April 2011
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chrismohney:
ninety9 replied to your photo: First Central Park hot dog, a work in progress
Wow — you aren’t in the paranoid hot dog parent brigade (supposedly the number one choking hazard)? My sister is all ‘not until 16’ for the lil’est hesher.
Well I admit that I’m a terrible parent because this never even occurred to me. Apparently you’re supposed to slice them lengthwise? Anyway it ended...
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“It’s so hard to talk about the body…! I’m just so 90’s-damaged by those conversations.” -Kathleen Hanna, #ellenwillis2011
“It’s like the work that ann and I did never happened” -KCH on overwhelmingly male music crit landscape #snausages #ellenwillis2011
K Hanna: “I felt like the Barney of feminism” while in le tigre “I...
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“Did you plant trees today?”
“No. Spent all morning drinking coffee and reading the newspaper, mostly at McNally Jackson books where I had a french soda (carbonated water, cream, vanilla) and a toasted currant scone with organic strawberry jam from Sweden. Then I had a cappuccino from Gimme Coffee. My sister is coming in from Queens and we’ll probably go back to Nolita to...
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He had no friends, and for the first time in his life he became aware of loneliness. Sometimes, in his attic room at night, he would look up from a book he was reading and gaze in the dark corners of his room, where the lamplight flickered against the shadows. If he stared long and intently, the darkness gathered into a light, which took the insubstantial shape of what he had been reading. And he...
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thenotes:
His manner was even more preoccupied than it had been when he ignored the paddling cow. So many problems had presented themselves, coming up one after another. It was never his habit to grumble and make a fuss when this happened, but he did sometimes, as now, feel that the life work he had set himself of spreading sweetness and light—or, as some preferred to put it, meddling in other...
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Just watched that new Beastie Boys video
Jesus, what pile of shit.
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This is the second time this week I’ve argued with someone over the obnoxious excellence of Fire Walk with Me. Fire Walk with Me is just like Taylor Swift.
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Hey
Someone writes for this blog who is neither young nor Manhattanite.
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alex ross has assembled a royal wedding fanfare →
Apologies to Dmitri Shostakovich, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Arne Mellnäs, Jan Morthenson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Wagner, Merzbow, Justin Bieber, and Magnus Lindberg.
Don’t apologize. Don’t explain the magnetic hum.
(via maura)
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THE PALE KING: Monologues From The Unfinished... →
MICHELLE AZAR, ROB DELANEY, ROSEMARIE DEWITT BRIAN ELERDING, MEGAN MULLALLY, NICK OFFERMAN, JOSH RADNOR, HENRY ROLLINS, ADAM SCOTT, JENNIFER WESTFELDT, CASEY WILSON
Tonight. In Beverly Hills.
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I purchased an umbrella today.
“Radio City is a fun place to see a show. It’s beautiful and you can sit in a...”
– There’s a Road to Everywhere … — My Gap Feels Weird
Bryan Charles wrote a long, terrific post about going to shows in his mid-30s and shows he saw as a younger man. I kinda love that Bryan got around to writing about this Superchunk show just now though we saw it several weeks ago. (via perpetua)
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Nice try, Krucoff.
My next piece will ask, Are white women prettier and more desirable than any other race? I made this video, and I’ve found staring at it helps me think about this question.
More later.
-Nate
rendit:
Cathartic as it might be for me, I don’t believe you get to own everything you encounter.
Mr. Mohney’s lovely post is mainly about other things, but I’d like the Internet to wake up each and every morning and write this 100 times on the blackboard.
Truer words.
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A Moment With a Young:
What’s a G… garbage pail kid? I mean - *drops Blackberry Storm*
the thirty best wilco songs... ranked, in order →
ericazucco:
This is not even linkbait. This is past linkbait. It’s like, debate-bait. You know everyone that looks at this list, even people who don’t really like a lot of music or look at a lot of these types of lists, are going to look, and then is going to be like “aww, man, but you forgot theologians!!” or “WHAT ARE YOU THINKING XYZ IS ABOVE ABC” but in a nice way because Wilco fans are...
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Are there going to be William and Kate...
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Remember the 90s?
summerofmegadeth:
youngmanhattanite:
I was in line at the Safeway this evening and a young lady in front of me was buying beer. When asked for her birthdate, she confidently told the cashier, “Four Fourteen Ninety.” And here’s the insane part: THE CASHIER LET HER BUY THE BEER!!
Pretty sure there’s a relevant Achewood dude.
What’s an Achewood!?
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“President Obama released his long-form birth certificate on Wednesday, a step...”
– New York Times
Birthers new stance: Video or it didn’t happen.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via dailybunch)
This is why I can’t find a seat at Starbucks.
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Charting your aging: A primer
“That Playboy centerfold is younger than me!”
“That Cy Young Award winning pitcher is younger than me!”
“That Oscar winning actor/actress is younger than me!”
“That professor is younger than me!”
“That cop is younger than me!”
“That doctor is younger than me!”
This is as far as I’ve gotten so far. I’m...
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If these insane tornadoes in Alabama turn out to be the harbingers of Judgement Day on May 21, I’m gonna be so embarrassed.
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Remember the 90s?
I was in line at the Safeway this evening and a young lady in front of me was buying beer. When asked for her birthdate, she confidently told the cashier, “Four Fourteen Ninety.” And here’s the insane part: THE CASHIER LET HER BUY THE BEER!!
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YM does not love the nightlife
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Do you feel depressed?
Turn off your computer and phone.
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Birtherism
endasher:
This may have been said many times, but what’s oddest about it all is that John McCain actually wasn’t born in the U.S. as such. (The Panama Canal Zone was American-controlled but de jure a part of Panama proper.) Congress actually passed a resolution, supported by Ted Olsen and Lawrence Tribe, saying the “natural-born” clause applies to McCain based on a 1937 law (he was born in 1936)...
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#people with "Clocks" as their ringtone
ferrrn:
artyucko:
#people with “Clocks” as their ringtone
True story: I “realized” I wanted to be a writer when I got a free-writing homework assignment in my tenth-grade English class and I came up with a very meaningful dream sequence while listening to “Clocks” that included “Clocks” lyrics and, at the time, surprised me with its excellence. With an origin story like that, __________.
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Attention Martin Amis
derasso:
Now that you’re moving to Cobble Hill, you should know that if you step foot into any of the bars I actually like I will glass you like a Man U fan in Liverpool.
Some friends of mine — *perhaps* some of the Nicht Kunts gang, though What We Do Is Secret — came up with a band: Martin Amis and the Swaggering Douchebags. Little did we know that we might one day have the opportunity to...
