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Meatpaper is a new quarterly magazine, based out of San Francisco, that dubs itself “your journal of meat culture.” Articles in the first couple issues discuss the science of grilling sweatsocks, novels and other objects as well as the relationship between Filipinos and spam.

A New York Times article quotes founders Sasha Wizansky and Amy Standen. Says Standen, “Meatpaper is about every way of looking at meat. I think of it as a magazine that’s just as intended for vegetarians as it is for meat eaters.”

“It’s about their response to meat,” Wizansky adds. “And there are so many ways of responding to meat.”

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For those of you who missed Barack Obama’s appearance, via satellite, on The Daily Show last night, here’s a clip. It’s slightly awkward, as Gawker points out, when Jon Stewart lavishes praise on Obama, but the jokes make up for it.

At the end, Obama gives us a few minutes of self-parody, delivering absurdist lines in his patented hope-speak. It’s really funny, but it also exposes the practiced showmanship in Obama’s speeches.

That’s OK, though, because he’s talking with his buddy Jon Stewart. On The Daily Show they understand the intelligent, elite Obama (In a recent episode, Stewart cried, “Isn’t elite good?”). Stewart is one of those interviewers with whom, in this reporter’s opinion, Obama can cast off his middle-America schtick and speak from the cerebrum, the idea being that Obama knows what this country really needs, but he also knows how to stir up the hoi polloi.

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