January 2010
30 posts
just a little joke i made
me: god tammy taylor is super cute
eg: i knowww
eg: she's so cool
eg: i wish i looked good in aviators like her
me: in avatars?
me: you looked pretty cool in them!
Also just a little PSA: don’t start reading old g-chats and emails from when you were just moving to New York. There are probably ways in which you used to be better.
The New York Post, Page Six, July 15, 2007
HAVING thestreet.com founder Jim Cramer as his uncle may have helped Cliff Mason land a job as a writer there. And dealbreaker.com reports the “seemingly dorky, inept” Mason was perfect to report on how the new iPhone is a “babe magnet.” Mason, in a streaming-video feed, says he bought the gizmo because he “wasn’t doing anything at the time” and had...
Fat Mike is opening a restaurant in Park Slope →
seedz:
(via leoncrawl)
That’s right I’ve got a restaurant. So what? So what?
Tastier than Chez Oskar / More seating than General Greene / Got really good bacon-wrapped dates like Olea / I’m opening a restaurant!
Fat Mike is opening a restaurant in Park Slope →
my piece on the tino sehgal show at the... →
I have an item in today’s Observer on a pop-up gallery show currently on view at the old Tower Records space on Broadway and 4th. It’s about people being nostalgic for things they don’t really know anything about! Also people trying to recreate the imagined wildness of those old New York “happenings”— did any of these really happen btw?— by convincing...
maura:
The Girls - The Girl From Yesterday
Prob...
I’m talking to Ben on gchat and he tells me he has discovered his entire FAS mailbox from senior year. Therein he has found the archive of the open list everyone in our dorm posted to and now he’s “reliving our triumphs.” Literally can’t wait for this conversation to continue.
Really need you in my life
magicmolly:
My favorite genre of songs is the one where guys talk about all the gifts they’re going to buy for their loved one.
A recent standout of this sort, from “4 Chords of the Apocaylpse” by Julian Casablancas:
I’ll take you shopping I’ll take you dancing too I’ll take you out All the things you wanna do And I’ll give you diamonds And I’ll give...
I should add by the way that the "I love a good...
one more on this
I realize cherrypicking Gawker comments and responding to them is kind of senseless but this one, posted by user “bitch_pleaze,” actually stands in for the kind of knowingness I think Foster is calling for in that Vampire Weekend post and thus merits attention:
Really all they have done is picked a meme (aka brand) their audience will both understand and purchase and run with it. And...
re: Vampire Weekend post on Gawker
http://gawker.com/5444492/rockonomics-the-california+prep-style-rebranding-of-vampire-weekend
To sum up, Foster is mad that Vampire Weekend have an image and that people have written articles about that image. The last line here tells you most of what you need to know: “$50 if the Times can go without mentioning California, Columbia, Paul Simon, or the Ivy League in the first two grafs. Any...
molls:
Crazy On You - Heart
I want to dedicate...
One writer's seven-year-long attempt to sell... →
maura:
“Most toxic”? I know it topped the list of most common used CDs that ran on Pitchfork a few years back, but surely there are other semi-forgotten albums out there filling up this nation’s used-CD racks — especially now that people are ditching discs entirely. Anyway, this is a fun read that’s making me wonder if I shouldn’t go back to the Princeton Record Exchange sometime soon, so I can...
juli o'clock on 2010
It is more despicable to talk earnestly about the awesomeness of self-consciously terrible action movies than it is to talk earnestly about the awesomeness of movies that make some claim to actually being good. When the next Terminators or Twilight comes out, and it is inevitably a cynical and patronizing piece of shit, it is not elitist to say so. Don’t be a pussy: take a stand on the new Wes...
Where reporters hung out after deadline in the...
“Steaks at Windust’s restaurant or drinks at the bar of the American Hotel.”
An item from the first edition of the New York...
A Whistler— A boy in Vermont, accustomed to working alone, was so prone to whistling, that as soon as he was by himself, he unconsciously commenced. When asleep, the muscles of his mouth, chest, and lungs were so completely concatenated in the association, he whistled with astonishing shrillness. A pale countenance, loss of appetite, and almost total prostration of strength, convinced his...
When daily newspapers in New York were doing well enough to buy steam-powered printing presses and install them in their basements, the newsboys who sold the papers on the street started sleeping on “the gratings outside the newspaper offices, enveloping themselves in the steam rising up from the machines that ran through the night to print the papers they would sell on awakening. When they...
New York Sun founder Benjamin Day on what makes a...
“…bombastic panegyrics, jests, anecdotes, deaths, marriages, conundrums, engimas, puns, poetry, acrostics and advertisements of every shade and color, and form, from grave to gay, from lively to severe.”
From “The Sun and the Moon” by Matthew Goodman, which contains at least one astonishing fact per page about publishing in 19th century New York