April 2010
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March 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
1 post
Newest Discovery
from Momofuku:
Honeycrisp apple kim chi (with bacon, maple infused Labne cheese, and arugula)
November 2009
3 posts
October 2009
7 posts
Best Ever
Grown-up: What do you want to be for Halloween?
Small Child: Salt water!
Joke
Guy walks into a bar, says what do you recommend. Bartender says I’ve got bitters, pearl onions and fizz. The jukebox plays only national anthems and the dartboard can experience pain. Guy says I’m not sure I’m comfortable with that. Bartender says make yourself comfortable.
—Eric McHenry
“… after finding an old book of church hymns from the mid-19th century, Houston singer-guitarist Ben Godfrey retooled the songs to make them modern-day dirges for some kind of impending apocalypse.” eMusic
‘You are a land that has no rain or showers in the day of wrath.’ There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they...
September 2009
6 posts
Synecdoche, NY
What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone’s experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone’s everyone. So you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive. You are Ellen. All her...
Rawk Blog Best of 2000's
It’s hard to put much stock in a list that has Funeral at #37 & Michigan above Illinois.
Also, Ryan Adams in the top #10?
Still, a more mild, mainstream than most I’ve seen.
July 2009
5 posts
Prologue
Editor,
Here are the lines my mind fathomed. They are tar-dark. I wrote them on pages Breathless and blank, as beneath water Men’s minds are blank but for needing A next breath. Sir, turn This page and the thick door opens By growing thinner, ever thinner, Until the last page turns and is turned Into air. Don’t knock. The ocean knocks Ceaseless on my little craft, and...
R.I.P.
Rosie Kunert 1922-2009
Commons
June 2009
5 posts
Galaxies Forming Along Filaments, Like Droplets...
Tomas Saraceno, at the Biennale
March 2009
2 posts