October 2008
I don’t know who wrote this but make no mistake, YM is and will always be pro-lionization. The tired thing is just a pre-existing condition.
Here’s one of those heartwarming stories about an exchange student from Turkmenistan in North Carolina learning about democracy, volunteering, baseball, etc and for a moment you think, “hell fuckin’ yeah, America IS the land of opportunity!” - but then you catch this at the end:He’s discovered a love for fast food (“Burger King is the best”) and especially...
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Orange.
Orange who?
Orange you glad you didn’t become a media reporter?
(Christ, Balk, don’t you ever tire of the lionization?)
NYTimes via Amy’s Robot: “Some 1,446 families entered shelter in September, city officials said. That was the highest number in one month since the city began keeping track 25 years ago. In each of the past three months, the city has seen record numbers of families admitted to shelter.”
Eh, let’s go back to lionizing bloggers.
Personally, I think Nate Hill is the shining example of “remix culture.” Lawrence Lessig might even agree.
Can you define what a remix is, in the context of your new book, Remix? Is it the multiple-creator model of Wikipedia? GPS on cameras that pinpoint photo locations on Google maps? The jackalope?
All of these are remix, as all of them take as their challenge how to engage with...
Gothamist has a really good Harry Shearer interview.Has Colin Powell redeemed himself at all, in your eyes, with his recent Obama endorsement?
No, not at all. I was just shocked at the unanimity of people on both sides of the fence, the McCain people and the Obama people, who fell over each other to say, “But he’s still a very trusted and highly credible individual.” I thought there was a...
It’s the last day of the Donors Choose Blogger Challenge and YM looks secure for the bronze in the Topical/Local Blogs category. “Public Interest Photographer” Ralph Alswang and Apartment Therapy are numbered too large to overcome but at least the Mommy blogs are beneath us where they belong. (I’ll ask again: Where was Curbed this year??) I threw in another $450 of...
Where have you gone, Tamir Goodman? In the 1940s, they called it “Jew ball” - emphasizing teamwork, crisp passing and defense. No doubt this style of play was a key factor in the creation of the State of Israel. Now I bet you’re boom-ma-knock-em-beggin’ to see cool old photos of Jewish basketball teams.
“It’s totally not news that a socialite has her magazine column ghost-written for her. The hilarious part is that it’s the spawn of a once-mighty publishing family who’s at the center of Lydiagate.” Caroline McCarthy aka the Smartness.
Chris Gage interviews Harry Shearer, who is playing at 92YTribeca with his band this Saturday, for NY mag’s Vulture blog. Pretty awesome.
You’ve merged music and comedy with Spinal Tap as well as your own albums. Is it difficult to keep it rooted so it doesn’t veer off into Dr. Demento “Witchdoctor” comedy territory?
No, my wife polices me strictly. She’s a...
“I don’t want to sound cheesy, but I was watching the Obama campaign, and I was like, ‘I can do that.”
What’s that in the Highbrow-Brilliant quadrant of this week’s NY mag Approval Matrix? Oh, the 92nd Street Y opens a Tribeca branch…
New Beginnings For Michelle
Actress Michelle Williams and producer/director Spike Jonze are getting closer and closer. They were spotted in NYC on Monday grocery shopping and taking a stroll.
The couple has been low key about their relationship up until now but it looks like things are becoming official.
The two were previously seen attending a Cinema Society screening of their new film...
Can Obama Turn New Yorkers Into Patriots?
doree:
That is the question I am asking in this week’s issue of The New York Observer!
OK, but let’s separate the meat from the cheese and get to the real issue. When will I be able to walk down the Avenue of the Americas waving my Israeli flag without fear of being called a dirty Zionist pig? THAT, Ms. Shafrir, is the question I beg for an answer.
Remember the Design Won’t Save the World signage? Maybe it was wrong. Go here: Designism Connects. [via Buzzfeed]
I’m sort of grasping for what to say right now. You see, I giggled at this and then scampered off to Google and found … I’m still trying to process. It’s like a Glaring Omission as imagined by Maddox (remember him? “His postings circulate on the Internet through word of text. One person discovers the site and forwards a link to others with a brief message like,...
Thanks, Hez. (Don’t mind me, just practicing.)
“There’s been countless adaptations of Milton Glaser’s iconic ‘I love NY’ slogan, but this could be the first ever, fully kosherized version.” Thanks, Bucky. Gives me an excuse to point out Glaser will be appearing at the Y with Stephen Doyle and Paul Stirton for Dialogues with Design Legends.
