October 2011
2 posts
Not only my dreams, but also the dreams of this long-forgotten Crimson editor from the fall of 2003:
The twinned eviscerations of Hilles Library and the QRAC were only the latest in a long string of indignities visited upon Dartboard since his kicking, screaming Quadding last March. Dartboard’s very means of escape from the erstwhile Radcliffe dorms is an existential insult: the Khruschevan...
PSA: Dreams do come true!
YaleNews:
Yale’s more than 130,000 alumni worldwide now have access to a treasure trove of online resources thanks to collaboration between the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), JSTOR and the Yale University Library. Alumni can freely use all JSTOR collections licensed by Yale.
September 2011
2 posts
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
2 posts
“Taylor Swift sure does have a lot to complain about. It’s a good thing...”
– Uncle Don
THE KEYS WERE RETURNED TO ME BY LARRY FROM THE IT...
“Now, a few words on looking for things. When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you’re only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good. Because of all the things in the world, you’re sure to find some of them.” — Daryl...
July 2010
1 post
keyholez: Google News presented me with the... →
In Nevil Shute’s On The Beach, a novel about how the remnants of humanity spend the months between the bombs’ falling across the northern hemisphere and the lethal fallout’s reaching their southern latitudes, many characters are outraged that invasive rabbits’ thick fur will allow them to survive. As the characters take their government-issued suicide pills or are felled by...
June 2010
1 post
Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., January 26, 1863
Major General Hooker:
General: I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appears to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier,...
April 2010
4 posts
These Things I Eat:
When food is at it’s best, especially in the case of pizza where there are simple benchmarks, it is simply really well-made. The pizza at Bianco is really well-made. It is the best properly-made pizza that I have ever had. The preparation and ingredients create really tasty pizzas with perfectly-executed crusts.
I wanted something sweet from the sauce and milky from the...
SOME DAYS YOU JUST STAND THERE, HIP DEEP IN PIE
almostepistles:
some days aren’t great.
but some days have 1/2 price truffle mac and cheese.
There is nothing to take from this, except that it...
Answering Machine: Hi Grover, it’s Dad. Call me. I’m in Boston at the Greenbergs.
March 2010
18 posts
i have no place to go, so i drive up to new...
Who's the Green Day song "She" about? Is she...
VH1: How much of Dookie is a love letter to your wife Adrienne? Billie Joe: There really weren’t any songs about her at that time. A lot of the songs are about this girl from San Diego, who went to Cal Berkeley. Adrienne and I weren’t going out at the time. We lost contact with each other for about a year. She got engaged to a guy in Minneapolis. I got involved with this other girl. I...
Stupid freshmen say hi to everybody.
almostepistles:
a kid just asked me if I was in advanced precal because he wanted help with his non-advanced homework. i totally was… ten years ago.
Are you wearing mascara?
almostepistles:
actual question during Greenberg:
Is he wearing eyeliner?
Village Voice:
Greenberg is no less witty than Baumbach’s previous features, but it’s more adroitly off-handed. In addition to employing the artfully artless Gerwig, Baumbach has adopted a useful degree of mumblecordian casualness. Greenberg is a movie of throwaway one-liners and evocatively nondescript locations. The style is observational, the drama understated…
Just cannot...
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Clues you are zeroing in, if somewhat erratically, on Tokyo’s hipster neighborhood (in order of apperance):
More variously colored bikes
No skateboarding sign
Rusting industrial buildings
Messenger bags in bike baskets, on pedestrians
Skateboarding pair in skinny jeans and plaid
Guy in red Converse sneakers
Christmas lights
Group of 20-somethings boasting skinny ties, polka-dot...
Does anyone else ever listen to the chorus of...
The April Vanity Fair has a pretty horrifying article on what was demanded of the wives of Lehman Brothers executives.
Lehman’s Desperate Housewives:
That was just what was expected of all the wives. “I knew the culture,” she says, “so I knew he couldn’t come home if there was an important meeting. I was in labor with our daughter and had to lie there without him—but I wouldn’t get mad...
Leon Crawl: "I'm emotional / I hug the block" →
Yes of course! Never don’t friend someone.
When I was in the home stretch of buying my iPhone the other night, it became necessary to call T-Mobile and get my account number because the clerk who was helping me was porting my phone number over from my old phone into the new one. I’d been at the Apple store for about an hour at this point,…
Bali
Today, Bali is celebrating metal’s birthday. Its inhabitants have decorated everything metal (mostly things that go) with a little happy corn husk doll. Monday will bring the Balinese equivalent of Mardi Gras, where floats are built to resemble demons and then drowned in the sea. That night, there is a large party; the following day, everyone stays inside. The logic goes that if you throw a...
zanopticon:
The Mountain Goats - Two-Headed Boy...
February 2010
17 posts
Oh Canada, HONEY.
WHO’S THE B-TEAM NOW, VANCOUVER?
katiebakes:
But get taken to the woodshed by the Americans at pretty much every Olympic Games venue for 10 solid days, then fail to stop the bleeding against Team USA at Canada Hockey Place -at the end of a sad, dispiriting weekend in which our Own The Podium aspirations were officially rendered null and void -and it would be difficult to pick the...
“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions...”
– Nick Carraway on that whole Taylor Swift conversation. Remember, Gatsby hosted parties in the hope Daisy would come. I’m like him, but without all the problems.
Jakob Dylan, “Something Good This Way...
I was going to write these first impressions of my new Nexus One from my new Nexus One, but its browser doesn’t recognize the Post box as a text field and, thus, won’t bring up the keyboard. So. Let’s leave it at that for now.
“He did not want to reform the world, or to make it a better place to live in:...”
– Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
These are obviously the best kind of treats. Vancouver is rife with them.
katiebakes:
I like maple or ginger based treats, for your future reference.
White House Pool Report #1, 2/5/10
POTUS left the White House at 10:13 a.m. for an uneventful 14-minute motorcade to Langley, Va. The event at CIA was closed press, apparently for national security reasons, and the WH had no background info on it. For additional information, contact the CIA press office.
While POTUS attended the event, your pool — with all electronic equipment turned off and/or in the press vehicles —...
What's her age again?
As ♥TT will vouch, I really love Taylor Swift. (The first time I can remember hearing a song of hers is when my tiny cousin, Kate, now six, played “Our Song” on my aunt’s iPhone.) For a few days a few weeks ago, I felt bad about this, because Molly Lambert had a point:
Meanwhile the not-a-girl, not-yet-a-woman demographic is flooded with New Moon and Taylor Swift. Transgressive...
HEY!
Vancouver Sun:
The White House is keeping its star player at home and sending its B-team to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. The U.S. government announced Tuesday that Vice-President Joe Biden will head the American delegation to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. The brief statement means that President Barack Obama is giving the Winter Games a miss, an official at the U.S. consulate in Vancouver...
January 2010
14 posts
“He liked the idea of sweet, clean, oracular young girls (like his creations...”
– Mountain Man, by Virginia Heffernan, in Tablet. (via marcthesharc)