November 2011
6 posts
Pudding Utopia
Stupid me, I thought New York was already a pudding utopia of some sort.
This is how to write a newspaper
The New York Times of the early 1880s, responding to some in Boston who attempted to have the Statue of Liberty installed there:
This statue is dear to us, though we have never looked upon it, and no third-rate town is going to step in and take it from us… . Let Boston be warned [that] we have more than a million people in this City who are resolved that the great lighthouse statue shall...
October 2011
5 posts
Criterion Does Halloween →
Authentic buggy lap robe →
I guess the Amish will have no truck with Snuggies?
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September 2011
1 post
July 2011
2 posts
On Work: ‘Writing a Résumé’ – Wislawa Szymborska →
onwork:
What needs to be done? Fill out the application and enclose a résumé.
Regardless of the length of life a résumé is best kept short.
Concise, well-chosen facts are de rigueur. Landscapes are replaced by addresses, shaky memories give way to unshakable dates.
Of all your loves mention only…
May 2011
6 posts
August vacation plans
ohhleary:
While I’m probably going to be broke after a summer with four weddings, they all happen in June and July. And with the news that a friend of mine just landed a job as a reporter in Milwaukee and three of my friends are now in Chicago, I think I’ll be paying a visit to the upper Midwest.
Because really, what better beer-drinking destination is there?
“In 2007, at a party celebrating his 50th anniversary at Random House, he refused...”
– Robert Loomis, Book Editor, Retiring From Random House (via seanfennessey)
Although of course it depends on how you define “working.”
April 2011
2 posts
February 2011
7 posts
Watchpopculturebrain:
The Great Gatsby For Nes, Fully Playable Game by Charlie Hoey, Pete Smith and Dylan Valentine
WatchA “new” video for “Walk Like an Egyptian,” done for a VH1 contest.
January 2011
3 posts
December 2010
6 posts
Creative Destinations: An Old Boat Becomes a... →
This I wrote.
AHHHH LIVE TWITTER RE-ENACTMENT OF HOME ALONE THE... →
October 2010
3 posts
foureleven: How To Get Shamed Via Facebook, App... →
negevrockcity:
No pic for this one in order to spare embarrassment. But here’s the thing… One of my Facebook contacts is a middle aged fellow who is active is fundraising efforts for a school I attended in the past. This guy set his information-sharing settings between Yahoo! and Facebook so…
September 2010
10 posts
“Oh my gosh, I love bread. I love crusty bread that I can pull apart and just...”
– -Paula Deen. She so nasty.
(PaulaDeenisms. It is rich with treasure. “I’m gonna make love to this tater, y’all.”)
Chicago Style Manual, 1906 →
The pain of installing yet another sludgy Adobe product was almost offset by the good-looking specimen section in the back. I also like the showoffy red rules:
“In every man there is a corner of rebellion against the machine. We were all...”
– The New York Times, on the 1965 Blackout. (via danavachon) (via peterfeld) (via bbook)
.. in case anyone else is trying to remember, this was the non-rioty one.