February 2009
1 post
January 2009
10 posts
Some people didn’t think this was real. They...
found poem
well my dad showed me this song. said he grew up listening to this sorta music haha. its heaps different to the music now. i like it more than most of the stuff on the radio.
—hiromena, current most recent commenter on the music video for Sylvester’s “Do You Wanna Funk”
“I decided early on that the work of Saul Bellow was an exemplar of this...”
– Colson Whitehead, “James Root on How to Read”
“For me, the word [“foodie”] is a warning that says, “Hey,...”
– Fat City, via Eater
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December 2008
3 posts
“The outbreak is yet more evidence that Zimbabwe’s most fundamental public...”
– NYT, “Cholera Is Raging, Despite Denial by Zimbabwe President” Watch those similes.
November 2008
19 posts
“So when Brian Williams is asking me about what’s a personal thing that...”
– Barack Obama (Newsweek). I guess this is some adolescent lizard brain shit, but don’t tell me there’s nothing reassuring about knowing Barack’s OK with saying “fuck.”
Voter reaction audio at NYT →
I really like this move: short, audio-only reactions to the election, accompanied by a photo and a minimal profile. Video’s king until we figure out holograms for real, so its absence here is surprisingly refreshing—spoken language in a non-radio context and without the internet default of visual help/distraction ends up being fascinating. I’d also like to have Elbert Dale...
Samba Mapangala - Obama Ubarikiwe (2008)
