February 2012
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Rupert Murdoch isn't giving up on James or his... →
“He’s just isolated them from one another, because he thinks it gives him his only chance of saving both without each of them dragging the other down.” - Tom McGeveran. Read more.
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New York Health Department Restaurant Ratings Map... →
Can’t bring myself to look at the “evidence of rodents” map this early in the morning.
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“This is a store for people from Staten Island who want to shop at Whole Foods,...”
– Marlene Donnelly, a member of Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus, on the Gowanus Whole Foods getting approved
24 Postcards from the Restaurants of Old New York →
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The simmering war on pronouns in NYC public... →
Teachers are requiring that students write without them, so they don’t lose points on state tests.
The aim of the language of Newspeak in George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” was to eliminate any words that could promote free thought. While I don’t want to be alarmist, a similar trend is emerging in New York City public schools at this very moment.
“More than 10 years has passed since towers crashed, and dust and human biomass...”
– N.Y.P.D. Muslim Monitoring and a Climate of Fear - NYTimes.com (via rubenfeld)
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“King said he was dismayed by the rhetoric coming from some of the candidates for...”
– Rep. Peter King and police commissioner Ray Kelly take swipes at the 2013 candidates who are critical of the NYPD
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The New York Times, one of a number of media... →
Marie Kallo, a sixth-grade English and social studies teacher at Intermediate School 234 in Brooklyn, said that even though she had received an above-average rating, she was troubled by a significant error in her report: It said she had taught 120 students in 2007-8 when she had actually taught more than 200.
“That makes me question the accuracy of all the data reports,” Ms. Kallo said, adding...
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“They have not forgotten that we blew it on Iraq. And I think reporters are aware...”
– Bill Keller on New York Times readers, Iraq, Iran, and Bill O’Reilly
“If anyone in my police department had known this was a blanket investigation of...”
– Newark Mayor Cory Booker • Expressing anger at a NYPD investigation that targeted Muslims living in Newark neighborhoods. Booker was aware of the investigation, but not of its breadth; he claims both he and his police chief were misled about the 2007 incident. Now he wants a probe of the incident....
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In Case You Missed Out on the Kraftwerk MoMA... →
"The unleashed id of a long-form writer is a... →
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"We are calling on the New York City Council to... →
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kateoplis: “Fiction’s about what it is to be a... →
“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being,” he once said. Good writing should help readers to “become less alone inside.” Wallace’s desire to write “morally passionate, passionately moral fiction,” as he put it in a 1996 essay on Dostoyevsky, presented him with a number of…
A Tao Lin-curated reading at St. Mark's →
ohrohin:
“I’ll blow a panda if it asked me to in a small human voice.”
“Should have gotten an MFA in waiting for my dealer.”
“Blowing Rick Ross on mushrooms would be intense.”
Twitter and rappers were popular subjects.
I guess people are still acting like this is a thing? Well then. I saw Tao Lin read at KGB Bar and I don’t mind his subject matter and it is wonderful he’s managed to...
A Tao Lin-curated reading at St. Mark's →
“I’ll blow a panda if it asked me to in a small human voice.”
“Should have gotten an MFA in waiting for my dealer.”
“Blowing Rick Ross on mushrooms would be intense.”
Twitter and rappers were popular subjects.
Stephen Sondheim on Leonard Bernstein
Terry Gross: Did you learn anything working with Bernstein and watching him work?
Stephen Sondheim: Oh, sure. A great deal. Yes. Mainly I learned something about courage. I learned – Lenny was never afraid to make big mistakes. He was never afraid to fall off the top rung of the ladder and I learned by implication that the worst thing you can do is fall off a low rung. If you're going to make a mistake, make a huge one.
Mariano Rivera hinted as strongly as he could... →
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