2008

Jun

This may be the coolest thing I have ever...
Jun 12th
Oh New York Times! Why won’t you fix it?!
Jun 6th
1. "fierce feminists" 2. "rampaging...
Jun 4th

May

How To Buy a Tanning Bed
May 29th

Identity Crisis

What does it mean about me that 1. I have unearthed a Best of The Doobie Brothers CD that I had no...
May 26th
Emily Gould: New Gloss On An Old Story
May 23rd
I Love What You Didn’t Do to Your Chipped...
May 22nd
Carrier
May 21st
“Change You Deserve” is the House GOP’s freshly...”
— The Note
May 15th
“She’s a tiny little pocket of wry humour and...”
— wrote Lyndal, in a recent...
May 12th

Apr

'I think too much of design is too dumb'
Apr 29th
Warch Watch
One of my (semi-secret) favorite songs ever.
Apr 16th
Obama's Pronunciation of ‘Divisive'
Apr 15th
“Mr. Jagger and company are mischievous bohemian...”
— I loved Shine A Light....
Apr 8th
I find this very alluring. Thankfully, it’s priced...
Apr 8th
“Oxygen viewers have not settled into adult growth patterns.”
— Lauren Zalaznick, now...
Apr 2nd

Mar

“Now my life’s a nightmare of efficiency.”
— Old 97’s, Adelaide
Mar 30th
Warch Watch
I know I’m not alone in adoring this. It’s too amazing for words.
Mar 12th

Feb

Testosterone
Feb 26th
“Op-Ed cannot harbor any aspirations about being...”
— Another post-it floating...
Feb 20th
There is something so charming about this.
Feb 19th
“Accepting the explanation that he didn’t see her is possible...”
— Gail Collins on The Alleged...
Feb 3rd
“Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived at Ms....”
— AP
Feb 1st

Jan

“Those of us who live in New York found it rather peculiar...”
— Gail Collins, NYT
Jan 26th
Socializr
Jan 24th
Why Things Suck: Evite
Jan 24th
“As a child, Mr. Mizrahi said, he dreamed of being a...”
— One of a few oft-consulted...
Jan 22nd
Tonight!
Jan 18th

Now, With Comments

Try it out. You can comment on this humble little hodgepodge now. If it’s successful, I might...
Jan 18th
R.O.U.S Lives! Or Lived!
Jan 17th
Steve Martin/Robin Williams Smackdown
Jan 16th
Warch Watch
Bernie Cries, a very short film shot on New Year’s Day 2008 in New York City. Directed by...
Jan 13th
“How absurd. How depressing and disheartening and just plain...”
— Judith Warner, on...
Jan 11th
Is it wrong that I secretly want one?
Jan 6th
Listen Listen
I can’t get this out of my head. My head radio is playing this on repeat. I’m walking in...
Jan 4th
Warch Watch
Four years later and I still don’t see what’s at all remarkable (or campaign-ruining)...
Jan 4th
Modest Change: Cancel Something
Jan 3rd

2007

Dec

“Borrowers who fail to return Queens Library books can be...”
— NYT Oh no!
Dec 26th
Warch Watch
The innumerable music bloggers are all fawning over Jens Lekman in their year-end lists. I’ve...
Dec 24th
Ben's Best Music of 2007 List, Now Online
Dec 24th
Wynonna: Tribute on Ice
Dec 23rd
“In 2002, researchers in Spain followed 4,300 healthy adults,...”
— NYT
Dec 18th
How Color-Blind People See Things
Dec 12th
“Facebook has all the social graces of a nose-picking,...”
— How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers...
Dec 7th

Nov

Please note current conditions. Is this normal? I am...
Nov 27th
Warch Watch
Remember how Patrick showed me that very cool Concerts a Emporter site? Now he’s made some...
Nov 19th
“Ralph, I was talking to Shelton. And as a side comment,...”
— Richard Gere as Clifford...
Nov 18th
How to Make Your Outgoing Voicemail Message...
Nov 15th
Still can't get over Clark and Michael
Nov 10th
Blomus Rocks
Nov 9th
Oh my god. Check this out.
Nov 6th
I love this weather site. Pretty, even when delivering bad...
Nov 6th
The 7 Bad E-Mail Habits that Make People Want...
Nov 5th

He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying.

I just finished watching Don’t Look Back, the 1965 concert documentary. Bob Dylan was such a...
Nov 4th
This actually exists. Lazy? Time-saving? Gross?
Nov 4th

Oct

Oct 30th
In deep, lasting love with this poster. Even though people...
Oct 26th
Extremely great. Appeals to the cord-hater in me and makes...
Oct 26th
“She met Mr. Wilson in Washington at the Turkish ambassador’s...”
— Times book review of Fair Game...
Oct 23rd
Five email tics I'd love for you to lose
Oct 20th
Disgusting, perhaps. But useful.
Oct 20th
What's wrong with The Office
Oct 19th
I can’t stop loving Core 77, which alerted me today to...
Oct 17th
What side is the gas tank on?
Oct 16th
What people keep in their Go Bags.
Oct 11th
Awesome.
Oct 9th

Sep

“Contemporary music made me want to punch people. I...”
— Joni Mitchell, interviewed by...
Sep 26th
“She is no longer surrounded by the kind of strong, tough,...”
— Alessandra Stanley (again)....
Sep 26th

