the upcoming book/bulimia enabler Eat to Lose, Eat to Win explains how she eats at holiday parties in a way that almost preserves the enamel on the back of her teeth. If you ever, ever catch us trying to “improvise a salad” at a cocktail party, you have … Read More
Understanding the L.A. Dodgers’ projected $300M payroll as a percentage of total MLB revenue may help put their spending into context, but it sure as heck won’t make you feel any better about your own paycheck. [A Different Take on the Dodgers’ Spending Spree via Fangraphs]
Can you believe the Jays just acquired a bum who waited until he was nearly 38 years old before climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and winning the Cy Young award? Also, he can’t even strike out half the Baltimore Orioles. [The Many Crimes of R.A. Dickey via SBNation]
Got anyone on your list who loves cats as well as “love to smoking pipe?” Boy, has someone in Thailand got a cat-shaped tobacco pipe for you. (And we’ve got some places to use it.) [The Classic Cat Tobacco Smoking Large, Long via Etsy]
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