December 2008
40 posts
Knock that Door, Enon
“Every Georgian newspaper hates me; what’s the difference? If you can find me one...”
– The President of Georgia
“A provincial wannabe being laughed at: a terrible moment, but he would soon...”
– David Kynaston, Austerity Britian, p. 18
This book, quoted above, about post-WWII Britian is a million pages long, but so far excellent. Another sentence from Mr. Kynaston, a man who appears to have read every diary in the UK: “St. John seems to have been a man of virtually non-existent human sympathies but was not wholly exceptional in apparently having zero interest in this historical event [V-Day].”
The first quote is...
new restaurant: El Almacen, Argentine food on the corner of Driggs and N. 7th.
txt messages incorrectly sent to me
12/25: “Merry x-mas HS and I hope you got everything you wished for because I did. I got you girls :)”
12/28: “Hey girls, love the way rehearsals are goin but it has to get better. On friday at 7pm rehearsal is at 6:20pm sharp, change your clothes and be prepared at 6:30pm to dance. If you’re laste you will have to sufer the consequences.”
copycats:
“Love Vigilantes” by Iron & Wine
...
this is what happens when you get old
My parents are giving each other a toilet and garbage disposal for Christmas.
i want to make love in the club
I told my younger brother about this “new” song I heard. He laughed and said it’s six months old. So I think one of my New Year’s resolutions should be to attempt to follow pop music. Another song I just heard is by Beyonce: “If you like it then you should have put a ring on it.”
how can this be?
If it is really true that the LA Times is going to eliminate national and foreign bureaus it will mean not a single California paper covers the rest of the country and world with its own staff, which is beyond pathetic.
(The one thing I will say is that the LAT does need to take drastic action. Most of the articles are far too long given the subject matter and it needs more local coverage. But...
Ever since I started growing a beard my life is going better in about every possible way.
I got a big scoop today from a source, but was too excited to write the story. As the editor said, “I could hear you from the bathroom.” So tomorrow I’ll be going in on my vacation day to finish the story.
“The fact that Time’s bureau chief apparently had no political ideas is perhaps...”
– Ken Silverstein
WatchLast week I put Irving’s I’m in Love with Your Girlfriend song, so it only seems fair to put up the flip song: Annie’s I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me. (#58 on Pitchfork’s top singles countdown.)
Should I go to Santiago or Istanbul in late winter? Santiago will be warm, Istanbul will possibly be cheaper cause its not in season.
Next summer I want to go to fly to Vienna and visit Budapest, Bucharest, travel through Bulgaria, see the Black Sea and then fly home from Istanbul
hell yes
CINCINNATI, Dec. 14 - In a game they all but had to win to maintain a realistic shot at making the playoffs, the Washington Redskins hit perhaps their lowest point of the season on Sunday with a 20-13 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
- Jason Reid, Washington Post
The Bengals always win games at the end of the season after blowing any chance of a postseason. They exist to extinguish others’...
sunday editorial
I’ll preface this by saying I have to be one of the more environmentally-correct people in America considering I live in a small apartment, ride public transport to work, don’t own a car and have yet to help produce a kid. That being said most of the so-called green, stop-global-warming initiatives being announced in Washington sound like scams. The stuff is expensive, cumbersome and...
“Many sophisticated Wall Streeters have long suspected that Bernie was crooked....”
– Henry Blodget, Clusterstock
Did I Ever Tell You I’m in Love with Your...
Grand Street is about to get a whole lot cornier.
On Monday, Williamsburg residents Maribel Araujo and Aristides Barrios will open Caracas Brooklyn — a Venezuelan restaurant specializing in the stuffed cornmeal patties called arepas.
- Brooklyn Paper
The corny lede squared! Also this restaurant is right around the block. Sweet. In addition, I want to go to the new restaurant that just opened...
“I am explicitly turning my back on, I think, these kind of empty models that...”
– Malcolm Gladwell quoted in nymag
fresh cilantro makes everything better
“In Brookfield, Wis., no restaurant has triggered more calls to the police...”
– Ann Prior, WSJ
I Wanna Be Your Dog, The Stooges. If only the...
blogger bailout
Question of the day: why does Our New Leader only want to give jobs to construction workers, and further only task them with building new bridges and roads to nowhere? During the Great Depression the government gave funds to writers and photographers. Surely now the government will pay its citizens to blog.
headed towards a depression?
The identical apartment across the hall from me is now on the market for $200 less than my rent. Sunday there’s a “first come, first serve” open house. Last month the unit was on the market for $100 less and found no takers, despite the fact that it’s located two blocks from Bedford on Grand.
oh ohio
The Cincinnati Zoo and the Creation Museum in Kentucky ran a joint promotional deal for two days before they were forced to cancel it over outrage that a zoo would connect itself to a museum that promotes creationism. There’s no word yet on whether the zoo’s dinosours ate the museum’s cave people, but some speculate this was the real reason the organizations quickly scrapped...
the internet is actually useful
Last week the post office delivered a large parcel from a CPA addressed to the former occupant of my apartment, who moved out in ‘07. Before the Internet I would have had to lug the package to the post office or left it to rot next to the mailbox. But thanks to Facebook, I looked up the addressee, we exchanged messages and she came by this evening to pickup her tax returns.
