February 2012
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January 2012
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Death and agony to he or she who first thought to use “coupon” as a verb.
December 2011
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RIP today to two remarkable figures on the world stage: trailblazer for democracy Kim Jong Il and repressive lunatic shitbag dictator Vaclav Havel…wait a minute, I got that backwards, didn’t I? I have an atrocious memory for world leaders…which one was the Czech guy again? ‘Cause he was the cool one, I think, right? Think, dammit, think…
Okay…start...
Just occurred to me that, in Britain and other...
November 2011
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I don’t usually post anything en route to home, but there is a couple making out rather heavily - specifically, his-hand-under-her-coat heavily - on the sparsely populated A train from Far Rockaway. They just stopped as some dude on a cellphone came in and sat down across from them.
October 2011
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Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, et al at OWS march →
Click above for video. Stupid thing won’t embed.
I had the pleasure of attending an amazing concert at Symphony Space featuring everyone from Pete Seeger (and his grandson Tao) to Arlo Guthrie to Loudon Wainwright III to Suzanne Vega to Dammit Who Am I Leaving Out? It was a fantastic show, and I was unaware when I came that the show would be transforming into an Occupy Wall Street march to...
Domestic Violence Law Repealed By Lawmakers In... →
Latest developments in ugh. I urge anyone and everyone in an abusive relationship in Topeka, KS…to GET THE HELL OUT OF TOPEKA, KS.
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Topeka, Kansas City Council Considers... →
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This disgusts me.
So apparently NBC cancelled their new show The Playboy Club. I think it would have worked under its original title, Mad Men With Less Fucking.
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Apropos of Arrested Development developments today.
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Cast of Arrested Development doing their chicken impressions at the New Yorker Festival today!
I’m literally hugging my computer, I love this so much.
September 2011
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Another One Of My Ideas: Broken Products As Art!
A while ago I thought about repurposing misprinted currency by circulating it at a discount (a wonky $1 bill for 65 cents, let’s say). Now I thought about what we could do with products that are found unsafe for public use and have to be pulled off the market: repurpose them as modern art!
Consider Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel, which he mounted upside down on top of a wooden stool....
True story (first paragraph, anyway)
This morning, I was reading about the NY-9 congressional race to replace Anthony Weiner’s old seat. The thing is, I was reading it, as I often read the news, on my iPhone, in the bathroom, while on the toilet. I mean, a lot of people read in the bathroom, but reading this specific story, with what I was specifically doing, with my iPhone right where it was, made me feel a little weird.
I...
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Support My Nose! My good friend Gayle Kirschenbaum is raising money for her documentary My Nose: The Bigger Version, which jumps off from contemplating a nose job, and dives into the evolving, intense relationship between herself and her mother.
“An earthy, intense, tangy look at one mother-daughter relationship. Kind of like a Jewish-American Joy-luck Club. It’s even got Mah Johng. Only...
August 2011
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I had lunch the other day at a really authentic Chinese restaurant. It was a counterfeit Pizza Hut.
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I am appalled by what’s going on in the educational system in this country. To...
– Dorothy, a retired teacher from Brooklyn, responds to this morning’s segment discussing changes to the No Child Left Behind legislation. Diane Ravitch called the law “the worst piece of educational legislation ever passed by the Congress,” and Dorothy seems to agree. What’s your take? (via...
July 2011
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Gabe Delahaye: Milton Glaser On Aging →
Last year someone gave me a charming book by Roger Rosenblatt called ‘Ageing Gracefully’ I got it on my birthday. I did not appreciate the title at the time but it contains a series of rules for ageing gracefully. The first rule is the best. Rule number one is that ‘it doesn’t matter.’ ‘It…
I am turning 25 on Friday, and this guy turns 82 today. I don’t care how old you are, this...