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Great job as usual, New York.

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:28:58 -0500

Great job as usual, New York.

Makes me feel a lot worse about videos like this. (NYT)

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:11:00 -0500

Makes me feel a lot worse about videos like this. (NYT)

Some people didn’t think this was real. They were wrong.

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:42:06 -0500

Some people didn’t think this was real. They were wrong.

found poem

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:59:38 -0500

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”

There’s a lot of bullshit 80s nostalgia, but it’s...

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:24:50 -0500

There’s a lot of bullshit 80s nostalgia, but it’s still really refreshing and kind of beautiful to see the genuine, earnest article. (via WFMU)

"I decided early on that the work of Saul Bellow was an exemplar of this aesthetic imperative. You..."

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:34:55 -0500

“

I decided early on that the work of Saul Bellow was an exemplar of this aesthetic imperative. You will recall the famous opening sentence of good old Augie:

I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.

There it is in all its Bellovian glory, the bluster and bombast! Can you smell it? The musk of a virile sentence drawing blood into itself? It is about to spread the labia of mediocrity and rut with the ineffable. We could all do worse than to write like Saul Bellow. And when I say write like Saul Bellow, I mean be Saul Bellow. And when I say be Saul Bellow, I mean unzip the skin from his body and wear it as a sort of Saul Bellow suit so that we can get cozy in it and truly inhabit it and understand the Old Macher. Except he is dead. And he was quite short, so your ankles and wrists would poke out of the flesh suit as if you were some ruddy-cheeked schoolboy who has outgrown his uniform, grimly trudging home from the elementary school and dreaming that one day you will write and be free from all these dullards and their cruel jibes—

Where was I?

”

- Colson Whitehead, “James Root on How to Read”

Thanks, Linds.

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:26:53 -0500

Thanks, Linds.

"For me, the word [“foodie”] is a warning that says, “Hey, I’m not any fun to..."

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:24:37 -0500

“For me, the word [“foodie”] is a warning that says, “Hey, I’m not any fun to have a meal with.” I’m all for people enjoying the hell out of food, but not if it means they have to give themselves a title to lord over “non-foodies”…I like the olden days when people who enjoyed food the most were simply called overweight.”

- Fat City, via Eater

Video

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:09:35 -0500

Photo

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:57:54 -0500

R got a big assist yesterday in her project of getting me to...

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:22:44 -0500

R got a big assist yesterday in her project of getting me to re-engage with visual culture. Was grateful to be able to do dishes through the slow middle, but impeccable in terms of free on-demand accompaniment to bloody mary consumption. 5000 stars.

—OK, let’s see, what do we have: Storagista. I like...

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:22:10 -0500

—OK, let’s see, what do we have: Storagista. I like it.

—We went with Comic Sans, which is hip, but also friendly, you know?

—Yeah, that’s great. And she’s Asian, which is sort of the same idea. Kind of downtown, and then you have those green tea colors…hmm.

—Is something wrong?

—No, it’s just…something’s missing for me, you know? Like, it doesn’t really pop. It’s got to really pop there.

—…

—What if we added some diacritics?

—Diacritics.

—…

—My boy, you just made partner.

Brooklyn problem-solving.

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:39:28 -0500

Brooklyn problem-solving.

"The outbreak is yet more evidence that Zimbabwe’s most fundamental public services — from water and..."

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:30:20 -0500

“The outbreak is yet more evidence that Zimbabwe’s most fundamental public services — from water and sanitation to public schools and hospitals — are shutting down, much like the organs of a severely dehydrated cholera victim.”

- NYT, “Cholera Is Raging, Despite Denial by Zimbabwe President” Watch those similes.

Through January 18.

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:35:00 -0500

Through January 18.

I admit that at first I thought this was some Kinkade bullshit...

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:30:08 -0500

I admit that at first I thought this was some Kinkade bullshit until I noticed the ocean was made of salmon. (via ALDaily)

Eighth century BCE Turkey looks like a pretty good time. (NYT)

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:53:00 -0500

Eighth century BCE Turkey looks like a pretty good time. (NYT)

Oh god. You hate to see this. (via Wooster)

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:03:00 -0500

Oh god. You hate to see this. (via Wooster)

Brooklyn-bound N train, Manhattan Bridge.

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:10:00 -0500

Brooklyn-bound N train, Manhattan Bridge.

From Welch’s website, via Eater. Also, “Alton”...

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:44:00 -0500

From Welch’s website, via Eater. Also, “Alton” kind of looks more like Philip Seymour Hoffman playing Alton.