May 2012
7 posts
Members Dig In to Preserve Struggling Golf Clubs -... →
Oddly uplifting even as it points to a tribal post-Apocalyptic America.
Who would have thought the tribes would be comprised of golfers.
Tom Scocca: John Joseph Scocca, 1940-2012 →
Transnistrian Time-Slip - NYTimes.com →
I have been weirdly obsessed by these four “statelets” for some time. Pro tip: watch Abkhazia around the time of the next Winter Olympics. Very close to Sochi.
(Seriously, there is a Pynchon-y quality to all this. Starting but not ending with the conglomerate named “Sheriff” that runs the town, including its football team, etc.)
“An earlier version of this post included a photo published in error. It showed...”
– A Facebook Founder Renounces His U.S. Citizenship - NYTimes.com
Redefining the Southern Belle | Garden and Gun →
Presented without comment.
April 2012
9 posts
Watch
“Facebook, he believes, is a stepping stone to the rest of the web.”
– Online identity: is authenticity or anonymity more important? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
LOL “AOL” LOL GAME OVER
Reporter Attempts to Describe Taste of Hemp Vodka... →
JOURNALISM
“Ms. Morin’s PB&J sushi rolls are perhaps especially appetizing to a young...”
– Meet the Mini-Marthas! Suddenly, Hipster Homemakers Are Cleaning Up | The New York Observer | Page 2
HAHAHAAHAAA
“Other German cities are surrounded by industry,” he said. “Berlin is surrounded...”
– Berlin Is Getting a New Airport, but Many Prefer the Old - NYTimes.com
“This means the only remaining value system, the only means by which we can judge...”
– Postmodernism, Authenticity, the Internet and the New Aesthetic
A shockingly accurate indictment. At least this little snippet. Also explains my smirking interest in the items at Top Shop over the weekend containing dollar signs, the song “A Milli,” and a whole boatload of other things...
Pentametron: With algorithms subtle and discrete /... →
March 2012
12 posts
Brain Junk
Before I do something important — like spend the rest of my afternoon working on PowerPoint slides, also known as, How the West Was Won — I need to clear my brain of brain junk.
Brain junk, like space junk, is the accumulation of slow-moving yet annoying objects that are always about to pop your helmet as you attempt to repair the foam so that you don’t burn your ass up during...
Department of Small Victories
Purchasing pre-cut pineapple for $4.99 OUCH and pre-cut strawberries and blueberries for $4.99 OUCH OUCH. Managing to eat all of it for breakfast throughout the week before it went bad.
#FRUIT #Japan-level pricing #My body is a wonderland
“It’s kind of like falling asleep on a boogie board,” he says. “You take a nap...”
– Mark Leyner, World-Champion Satirist, Returns to Reclaim His Crown - NYTimes.com
And So, We Negotiate
And negotiate.
What Happens Now?
The 10 of Wands is not a good sign.
And oh yeah THANKS SATURN for staying in my orbit until October.
And oh oh yeah yeah, THANKS TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR that I have become so desperate I am now turning to tarot cards and astrology to make sense of the present.
Perhaps I’ll start a new fortune-telling practice involving Chicken McNugget dipping sauces. “You have selected Honey...
Mike D’Antoni Resigns as Knicks’ Coach -... →
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs - NYTimes.com →
“Once we were men who beat up bullfighters. Now, when bad, we make unauthorized...”
– What ‘Leaving the Atocha Station’ Says About America - NYTimes.com
You Know
I’m learning a lot about myself.
I am thinking often of my grandfather. Who lived the last 30 years of his life — my entire life — with chronic lower back pain. A botched prostate surgery? No one ever really took the time to explain this to me. I remember stretchy white back braces with velcro, and another one that had some electric zappy things. Lumbar pillows. Heating pads....
February 2012
11 posts
Anonymously Yours
I am a woman of a certain age. That age is 34. I am no longer a people-pleaser (thanks to 13 years of living in New York City). But I feel that I may be lacking in signifiers expressing my true age. Maturity level? Status?
It’s true that about 1.5 years ago I cut off my princessy locks for a more boss-like hairdo. And it’s also true that the reason I’m writing this is because I...
“The distance between his worlds was brought into sharp relief when the Ozark...”
– British Robbery Suspect Edward Maher Arrested in Missouri - NYTimes.com
Hating vs Loving
File under: lines, fine.
Work bleeds into the weekend. Body needs more time to recharge. Needs time to take in Grammy dresses and celebrity death news.
Proposals — 2, ha! — need writing.
Frickin GMT.
Getting it out there helps? I think?
GOOD NEWS DEPARTMENT
“I’ve been trying all day to call your grandmother at the assisted living. The phone just rings and rings. She’s hardly in her room at all. She’s either playing bingo or eating dinner and desserts and snacks or hanging out with Mr. Meaux and Ms. Sellers and all of her friends. And she’s using her walker. The other day she went to the casino. She called me and asked me...
“Saying Madonna has a “soul flaw” of “stubbornness, falseness...”
– Is Madonna Eating Our Young? A Post-Halftime Discussion | The Awl
Holy Toledos
At this very moment, a man runs a race in Central Park wearing tights. He must decide, shall I veer into the blue lane, or the other blue lane, based on whom I would like to win the Big Game tonight?
As for me, I have never gotten over Eli Manning’s in-kahootsness with Ole Miss, so I only begrudgingly smile for the Giants. Lesser of two evils, etc. A Frenchman named Christophe — with...
January 2012
7 posts
“While the show is named “Cajun” Pawn Stars, Alexandria, where the...”
– Cajun Pawn Stars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BIG UPS TO THE FACT-CHECKIN CAJUNS OUT THERE
City Grazing - NYTimes.com →
“Children might prefer a portfolio of caregivers, including both dad and mom, to...”
– Nancy Folbre: Homemaker Dad, Breadwinner Mom - NYTimes.com
LOL
“Mother, sit down. I’d like to talk to you about diversifying my portfolio.
“If you’d just let me walk you through this brief deck discussing options, perhaps we can come to a mutually satisfying...
Stephen Hawking admits he finds women 'a complete... →
OH FUCK OFF
December 2011
8 posts
“I’m sick of waiting in line, I’m sick of their stupid vests, and...”
– Brooklyn’s Return | The Awl
Ew, yes
thinkingaboutinformation:
“In 2007, according to the labor economist Sylvia Allegretto, the six Walton family members on the Forbes 400 had a net worth equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans.”
Wal-Mart Heiress’s Museum a Moral Blight - Bloomberg
Thank God someone finally said this. The NPR story on the museum’s opening a few weeks ago gave me the voms, but I forgot to write...
How the Internet is Destroying Everything -... →
1. It pays well to be a doomsayer.
2. The Aristotle quote sent a chill down my spine. That’s really the only sentence you need to read in this blog post.
3. How could the word “epistemology” not appear at least once?
4. I chuckle that we are still engaged in silly debates about the downfall of modernism.
#PhilosophyMajor