Miscellany. 02.27.12.

He sure don’t: God Don’t Like Ugly, in New York. (Image by Becki Fuller.)

• Alive in Baghdad, a photo essay.
• Southern California has to stop it with the green lawns.
• Today’s Must-Read: Martin Amis’s (disavowed) guide to video games. Sample text, on Pac-Man: “Do I take risks in order to gobble up the fruit symbol in the middle of the screen? I do not, and neither should you. Like the fat and harmless saucer in Missile Command (q.v.), the fruit symbol is there simply to tempt you into hubristic sorties. Bag it.” (Fank Yew @KristonCapps.)
• Literary characters as rendered by law enforcement composite sketch software. (@giovanniGF.)
• The Tate’s photographic archive rescued from the garbage. If they didn’t want it, they could have had the decency to put it on eBay. (@WayneFord.)
• Randy Kennedy has a profile of Battle Station master Rammellzee. Highly fascinating.
• Marina Abramovic + Rem Koolhaas = Mind. Boggled. (@ClaudiaLaRocco.)
• Photo Essay: A little bit of Google Street View, as curated by Jon Rafman. I love the runaway moose.
• Alissa Walker dissects the role of the critic: the food critic. Raises an interesting point about critics engaging the world beyond just what’s in front of them.
• Graffiti planes. (@glasstire.)
• And, yet another reason it pays to see art in person.
• Cholafied: Best. Tumblr. Ever.