September 2010
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How To Be A NYC Tech Entrepreneur
Have you ever wanted to be an entrepreneur? Do you dream of being your own boss? Of running a wildly successful business in the greatest city on earth? Of the lavish wealth and fame you can accrue from launching the next big consumer web startup? Of seeing the Knicks courtside after a quiet dinner at Per Se? But you’re still worried about committing? Well we know how it is! Launching a...
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We caved! We’re going to Vegas!
“The newly elected mayor of Reykjavik will not allow anyone in his political...”
– In the Life of ‘The Wire’, Lorrie Moore, NYRB (via BlackBook)
BRB, expatriating.
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Ballsiest line I've ever delivered during a job...
When asked this afternoon if I was still interested in joining this particular company I answered, “Well, honestly, I considered showing up today and standing outside in a trenchcoat with a boombox playing ‘In Your Eyes’… but I thought that might be a little much.”
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Yay, cynicism!
Someone just donated a hundred million dollars to an ailing public school system and the online snarktariat is too busy taking pot shots at his reported desire to have remained anonymous to appreciate the fact that someone just donated a hundred million dollars to an ailing public school system.
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PAVEMENT WEEK: The Matador Reunion
And now we wish to conclude this special week of Nonstop Self-Indulgent Oh-My-God-Here-He-Goes-Again What’s-It-Going-To-Be-This-Time (Probably-5000-Words-On-Why-We-Should-Care-How-Stephen-Malkmus-Makes-Him-Feeeel) Pavementblogging with a quick thought about Vegas.
So at first we really wanted to go to Vegas because (duh) Yo La Tengo! Sonic Youth! Superchunk!
But then on second thought we...
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This has been on repeat since Wednesday night. It...
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No, This Isn't Cynical And Calculated At All!
Election day was on Nov. 8 in 1994, and six weeks beforehand this happened:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27— With flags waving, a band playing and a bank of television cameras rolling, Republican candidates for the House of Representatives mustered on the steps of the Capitol today to sign a list of tax cuts and other measures that they promised to press in their first 100 days if they win control of the...
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Sometimes I wonder.
Who’s worse? FOX News or The New Republic?
And I think it’s maybe The New Republic?! Because seeing as we all still embrace this ridiculous idea that “insidery” somehow equals “mundane” or “wonkish” or negative in some other capacity and that therefore we’re never supposed to get meta about writers and writing we all end up willingly...
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I Love You Stephen Malkmus But You're Bringing Me...
You’re like a bad boyfriend.
You broke up with me all those years ago but I never stopped loving you. I waited and I waited and I waited for you to come back, and when you did I was elated: I just couldn’t wait to see you again. And Sunday night was great! We reveled and we drank and we reminisced of old times and everything felt perfect.
But then I saw you on Colbert and I was...
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Ugh so twice now in the last two days I’ve...
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Parity
Yesterday afternoon in the fourth quarter at the Metrodome Brett Favre looked deep downfield and found Bernard Berrian in double coverage, then launched a fifty-yard back shoulder fade that came up about five yards short and landed in the hands of Miami cornerback Jason Allen. Up in the booth Dan Dierdorf remarked that “it’s a situation where the brain says ‘I’m...
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I don't care about Ines Sainz!
But I swear to god if I read or hear one more of these Y-chromosomed motherfuckers rattling on about how she “should have known better” or “had it coming” or “got what she wanted” I’m going to personally castrate every last motherfucking one of them.
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BREAKING: "Freedom Burning" Halted
THURSDAY, NEW YORK—Chris Mohney, online representative for BlackBook Magazine and organizer of this Saturday’s scheduled burning of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, announced that a last-minute deal had been struck to halt the demonstration planned to coincide with the ninth anniversary of the second printing of The Corrections.
In a press conference this afternoon Mohney announced...
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Minor quibble!
When we say things like “burning Korans is bad for the troops and puts American tourists in harm’s way” or that “the international Muslim community needs to stop going crazy every time someone lampoons their faith in a comic book” it would probably behoove us to keep in mind—you know, lest we end up sounding like patronizing, hypocritical fucks—that the...
New Year's
Roommate: Are you doing anything special for Rosh Hashanah?
Langer: Just going to Crown Heights at midnight to watch the ball drop.
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What I Woke Up Wondering
Why did Siskel & Ebert eschew the two additional thumbs they shared between them? Why was a two-point scale preferable to a four-pointer? What did the simplicity of an up-or-down vote afford that could have outweighed the advanced precision of an up/down and/or up/down alternative? Was it some eschatological ruse they were pulling by keeping their extra thumbs-up in reserve? Some...
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New York to San Francisco, so many roads I know...
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And here I always thought it was a good thing that at that point in a teenage boy’s life when all the prevailing and fucked up adolescent/pubescent/anti-feminist social mores and popularity hierarchies are doing their damndest to force him down the eightfold path of Broddhism—e.g. Fucking Hos & Watching Football & Drinking Natty & Hating Gays & Objectifying Bitches...
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The Top 15 Most Romantic Stephen Malkmus Lyrics,...
Do you remember last September? Back when Pavement announced they were reuniting? For one show only? At Central Park? And how you made sure to get to the office early on that magical day so you could queue up four different computers with ‘four tickets/best available’ pre-entered in the form so then all you’d have to do was run around the room hitting ‘enter’ when the...
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“Look, if the contemporary condition is hopelessly shitty, insipid,...”
– David Foster Wallace on Bret Easton Ellis, shared here for Stephanie aka Bookavore aka WORD Brooklyn.
So I stopped into WORD last night to pick up Freedom, which felt hilariously clichéd what with the whole “ha, yeah, look at me, I’m thirty and I live in Brooklyn and I’m walking...
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