December 2010
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Longreads: Juli Weiner: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010 →
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Juli Weiner blogs for Vanity Fair.
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These are the pieces I sent out to friends with the all-caps subject line, “THIS.” These are the pieces I come back to when I’m looking to improve my own writing. These are the pieces I’ll be re-reading well into 2011.
Jon Ronson: And God Created…
Here are my things!
My favorite placard, though, is "mta.info now with...
Still, the [MTA’s] own prose is not quite, well, poetry. “If it’s broke, fix it,” proclaims one placard promoting a pragmatic approach to station maintenance. Compare that to one of Dr. Tylus’s picks, still unseen, from T. S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”:
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose garden.
Gene Russianoff, an...
Watch@grynbaum and @scottstringerbp take to the streets—Second Avenue, specifically.
Sotto voce
Sometimes in the corporate cafeteria, I’ll be standing behind two people having a hushed conversation when one or both of them will look over to see who’s behind them. Maybe it’s someone who shouldn’t be hearing what they’re saying? 100 times out of 100, they’ll see it’s me and continue talking.
WatchDid not watch this week’s SNL, but this sketch is the best* I’ve seen in years.
“Josh?”
*Not counting any Stefon appearance.
Positively 5th Street
There is a veterinarian’s office on my street, and sometimes when dogs turn the corner off Bowery, they begin to drag their feet and whimper. As they’re pulled closed to the vet—and, incidentally, my apartment—their panic perceptibly intensifies. It’s upsetting to see these dogs in such fitful states, and I always think about how every street in the city probably produces similar...
All of this:
After a September 26, 2002 gubernatorial debate that had included the candidates for lieutenant governor, Paul Schurick, Ehrlich’s communications manager, claimed that the Kathleen Kennedy Townsendcampaign had handed out Oreo cookies to the audience.[23] Five days later, Steele said that one or more Oreo cookies had rolled to his feet during the debate suggesting a racist statement against...
It's really bothersome when people frame illness...
“White House adviser David Axelrod confirmed that Holbrooke had an aortic bleed and said, ‘Many people would have succumbed to that but Richard is fighting through it.’”
Josh Benson: This is all getting to be a bit much, isn’t it?
Eliza Shapiro: YES.
Eliza: I mean, nothing ever happens at Columbia.
Josh: Five words no one will ever say again.
“How big? Bwog.com’s daily page views, usually around 4,500, skyrocketed to more...”
– Yahoo! News (via marcthesharc)
!!!!!! GO TEAM!
Watchthedailywhat:
The Interpipes Are Leaking of the Day: Great Moments In Memetic History: Ryan Gosling recites image macros from his single-serving Tumblr blog F**k Yeah! Ryan Gosling.
[mtv / fy!rg.]
Poll: What Wraithlike Demon Lurks Behind Barack...
Last night’s haunting blog post is now a poll. Vote or die—literally?!!—etc.
“And whenever I would be like, you write like a robotic lawyer from 1837,...”
– Anonymous
“I’m not so impressed by the microbe. The iPhone is a new form of life too,...”
– -M.
