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louobedlam: barbarasueko: This just made me so happy. What a...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:06:24 -0500

barbarasueko:

This just made me so happy. What a tuffy! I want one! Now! In my pocket!

bestrooftalkever:

When CG becomes a reality for “UP.”

(via Reddit)

Holy shit yes. It’s also nice to see an Asian in a movie that isn’t some kind of wise old sage or Engrish-speaking comedic sidekick. Just a normal fucking person; imagine that. But seriously, awesome. I want my kid to look just like this.

(via popchampagne) Just watched this for the first time during...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:50:32 -0500

(via popchampagne)

Just watched this for the first time during the last rainy Saturday. Not only was it an understated work of beauty, it also made me hungry for noodles, which is really all I want in a film …

From last month's Poetry ...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:16:05 -0500

Plumblossom

by Eric Ekstrand

The spine is a slide of human marvels; it is a hierarchy of white florets; it is a cult of secret brothers; it is a deliberate list; so look how the spineless relax in their unblushing banality.

I lose my patience in Greensboro where no discoveries are ever made and the only inner lavishment is the bar, occasionally.

The spineless aspire to incessant interludes that never arrive anywhere and that can’t remember wherefrom they came.

Mary is slightly spineless, for instance: her dress is cream her skin is cream her creamy mind is fine and her life will end finely—how sad is that to think of, the finery of a cream life?

It is the saddest of all truths that can be read on a person’s face in a decorous garden that person has planted themselves and of which they are explaining to you the intricacies and expense:

“notice how in the light”; “three pallets shipped last week”; “have complementary attitudes when it comes to soil-type and moisture.” She isn’t wicked; but, also, she destroys the art of her life.

Top 10 Films of the 2000s

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:31:12 -0500

The Lives of Others
Children of Men
The New World
Before Sunset
I’m Not There
4 Month, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Donnie Darko
Spirited Away
Grizzly Man
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I saw Time Out’s list of the best 50 movies of the 2000s so I thought I’d make my own top 10 list. Also, I just added like 20 movies to my Netflix queue.

"I am a whimsical child, with all of the egoism of a child, but with none of the innocence."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:28:53 -0500

“I am a whimsical child, with all of the egoism of a child, but with none of the innocence.”

- Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:05:14 -0500

Bought my ticket to LA today!

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:01:27 -0500

Finally going back home for a few weeks. A few newish restaurants I need to try:

1. Animal

2. Pizzeria Mozza

3. Kogi Taco Truck

Am I missing anything?

Yum, sardines.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:23:56 -0500

Yum, sardines.

Wish I was eating fried pickles right now (from new Astoria spot...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:32:39 -0400

Wish I was eating fried pickles right now (from new Astoria spot Sweet Afton).

Just in case you haven’t seen it, Agaton and I made a...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:25:07 -0400

Just in case you haven’t seen it, Agaton and I made a little feature on the fantastic new sandwich shop Saltie, opened by Caroline Fidanza, Elizabeth Schula and Rebecca Collerton (formerly of Diner and Marlow & Sons).

Thanks Chrysanthe for inviting me to this!

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:43:44 -0400

Thanks Chrysanthe for inviting me to this!

92y: This should be a fun night: Jason Schwartzman and Wes...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:13:36 -0400

92y:

This should be a fun night: Jason Schwartzman and Wes Anderson are coming to 92YTribeca on Nov 10 to talk about Fantastic Mr. Fox and show clips from the film.

(No, Natalie Portman is not part of this event but she’s been here before.)

Ooooh fun. I go to the 92nd Street Y so often that sometimes I think that buried inside of me is an old Jewish man. Who has gas.

Williamsburg is Dead ...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:18:57 -0400

… is dead? I think so, not sure if I’m gonna renew the domain name registration.

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Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:43:08 -0400

Damn you MTA!

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:57:01 -0400

“We have to thank WCBS 2 for reminding us of what we know already: sometimes when you swipe your Metrocard and it says “Swipe Again At This Turnstile,” it has already deducted a fare, though the turnstile will not let you through. And that hurts, especially after turnstile groin and/or torso injuries. Not to mention the fact that they just took your money.

According to the news report, the MTA apparently does not even bother denying this, claiming that its poor, 12-year old turnstiles sometimes can’t read the magnetic stripe and the “swipe again” message means “a fare may or may not have been deducted.” Funny how it never seems to work in your favor, does it? And funny how the reader works well enough to deduct the fare from the card, but not well enough to open the turnstile for you.” —Gothamist

This happened to me for the first time yesterday! It’s a good thing I am a very wealthy internet journalist, lest I get angry over being robbed by the MTA. Now if you’ll excuse me, my limo is waiting outside for me …

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:58:49 -0400

Busy tonight! Let Us Eat Local w/ food from Jean-Georges, Blue...

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:27:11 -0400

Busy tonight! Let Us Eat Local w/ food from Jean-Georges, Blue Hill, Aureole and Gramercy Tavern, then off to see my man-crush, Lord Ira Glass, III, Esq., at the 92nd St Y.

There will be chorizo …

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:02:49 -0400

There will be chorizo …

Ten Works That Have Sold as Well as The Da Vinci Code—Combined

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:45:29 -0400

The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, 81 million
Equals
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 30 million
• Twilight series, by Stephenie Meyer, 17 million
• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, 8 million
• Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, 7 million
• Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt, 5 million
• The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie, 5 million
• On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, 5 million
• The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen, 2 million
• White Teeth, by Zadie Smith, 1.5 million
• Everything Is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer, 5 million

Source: NY Mag

I’m sorry I’m not the hero of a novel. I’m not...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:39:58 -0400

I’m sorry I’m not the hero of a novel. I’m not up to playing such a part, I just read a lot sometimes. -robert walser’s dostoevsky’s idiot