Just North of Something Important

2009

December 32
November 44
October 49
September 46
August 92
July 40
June 68
May 43
April 83
March 113
February 99
January 114

2008

December 145
November 154
October 178
September 170
August 128
July 57
June 103
May 19
April
March 3
February
January
At the Brooklyn Inn.
May 2nd
Warch Watch
danielholter: Stevie Wonder’s clavinet- Superstition: The Multitrack Masters! (via funkscribe) ...
May 1st
furryrabbits: Good Eats: A Whole Chicken In A Can -...
May 1st
dhk: In a pre-election review of the contestants Whitney,a...
Apr 30th
Apr 30th
This was the picture for an ebay listing.  Guess what was...
Apr 30th
“I’m a big believer that things are never as good as...”
— The prez.  This sums up my...
Apr 30th

Summer of

The first thing I saw when I got into New York today was a guy wearing a medical mask.  A guy...
Apr 30th
Warch Watch
dhk: RP 2012! sophiniesom: poortaste: Ron Paul puts Swine Flu into perspective | April 29th,...
Apr 30th
More Otherworldly Psych-Rock Investigations...
Apr 29th
So I guess no one really cares what with the swine flu and the 100 days and the people in New York...
Apr 29th
Warch Watch
Yeah, they got you where they want you There’s a better life And you think about it...
Apr 29th
Warch Watch
1. How has this never been sampled for a rap song?  (Maybe it has?) 2. But at the same time, of...
Apr 29th
“A half-hour into the meeting, an aide entered the Oval...”
— “Obama’s Stand in Auto...
Apr 29th
Warch Watch
WHAT DID SHE KNOW AND WHEN DID SHE KNOW IT. Anyway, “Bird Flu” is a song I didn’t...
Apr 29th
The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power...
Apr 28th
Buy a Fluxtee!
Apr 28th
Warch Watch
pre-durst: Geggy Tah: “Whoever You Are” This just seems so unreasonably unsafe. And yet, when I...
Apr 28th

Things I have realized tonight

Branding books really like talking about Radiohead, and how crafty their no-brand branding is.
Apr 28th

Compromise & Entitlement

tomewing: Newpapers and the recording industry have a few things in common: they’re both “old...
Apr 27th
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a...
Apr 27th
Sigh.  If it’s not “don’t worry about...
Apr 27th
lotsofco: So I stayed home from work today, and it’s one...
Apr 27th
Idolator: What If Rock Week On “American...
Apr 27th
I DON’T WANNA WAIT IN THE etc.
Apr 27th
Listen Listen
Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt Big storm here now, winds and thick droplets of rain and, most...
Apr 25th
When taking the temperature of the public’s outlook...
Apr 24th
“Somebody — I think it was Frank Rich? — offered an...”
— “Paul,” comment on...
Apr 24th
Apr 24th
Apr 23rd
Apr 23rd
“The most striking thing to me about this isn’t: Downloading...”
— Scott Plagenhoef, on Lost In...
Apr 23rd
“The most striking thing to me about this isn’t: Downloading...”
— Scott Plagenhoef, on Lost In...
Apr 23rd

Cue the Green Day

Monday was my last day writing for Idolator.  Maura asked me if I wanted to do a farewell post, but...
Apr 22nd
devi ever : fx
Apr 22nd
I kinda really want one. ETA: OK, here is one reason,...
Apr 22nd
“We imagine the opinion editors having a meeting about this,...”
— Ken Layne, “Bono Writing...
Apr 21st

A sentence from my thesis

“If what we want is a mechanism for reducing the perceived stakes of political discourse,...
Apr 21st
Momus takes the hipster grifter thing a...
Apr 21st
K-Rockathon 1
Apr 20th
Holocaust Remembrance and Hitler's Birth...
Apr 20th
The Envelope, Please: An Applicant Responds...
Apr 20th
New Yorkers support gay marriage.
Apr 20th
Warch Watch
pre-durst: The Refreshments: “Banditos” Seeing this video made me realize that there were some...
Apr 20th
“There’s an odd little strain of American pop that turns up...”
— A brief history of the...
Apr 20th
I have a rather long piece up about the Pirate Bay...
Apr 20th
Apr 18th
Warch Watch
Fiery Furances - “Benton Harbor Blues Again” (Live in Atlanta, 2006) There are all...
Apr 18th
It’s 2009. Do You Know Where Your Soul Is?
Apr 18th
I can’t remember what the hell else I was supposed to...
Apr 18th
FUCK YEAH
Apr 18th
Sofia Coppola books Marmont film - Variety
Apr 17th
What’s up with the scare quotes, “T”? ...
Apr 16th
trappedintime: The White House - Blog Post - A Vision for...
Apr 16th
Idolator: Does The Dearth Of One-Hit Wonders...
Apr 16th
Warch Watch
This also helped.
Apr 16th
Listen Listen
HEY YOU GUYS, I THOUGHT MAYBE YOU COULD STAND TO HEAR A HAPPY HARDCORE VERSION OF “TIME AFTER...
Apr 16th
Warch Watch
Could someone please make an animated gif of this moment from tonight’s Colbert, in which Jim...
Apr 16th

Maybe we should take teabagging...

Hilarious wordplay aside, it seems like the right may be catching up on the netroots front here. ...
Apr 15th

Imperialism vs. Sexism

This is Rachel. WTF? http://igather.tumblr.com/ It is about being so concerned with some notion...
Apr 15th
“Shouldn’t there at least be equal time for our Bill of...
Apr 15th
On Pearl Jam's "Ten" And '90s Revisionism
Apr 10th
Idolator: Leak of the Yesterday - Dirty...
Apr 10th

Conference doings

fightwithknives: The Popular Culture Association conference is a bit like Fan Secrets, but real. ...
Apr 10th
I don’t really know how we’re supposed to inform our friends about big life changes...
Apr 9th
Gov. Paterson to introduce marriage equality...
Apr 9th
“You know what? Hiring some kids to revolutionize media is...”
— Is Obama the Financial Dubya?...
Apr 9th
Tone Matrix
Apr 9th
Sigh.
Apr 9th
Currently reading.
Apr 9th
Johnny Cash: the man knew how to do letterhead.
Apr 8th
In case you were wondering, marrow bones are fucking...
Apr 8th
They make some good pho in Seattle.
Apr 7th
Apr 7th
Apr 6th

Seth Rogan: officially coasting.

Apr 5th
youngmanhattanite: Can someone please explain TopShop to me in three sentence fragments? The....
Apr 3rd
Anyway, interesting comparison here with, say, the Hudson crash.  No high-profile live-tweets, no...
Apr 3rd

Binghamton

Boy, do I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach about who the shooter’s gonna turn out...
Apr 3rd
Mira Schendel, untitled, from the “Graphic...
Apr 3rd
Levi Johnston Breaks His Silence | The Tyra...
Apr 3rd

Gather around kiddies! Today I am going...

First, a quick tutorial on the stupidity of our federal budget process. Traditionally, Congress does...
Apr 1st
To make up for the last post, here is a needlepoint (?) of a...
Apr 1st
THE BUDGET RECONCILIATION PROCESS
Apr 1st
That didn’t take long.
Apr 1st

Today

Today marks the 13th day of it being briefly uncool to say “retarded.”
Apr 1st