August 2011
22 posts
"Even if people don't want to see my photograph,... →
"The audio engineer wrapped his battery pack in a... →
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"There used to be media critics at damn near every... →
“I’m not going to be doing three-sentence... →
Good for him! But I will surely miss those occasional three-sentence summaries of my work.
"A bout of shouting with our armed guards in the... →
17. Literally no place exists to write about punk... →
And maybe The Awl, for that matter!
So the cat is out of the bag →
I’m very excited to join a bunch of my former New York Observer colleagues at Capital New York. I’m very sad to be leaving my fantastic editors and fellow reporters at the Yahoo! News blogs. Also, this is my favorite sentence from Calderone’s item: “Disclosure: I’ve worked with just about everyone mentioned so far.”
OK so Danzig, the Damned, the Murder City Devils,... →
My circa ‘99-2000 self is kind of shitting his pants right now.
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I’ve learned over the past two days that when someone close to you dies, there are moments when you feel no emotion, even if other people around you are crying, so you start to wonder whether you are a soulless human being. And then there are other moments when you break down spontaneously and uncontrollably. I prefer the latter.
"The East End, however, isn’t for everyone." →
“Can I hear it for New Jersey, the most maligned, misunderstood and underrated state in the Union?” says Jim Nelson, editor in chief of GQ. He spends most weekends at his house on the Delaware River in Jersey, in a town with no traffic lights. “It feels right and good to spend the whole summer blowing off the Hamptons,” says Nelson. But he will make an exception for the North Fork. “It...
