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
Listen Listen
whatafoolbelieves: A Sunny Day In Glasgow: “Ashes Grammar/Ashes Maths” In February of 2007, A...
Jul 30th
Warch Watch
The trailer for the new Coen brothers movie, which looks pretty great.  I should write that piece...
Jul 30th

Welcome to Seattle!

I am apartment-hunting in Seattle today (successfully!), which is to say that this is my first day...
Jul 29th
allcreatures: mabelmoments: A tiny hedgehog, just over...
Jul 24th
Rich FourFour DJ'd a sweet 16 birthday party...
Jul 24th

New albums

As expected, not writing for Idolator anymore has made me much worse about acquiring albums.  What...
Jul 24th

Wait, I'm confused

We’ve been talking since the election about how the GOP is screwed because all it has left are...
Jul 24th
igather: pieto: Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon: The...
Jul 24th
When Rock Stars Fake It
Jul 24th
“I’m always surprised that people don’t have a...”
— Barack Obama.
Jul 23rd
Warch Watch
towerofsleep: Robbie Williams - rudebox I’m going through my CDs right now and I came across...
Jul 23rd
takethecityandrun: pwnator: slackr: hunsonisgroovy: ...
Jul 23rd
“The Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer...
Jul 20th

We Ain't Born Typical: The Abridged...

foryourpleasure: The powers of reinvention have been kind to Alison Mosshart. I like to consider...
Jul 17th

I hear it's hot in New York today.

fightwithknives: My first summer in New York, 10 years ago, was hotter, though. July 1999 was...
Jul 17th
This is what I’m making right now, for dinner.  It...
Jul 16th
Why We Must Ration Health Care
Jul 16th
atencio: bigscreenlittlescreen: Selected Guest Walk-on...
Jul 16th
negevrockcity: A History of the Gyro in America, courtesy...
Jul 15th
Warch Watch
I was lying in bed with my pillow over my head around four o’clock today and realized that I...
Jul 14th
“I like to imagine that the feelings Bach was trying to...”
— Headbanger Andrew W.K. Rocks...
Jul 14th

Only in New York?

howsyrface: Just saw a guy in the building across the street climb out of his third floor window and...
Jul 13th
hedgieshedgieshedgies: timesofmalta.com - Nature Trust...
Jul 12th

What we ate at Blue Hill at Stone Barns

Cocktail hour: trio of vodka infused with geranium, quince, and golden beets Cucumber soup...
Jul 11th
“Perhaps rationality isn’t enough.”
— Robert McNamara, quoted by...
Jul 10th

You find out some fun things when you...

Demonization is the reinterpretation of polytheistic deities as demons by other religions,...
Jul 9th
Warch Watch
As mentioned in Rip It Up And Start Again, Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s homoerotic cover of...
Jul 8th
“From the Dept. Of Parenthetical Asides That Could Really...”
— Idolator.
Jul 8th

The Memorial

Michael Jackson’s public memorial service is performing an absolutely astounding piece of...
Jul 7th

Internet = memory

I know that at some point I wrote about the scene in the final season of Gilmore Girls where Lorelai...
Jul 7th
Jul 6th
douglaswolk: Dating a crying fetishist (via Easily Mused:...
Jul 6th
stryker: America: where we always think things used to be...
Jul 4th

Man Movies

When I go home to visit my parents, we try and find activities to do, and because there is nothing...
Jul 3rd
Jul 3rd
Curbed: That's Rather Hideous: East...
Jul 3rd
I finally realized why Mike Bloomberg’s face has...
Jul 3rd
Warch Watch
postpunk: Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard (via SesameStreet) Oh, this. ...
Jul 2nd
New York Magazine: WTC Cheat Sheet
Jul 1st
Zing, Hi and Lois.
Jul 1st