March 2010
29 posts
[YouTube] Kenny Chesney - I Go Back →
The video is dreadful of course, but I was having to try really hard not to sing along out loud when this tune came on my Shuffle tonight in the gym. (It’s possible my mouth was moving silently, which is maybe worse?)
“I was on the drugstore phone on Fiftieth and Lex when Jazzlyn said: ‘Who’s my...”
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (via tylercoates)
Read this book.
“Like its title — a play on “skin flute,” slang for penis...”
– Big Time : The New Yorker
Peter Schjeldahl, how I’ve missed you.
Whitney Museum of American Art: 2010 Whitney... →
Good call, Bulicks.
New York folk, thanking you kindly
Just to ask: are there any exhibitions or plays or other goings-on I should see this weekend? I am not, I confess, interested in Tim Burton at MoMA and am slightly sceptical of the Koons-curated show at the New Museum, but maybe it’s great, despite the title and all. I’ve not even checked to see what’s on at the Whitney or Met or the etc etc. It’s been hectic here,...
“Saturday ostensibly marked the two month mark ahead of the UK vote. Here at...”
– FiveThirtyEight: New Feature: UK Election Backgrounders
Bring it.
distorte:
Sparklehorse — Maria’s Little Elbows
...
yodaniel:
Death Cab For Cutie - No Sunlight
As...
One last thing... Sugababes →
Would a spare clone each be handy?
Heidi: Amelle would probably fall out with hers.
Amelle: Why isn’t my food on the table, bitch! Mine would leave for sure!
As the ‘Babes turn…
WatchErykah Badu - Window Seat
No question where Badu stands on the ongoing ‘Are tights suitable as trousers?’ debate.
from The World According to Gaga - T Magazine Blog →
I have to say that meeting you is rather odd. It’s like interviewing Mr. T. What to call you?
[Laughs] Lady Gaga or Gaga is fine. Everyone calls me one of the two, and it’s very normal. I think it’s mostly about being in my world and understanding what I do. … When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.
What does...
Legible London: Can better signs help pedestrians... →
Part III of Slate’s ‘Signs’ series.
February 2010
55 posts
“Journalists […] blog, tweet and Facebook about their reporting, instead of...”
– Currents - Branding and the ‘Me’ Economy
This article is not especially revelatory, but it does include the first time I’ve seen the NYT use ‘Facebook’ as a verb. Which is its own revelation.