New York City Population by Borough
Take a look at our demographic data, available at http://www.nycedc.com/economic-data/demographics
Brooklyn REPRESENT!
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…2 oz silver tequila
1 oz Cointreau
1 oz lime juice (fresh squeezed)
3/4 oz orange juice (fresh squeezed)
1/2 oz olive brineChill a glass (I store some in the freezer ahead of time), pour the above into a shaker, fill with ice and shake for 10 seconds. It’s optional to rim the glass with salt; I always do. Pour and serve with two olives, jalapeno-stuffed if you’d like.
This is quite delicious. Listen to Lori!

I recently conducted an interview with Joan Didion. We spoke over the phone; she from her hotel in Washington. She was on tour for Blue Nights, a reminisence about the life and death of her daughter, Quintana, and Didion’s thoughts about her own mortality. Over the next few weeks, we will be posting highlights from this interview, then it will all be posted on The Believer website.
- Sheila Heti
THE BELIEVER: When you were a little girl you wanted to be an actress, not a writer?
JOAN DIDION: Right.
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At Book Thug Nation, which has instantly become my favorite name for a bookstore ever.
Indeed.
My old roommate’s tv. Just one of the many things to miss about Astoria with @adamliebman
C’mon, you cant even pretend you don’t want to see this film.
Help them make it!
The Improv Everywhere film is only 5K away from being made BUT it only has 15 hours left to reach it! OH NO!
If you have ever spent 5 minutes being entertained online by one of the many videos that Charlie has organized or creeped on some cuties at the No Pants Subway Ride I urge you to donate a buck or two. Mostly, I am being selfish and would really like to cuddle up with my laptop and give Deadly Women a break and it won’t happen with out your $$$.
$10 will get you a digital copy of the film.
Well that does it. I’m in.
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Take a look at our demographic data, available at http://www.nycedc.com/economic-data/demographics
Brooklyn REPRESENT!
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wnyc:
This is from today’s Brian Lehrer Show, which examined the phenomenon that is Downton Abbey. Take a listen to Brian’s opening riff on the ups and downs of upstairs and downstairs life.
Full conversation here: http://wny.cc/A3MPtX
I am all in on DA.
How to Sell by Clancy Martin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A deft crackling combination of Bret Easton Ellis meets JD Salinger, this coming of age story, set in the diamond/jewelry selling business of Texas, sucked me in and spit me out. While still full of the cliches of drugs, dirty business, and even a hooker with a heart of gold, the writing was fresh and insidery and fast paced. The protagonist is sympathetic enough to care about but distanced enough to shock you regularly. You’ll want to know what happens to the many love triangles and the ponzi-style of selling that they can’t possibly sustain, when combined makes for an enjoyable read.
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And it turns out to be relatively autobiographical. Here’s an interview with Stop Smiling.
David Lynch, who used to drink 20 cups of instant coffee a day, has his own coffee blend and is using HuffPo to pimp it. Sadly it’s working.
Anything by Steve Almond on The Rumpus is worth reading.
A Bicycle Decomposing on a New York Sidewalk
365 days on a NYC street, one picture taken each day. As Gawker notes:
The funny thing is that the bike stays in the same spot unmolested for about 230 days. No one even took the basket, which wasn’t locked up. But as soon as the basket went, the rest of the bike quickly followed. After standing strong for 230 days, in 40 days it was completely removed from its spot. It’s sort like the Broken Windows Theory. If a bike looks like its owner will be back any minute, everyone leaves it alone. As soon as it looks abandoned, the thieves come for it very quickly. What did we learn? Keep your bike looking nice, and don’t worry so much about your damn basket.
Poster: Kevin Smith’s AMC series ‘Comic Book Men’ | Pop Candy
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That’s exciting.
Michael Hingston regarding Colson Whitehead’s Zone One in Georgia Straight.
Michael put it a lot more delicately than I could because I often muttered much more colorful language as I tried to get through the book. It was just that painful.
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Wow, I dismissed this as a Zombie book that wouldn’t appeal to me (although I do like Colson) but this intrigues me.
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