I mean, I actually watch the CINEMA.
minou: faithandbegorrah: natface: but I try to keep it vernacular for the folk I like to...
Oct 1st
The picture of Tromsø just now? That’s the midnight sun.
Oct 1st
We’ll be staying at the Clarion Bryggen,...
Oct 1st
You remember the visitnorway.com sweepstakes I’m going...
Oct 1st
Pining for the fjords…
Oct 1st
Don’t mind if I do.
Oct 1st
No, WNYC, you can't just make it all...
But Terrance McKnight, I love you for trying.
Oct 1st
St. John the Divine commemorates St. Francis Day with its...
Oct 1st
***FRESH AIR NOW PLAYING ON WNYC 820...
Because you may have missed it when WNYC first aired it at 3pm on 93.9 FM (Today’s show: Po...
Sep 30th
“Monday morning, when you’re trying to...
How about late Friday afternoon, when you’re trying to bone the cantor right before services?
Sep 30th
Goodness, I'd love to be a fly on Steve...
Sep 30th
WNYC really is the pits.
Safe, boring, and bloated is no way to go through life. Three channels? Two of them all talk? Just...
Sep 30th
"Overnight music will continue to be...
How thoughtful.
Sep 30th
WNYC pledge to classical music...
“It’s the longstanding tradition of being a 24/7 classical music station with WNYC’s curatorial...
Sep 30th
Mo Mamet, Mo Problems: Tomorrow night, I’ll be seeing...
Sep 30th
"You could learn about a fella by...
What I’m trying to say is, the real prestige derives (or derived) not from your area code, but...
Sep 29th
Long before 212 existed, there was...
New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania has had the same telephone number since 1919. It has the longest...
Sep 29th
Yes, I copyedit from my “pie-in-the-sky” pizza chopper.
Sep 29th
The line for 45-cent slices at Ray's...
More on this story as it develops.
Sep 29th
For Meg and Minou
A wolf and a donkey share a cage in the...
Sep 28th
Plus? Along with the half-marathon this weekend, there’s a race for kids ages 2 to 12, called...
Sep 28th
I just entered a sweepstakes to run a marathon in the...
Sep 28th
Animal hospitals, a history
Again not to quibble with the Turks, and with all due respect for the many accomplishments of the...
Sep 28th
And coming soon …
Fjord Fiesta: “The 15th...
Sep 28th
Topkapi in Times Square
On my lunch break, I stumbled upon the Parade of Anatolian Civilizations, in Times Square, part of...
Sep 28th
For Bumblevision.
Mzee and Owen (via)
Sep 28th
It’s true, right? You’re on the M7 bus crawling up the west side, and there’s a...
Sep 27th
I was just thinking in my mind (as opposed to where I do most of my thinking) that it annoys me when...
Sep 27th
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The Turtles, “Happy Together”
Related note: If you ever get a chance to see Wong...
Sep 27th
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“The Way We Were”
Barbra’s set list from the Village Vanguard show last night...
Sep 27th
Just finished my screenplay
It’s about a guy who enters a parallel universe in which everything seems the same but the cat...
Sep 27th
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The Rockies may crumble Gibraltar may tumble They’re only made of clay But our love is here to...
Sep 26th
Watch
Judy Garland, singing “I Got Rhythm,” from Girl Crazy.
Music by George Gershwin and...
Sep 26th
Happy 110th birthday, George Gershwin. The man had rhythm.
Sep 26th
As I was putting the milk and seltzer back into the refrigerator—I was making an egg...
Sep 26th
Never have I had a refrigerator bulb...
Sep 26th
I totally had a crush on the black bloc kids.
Sep 25th
"The Independent Media Center...
(From indymedia.org) The news from Pittsburgh reminds me that the 10-year anniversary of the...
Sep 25th
Alain Delon.
Sep 24th
Dangerous games
As the poisonville clan sat around the family table last month, in celebration of my mother’s...
Sep 24th
Poolside side-eye. Upper Lake, California.
Sep 24th
Thursday-morning Nietzsche Family Circus
Sep 24th
The best laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft a-gley.
Sep 23rd
As I'm brushing my teeth this morning,...
Sasha, my cat, was ecstatic, the mouse much less so. I was ambivalent. I put the mouse out of its...
Sep 23rd
Matt Damon is the Derek Jeter of the...
He rose to the top of his profession very young, works hard, lives a charmed life, and is...
Sep 23rd
Happy birthday, John Coltrane. WKCR is celebrating with a...
Sep 23rd
DADA is neither madness, nor wisdom, nor irony, look at me,...
Sep 23rd
“When I first heard Elvis’ voice I just knew that I wasn’t...”
— Bob Dylan (via...
— Bob Dylan (via...
Sep 23rd
thedoctr:
This is considered front page news in central...
Sep 22nd
Your kiss?
It’s on my list.
Sep 22nd
The German shepherds are in position. Let the good times roll.
Sep 22nd
Hubba Bubba
After yesterday’s excitement at the Ed Sullivan Theater, today the men in blue are preparing...
Sep 22nd
Zen and the Art of Editing
As artists in the Islamic tradition would introduce a single imperfection into their works to not...
Sep 22nd
(unless number 6 is, in fact, edwidge danticat)
Sep 22nd
P.Ville Snubbed by Macarthur "Genius"...
If I’m not a “genius,” I don’t know who or what on god’s green earth...
Sep 22nd
And there goes Obama, done taping Letterman, back to his suite at the Waldorf undisclosed Midtown...
Sep 21st
When it requires a phalanx of 800 armed...
In other news, they’re getting ready downstairs for President Obama’s appearace on...
Sep 21st
And you may ask yourself, how did I get...