Take-Away Shows

Patrick just told me about this amazing website Concerts a Emporter. A French guy filmed all these...
Sep 25th
Give a laptop, get a laptop for next to...
Sep 24th
Social Networking Invitation Etiquette
Sep 24th
Photographs of Famous Writers' Rooms
Sep 24th
“It is possibly the scariest tableau of prep school privilege...”
— Alessandra Stanley, reviewing...
Sep 21st
I must have this bike basket. I love it so much. It’s...
Sep 21st
“She wasn’t a nice person, ” said Darla Moore, vice...
Sep 15th
What People Read While They Eat
Sep 14th
Amazing. I am not alone.
Sep 11th
Who needs a subprime mortgage? I want to live in a...
Sep 9th
I wish I'd heard this!
Sep 6th
This American Life on Break-Ups
Sep 3rd

Aug

Aug 29th
“Pasty gnocchi came in a sour bolognese that approximated...”
— Time Out New York: Gemma...
Aug 29th
“Ms. Paley was among the earliest American writers to explore...”
— Grace Paley, Writer and...
Aug 23rd
Aug 23rd
“The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation that...”
— 
Aug 23rd
Draw a bunny.
Aug 20th
Aug 16th
Petraske's Mighty Ocelot Readying for Secret...
Aug 15th
“Now that women have solidly earned their place in the work...”
— NYT
Aug 15th
Is this for real?
Aug 14th
Artifact spied at the Chelsea Market, 8/07
Aug 14th
“Those of us who love A&E’s sick documentary series...”
— Confronting a Crystal Meth...
Aug 14th
“If Fred Thompson formally announces his intention to run for...”
Aug 13th
Top White House aide Rove resigns
Aug 13th
“Now, it is really hard for me to be mad at a multiplex movie...”
— Life With Zabar’s at the...
Aug 12th
Obsessed.
Aug 11th

Soundtrack for "I'm Not There," Dylan...

All Along The Watchtower —Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar BashersAs I Went Out One...
Aug 10th
“I don’t want to be considered vapid and uninteresting.”
— Be Yourselves, Girls, Order...
Aug 9th
Cannot wait.
Aug 9th
I accidentally became awesome.
Aug 8th
Warch Watch
I’m writing a piece about procrastination. The irony, if you can even call it that because...
Aug 8th
TimesSelect Going to the Shitter! Free...
Aug 7th
"He's Just Not That Into You": The Movie
Aug 7th
Warch Watch
I’m totally freaking out. Does anyone else remember this? There are hordes of people on the...
Aug 7th
Marlo and the Magic Movie Machine
Aug 7th

Dear Scott Rudin, Please Make Movie Out...

After heavy bidding among multiple suitors, Disney and Scott Rudin have nabbed the screen rights to...
Aug 6th
Quote Machine from "Vulture"
Aug 6th
Aug 5th
In Praise of Tap Water
Aug 4th
My photo was in the New York Times in 2005. That was two...
Aug 3rd
For the apartment speakeasy
Aug 3rd
“According to an article in today’s New York Times, young...”
— For Young Earners in Big City,...
Aug 3rd
Yay.
Aug 2nd
“But then Mr. Le Dû’s story provides a reminder that a 1985...”
— Fine Diner to Riffraff: Tipsy...
Aug 1st
Coelacanth found!
Aug 1st

Jul

Fake Toe on Mummy: Oldest Prosthesis?
Jul 30th
With Friends Like That...
Jul 30th
Jul 30th
Seven Clever Google Tricks Worth Knowing
Jul 29th
One Woman Speaks For Many (At the Mall)
Jul 29th
Ah, college. The year was 1978. A portrait of the lovely...
Jul 28th
“A recent Yahoo study indicates that the days in which...”
Jul 28th

Watch the Ratings Plummet

“After a tumultuous season that saw the abrupt exit of Rosie O’Donnell, ABC’s daytime chatfest...
Jul 27th
vikodan31: did you know sujfan teaches knitting to the blind
vikodan31: jesus
Jul 27th
“The really good times are over.”
— Simon Ballard, a global credit...
Jul 27th
“Bombings Mar Iraqi Soccer Victory”
— NYTimes.com Headline [File...
Jul 25th
Warch Watch
I missed the debate b/c I don’t have CNN (why aren’t the debates on free TV?) but...
Jul 23rd
“  The formula is simple: two people, a few instruments, 88...”
— A.O. Scott, NY Times
Jul 21st

Short-Term Personal Savior

Trader Joe’s freeze-dried rambutan and mangosteen. Exotic. Crispy. Weird. Love. I can see it...
Jul 20th
Warch Watch
Bea Arthur, Marla Gibbs, Nell Carter and Alfonso Ribeiro all together? Too much.
Jul 20th
I had a birthday. Heather Lee Roth (throwing the gang sign...
Jul 20th
Warch Watch
Okay, so I’m far from the only one nuts over Wonderlust King. Admit that the video is very...
Jul 19th
Hillary
Jul 19th
"Wonderlust King" by Gogol Bordello
Jul 19th
I Love It, It's Perfect, Now It Changes
Jul 17th
“All the Republicans combined don’t have as much cash...”
— NPR Morning Edition
Jul 16th
“There are only two Democrats who have less money on hand...”
— NPR Morning Edition
Jul 16th
Bike Lanes Going Green
Jul 16th
Scientology's Good Points?
Jul 15th
Sauteed Rooster Comb
Jul 15th