Hitched.

Christmas shopping always becomes a tragedy when I’m involved. I either know exactly what to get for someone or I have no idea and I spend a couple of hours walking in and out of shops, spiraling into an existential funk and end up purchasing nothing. In my eager pursuit of the perfect gift, I [...]

In case you were wondering where your tax dollars were headed, the very smart people at New York’s local public television station have launched a new series entitled The City Concealed. First up? One of America’s foulest treasures, the unbelivably polluted New Town Creek, right here in New York City. Said to have a “15-foot [...]

I want to punch the New York Times in it’s E-FACE forpublishing one of it’s most shared and most interesting annual pieces in an UNLINKABLE FORMAT. Here’s an idea for 2008: Accessiblity.
Still, it’s no less tremendous: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/14/magazine/2008_IDEAS.html

That was shockingly simple. Nuffin’ broke, except I had to re-add some permissions. I made a mix last Friday of things I was listening to in that week. I’ll probably do this every (BACKPEDAL: Other.) week.
Adventure-Lordeo
Dancing to chiptunes is the goofiest hobby this side of Steampunk, but when Adventure played the Dan Deacon/Round Robin show, [...]

I’ve been putting off writing anything because I kept thinking about how I had to upgrade to WP 2.7 and I knew it was going to break something, although it was also probably the last time it would break something, but I was also not updating to avoid the headache and so I got caught [...]

Yesterday Murray bought an especially large potato. I started to wonder how big potatoes get. Well, today a fellow in Lebanon took the record for world’s largest potato. Behold:

Fun Food with Monica DiNatale - Peanut Butter & Company

http://funfoodwithmonica.com/newyorkchocolateshow.html
Hahahahha, Oh no.

Wells Tower is my favorite writer. For one, he has a great name and for two, he is an utter once-in-a-lifetime genius and I follow his writing the way some people follow the Grateful Dead. I have combed the stacks of college libraries, poring over back-issues of the Paris Review for a mere mention of [...]

I’ve been working on a new post about video games and auteur-ship and spectator/spectacle relationships, but in the meanwhile the Book Design Review crew has their list of favorite book covers from the year 2008. I have to disagree with a handful of these. Some are just goofy or cute in an illustrative sense. And [...]