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. | • The Beaufort International Film Festival will honor producer/director Mike Tollin with its Jean Ribaut Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at its annual awards gala early next year.
If you haven't seen Tollin's excellent 30 for 30 documentary Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? about the now-defunct professional football league.
• Today's sign of the apocalypse: Kids don't know the Toys "R" Us jingle
• Rene Redzepi and David Chang talk about how they would cook kangaroo.
• Bacon has jumped the shark. I give you, bacon shaving cream.
• The Nolan Ryan Beef Cookbook? Yes, it's a thing. And it's happening.
• A Boston chef wars with a cranky customer. Their exchange includes the phrase "you must enjoy vomit."
• An awesome story on Rodrick Markus who procures odd and hard-to-find ingredients for some of Chicago's best chefs and mixologists.