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
If only our first lady spent more time in the...
May 31st
Moving day.
May 30th
“I felt she could be very judgmental in the sense that she...”
— This is literally the best...
May 29th
Listen Listen
Be Your Own Pet - Blummer Time Really enjoying the new Sonic Youth album, and Kim’s delivery...
May 29th
I see the NYT is letting T. Herman Zweibel create multimedia...
May 28th

Dear National Review

Re: this shit, I guess the right still has its head up its ass, electoral results be damned.  That...
May 28th
“The Yankees rallied to beat the Phillies that day. But on...”
— Is it weird that I said, out...
May 27th
Pitchfork: Keith Fullerton Whitman:...
May 27th
I have a lot of things to talk about, but I am unfortunately in the midst of packing up my...
May 26th
clapclap.org: There's Nothing Ironic About...
May 26th

Self-knowledge

Contrary to popular opinion, I have found it very helpful to see myself as others see me, or at...
May 21st
“I’d like to have his slippers under my bed.”
— How my grandmother apparently...
May 21st
Warch Watch
Albania’s Eurovision performance, “Carry Me In Your Dreams” by Kejsi Tola, appears...
May 16th
"Death to potatoes!"
May 15th
“The press has a collective self-interest in the maintenance...”
— Martin Kettle, The true...
May 15th
I am off to London for a week, with my dad.  I don’t...
May 12th
Man, 30, gives 'birth' to his twin
May 12th
meaverly: discussions (rants) like this one make me miss my...
May 12th

A connection I had not heretofore made

My dad and I are driving in a rental car, listening to an XM station.  He says, “Is this Meat...
May 12th
May 11th
Methuen.
May 11th
Whatley
May 11th
Jeffrey Rosen: A Torturous Decision
May 11th
Debonair: makers of only the finest opera glasses.
May 11th

REMINDER TIMES!!!1!

dyfl: Amerikans: Please set your DVR to record Snake N Bacon tonight (by “tonight” I mean “in the...
May 11th

I'm genuinely confused

Why haven’t any of the contestents on Daisy of Love yet said something like this:...
May 11th
Be honest: that is a fantastic picture, right?
May 8th
The lapidary new New York
May 8th
Penguin will publish next spring, said Prosser, who was...
May 8th
Dear Jeff: I know it’s hard to realize that you are never, ever, ever going to be on SCOTUS,...
May 7th

Underlying assumptions

The following assumptions very strongly influence my way of understanding arguments and ideas. ...
May 7th
On 'Mad Pride'
May 7th
I…what?  Is it gay college?  Does Dazed and Confused...
May 6th

Success equals 10 percent inspiration...

biteofpythias: fatmanatee: From Malcolm Gladwell’s piece that I linked to on Monday: David’s...
May 6th
Listen Listen
Dee Dee Warwick - You’re No Good Why aren’t there these sortsa rhythms in pop/rock...
May 6th
Hell's Classroom - Chronicle.com
May 6th
dhk: hellofriend: It gets better from there. Oh man,...
May 5th
Red Hook.
May 5th
Warch Watch
Even though it’s now an established fact about the character, I still laugh whenever...
May 5th

Kate Beaton vs. Chris Onstad

Hark, a Vagrant! places the modern vernacular in historical situations, whereas Achewood places the...
May 4th
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