November 2010
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Here's a survey of writers abt our favorite sort... →
matthewgallaway:
Next year’s question: What’s the most recent book you read/loved (or maybe hated, but let’s hope not!) that had a cat-loving ‘gay bear’ as one of its heroes?
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Is there such a thing as gay music? →
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WatchAre we really behind on the “Kids Reenacting Kanye’s Tweets” meme? Because it’s great, especially when it involves musicals and venn diagrams.
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Kanye West is ubiquitous lately. Possibly the only... →
Zachary Woolfe on All Day. Click it.
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Bygone Bureau's Best New Blogs of 2010 →
youngmanhattanite:
catbird:
There’s some good stuff in there, and I 100% co-sign Matt’s recommendation of Nick’s Riff City blog AND his assertion that this is one of the best pieces of music writing to come out of 2010.
Reminding myself to read this later.
Already read it. It’s pretty great.
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Fast times on Avenue A: The life and death of... →
Pour one out for Superdive: The keg tap has run out for the Alphabet City party bar. You’ll want to read Sarah Laskow’s report on how it all went down.
thingsiatethatilove:
I loved this post about...
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Like Thanksgiving in your ears →
“Comfort albums!” You guys know what they are. They are the albums you pull out over and over again, year after year. Perhaps they provide a dose of nostalgia or honor a seasonal tradition. Or they are simply personal classics—records that you have to revisit, at least once a year, particularly this time of year, for whatever reason.
We asked some friends to pick theirs! Check out...
Mashup Breakdown - Girl Talk - All Day →
Smart!
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Gawker v. Palin: Why 'fair use' is in trouble →
“There’s an old saying in politics that when elephants fight, ants get crushed....”
– Steve Kornacki, obsessively, on Joe Crowley’s House leadership tragedy. This is as good as nerdy political writing gets.
“In an effort to determine what Brett Favre did or did not text Jenn Sterger, the...”
– Trace the electronic pathways is the new trip the light fantastic. (via katiebakes)
Mike Teavee: You don’t understand *anything* about science! First off, there’s a difference between waves and particles! DUH! Second, the amount of power it would take to convert energy into matter...
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Andy and Kate Spade at home in New York City →
rich sommer: the blog: Major clarification. →
Everyone, everyone, calm down. Pour some whiskey and light up a cigarette because the world is right again.
Hoo boy. Sometimes I forget about the Internet.
What I tweeted:
“I have no idea if there will be a season 5 of MM. I am operating under the assumption that there won’t be, until I hear otherwise.”
What I meant:
I am aware that all parties involved are currently negotiating the next...
WatchUnlearning to Tawk Like A New Yorker | The New York Times
“But there is a universality of limits that even New York is not immune to, and...”
– All the Young Girls by Mary H.K. Choi.
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Patti Smith Reads Letter To Robert Mapplethorpe →
nycthe:
Patti Smith made everyone cry at the National Book Awards last night when she read a letter to Robert Mapplethorpe.
#sobbingblogging
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What's eating David Salle? The artist reflects on... →
Early on, Salle, whose voice is regular and relaxing, drew a distinction between the way artists talk to each other about paintings (the right way) and the way that critics, academics, and gallery types talk about them (the wrong way). The implication was that now we were going to learn, from a legendary artist, the secrets of the right way. As became clear when Interview magazine tested...
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“The other thing is that my timing was exquisite, because I opened T.G.I....”
– Alan Stillman, who was a young man living in Manhattan and “looking to meet girls” when he founded, T.G.I. Friday’s. “Forty-five years later, Stillman’s singles’ bar in the Upper East Side has metamorphosed almost beyond recognition, spawning a landscape of casual dining franchises that...
topherchris:
In all seriousness, the Universal Record Database currently tracks the record for Most Notes on a Single Tumblr Post. Right now, it’s 35,311 notes for this post.
“Like.” Our faith in the Internet’s humanity (or, uh, really high-quality video shorts) is restored.
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“Fear of being humiliated then takes a natural kind of competitiveness into fear...”
– Oh, the perils of “cat-6,” a.k.a. “h—ster racing” during morning bike commutes. Yes, we know all about this. Pro-tip: Don’t bother passing us if you can’t keep up, skinny thighs.
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“Woah! Newsweek.com’s superb content will live under its own banner and URLs on...”
– Tina Brown (via kateoplis)
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Closing Newsweek.com would be a classically dumb... →
maura:
Unsurprising yet notable excerpt:
While high-level print editors were taking sleek black towncars to and from the office (and everywhere in between, including, on at least one instance, from DC to New York), this was a staff who slept on grimy couches while reporting on the road; forking out their own funds, at times, just to produce good work. The disparity in work hours, in pay, ...
The New Yorker: To-Do List: Death, Marriage, and... →
newyorker:
To be reborn: Newsweek, the seventy-seven-year-old weekly, under the leadership of Tina Brown, following a long-anticipated merger with Brown’s online upstart, the Daily Beast. More than three months after Newsweek was purchased for a dollar and its editor, Jon Meacham, resigned, and nearly one month after Tina Brown, who has edited Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, squelched rumors...
