This Week in Awesome (6/12/10)

A dreary, lazy day: slept late, drank coffee, watched soccer. Now it's off to the warehouse club, but first I have some diversions for you:

Speaking of coffee, BP's problems go beyond the Gulf spill, to containing a coffee spill in a conference room. (Upright Citizens Brigade via Consumerist)

And, in one more (coincidentally) coffee-related instance, the Boston Globe did us the questionable service of mapping all the Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks locations in New England. Um, thanks? Actually, it is sort of interesting to see the density of DD locations in various towns.

John C. Reilly was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this week, and during a commercial break he sang a song from a commercial for an Oklahoma barbecue restaurant, backed by Fallon's house band, The Roots. Esoteric, yeah, but I'd still rather watch this than anything by Kesha. (Videogum; original ad here, YouTube via Aziz Is Bored)

For something a bit more, um, thoughtful, the blog Jeremiah's Vanishing New York did a very interesting series on searching for the location of, or even just some evidence of the existence of, the diner depicted in the famous Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks. (Link is to Part 1; links to additional entries can be found on JVNY)