November 2010
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A million dollars isn't cool.
A curious thing happened on Friday, something that probably went unnoticed by most Americans, either because they were just waking up from their food comas and heading to the malls to do their part in helping corporate America pile on to its already record-setting profits, or else because the average American would never notice (much less consider it curious) that a relatively obscure Wall Street...
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Bubbles and the bursting thereof.
Listen. I’m all for having thoughtful, reasonable discussions about Where We Stand in terms of The Big Picture here in the tech startup world, about the impact of early-stage zeal and the rise of the angel investor, and about the effect of increasing M&A activity on traditional venture portfolios. Really! Because most of them so far have been just downright inane! (cf....
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Missed Connections
Maybe if I hadn’t hit the snooze button. Maybe if I hadn’t checked Twitter in bed. Maybe if I hadn’t stopped to count my gray hairs in the mirror. Maybe if I hadn’t danced naked in my room to the entirety of New Order’s “Temptation”. Maybe if I hadn’t had that cigarette. Maybe if I hadn’t stopped for coffee. Maybe if I hadn’t ended up in...
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Straphanging
Curious trends: seeming to never go a day anymore without spotting someone on the L train reading Nathaniel West’s Miss Lonelyhearts/Day of the Locust and then wondering if it wasn’t recently name-checked on an episode of “This American Life”.
Moral equivocations: being pretty sure the guy on the G train wearing a NY Rangers letterman jacket and rocking out in his...
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The five senses of the bourgeoisie
the touch of organic cotton
the taste of Whole Foods olives
the sound of Robert Siegel’s voice
the smell of Method handsoap
the sight of women in green puffy vests and pink scarves
“I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human,...”
– “Sad as Hell” by Alice Gregory for n+1.
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Dear Red America,
I want to thank you for all your hard work yesterday. You were looking out for me! And I’m really grateful for that, because I’m usually too busy worrying about other things when I go out and cast my vote. Because that’s just what I do—I worry.
I worry about healthcare, and about the millions of Americans who don’t have access to affordable, quality care, Americans...
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Hooray, Bloggerism!
So every other first Tuesday of November generally results in yours truly curling up in the fetal position in front of some liberally biased cable news channel and furiously refreshing a meticulously curated command center of browser tabs proffering torrents of speculation and early exits that never mean a single goddamned substantive thing but at least serve as a distraction from the oppressive...
Election Day Advice.
If you can’t stomach the thought of being alive to hear the words “Speaker Boehner”, just turn on your TV when you get home and take a shot1 every time you hear the words “referendum”, “realignment”, and “reading the tea leaves”. You’ll be dead before sunset!
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1 Unless you’re a CNN viewer, in which case you’ll just...
GOP Cries Foul at Dem Dirty Tricks
DES MOINES—Local Republican leadership here in Iowa has joined with party officials nationwide in a chorus of accusations alleging widespread Democratic polling fraud.
GOP leaders all across the country are outraged today at the sight of non-deceased registered Democrats who have never been convicted of a felony arriving at their proper local polling places to cast a single vote.
Reached...
Not OH @ Tumblr HQ
David: Remember the Haiti ribbons?
John: Yeah.
David: Those were a big hit.
John: Sure.
David: We should do that again.
John: What happened in Haiti?
David: No, I mean we should give everyone "I voted!" stickers.
John: ...
David: ...
John: David...
David: ?
John: Only 10% of our userbase is of legal voting age.
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