February 2009
36 posts
“The brash look of the early ’80s “is not for timid people, that’s for sure,” he...”
– -NYT.
Because when I see the Dow falling, the breadlines growing, and the homes foreclosing, the first thing I think is, DOES THIS MEAN I CAN WEAR MY POLKA DOT JORDACHE LEGGINGS AGAIN?
“Want y’all to know that I’m seriously moving forward with an idea...”
– From Levar Burton’s Twitter.
HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
New York Times article skimmer →
USEFUL!
The AMNH's backroom collections →
gillianmae:
Worth clicking through.
What she said.
The F-ing Weather: News You Can MF Use →
Thanks, Scott.
[When I first arrived in Manhattan in 1971, such don’t-ask-don’t-tell art was all the rage. John Ashbery bristled at being identified as a gay poet; Elizabeth Bishop refused to be included in anthologies of women’s poetry. We were on the cusp of Rauschenberg-cool and Milk-hot. But the durable allure of Rauschenberg and Johns, their coded love and art, is not just cranky nostalgia. When I spoke...
[Nickel-and-dimeing us for access to content made less useful by those very restrictions simply isn’t appealing. Newspapers can’t entice us into small payment systems, because we care too much about our conversation with one another, and they can’t force us into such systems, because Off the Bus and Pro Publica and Gawker and Global Voices and Ohmynews and Spot.us and Smoking Gun all understand...
A thing I could do all day
Read Luc Sante’s blog:
[One day very soon it will happen that our heroes, having searched and studied ancient property maps on file at the bureau of records, having rented a basement storage space on the opposite side of the block, having pretended to be a punk band and carted in instruments and actually played them very loud before switching to recordings of the same stuff played just as...
[“It’s not that wealth is inherently interesting,” said Ingrid Dudek, a 32-year-old specialist in Asian contemporary art at Christie’s who recently spent a week in St.-Tropez, most of it holed up at a client’s house, appraising millions of dollars worth of objects. “You get to do projects, see collections you never thought you’d ever see. You get a little giddy.”]
Auctionistas, feeling the...
It's definitely Friday.
adam: hi ho
Rach: hi ho
adam: we're still at work i know
adam: although it's late
adam: and we've got dates
adam: hi ho
adam: hi ho
adam: hi ho
adam: hi ho
Rach: dates?
adam: well
adam: plans
Rach: youve got a date?
adam: no but i was pressed for a rhyme
adam: don't fuck it up
“Is it sad if I named my team “Huskerdon’t”? Because if so,...”
– A.B. on his trivia night domination team
Shop My Closet →
Really into this girl’s blog/idea.
WatchSheila Weiler, aka the woman who wrote the book about what I would write a book about if I wrote books. I have such a lit crush.
Old Jews Telling Jokes →
Thanks M. I want 1000 more of these.
Lisa Loeb gets married →
This Times wedding column about Loeb includes peanut butter sandwiches, Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long,” and AC/DC concerts. [via]
