Southern Sass: UD | Five Things to Make Your Weekend a Better Place

9.27.2012

UD | Five Things to Make Your Weekend a Better Place

If you have trouble reading this email, go to the online version

09/27/12

Give a man a weekend and he weekends for a day. Teach a man to weekend and he weekends for a lifetime.

PERK ALERT

Rare Scotch from 7 Extinct Distilleries

Exclusive: a bottle of rare scotch made from seven legendary (and extinct) distilleries. And you’re getting it for a song... Also, take up to 27% off supplies for your next truffle bender, and 30% off marshmallows with booze in them. (Yep, that’s now a thing.)


411:	Rare scotch from Master of Malt; truffle gear from P.A.Q. New York; boozy marshmallows from Wondermade

BONDAGE

If James Bond Had a Yard Sale

Perhaps you’ve heard of James Bond. Young up-and-comer out of the UK. Good kid. So starting tomorrow, Christie’s is holding an online-only, 007-specific auction. The Aston Martin from Quantum of Solace, Connery’s fake shotgun from You Only Live Twice. It’s all up for grabs. And by grabs, we mean... well, auction.


411:	50 Years of James Bond: The Auction, never say never again here

YOU LOVE LAMP

Lamps and Beer, Together at Last

Someone just up and turned a bunch of 19th-century brewery bottles and iron pipes into lamps for your living room again. Actually, this may be the first time. Either way, you’ll want to check them out. Pre-Prohibition-era beer bottles. Bourbon bottles. Those are lamps now. Conversation, meet piece.


411:	Pre-Prohibition Beer Bottle Lamps, get lit here

BLUE HEAVEN

A New Way to Listen to Coltrane

There’s a lot of music on Spotify. But on the off chance your playlists are missing the requisite amount of jazz, allow us to suggest the new app from legendary label Blue Note. It’s an insanely jazzy library dating back to 1939. You can filter by instrument, musician... everything. Except DJ Jazzy Jeff.


411:	Blue Note App, take a seat in the horn section here

CHANG YOU CAN BELIEVE IN

Momofuku Annexes Canada

David Chang is only one man. But he’s also the man behind Momofuku. You know, that restaurant empire that couldn’t stop taking over the NYC noodle and milk scene if it tried. Well, now he’s the man behind four new spots in Toronto’s Shangri-La Hotel. Check them out. And Canada. Check that out, too.


411:	Momofuku Does Toronto, eat the Great White North here

IT’S A DATE

Leatherheads: The Calendar

Picture Clooney in Leatherheads. And if that gets awkward, just picture some generic old-timey football players from the 1900s instead. The bravado. The incredibly unsafe helmets. These vintage calendars, made up of souvenir college game programs from the early 1900s, look like that stuff feels. They also tell you what day it is.