June 2008
2 posts
WatchNew (AMAZING) Music Video by Naive New Beaters
May 2008
12 posts
A Primer [Poetry: The New Yorker] →
I remember Michigan fondly as the place I go to be in Michigan. The right hand of America waving from maps or the left pressing into clay a mold to take home from kindergarten to Mother. I lived in Michigan forty-three years. The state bird is a chained factory gate. The state flower is Lake Superior, which sounds egotistical though it is merely cold and deep as truth. A Midwesterner can use the...
“Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Brazil”
– The World’s Most Dangerous Gangs
“I found some astonishing things in the course of my study that had never...”
– SOF Observed
Paul's Muxtape →
listening to…
April 2008
21 posts
Biking in Queens on 04/26/08 →
“The climate-change crisis is at its very bottom a crisis of lifestyle — of...”
– The Green Issue - Climate Change - Environment - Energy Efficiency - Consumption - New York Times
betahouse by aurgasm →
Trapped →
“This week in the New Yorker magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras.”
“The nonprofit History News Network is reporting that in an informal survey of...”
– The Bush Presidency: The Historians (Start to) Weigh In
New York: The Best Ramen in the Big Apple →
“The brain’s store of willpower is depleted when people control their thoughts,...”
– Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind - New York Times
“I’ve been Marie Antoinette since 1989. And I wasn’t sure about an aging Marie...”
– Florent: the Final Days
March 2008
20 posts
#28 Not Having a TV « Stuff White People Like →
“The number one reason why white people like not having a TV is so that they can tell you that they don’t have a TV. On those lonely nights when white people wish they could be watching American Idol, Lost, or Grey’s Anatomy, they comfort themselves by thinking of how when people talk about the show tomorrow they can say “I didn’t see it, I don’t have a TV. That stuff rots your brain.” It is...
“I think sometimes it’s better if books are just books. It’s part of the romantic...”
– It’s Not You, It’s Your Books
An Extremely Compelling "LOST" Theory →
OMG - this explains EVERYTHING!
“I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat...”
– A Victim Treats His Mugger Right : NPR
“GUY: drunk enough to say I love you?
SAM: never say
GUY: not that I don’t...”
– drunk enough to say I love you
A BOWL OF PHO →
It’s totally acceptable and normal to be seen with clumps of noodles dangling from your mouth, eyes squinting from the steam and glasses all fogged up.
The Worst Foods in America →
Worst Fast Food Meal: McDonald’s Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips with creamy ranch sauce. Chicken sounds healthy, but not at 870 calories. Worst Drink: Jamba Juice Chocolate Moo’d Power Smoothie. With 166 grams of sugar, you could have had eight servings of Ben & Jerry’s.
“For many Americans — black and white — Barack Obama is simply too...”
– The Obama Bargain - WSJ.com
“each human being is a book full of surprises even to intimates, and one that is...”
– Dead Man’s Cell Phone