August 2010
102 posts
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: getting my Lil Wayne... →
also i am going to be a lawyer and people might be hesitant to hire a lawyer who has a tattoo that is portrait of a drug-addled rapper
I’m sure that everyone who follows this humble blog also follows Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, but: just in case.
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Joe Posnanski uses the word "obviopiphany," which... →
Gone is the sunburst rug that Mr. Bush loved so... →
The Great Gatsby, Revisited →
2. Sentences, sentences, sentences. We hear much about Fitzgerald ushering in “The Jazz Age,” and about the misfortunes of his personal life. But what about his luminous sentences? Writers know that an admirable career goal is to write a handful of truly beautiful sentences in one’s lifetime. Hunter S. Thompson was dead-on in making a writing exercise of retyping the entirety of Gatsby. My...
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WatchYou do these things! You do them in private, and you especially do them in public.
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"Tina is enrolling her daughter at Harvard... →
(via Nate)
Fried Beer is a beer-filled pretzel-like dough... →
(via SB Nation)
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Neat?! Who are you, Sinatra? While some... →
“Sports, for me and I suspect many others, is a companion. On almost any day,...”
– John Feinstein’s blog is mostly this trove of forgotten stories and people—with a few cameos from the biggest athletes in the world—which is why I’m already awaiting his next book, a chance for him to “go back to talk to a lot of the people I’ve met along the way who I found...
Whoa: Tweeting after midnight! →
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With this splendid building framing 1,700 faces... →
"The real celebrities are Oprah, Tom Cruise, Julia... →
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There is hope! After the French ended this year,... →
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This is a lovely, really smart appreciation of... →
(via Nate)
“The Rapist Says He’s Sorry” changed my writing, and then it changed...”
– I mean, how can you read that and then not want to read Gangrey’s re-printing of this Tom Junod story?
I generally hate one-sentence paragraphs,... →
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Sick!
A friend of mine once told me that he considered it the ultimate sign of intelligence for one to be able to be thrust into a conversation and hold his own, so it’s easy for me to admit that I’m embarrassingly dumb about music, fashion and social life. (Not just those three subjects, of course, but for this solitary purpose, I’ll just cop to a few points of weakness.) My daily...
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Goat Lawn Care Services (Carrboro/Chapel Hill) →
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Hell's bells! Logan Hill wins the... →
To be fair, though, Sepinwall makes an Alessandra Stanley crack, so I guess he won the groggy two minutes after I woke up, too.
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Motorcycling Peggs!
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The ##: On Abandoning Platitudes →
It had been a wild night in Cairo, and I woke up to see the second girl leaving the bed. Unfortunately, the third was something dubbed a “lecherous cuddler,” or, in modern vernacular, a “clinger.” (There is some inherent value in letting a swimsuit model rest her head on your chest while you smoke a cigarette — steadily and subtly building a pile of ash on her pillow, of course — but after 10...
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They share the same bedtime (between 10 p.m. and... →
My freshman roommate was a so-called random selection—we lived 10 minutes apart, but couldn’t have been more different, even though we both had never heard of Bright Eyes or Regina Spektor—and it worked out immeasurably better than being paired with some camp-attending, sports-playing, frat-seeking Jew from Long Island that URoomSocialMediaStartup.com would have spit out.
Also: related.
Am I the only one who's totally fascinated by,... →
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Craggs on Whitlock, or: One hell of a way to start... →
5:42: Whitlock? You’re not Mike Royko. I’m sorry. We checked.
5:44: Another break. Can we talk for a moment about the last interruption, just when Whitlock was veering into “Squeeze of the Hand” territory with Mike “Hot Lips” Fannin? Lemme get this straight: So it’s OK for Whitlock to throw around allegations about the venereal buccaneering of...
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Reading again, or how I learned to stay off... →
andyhutchins:
Ryan Corazza, who basically does this,writes on how to disconnect. Spoiler: It requires physically detaching yourself from the computer.
It’s totally worth a read, and I agree with most everything in here—especially the part about books, because books are great!—but it was the formatting of the footnotes that I enjoyed most. The Paris Review does something similar with its...
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“By midafternoon, my hands are sufficiently caramelized with THC resin to merit...”
– In which Wells Tower, who suffers from “Ebola of the superego, a self-loathing of catatonia of uncertainty and dread” when he’s high, goes to Amsterdam and becomes something of a barista.
So I have two more years of the show that I could... →
If you haven’t seen “The Wire”—and start, already!—this is your almost-daily reminder to always read Sepinwall’s recaps for insight, explanation and plain-old delight. If you have seen “The Wire”—over and over, probably—then you need no such reminder, though I’m happy to provide it.
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“For college, I went to Chicago, and Russell attended Yale on a wrestling...”
– This blog is quickly turning into one big sponsored post for You Lost Me There, but, I mean, this passage. And then there’s this:
Baldwin, 33, spoke with BlackBook recently (just before a backyard southern barbeque at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that is) about his inspiration...
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The building Foursquare has chosen is the home of... →
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Peeping Peggs, Explained! →
SEPINWALL: There’s always a playfulness to your performance as Roger, and it felt like that kind of permeated the whole episode. Was that intentional? Was a lot of that already in the script?
SLATTERY: There’s the sequence where Peggy peeks over the transom at Don after his secretary has quit and thrown the cigarette lighter at his head. It’s there in the script, but we were...
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Benjamin Franklin Bridge; Mr. Barnett's private... →