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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