February 2010
January 2010
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Today my masseuse asked me if I was into blogging.
Of course George Packer’s Dresden piece in this week’s New Yorker isn’t online, because I wanted to quote/link from it, and that’s the way the cookie is crumbling these days.
You should probably take my advice and find and read it, though—he comapares Dresden to Blanche DuBois, Berlin to an overzealous teenaged therapy patient, and gives me the opportunity to point...
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IMPORTANT CORNER BAKERY UPDATE
They have motherfucking FRESCA on TAP at the FOUNTAIN DRINK MACHINE.
“I am amused that Renoir is too sweet for Indianapolis. Does this mean that those...”
– The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art made a Superbowl wager.
Hat tip, Grasshopper.
(via whathathdogwrought)
The president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation is stepping down and they’re looking for a new one? It’s advertised on the website along with the Administrative Assistant openings?
Whatever, we’re all equals! It’s almot 2012! The National Trust is run by Olds who think starting a Twitter account=keeping up with social media!
Obvs I will be monitoring this...
My feelings on Haiti (I know you’ve all been waiting!) are conflicted—obviously I’m not soulless, and the videos and pictures of sad and broken children and dogs (so many sad dogs!) tug at my heartstrings, but I also have a big problem with disaster capitalism (I almost never encourage people to read Naomi Klein, but her essays on this subject are pretty accurate) and, in these...
Tumblr Storytelling Series: FOUR DAYS!
natashavc:
First thing: Save the date right now, lovelies. FEBRUARY 23RD 9:30pm at the M-Bar in Hollywood. $10 bucks at the bar.
We got a venue and set list of super talented (and some even goodlooking) writers/performers that you probs already follow on tumblr, to regale you with short (6 min), true stories, WITH NO NOTES! The stories will be funny, surprising, rawwwww variations on a theme.
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“New Orleans! Love to hate it, hate to love it, there is nonetheless a little “who dat” in my soul, historically racist meaning of that phrase aside.”
-The freshest profess on the block.
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This is my first whispery post! I hope I’m doing it right! Anyway, it is a whispery post because I should really be working or sleeping and also it’s not about cities or history, but I just had to ask if any of you guys sometimes feel like the radio is mocking you? Like, tonight I was driving home from the movies and the Lady Gaga station was doing this Saturday night club mix and the...
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My Boyfriend's Back!! →
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I guess I like Project Runway (dresses! yay!) but I always forget that it is basically a gay minstrel show.
Reconnoitering possible sources for water for a Los Angeles that by the 1890s was already running out of native water, William Mulholland sent an agent posing as an employee for the US Bureau of Reclamation into a high Sierra farm community. Farmers working the land along Owens River and Lake took his arrival to mean federal assistance was coming to irrigate their alfalfa fields.
In the course of...
I think I want to make an appointment to take the census worker test. Is this a bad idea?
FYI
It’s now been three full weeks since Nicolai Ouroussoff’s last architecture review appeared in the New York Times.
right??? →
whathathdogwrought:
About these glasses frames. The frame style is called ‘Althusser.’ And I wonder about this. Are they named after LOUIS Althusser? Is this some sort of post-structuralist/pomo frame shop? Also, you know Althusser killed his wife, right? Right, guys? You knew that, right?
REALITY SHOW PITCH TIME
‘Colonial East Williamsburg(h)’, in which a group of Bushwick-dwelling Bard grads swap lives for a to-be-determined amount of time with a group of costumed interpreters from America’s foremost institution of Living History.
Send check now plz.
book club
Me: Oh, Eli Roth put a book out?
Angela: Uh, I hope it is just 'How to Meet and have Sex with Me' by Eli Roth
*Not technically about cities or history but Eli Roth DID appear in an alternate history epic so I'm allowing it. Also, as proof that we get to the bottom of Serious Issues via GChat.
George: ‘America On the Move’, online exhibit, Smithsonian Institution
Thomas: “What We Learned: The Yale Las Vegas Studio and the Work of Venturi Scott Brown & Associates”, Paul Rudolph Hall (!), Yale School of Architecture
Teddy: Pass
Abe: Daybreakers
Hey, Professor!
During crafts week, it’s relatively important to me that we cook at least one dinner from MFK Fisher’s How To Cook A Wolf (Fig. 1).
I’m especially interested in making sludge, a combo of meat, vegetables, and oatmeal and the subject of what is probably my favorite piece of food writing, ‘Staying Alive’, an examination of what we’re supposed to...
Wish you had a Tumblr, Denise Scott Brown.