Patrick Donohue is the proudest Indiana native you're likely to find. Seriously. No one is prouder to be from a state that so many people know relatively so little about than he is. Patrick is a native of Terre Haute and a graduate of the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism at Indiana University. Knowing this, you might think he’d be a huge John "Cougar" Mellencamp fan, a man considered by some to be the Hoosier State's poet laureate. But you'd be wrong. In a major way. | • Today in Contrarian Writing: The Atlantic proclaims Ke$ha to be the last great rock star. In other news, it seems no one at The Atlantic seems to have forgotten what the words "rock star" and "great" mean.
• Those evil geniuses at Joe Beef in Montreal say their infamous Double Down -- described by Food & Wine as a supersize bacon-and-cheese sandwich topped with chicken-skin mayonnaise and sandwiched between deep-fried foie gras cakes -- as a joke that backfired.
• Serious Eats' 10 best cookbooks of 2012.
• Set your DVR's -- USA Today's Pop Candy blog has the upcoming schedule of holiday specials and movies.
• What's the story behind this bizarre picture?
• I've recently gotten really into crossword puzzles so this beautiful New York Times video with Will Shortz (a fellow IU alum -- just sayin') about the making of the famed NYT crossword is right up my alley.