December 2010
5 posts
arguments resolved
There’s a really good case to make that Crazy for You by Best Coast is the best album of 2010. Runners up might be The Monitor by Titus Andronicus and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti’s Before Today. From established artists, Superchunk’s Majesty Shredding and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists’ The Brutalist Bricks should get top billing. The best song of the year is The...
fuck yeah local government
Until about an hour ago, the sidewalk outside my apartment was clearer than the road. More astonishingly, Manhattan Avenue looked like it was unploughed this evening.
“I’d continue this conversation if not for the fact that I wish to remain...”
parkslope parents invade greenpoint
This morning the police decided to close Milton St for an unknown reason. As I walked to work, a woman pulled up to the barricade in a station wagon and started screaming at the nearby police officer. “I have to pick up my son.”
The officer told her to go park around the block. The woman got out of her car and started to pickup the barricade. The officer pushed down on the...
are novelists getting texting wrong or am i just...
In Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad Love Story and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, the young characters text in a barely decipherable shorthand. The middle-aged novelists use the texting to make their writing seem contemporary and at least in the case of Shteyngart, to critique the demise of a literary culture. (Egan is concerned with the demise of musical culture, but she is...