January 2011
24 posts
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Mountain Goats- This Year
I don’t often talk in terms of art being spiritually great, but I’ll make an exception for Mountain Goats.
December 2010
54 posts
Gowanus Houses circa 1993 →
A great capsule glimpse of the problems confronting the Gowanus Houses in 1993. I wish the NYTimes still wrote pieces like this.
Snow
So the city has begun to dig itself of this blizzard in earnest. Things were pretty gnarly and I do love the city on the first night of a storm when its deserted and quite. With a half belly of bourbon I walked down to the Gowanus Canal at midnight and looking at all decaying industrial skyline getting pounded with foul winter weather was delightfully soothing.
Today walking back to my apartment...
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raptoravatar asked: So, I just finished this Christmas cartoon and I'd love to know what you think of the whole project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWLzzHIdFEI
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NYC
New York instead is teetering on the precipice of becoming little a place of indulgent gentrification. (Forget Queens and Staten Island. They don’t count and never will.) In Manhattan, every neighborhood that once sang to the creative and sexual soul has been tamped down into generic somnolence. Upper Madison Avenue looks like SoHo, and SoHo looks like the Meatpacking District. The leather bars...
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So if you wonder why we are having a serious discussion about whether or not we...
– Bernie Sanders during his epic Senate filibuster, Dec. 10, 2010 (via ambivalentalumna)
So proud of Senator Sanders today. In a time when the Senate has gotten to the point where you can just go “I think I’d probably filibuster that” and everybody rolls over and gives up, it’s awesome to see a...
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"I like to go home, hug my parents, drink chai... →
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Das Racist, killing it.
via:rawkblog:
We should have never taught them to read.