January 2010
18 posts
Antarctica was a pretty great band from the late...
How good is C.J. Chivers? I wish the Times had a... →
leoncrawl:
I have an item in today’s Observer on a pop-up gallery show currently on view at the old Tower Records space on Broadway and 4th. It’s about people being nostalgic for things they don’t really know anything about! Also people trying to recreate the imagined wildness of those old New York “happenings”— did any of these really happen btw?— by convincing landlords who can’t lease their...
As a writer of social/trend pieces and also someone who likes to poke fun at them for being made up, I can honestly say that I’ve experienced this one first-hand, sans the therapy part:
As awareness of environmental concerns has grown, therapists say they are seeing a rise in bickering between couples and family members over the extent to which they should change their lives to save the...
Does it make you more a kid if you wanna off a...
Pretty much every piece of Huggy Bear vinyl available for download on some dude’s blog.
WatchFeeling this new, gentler M.I.A. track. (Don’t sound like she’s pissed off at all!)
Jessica Pressler/Daily Intel:
In the past, we’ve enjoyed watching celebrities act outrageously, because we’ve felt secure in the knowledge that, at least two out of three times, they’d eventually end up going to rehab, then writing a book about the experience, showing up on a reality show, or even going on to have an insanely successful career and their own production company.
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You guys, watch out for this salsa:
So about a week or so ago I was at a friend’s house and we were eating all kinds of salsa, because he had many kinds, and then someone was all “hey how come this one isn’t open?” and held up a bottle of green salsa called Jose Madrid XX. And then the dude whose house we were in told us because it was soooo gnar-gnar. And we were all...
Rachel Sklar writing on The Daily Beast:
To Hell With SEO!
The part of the New Yecade I’m most excited for is this: the return to quality. Yes, it helps your Google rank to have key search terms in the headline. Yes, you should remember to tag stories and tag them again. Yes, we have all learned the lessons of ferociously jumping on the latest big news story—Michael Jackson’s death...
