I posted over at the Milspouse blog about the CSA Danielle and I are members of. Now that it’s summer, we’ve got more veggies than we know what to do with: radishes, Swiss chard, broccoli rabe, spinach, mesclun, kale, and potted herbs that we can grow at home (we chose rosemary). Half the fun is …
WARNING: Sort of contains a Battlestar Galactica season 3 finale spoiler, so maybe don’t read it if you’re not caught up in the series. Me: ‘Do you hear that, or am I losing it?’ Danielle: ‘Maybe…’ Me: ‘I keep thinking I hear music.’ A few minutes later: Danielle: ‘You’re not losing it. It’s the copper …
This is one of the best shorts I’ve seen in a long time.
Danielle found this cool article over at the New York Times. It’s the story of a family who renovated a seriously broken down house over the course of twelve years. Isn’t there just something quintessentially American about someone who will pay $65,000 for a 1913 Tudor and then do almost all the renovation work (minus …
So goes the jab from Nelson on the Simpsons toward a print journalist sitting on a discussion panel. It’s pretty funny. But the trials and travails of print journalism – specifically newspapers – are quite real. This New Yorker article examines the issue in depth. Eric Alterman has written a broad review of print journalism’s …
My friend Nancy, whom I love dearly, pointed out, via Facebook, that I haven’t posted anything new in a month, and that she’s bored. So. As a tribute to Nancy, a filmmaker and mixtape-maker, I offer this little tidbit from Newsweek: Philips first unveiled its cassette in 1963, but the durable plastic has long since …
I don’t know how to describe this project. It’s more than a comic strip. It’s surreal and absurd. I love it. When I write about the trouble our culture is in, I’m generally referring to traditional forms: print media, compact discs, film. Things like this are part of something new, part of an internet culture …
n+1 is a New York journal dealing in things literary, political, and intellectual (and probably in a lot more than that, too). I first heard about it in connection with Ben Kunkel, the author of a much doted upon coming of age novel, Indecision (the linked to review at Slate is slightly more measured than …
Make sure you read the excerpt. Girlfriend Stops Reading David Foster Wallace Breakup Letter At Page 20
I’ve just finished watching a film about, and then reading a New Yorker article by Calvin Trillen about Shopsin’s General Store. To get the feeling of the place, read the New Yorker piece. The restaurant has apparently moved a second time to the Essex St. Market, and all I can say is I wish I …
