January 2010
41 posts
Cycling Hipsters are Full of Shit: Bedford Bike Lane Is Still There - New York News - Runnin’ Scared
The bike lane is not still there, as in that space is not respected. Maybe it never has been respected by the Hasidic community, but this writer’s take and tone on the issue, essentially reducing the bike lane debate to a “hipster problem,” is not productive. I’m...
Spice Girls Plan a Musical Based on Their Songs - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Wannabe somewhere far far far away from this.
Lilith Fair 2010 (Cat Power, Norah Jones, Tegan & Sara, Janelle Monae, Metric, Grace Potter, Gossip, Erykah Badu, Beth Orton, Sia, many more) - BrooklynVegan
It’s back, having successfully built a mystery during its 11 year hiatus.
35 Truly Dramatic Examples of Animal Photography - Noupe (via @elihorne)
Jewish Teenager’s Tefillin Diverts a US Airways Flight - NYTimes.com
My friend Shay’s take: “I’d be suspicious, too. Why is a Jew flying to Kentucky?”
Streetsblog New York City » Coming Soon: Ped-Friendly “Urban Umbrellas” for NYC Sidewalks
My purple bicycle grips will go so well when locked to this.
The Bittersweet History of Bike Clubs - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
Minus the whole racial-tension/class-stratification of turn-of-the-century bicycle clubs, they do sound so dreamy:
The Cycle Club of Brooklyn has already gone into history because of its prosperity and increasing growth during the Winter, its prettiest and most charming of all Brooklyn’s pretty and charming young women; the...
First Listen: Beach House, ‘Teen Dream’ : NPR
Chilling.
New York Pazz and Jop
We’re Gaga for Guts! | The New York Observer
For as much as is being made about “Eating Mostly Plants,” here’s an enthusiastic insight into meaty innards and organs. And bungholes. Seriously.
Make History Web Site Is One of Many Online Museums - NYTimes.com
Leveraging the vast, unwieldy user-generated web archives for and as history. Could, in fact, that Flickr group asking me to join other butt-crack photo enthusiasts be useful to our understanding history?
How to Ride a Pony - The Oatmeal
Cycling community urges lengthy sentence for physician convicted in bicycle crash - latimes.com
I hadn’t heard about this case, but riding is dangerous enough without the added shitstorm of road rage — from drivers as well as cyclists. Still, car vs bike?
“It is time that motorists learn that they must share the road with people on bicycles and that the courts will view...
new Quasi album on KRS - MP3 & tour dates (SXSW) - BrooklynVegan
YAY
Manhattan Dumpsters Get A Makeover - Gothamist
Hoping they smell as pretty.
Spoon, a Band Acclaimed but Still Unrecognized - NYTimes.com
“Still independent, still cool,” sez the Times. Sigh. I find that statement totally irksome, and not because I don’t like Spoon (I do!). What I’m not totally on board with is the suggestion that Spoon has overcome some adversity on the cool-factor scale, with their anti-indie aesthetic (button-down shirts, clean-shaven visages), and...
‘You Are My Son and You Came From My Balls and You Should Have Known Better’ — Daily Intel
Fatherly love! And sexism! “A rat is the worse thing that anybody can be as far as I’m concerned, I guess you learned that trait from your mother, but she’s a woman and doesn’t understand the laws of the land and family tradition.” (emphasis mine)
Nic Cage as Everyone
“Q. Have you given any more thought to what a self-potato might be?”
– Meet the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Self-Potato Woman - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com (via kellyreeves)
How did I totally miss the “Self-Potato” woman? And man, I was hoping her answer had something to do with internalizing Mr. Potato Head, her favorite childhood toy that today informs her...
WatchI can count 2 “Dickchickens” on my block alone. Times that number by oh 5 or so, and that’s how many times “Robert Poultry” muses on how “hard” his job is.
Breaking Up in a Digital Fishbowl - NYTimes.com
What starts with an IRL fun flirtation turns to a changed Facebook relationship status, some Flickr photos of puckered-lipped close ups and some insidey Twitter re-tweets. That’s when you know you’re screwed.
Where's Waldo's Real Agenda
Topless Robot - 9 Strange Things Found While Searching for Waldo
Where’s Waldo: A plot to fuck up the kids. And by kids, I mean us. Because didn’t we all read these? Some of us even dressed up as him (or Wanda, in my case) for Halloween.
(via The Daily What)
Want a Husband? Try a Eur-Male Pass | The New York Observer
More like, the Autobahn EZ-Pass.
Dave Eggers: Still Not The Real Enemy! | The Awl
Titulareality
It is pure coincidence that I’ll finish Josua Ferris’ Then We Came to the End on the heels of Don DeLillo’s Americana, from which the former work, I’ve just discovered on its “Acknowledgments” page, owes its name. Wowwee.
Moon hole might be suitable for colony - CNN.com
“Moon holes” and “lava tubes”: What to look forward to when we get deported to the 250,000 Mile High Club.
Fragment Rock
When Indie-Rock Genres Seem to Outnumber the Bands - NYTimes.com
An unweildy tree of indie nomenclature.
