December 2009
55 posts
High Hopes for 2010
Every time I become bored, particularly the boredom caused by reading too much computer, I will immediately end my boredom by creating something instead of sitting and reading for a half hour and slumping off to the television. (And creating something has nothing to do with the Macintosh application Photo Booth.)
Get my metadata into gear.
Actually use a calendar to plan and remember things. I...
Arab Strap - “New Birds”
At the bar...
East Coast Vacation: A Review
What I Didn’t Do:
Go to Philadelphia or Baltimore. Sorry, my favorite cities on the East Coast, but I ran out of funds. Next time, I promise, I will get there.
Visit David Harvey at CUNY.
Protest the Ralph Lauren ad.
Eat at restaurants I can’t afford.
Catalogued all of my family photos, scanning the best ones at a high resolution filled with colors.
Meet anyone from the...
Sunday Night Screed #1: Food & Minneapolis
It turns out that my favorite posts to create—and to read—are the weekly ones: Wednesday Morning Dance Party, the occasional Sexy Friday, Thursday’s There. I said it. (which I should revive, maybe), and GPOYW. Since I’m off every Sunday— no meetings, no committments— and everyone I know is also relaxing at home, reading the whole Internet, over and over, and...
In case you were wondering...
It’s a David Bowie year. This year I bought Low. Also, I watched the Flight of the Conchords episode “Bowie” today, so my year is complete.
The Dandy Warhols - “Minnesoter”
It...
Wednesday Morning Dance Party: Eels -...
“I LIKE A MAN THAT LIKES TO EAT. I GUESS MY MAN WOULD GET FAT AS IT PLEASES ME TO...”
– Paducah, Ky., age 45, 1959
From Forgotten Bookmarks, via Craig.
We’re all just looking for someone to cook for, grammar be damned.
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - “Christmas...
“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period...”
– Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger re: “This Land Is Your Land” as mentioned in this lengthy but lovely portrait of Seeger. (via hungryghoast)
Ourn.
Wednesday Morning Dance Party: Jackie Wilson -...
Hello, New York!
DFW Grammar Challenge →
tumbledore:
David Foster Wallace crafted this grammar challenge. There is one crucial error in punctuation, usage, or grammar in each of the sentences below:
1. He and I hardly see one another.
2. I’d cringe at the naked vulnerability of his sentences left wandering around without periods and the ambiguity of his uncrossed “t”s.
3. My brother called to find out if I was over the flu yet.
4....
“Go back to your hometown, get your feet on...
Minnesota: The Country's Scrooge
It used to be, when I lived on the East Coast, that once Thanksgiving was over, you couldn’t escape Christmas. Every radio station played exclusively— or at least every third song— the Christmas “classics.”
Here in Minnesota, it is December 13, and I have yet to hear one Christmas song on the radio. I listen to a variety of stations, including the oldies station....
unicornery:
Happy Birthday Deborah!
Shonen...
Added to my list of to-dos for next week →
George, I think we should take the Patricia Highsmith Greenwich Village tour.
Friday Morning Dance Party: Cibo Matto -...
Yeah, I'm bummed by Editor and Publisher folding. →
“Consider the punk rocker lifestyle. Its dysfunctional nature advocates the...”
– Principles 101: Feminism, Manhood, and You, via Jezebel
Why is Jezebel focusing on this online-only unpublished ms? I don’t know. But this quote illustrates why I am cleaning my house today: to save myself from being a punk rocker.
Wednesday Morning Dance Party: Radiohead -...
Adventures in America
After purchasing a couch at Ikea, I decided to go over to the Mall of America across the street to look at televisions in Best Buy. I went in at a different entrance, the one near Sears, because I wanted to do some television pricing. It is wise to be a comparative shopper.
So that entrance also happens to be the one next to Barnes & Noble, which was hosting a signing for my least favorite...
“Delaware is a vast, corrupt, corporate scam of a state, and they are ripping us...”
– In New York magazine’s “Major Works of Counterintuitive Thought from the Past Decade.”
It’s true; I come from an evil, evil place that encourages people to write grammatically incorrect sentences.
Spoon - “Black Like Me”
Yeah, so the...
But are you going to pay for or reduce the cost of... →
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