December 2009
69 posts
In the web, or another list
I got really good at Internet this past year, better than I’ve ever been probably. Here are some good Interzones I found this year, not necessarily new but new to me, and some old ones I continued to use a lot. Listed INPO.
American Athlete, which fed my disco/soul curiosity until I sort of gave up due to scratching-the-surface syndrome. I’ll take another crack at it soon.
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I still consider myself a loyal adherent to the...
(This is the sort of thing where you end up using ‘I’ in such a desultory fashion, I’m leaving off it, right now, so as to appear humble and mysterious.) Lived with relatives, lived with friends, lived with lovers. Owned four cars, “owned” another that was an economy car in the sense that my own personal economy or lack of same eventually ate it; one car caught fire,...
The Jersey Decade
The 0’s, the 00’s, the aughts, the oughts, the Jim Ottos, FUCK ‘em. This one’s for you, Jersey.
Tony Soprano didn’t wash his bathrobe all decade. Zach Braff, or “Zach Braff”, singlehandedly invented a genre: the date-rape movie. Governor Jim McGreevey fell for a hot-eyed Israeli poet; Governor Jon Corzine fell for a seatbelt; Governor (-elect) Chris...
Fifteen Seconds Of Greatness
I was vegetarian for a while but I’m off the wagon. Holidays. Although it’s burgers that do it, generally. I get these cravings. Since I quit, I say, I can have one. That’s from Coffee & Cigarettes.
Anemia is something I just talk myself into and anthropocentric vegetarianism can get fucked, in the serrated moments when it’s me or it.
So on Thanksgiving and...
David Lynch's 5 Favorite Sandwiches →
youmightfindyourself:
Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato The bacon has to be super crispy, almost burned and snappable. The sandwich has to be contained in levels within the bread (not spilling out on the edges). Use toasted white bread, iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise. (Note: I like iceberg lettuce. Other varieties of lettuce may be healthier, but their tastes can “putrify” the environment.) There has to...
Dubai Makeover With Old-Ass Camera
Gladwell-Simmons III
Simmons and other types insist the NBA’s better than ever. I’m no rigorous watcher or anything but the reason I’m not is related to Simmons’ argument being entirely name-driven.
The Association’s always been the playerest of leagues and some of that’s genetic to the sport and some of it’s irrespective of it. Mostly it’s that...
Zadie Smith on the rise of the essay →
youmightfindyourself:
The perfect essayist: Joan Didion in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, in 1967
Why do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don’t know where to put them. It’s a rare reader who seeks them out with any sense of urgency. Still, in recent months Jonathan Safran Foer, Margaret Drabble, Chinua Achebe and Michael Chabon, among others,...
Modular’s Circa 1979 Issue 1
Frank Talk With Lady Gaga
This is the best piece on Gaga I’ve read yet; I’d only add that from what I can tell Gaga’s an image-fictionist (see DFW’s “E Pluribus Unam: Television And U.S. Fiction”) and that the piles of reflections she builds make her the most insightful pop artist of the decade. (I’d also add that the National Parks Act is relevant to her...
Bay Area Nightlife This Decade.
I’ve been inspired by The Office lately!
Probably that makes me a douche. But there’s something about characters with such fixed perimeters that feels like you’re watching them with your 3-D glasses over your 2-D glasses. (‘Sup Davey!’) I mean it’s like IRL, and it’s totally like where I work, and Jim and Pam are so cute, and. Okay now I’m the...
When TV Was Good.
On A Grammatology Of Fucking.
another list.
Albums of the year, some of which I never even got all the way through.
50. Q-Tip, Kamaal The Abstract 49. Fashawn, Boy Meets World 48. La Roux, La Roux 47. Golden Silvers, True Romance 46. Marissa Nadler, Little Hells 45. No Age, Losing Feeling EP 44. Fuck Buttons, Tarot Sport 43. Peaches, I Feel Cream 42. Lotus Plaza, The Floodlight Collective 41. GusGus, 24/7 40. Bat For Lashes, Two Suns 39....
Stop Internet Censorship in Australia
reneeruinseverything:
The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access.
Despite being almost universally condemned by the public, ISPs, State Governments, Media and censorship experts, Communications...
That “Race” image turned out way smaller than I thought. Tumblr’s iPhone app sucks it, sometimes.
