July 2009
78 posts
Pretty excited for this weekend. Here are some...
"One of the great political mysteries — what was... →
I like that Nixon can still be foiled using “modern crime-fighting technology.”
No one feeds my Nixon obsession like Craig.
The Magic Kingdom and "Magic Mountain"
I’ve just started this book, which kept me up last night like I was reading a Sookie Stackhouse novel. It’s great, and it makes me feel like a Philistine who should have taken music appreciation when I was busy taking astronomy (which is a useful class to take in the middle of New York City).
What I never realized: Thomas Mann and Theodor Adorno and Arnold Schoenberg were all living...
The Bottle Rockets - “$1,000 Car”
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Sunset Rubdown - “Nightingale / December...
Meaningless details
My dzadziu (that’s Polish for “grandfather”), Adolph Stefanowicz, was born in 1920. By the time he was in his late teens, Adolph wasn’t really the best name to have, even though his parents were Polish and not German and anyway it was a fairly common name. But at some point, he started going by “Dobbs” and no one knows why.
Dzadziu’s account was that it...
The Soap Factory Presents: Common Room Opening... →
stuffaboutminneapolis:
A gathering space for exploring live events and community and interaction
Curated by Andy Sturdevant and Sergio Vucci, Common Room will be a temporary curated gathering space within The Soap Factory to facilitate interactivity and the blurring of the boundaries between curators, performers and audience, all within in a casual, livingroom-esque environment. Common Room...
Pavement - “Serpentine Pad”
Listen, I...
Smashing Pumpkins - “Cherub Rock”
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O the salads you'll eat! Part 2. →
Oh hey, Mark Bittman. You sure know how to treat a lady.
Let's all chip in and buy the Watergate together →
Seriously, if everyone gives just a little bit, we can all collectively own the Watergate Hotel. Imagine hot summer nights reenacting the break-in! I’ll bring the duct tape if you bring the walkie talkies!
Former President Carter severs ties with the... →
sarahchristine:
via magdalina:
[M]y decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. It was, however, an unavoidable decision when th e convention’s leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be “subservient” to...
Architecture in Helsinki - “Wishbone”
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bis - “Young Alien Types”
Happy...
I hear it's hot in New York today.
My first summer in New York, 10 years ago, was hotter, though. July 1999 was filled with 90+ degree days, with that crushing, constant East Coast humidity. The worst days were when I moved into and moved out of my dormitory at Columbia, Hartley Hall, where Jack Kerouac briefly lived and where I stayed for four weeks while I completed a summer creative writing workshop.
That summer I met people...
Jonathan Richman - “The Lovers Are Here and...
A story I've been meaning to tell you since this...
Yesterday, for no reason, I put too much pomade in my hair. I was going to the park. I wasn’t going anywhere special. Why was I putting pomade in my hair at all, let alone too much? Who knows, but I did it, and there was a huge grease spot in the back of my head at the park, then when I was at home watching Mad Men, then while I looked at pictures of cats, then while I slept.
This morning I...
Beastie Boys - “Hey Ladies”
Well,...
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What should I listen to on my way to Chicago?
Before my drive from Charleston to Wilmington (via Chapel Hill), and then from Wilmington to Minnesota (via Pittsburgh and Chicago) in 2007, I asked good friends to make me some mix cds. I’ve always been a fan of mixes, although (like most people) since I lost my last Discman I haven’t listened to too many. But the mixes I got for my drive to Minneapolis were certainly the best...
Dungen - “Panda”
I trust you are...