Know anyone who’s ever done this? I’m interested.
The Civilian Observer Ride Along Program provides the public with an opportunity to observe police officers on patrol. Members of the public ride with officers in a patrol car for approximately two hours, witnessing first hand what a police officer on patrol encounters during a tour of duty. The program is open to anyone with valid...
“I discovered a flaw” is the new “Mistakes were made”. Discuss.
This was unintentional but YM has taken up residence on this Fimoc post. If you ever wanted to get interactive with the gang, here’s your chance. We’ll be fielding questions for the next 30 mins. Don’t all click at once.
Kottke: “Crap! Apparently I’m missing a chili contest!” I would have rearranged the words of that sentence but I missed it too. Consolation: Judge Janelle.
Since I’m the self-proclaimed Godmother of the New Sincerity, I think I’ve earned the right to say, this one time: NO.
Rex votes for more Tumblettes and we’ll agree because that’s what we do these days.
Oh, when I linked to this previous YM post (for like the third time), I remembered I found the answer that Keith Gessen could not produce about why Simchat Torah is a big deal in Russia.
Blessed Week Ever:Last Saturday, Jews around the world began reading the Torah once again. But Nextbook columnist Liel Leibovitz was busy making his own creation story – by playing Spore, a new video game where players give life to new organisms and guide them through the evolutionary process. Playing God, even in a virtual universe, has long held fascination for ordinary humans, as Leibovitz...
Today in Lionizing News!
· John Bogle (hey I know that dude) says eat the young: “As the layoffs descend on New York, with even mighty Goldman Sachs announcing in October that it would ax 3,000 jobs, the city must retool. This presents a golden opportunity. We have quite enough lionizing of the notion of ‘success’ as popularly defined, by a certain kind of material wealth, fame...
I, for one, am tired of lionizing bloggers.
Damn Balk, if you’re trying to make us cry, it’s working! We recently met people who have had their “routine” pancaked so we feel ya. Since YM’s philanthropy is all-encompassing, if you paint a picture, we promise to buy it. Take care, dude. Stay inside the lines.
One of the best things you can do for an impoverished community, especially one that used to depend so heavily on tourism, is to spend your money there and support the local businesses. That’s how we approached the Arts Alive Fair in Bay St. Louis this past weekend. You needed a brochure map to find the homes that were participating but that would be too sensible so we drove around until we...
I still find Nick Sylvester, the YM blogger who almost was, to be one of the more entertaining writers out there. Here he takes on the Phillies with “A Non Fan’s Notes, Etc.”So maybe this isn’t specific to Philadelphia. Maybe this happens in Boston and Tampa and wherever else baseball is played these days. In fact it can’t be just a Philly thing, at least not...
Choire: “This shit is SO OVER. Um… DeVry????”
I’m sure there’s a Springsteen song that includes the line “and those jobs are never coming back” or something like that. While it’s sad to watch certain parts of New York society slowly ball into a steel town, I think Choire is onto something. After the first dotcom crash, Chris Gage and I used to...
Yay! I am overjoyed at this. I knew all that time spent with Krucoff’s Caulk would pay off eventually.
Really been enjoying this blog lately and I rarely even cook for myself but what’s not to love about lambsagna? The New Sincerity is making me hungry.
Interoffice Memo and More Radar Coverage: apparently, I’m going to now get paid by them for a July-ish invoice (Charles Bock’s advice actually went something along the lines of “take the money and run, kid.” Little did he know…). A call for old, outstanding invoices was sent out today and I plan on taking them for all $13-er, $792 that they owe me. $792, right? Right....
Here’s an October surprise: a Blottered post. Thanks(?), Malatron. The gun range beat is probably a good one, what with the coming race war and all.
This Is Radar. (Or, What A Difference A Weekend...
Baby Drama
SNL: Missing Amy Poehler
Where in tarnation was Amy Poehler on SNL this weekend update?!
Why, she was off popping a babe!
Baby Mama Amy is a real baby mama!
Amy, who was expected to reprise her Bronx Beat sketch with guest Maya Rudolph, was MIA Saturday night as she was off to the maternity ward.
“I can confirm that Amy gave birth to Archie Arnett on Saturday,”...
“Every January, the Kiwanis Club would assemble a stripped-down GM Suburban and park it on an ice-covered lagoon in a local park. Then, to raise money for charity, residents bought tickets and tried to guess the exact date and time that the vehicle would plunge through the melting ice during the spring thaw.”
Now that I think about it, I like Sufjan Stevens. I don’t care what anyone says.
