January 2010
48 posts
No Missing Context, Subtext, Anyothertext
Me: Oh! That's what I wanted to do, make a fake Michael Snyder Twitter.
Emily: Oh! Reminds me what I wanted to do, change the ringtone on my phone.
“And further, if she had not been able to make a decision about this one small thing, as she might not have, then she might not be able to make a decision about anything else either, because all day long there were such decisions to make, as whether to go into this room or that room, to walk down the street in this direction or the other, to leave the subway by this exit or that one. There...
“I wish the Waugh biography I’m reading were called a biwaughgraphy.”
– Michael Snyder
“Big hair signals big confidence!”
– An update!
I'd suggest leaving the cardigan at home, in that...
Me: Well, what look are you going for?
A friend: I want to look like I could eat his soul with my teeth. And that he wants me to.
click this: i wrote about annie leibovitz's louis... →
(via intern-ette)
Hooray Alex! I like this!
“That’s what my Wall looks like to you!”
– Amanda and Austin explore her Facebook page while logged onto his account. Everyone learns something.
“So what emergency, exactly, does this emergency brake refer to? The explanation,...”
– Very, very good article in the Times today about subway emergency brakes!
“I’m sorry, why is it not appropriate to add seltzer to rosé?”
– Tobin Mitnick
"Katie had composed a list of fellow students she... →
WatchI was interviewed by RTTV and talked about airports and national security and terrorism.
Somehow, this is real. Yikes!
I wrote an ode to 2010 for Vice! →
But surely “Jersey Shore,” which is broadcast on...
4. THE ENABLERS CAN NOW BE UNMASKED. Vileness and incompetence love the darkness; the light of day exposes them for what they are. Putting the spotlight on the “Jersey Shore” eight gives us the opportunity to root out all the influences that formed them.
The schools, if any, where they were educated can now be located and shut down. The teachers who so abysmally failed to impart to them the...
Books of the Century →
telisdemos:
An old college chum recently compiled lists of best-selling and critically lauded books for every year since 1900. In 1982, for example, a critically lauded book was E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial Storybook. And the best-seller in fiction was Michael J. Sandel’s Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. Or vice-versa, not sure.
Former B&W managing editor, I’m told! Also, this is...
