May 2009
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via simko)
Is the state of the literature world getting you...
52books:
Seriously, you can. He said so himself:
Nothing has changed! The written word—the love of it and the power of the written word—it hasn’t changed. It’s a matter of fostering it, fertilizing it, not giving up on it, and having faith. Don’t get down. I actually have established an e-mail address, deggers@826national.org—if you want to take it down—if you are ever feeling down, if you are...
On the recent spate of journalists admitting — and chronicling — their own mistakes, Sam Schulman writes:
All of this is hard to take. Journalists are supposed to mock, not to be mocked. There was a time when the great danger, for mass-circulation writers, was not the proud confession of their own naiveté and stupidity but an excess of knowingness, an eagerness to go too far in...
“It’s not a selfless thing,” he told me. “Wherever there’s something that people...”
– Zach Galifianakis
The Making of Zach Galifianakis →
“If conservatives were to look up from hammering nails in the Times’ coffin, they might notice that there is a growing web-based journalism infrastructure preparing to supplant their bête noir. It’s an infrastructure that is not only more liberal than the Times but also less inhibited by the paper’s habits of deference to power and concern for open debate and fair play. Having evolved in the...
This Week In F—k You: Matt Millen →
After reading numerous times that I had to dump...
For Teenagers, Hello Means ‘How About a Hug?’ →
No. 4,356 on my list: “Things I’m Glad Weren’t Trendy When I Was In High School.”
langer:
Animal Collective, “Infant Dressing...
Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum →
I’m going to have to restrain myself from blogging every new New Yorker thing that I like every week, but this story about the way doctors behave in the current health care environment, and how those decisions lead to waste (and, in some places, efficiency) is very good.
The bad news? Doctors overprscribe and overtest because there’s money in it. The good news is that fixing this...
'Grandmother of World's 23rd Best Economist... →
Excellent headline; excellent post.
The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Live and Work →
“I get it; Grizzly Bear can come across to some as boring. Lord knows I could go...”
– Paul Thompson
Sonia Sotomayor: Not A Squishy, Wild-Eyed Commie,... →
Take Your Pick →
Nation's Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan:... →
Obama Chooses Sotomayor for Supreme Court Nominee →
Watching the GOP tap-dance on this high wire is going to hugely entertaining.
“By 1:03, I’ve had two cups of coffee, I’m down in my basement on the elliptical, and my heart is pounding like a cheetah’s. I know that cheetahs have a fast heart rate because I often watch Animal Planet while I’m on the elliptical, although sometimes I’ll do the picture-in-picture thing so I can watch CNBC Asia while I’m watching the thing about the cheetahs. It isn’t always about...
Ferris Bueller house up for sale →
RTA looks into potential of riders using cell... →
New Yorker cover done on iPhone app →
In Attempt To Jump-Start Economy, Obama Declares... →
So, you're in love with one of your friends, but... →
bmichael:
This whole situation will be backed up by the Terminator franchise.
Seriously, click through because it’s funny. Stay for the moral ambiguity.
“No one has died from not getting loving, but life feels very hard without it. Life can drag without loving, life can weigh a lot without loving, poverty, sickness, and trying to show up to work on time and care about work enough to do a good job to not lose the job seem so much easier when one is getting some loving.
But Vasily is getting no loving.
So here he is, purchasing time with a...
Peter Beard and I agree completely on sleep, even... →
The first day of my visit to Hog Ranch, Beard finally ambles out of his tent in early afternoon to begin the day. He is clad only in his usual kikoi, a colorful sarong-like loincloth. His torso is sinewy and nut-brown, with not an ounce of extra flesh, and he looks surprisingly fresh for someone who stayed out until five a.m. Apparently, after I begged off at two a.m. to get some sleep, Beard...
Mancow Waterboarded, Admits It's Torture →
YouTube Spammed With Porn
“Members of the 4Chan message board, a well-known internet discussion forum, have claimed responsibility for the attack, which appears to be in retaliation to YouTube’s policy on removing or silencing copyright music videos unlawfully uploaded to the website by users. The hackers tagged videos with the names of popular acts, such as Hannah Montana or the Jonas Brothers, to trick users in to...
“Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That’s when things...”
– John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
I did this tonight! Basically all that happened is I had another beer, and then some weird dude walked past, and then I said goodbye. Pretty standard.
Phenomenal Swag: NBA Jam arcade machine →
