December 2010
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“I think the media story of the year, in 2010, was the New York Times’...”
– NBC’s Brian Williams on “Morning Joe,” via The Atlantic Wire.
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Priorities!
newyorker:
Is this why your street isn’t plowed?
Yeah, yeah, we get it: Times Square’s gotta be open for business so all the outer boroughs can get fucked.
But isn’t this just like those highbrows at The New Yorker? Because you know they’d be shouting from the rooftops for a dump truck and a few front-loaders if there were some Rothko retrospective at the Whitney right...
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Ten Things I Wrote in 2010 in Descending Order of...
A Million Dollars Isn’t Cool
In Which Ana Marie Cox Disapproves of Emily Gould’s Tattoos
The Fear of a Black Planet
The Governor Who Tried to Get in My Pants
How to Successfully Hit on Women
Gaga for Gaga
Crazy People Very Upset About the Burlington Coat Factory
BREAKING: Tech is a Bro-Fest
Hurting the Feelings of Media Interns in Three Parts (pt II, pt III)
Avatar is Dumb....
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[Patti Smith’s Just Kids] unfolds in that romantic time before we were swallowed by Facebook, flat screens, texts, tweets and Starbucks; when people still talked all night and listened to jukeboxes and LPs and read actual books and drank black coffee.
Few things are more deliciously ironic than seeing someone whose generation horrified its predecessors by donning tie-dye...
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All I Want For Christmas
I wish I were a superhero.
Not the kind with a cape or the fawning Lois Lane figure or any special superpowers; just a humble, homegrown, populist, masked vigilante.
They would call me a man of the people.
I’d skulk at night in dark city alleyways, protecting New York against the greatest foe it’s ever known—and when he came I’d serve justice with extreme prejudice,...
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“Anella is an intimate little art house of a restaurant on a block in Greenpoint,...”
– In Which Sam Sifton Boldly Goes Where No Man Has Gone Before (via megnolia)
I mean. I MEAN.
But it’s so true! Every morning I leave my apartment and it’s like I’m stepping into some kind of Dickensian wasteland! Where I walk to the corner café for a rusty goblet of coffee and a...
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“False nostalgia means that The A-Team was a success at $176 million, but it also...”
– False Nostalgia: How VH1 Ruined the Taste of a Generation
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“Has any micro-bubble in history had its head forcibly shoved so far inside its...”
– No.
Tiny Thoughts
The MTA SubTalk® Train of Thought™ subway campaign—the one offering up Kafka quotes and Walt Whitman stanzas to the bleary-eyed commuter—is cosponsored by the New York Public Library, the NYU Humanities Initiative, and “Jeopardy”/ABC7@7. It concerns me that this might position “Jeopardy” as our Lyceum and Alex Trebek as our Aristotle.
Retirement planning...
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OOPS.
At one end of the office right now there’s a board meeting happening. At the other end there’s me, connecting my iTunes to the wireless speakers and discovering that the last person who used them had left the volume at full blast, a discovery I made only after the entire board had been serenaded by the opening lines of “Bad Romance”.
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BREAKING: Angry Senator Has Been Talking for a... →
It’s Friday afternoon! Which means you’re sitting at your desk, you’re counting down the minutes until the weekend (and the Awl Bawl, duh), you’re furiously refreshing Twitter in a desperate search for some kind of distraction to pass the last few hours of the work week, and the thought never even crossed your mind (understandably!) to check C-SPAN 2 (aka “the...
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I made a website! →
It doesn’t actually do anything, per se, aside from succinctly express what every North Brooklyner was thinking this morning—and all in a five-letter domain name, no less!
Click it, refresh it, make it your homepage, bring it up on your iPhone the next time you’re stranded at Lorimer, I don’t know, whatever. Enjoy!
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FUCK YOU, TWITTER.
So I go on Twitter just now because I want to “dm” at my boy “@michaelbarthel” who just tweeted abt how he is visiting NYC soon and I want to tweet back at him like “hey! yo! you’re coming to new york! i live in new york! we should hang out!” but then Twitter is all like “lol nerd u can’t dm someone who isn’t following u” and...
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Just kids.
When I was a much younger man—i.e. a teenager, i.e. innocent, precocious, wide-eyed and still just so full of Excitement! for Life! (i.e. basically all the things for which Present Day Me has now come to resent the shit out of Young Me)—I used to ask every old school New Yorker I met about What It Was Like back in the day, about what it must have felt like to be young and to be living...
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You should click this. →
This is a big deal: My boss, Chris Hughes, and his partner, Sean Eldridge, are matching donations through the end of the year to Freedom to Marry (up to $100K), the Empire State Pride Agenda (up to $50K), GLAD (up to $50K), and Equality Maryland (up to $25K).
This really means a lot to me, because Chris really means a lot to me, and because one of the many great things about him is the way he...
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STRESS EATING.
One time a couple years back Patrick and I were having lunch at the Roebling Tea Room, yakking over our Big Baked Pancakes, when suddenly he’s all like “hey so what would you be doing with your life if computers had never been invented?” and I’m all “that’s a really good question!” and he’s all “orly?” and I’m all “have I told...