December 2008
34 posts
This may well be the best pairing of subject and... →
David Denby’s Snark, to be published in January 2009.
“Wine and beer will be offered to customers in baby bottles.”
– from the “fucking gross” department:
Yay, a new neighborhood restaurant. I hear that you can really relish the herbaceous overtones of a fine Sauvignon Blanc when you drink it from a teat. Hey but the French are doing it so it must be tres chic! (via katiebakes)
Just This Once, Let's Stay Up All Night And Do A... →
“I’m certainly not suggesting we make a habit of this. That could lead to a seriously unhealthy lifestyle.”
“Any literate person can research and summarize publicly available information....”
– —Though his point was about small papers regurgitating press releases, I think this marks the difference between blogs and journalism. Most blogers just link to one another, but at the root there was actual reporting/photographing done. Art was made, interesting people were found, research was done,...
The ultimate personality test
bullshit:
It’s not strange to disagree about movies that are wildly different, and there are surely a few random movies that are very polarizing. What I find most interesting is which movie people consider the best movie from a particular director, as it is usually very telling and polarizing in a different way, so to this point I will propose a new personality test where you reblog your...
“If civilization has made modern man a natural schizophrenic … the average...”
– Norman Mailer, ‘Miami and the Siege of Chicago’
Nathaniel Mackey, Segue Series Reading at The Ear...