April 2009
The Dream is Always the Same
I am in a house. If not my house, than a house I am comfortable being in; everything’s a little unclear here. I go into the bathroom and notice that the bathtub is filled with rotting corpses. “Holy Shit!” I say, and dial 911. No answer to repeated calls. Have I been abandoned?
Friends come over. “Jesus Christ,” I tell them. “There are all these dead bodies in...
Why I Tweet
clairecmc:
After reading Matt Bai’s piece in the New York Times Magazine yesterday, I’d like to explain why I tweet and post here on Tumblr. His thesis is that twitter is banal and superficial and therefore not a good fit within the context of politics and Congressional activity. Of the 100’s of tweets that my thumbs are responsible for, he chose to highlight a reply I made to someone who had...
“We came here and we stayed down on, what is it, Forty-second Street, where all...”
– Dolly Parton, on her visit to New York in 1970, reminding us once again why she’s so awesome.
I’m Sorry, But What Kind of Photo Op Involves... →
Nothing to see here, folks; that low-flying plane downtown is one of ours. From the Wall Street Journal:
A low-flying commercial airplane escorted by military jets Monday morning sent workers…
Portfolio liquidation
spiers:
Well, this is interesting.
I don’t think it was a bad idea for Conde Nast to try to do a business mag. They had the wrong editor and they spent too much money on stupid shit that readers don’t care about.
Both of those problems could have been remedied. And weirdly, there wasn’t much improvement in quality over the life of the magazine. I thought the first issue was appallingly bad...
My More-Talented Friends, Quiverfull Edition →
Late this, but I’ve just finished Kathryn Joyce’s very fine book, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. The book is the end product of several years of reporting…
Pontiac, R.I.P.
How the American meritocracy works →
paultough:
“Q. What other questions do you ask?
“A. You want to know about their family. Where they grew up. What their parents did. Where they went to high school. What their avocations were. How many kids they had in their family. You know, what their whole background and history is. I learned that from a C.E.O. I worked for. The C.E.O. wouldn’t really spend that much time on the résumé, but...
‘Face the Nation’, What’s Good for the Goose... →
To those who say that now our enemies aren’t going to abide by the Geneva Conventions: They will, if they know there is going to be retribution.
—John McCain, who favors doing nothing to…
copycats:
Oops! I Did It Again by Laura Tsaggaris...
“Dear Tumblr: Where are you? Outside? Julia Allison is the only one posting. FOR...”
“Just last week The Observer broke a story about a Brooklyn con woman, the...”
– —David Carr on Peter Kaplan’s Observer, and just how much the media landscape has changed during his tenure. (via charitini)
True. But the point here is not “oh, no! Blogs are killing newspapers!” The point should be, if the Observer wants to profit from that story, they’re going...
A note for the kids: Back in the day, before Bono...
youngmanhattanite:
Who here read Rules of Attraction? Anyway: fucking frogs.
Me. And I felt dirty for a very long time after
Today in New Websites You Should Definitely Add to... →
The Awl, a Balk/Sicha joint, looks promising…
Posted in Journalism, Web
A bruising, shattering ride
Hmm. Editors 1, software to sort user-selected content and repackage in print form, 0: http://bit.ly/EgBOh
The Wire Bible →
marrina:
Someone got ahold of some scripts from The Wire and posted them online:
Awesome. I hope they posted the version in which Season Five didn’t disappoint…
Watchncroal:
Sex, Lies & Pr0n: The new trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s next film, “The Girlfriend Experience,” starring adult film actress Sasha Grey. (Via New York.)
See, this is an example of a movie trailer that has already come close to making me rethinking my strong desidire to see a movie. I mean, Soderbergh! Sasha Grey! Awesome, right? Maybe not, if the film is as obvious as the trailer;...
Cranky Will:”75% of American ‘gamers’-people who play video games-are older than 18 and nevertheless are allowed to vote” http://bit.ly/tlwu
Today in Hedlines We’re Not Surprised to See, NSA... →
From the NY Times:
N.S.A.’s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress
Posted in The Presidency Tagged: NSA, terror
Today in Journalism that Will One Day Make a Great... →
Doree Shafrir’s Observer account of Kari Farrell, the Hipster Grifter, is fantastic.
Posted in Journalism, New York
Retweeting @JMBloustein: Check out my rockin’ Sarah Palin impression at Newsweek.com! http://tinyurl.com/dal36w Its better than the real SP!
Andy Roddick & Brooklyn Decker: Wedding In The... →
frangry:
Ugh. This makes me so mad. This guy is such a damn tool. Wanna know how he started dating her?? I bet you can’t guess…. ….he had his agent fucking call her. Like I said, TOOL.
F: Expect a call from my people in the morning.
“Think about it: have you ever, in your life, actually seen, with your own...”
– Eddie Izzard (via inothernews)
Actually, yes. I swear. And I’m ashamed to admit I laughed, just a little.
Marilyn Chambers, R.I.P. →
The star of Behind the Green Door was found dead in LA today. Here’s Corliss, in an excellent piece from a few years ago on that film and other classics of the genre. An excerpt:
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Art party
frangry:
The Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection
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Just a dream
Dan Aykroyd on the Return of "Ghostbusters" →
nicksummers:
Telling Dan Aykroyd that “Sneakers” is one of my top five movies, and him handing me a bottle of vodka (at 1:20 p.m.), was easily the highlight of this week.
The writers have all the fun…
Costume Shop Lady Hijacks Local News Interview... →
lindsayrobertson:
This is going to be on all my friend’s Tumblr’s in a week so may as well watch it on Videogum now! (But seriously: MUST WATCH.)
This is truly amazing