April 2009
36 posts
radio
I periodically become obsessed with radio. Living in New York, without access to those nice stretches of time trapped in my car-bubble, where programming choices are more or less made for me and there are few distractions, it’s hard to sit down and decide to listen to something, even harder to fight off the things that compete for that time, and I often forget how much good stuff is out...
Good fast or cheap, pick none?
Either they ran out of time or money (weird, but plausible) or nobody noticed the greenscreen monitor in last weeks 30 Rock cold open that managed to make it to air without an image getting comped into it.
Seeing that kind of thing on TV makes my blood run cold.
The Times' Rorshach Geithner Story - Finance Blog... →
via planet money, comes this interesting take on the NY Times article about Tim Geithner by Ryan Avent:
“For the life of me, I don’t know why we’re not spending at least a little more time on the opening anecdote:
Last June, with a financial hurricane gathering force, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. convened the nation’s economic stewards for a brainstorming...
“2. I think there’s at least a 50% chance we’re only in the 3rd...”
– Curbed LA: A Money Guy On Why It’s A Bad Time to Buy
I’m kinda wound up in this whole economic thing. Planet Money, Calculated Risk. I don’t completely understand it, but it gives me something to talk about in sessions and helps me figure out when I need to start my bartending...
This makes me a little sad, but it's probably true
What Makes Obama Tick? | TPM
The mustache of understanding droops with sadness... →
Of all of Atrios’ cute little inside jokes/memes, calling Tom Friedman the “mustache of understanding” has to be the one that most makes me giggle. It’s hard to revel in the fact that his family’s fortunes have been decimated, but I feel a little bit better knowing he’s spent the better part of the last 8-10 years writing utter bullshit in an attempt to rally...
How to alienate bloggers and boost book sales... →
hydeordie:
A decently clever article from Flavorwire about not insulting the hand that feeds you.
You know what I find funny about this is that the publisher wrote that full thing out, checked it, probably edited it and thought “nice, this will get my point across”. I am pretty sure that person doesn’t really interact with people that well in general. Much less understand blogging culture.
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fact is
molls:
I don’t need to take Facebook “movie challenges”. I’m too buys taking Lifebook “actual challenges”.
Jeezy Louisey!
preach
the internet is getting so great, you guys
molls:
Signed in to MySpace for the first time in like, a year today.
Wound up leading me to a website where I made you guys this bouncy heart.
Awesome. Thanks, Tom.
yeah, that’s pretty awesome.
It’s a beautiful day, the kind of day that might make me like New York. But that’s what I thought about yesterday, and yesterday didn’t turn out so well. So I’m going to stay indoors, watch The Beach, and wait for nightfall. I feel like I might have a chance after dark.
I really want
hipsterrunoff:
spacecataz:
andnicky:
saithis:
Someone.
I want someone who I can wake up next to in the morning in the middle of Winter and decide it’s too cold to go to work, and just lay in bed next to all day. And if they get up for whatever reason I can roll over into the spot they were laying in and smell them on the pillow and curl up on the already-warm mattress.
I want someone who...
Louis C.K. and his Leica in Iraq
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Comedian Louis C.K. recently went to the Middle East to entertain the troops and brought along his camera:
The gunners reached out into the open air and leveled their guns with a great slot and click sound. They trained them on the ground. I felt my hands tense up. I realized, for the first time, that both my hands were wrapped tightly around my Leica. Oh my god, my Leica! I have the greatest...
Prosecutorial Discretion
From TalkingPointsMemo:
Whatsoever some might think, given that I’m the one who created this site, I actually end up being a pretty big softie when it comes to the punishment side of these corruption stories. And in that vein, I think Eric Holder’s decision to abandon the Stevens prosecution is a good idea when you put the full context in view. Stevens is 85 years old. He was tried and...
