The Digest. 02.23.09. Delta Airlines blows edition.

Beast, in Miami. Saw this building-sized bomb while standing in line at Enriqueta’s for their super succulent pollo a la plancha. (Photo by C-M.)

• Vicodin earrings.
• Photographs of Oscar contenders prior to the Oscars. Makes me wish I could spend a whole day photographing Mickey Rourke.
• Congrats!! The Times of London picks the 100 best blogs in the blathersphere! On the list, art and architecture sites such as BLDGBLOG, Art Fag City and Modern Art Obsession. (The arts websites start here.) C-Mon on a separate list, of the 100 best blogs for wasting time.
• D.I.Y. paparazzi: Celebrities Twitter their lives away. (Art Fag City.)
• SFMOMA pairs art with music. Nice idea, but the whole exercise leaves me wondering: Do any brown people make music in the Bay Area? (Modern Art Notes.)
• The Free Store. (Eyebeam reBlog.)
• When times are bad, rich people hock their art. C-Monster hocks her guns.
• Recession? What Recession? Yves Sain Laurent’s Duchamp perfume pulls in $11 million at auction. More on the auction here. (Arts Journal.)
• The Met downsizes and the Las Vegas Museum of Art shuts down. And, unbelievably, on the verge of collapse, Long Island’s Vanderbilt Museum unearths a treasure buried in its walls.
• Must-read: A wonderful post by Eyeteeth’s Paul Schmelzer on art as protest over at Art21.
• Republicans happy to fund art in Iraq, but not in the U.S. Plus: more on the Iraq National Museum’s reopening.
• Small wonders.
• Contemporary art is “almost fraud” says some European dealer. And let’s keep it that way, people, because what else would I write about if it wasn’t? (Hrag Vartanian.)
• From the Department of WTF: Where else to park a train but between a doe-eyed manga girl’s legs? (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
• Speaking of Japan, if I had kids, I’d want to raise them there so that they could grow up watching stuff like this. DO NOT MISS the guitar-playing machine at the 2:45 mark.
• Today’s Graff: Le Dorian in Chile.
• The 10 Best Songs About Architecture. (architecture.mnp.)
• A blog that looks at the U.S./Mexico border wall as architecture. (ArchiDose.)
• Your moment of artspeak, Woody Allen style. (Mercy, Yvonne!)