Did you ever click on a photo of a friend in facebook, then keep clicking through the subsequent...
Sep 21st
The newly-crowned tallest man in the world took a short...
Sep 21st
I am such a god damned glutton for...
subjecttomeg: I don’t know why I like to bang my fucking head against the same wall, but, you know,...
Sep 21st
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Happy 120th birthday, Jelly Roll Morton.
Jelly Roll liked to say that he invented jazz. And...
Sep 21st
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You’d say I’m putting you on but it’s no joke, it’s doing me harm…
...
Sep 20th
What a drag it is being young.
I’m thinking to myself as the whole family heads in a two-car convoy to the hospital to get me...
Sep 20th
What's the worst part of being 13 and...
Having to tell your mom and make a scene with your whole extended family there.
Sep 20th
Right now, though, I’m self-medicating with Beck’s.
Sep 20th
Back in ‘83 I ate some snails . My face turned purple and my neck blew up like a pufferfish,...
Sep 20th
After a lifetime of chronic occasionally not sleeping, I might just ask my doctor for sleeping pills...
Sep 20th
My insomnia is becoming tiresome.
Sep 20th
I do not press my finger across my mouth, I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head...
Sep 17th
Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have … . for the April rain has, and the...
Sep 17th
How high were the stakes last September?...
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 Paulson had just heard that Bank of America was temporarily pulling...
Sep 16th
"As its chief executive, Paulson had...
Which, ironically, were the same two characteristics I showed by first attempting to read, then,...
Sep 16th
"The Newlywed Game" returns. Among the first...
Sep 16th
Wednesday-afternoon Nietzsche Family Circus
Sep 16th
"A previous version of this story...
The New York Times regrets the error.
Sep 16th
Did I mention that the Jamaican Dutchy...
See all the finalists here.
Sep 15th
If you’re going to eat at one Midtown food cart today,...
Sep 15th
Crystal Lee Sutton, the Real-Life ‘Norma Rae,’ Is Dead at...
Sep 15th
(Really, Socrates’ simple, plain speech comprised a welter of contradictions, challenges, and...
Sep 15th
It's hard to write a statement of...
minou: I have to make it clear that I know all this stuff about teaching and have all these...
Sep 15th
Jim Carroll, 60, Poet and Punk Rocker, Dies
Sep 14th
s’up
Sep 13th
Hunter Thompson, writing on 9/12/01
notesfromundervault:poobah:fletter:brooklynmutt: Fear And Loathing In America It was just after...
Sep 11th
It has long been proposed that the Ancient Greeks had a high level of homosexuality. This was seen...
Sep 11th
Just for old time’s sake. (via)
Sep 11th
Poisonville's word of the day:...
Sep 11th
"Oh, you're fun. Especially some of the...
A friend’s assessment of me.
Sep 11th
101 Copyediting Secrets "They" Don't...
Just ask yourself what not buying this book will cost you…
Sep 11th
You know who's just a tremendous actor?
Lee Marvin.
Sep 11th
There is a thread of sadness that runs not just through the darkest parts of my life but especially...
Sep 9th
09:09:09 on 09/09/09
New South Wales just passed through this witching hour unscathed, a friend from Sydney reports. ...
Sep 9th
“Me - Bicyclist, heading to jury duty on 10th Street, Friday...”
— best of craigslist: You hit me...
— best of craigslist: You hit me...
Sep 8th
And NY400 Week has begun.
Crown Prince Willem-Alexander,...
Sep 8th
Sep 8th
Of course, I might end up like the seven or eight stubborn silverhaired bastards out there who...
Sep 8th
I'll call the Triboro Bridge "RFK" when...
Sep 8th
Astoria Park. I do my speed work here (if you can call it...
Sep 8th
The Triboro Bridge.
Sep 7th
The Triboro Bridge, with the Upper East Side of Manhattan in...
Sep 7th
Astoria Park.
(I seem to have blown my cover.)
Sep 7th
Hellgate Bridge
It’s a railroad bridge, connecting...
Sep 7th
How best to honor they who gave their...
Having started the day listlessly and late, having run my eight miles and polished off the roast...
Sep 7th
New York Botanical Garden
Sep 7th
"You don't like how I park my Fiat? Get the...
Sep 7th
Van Jones
I was involved in some political organizing campaigns with Van Jones back about 15 years ago in San...
Sep 6th
iisabelle:
comicallyvintage:
GOOD LORD! THAT BROTHA’S...
Sep 5th
It was seven o’clock on a warm summer evening, and I’d run and I’d eaten and I was...
Sep 5th
Sep 5th
“The Boyfriend Dildo”
(because his fits you...
Sep 4th
Sep 4th
faithandbegorrah:
katiecoyle:
I love Moll Flanders! Will you be my teacher now?
YES. I expect...
Sep 4th
Devil's Advocate
I went to public school in Manhattan for twelve years. There is no way the school would have...
Sep 4th
Thursday-night Nietzsche Family Circus
Sep 4th
Defrosted and “ice-cream ready”!
Sep 4th
Breaking the ice: About thirty pounds’ worth was...
Sep 4th
“Defrosting the refrigerator.” Many of you, I...
Sep 4th
By special request: Warren Spahn
Sep 4th
Clunker Love: Looks like my favorite car in Astoria made...
Sep 4th
Tim Lincecum (Times)
Sep 3rd
The agony abides
For our own past is covered by the currents of action, But the torment of others remains an...
Sep 3rd
There is a darkening
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the...
Sep 3rd
The shock of the new
...There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from...
Sep 3rd
souplines:
Our healthcare system is like the most expensive sports team finishing in 30th place year...
Sep 2nd