Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's
3 days ago
- #Common Crawl
- #Anthony Bourdain
- #Digital Archaeology
- Attempt to recover Anthony Bourdain’s lost lists using publicly available crawl archives like Common Crawl.
- Created a Python script (commoncrawl_search.py) to search and retrieve HTML documents from public S3 buckets.
- Found and prettified Bourdain’s lists, including personal notes, favorite hotels, foods, and cultural references.
- Highlighted Bourdain’s eclectic tastes, from vintage Persol sunglasses to 19th-century trepanning instruments.
- Shared Bourdain’s favorite spy novels, emphasizing realism and betrayal themes.
- Listed beloved hotels worldwide, like Chateau Marmont in LA and Park Hyatt in Tokyo.
- Mentioned favorite foods and sandwiches, including pastrami and street fair sausages.
- Recalled iconic NYC bars and dive spots, like Siberia and The Terminal Bar.
- Noted only one unrecoverable list: 'David Bowie Related' from 1/14/2016.
- Expressed enthusiasm for the project and invited contributions to a public Git repository for archival efforts.