Originally Posted By nevver

grapefruite:adeandabet:neighborhoodr-westvillage:mopostal:nevver:

Gotham

Wow. I get to walk through all of this tonight. Amazing.

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The best part of returning to church so far has been that it’s offered an oasis of calm in our ridiculous lives. We wake up, we hectically prepare the kids for school, we work and work and work, we pick the kids up, we put them to bed, we work some more. Even this day, Valentine’s Day, my wife skipped church to continue a project. (We hired a babysitter for that afternoon, but not so we could go out for romantic dinner — so we could work.) Sometimes we get to play with our kids for a while. Sometimes we get to watch Lost. But church is one hour a week in which we don’t have to write or research or pitch or network or parent or do much of anything. One hour a week in which all we have to do is think.

One hour a week of sweet boredom. When I was a kid, time going slowly felt like torture. As a grown-up — as my days and weeks and years hurtle by — I find that one creeping hour feels like a gift.

Church: “Boring” | The Awl

I am digging Dan’s style.

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Hunter S. Thompson: Still Giving Them Hell.

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Originally Posted By staff

staff:

See you tonight!

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Originally Posted By noraleah

The madness of the crostini cook-off.

The Father Figures

I miss you two already. ;)

noraleah:

Last night we feted Cathy’s amazing achievement: her first book, at the peashoot age of 28! (Full set here.)

It seemed like all of Brooklyn was there, or an episode of “This Is Your Life” … all the food and wine people I’ve come to know and love over the past two years.

The highlight was when Cathy brought her very elegant mother on stage for a faux radio interview. Neither could keep a straight face. It was damn sweet.

Lots of fun! One of the best book parties I’ve been to, and certainly the most exciting cook-off. Strange being in the Bell House for literary and culinary reasons.

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Booking a Flight the Frugal Way - Frugal Traveler Blog - NYTimes.com

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Originally Posted By marco

For the life between buildings - some notes on the iPad

marco:

It’s a device for cities.

It’s not that it couldn’t be used in rural environments of course; just that it wouldn’t be. The general lack of third spaces in such places means that a phone and a PC are sufficient. By living in cities, in other peoples’ places, a different kind of device becomes appropriate. Something light and small enough to fit in a handbag or satchel, yet powerful and productive nonetheless. In the old view of city living - say, the classic Parisian apartment - the small size of dwelling meant that the bistro downstairs at the street level of the block becomes the dining room, the bar/coffee shop becomes the living room, the shared courtyard becomes the garden, and so on. While this vision is hopelessly romantic, there are numerous urban variants on this kind of living, and these transient (yet personal) spaces are where the iPad will fit right in. (Again, exurban environments clearly have coffee shops too, but they are not part of a integrated system of living in the same way. And so different tools will suffice.)

I know the iPad was announced a long time ago and we’ve already written and read everything there is to write and read about it before it comes out. But I just read this after having timeshifted it, and it’s very good, bringing up points that I haven’t seen elsewhere.

I just like the way the city environment is written about here.

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Originally Posted By underpaidgenius

1. Find a subject you care about 2. Do not ramble, though 3. Keep it simple 4. Have guts to cut 5. Sound like yourself 6. Say what you mean 7. Pity the readers

Advice to writers by Vonnegut (via underpaidgenius)

good advice, very pertinent.

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Kurt knew how to write, dammit.

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Originally Posted By notthatkindagay

Hey Peter: Did you get your FedEx?

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Gah, that’s you? I never know who it’s from when I get that damn FedEx sticker/doorhang stuck to my apt building window, I just know that I call them, tell them it’s ok to leave it, sign for it, and then I still haven’t been back to see if they’ve left it there for the last two days.

I’ll ask Bree, my mail collector/roommate. Exciting, the suspense!

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Scary thought…

What if every AIM profile/status update from our youth was permanently logged online with it’s own url?

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Originally Posted By thewordunheard

When you leave a long suicide note about “what’s wrong with this country” and concluding that “violence is the only answer” and that you need to rack up a body count to make change—when you have someone willing to kill a bunch of strangers to get a point across—yes, that’s terrorism. Just because he’s not a A-rab doesn’t mean it’s not terrorism.

the word unheard: And let’s get something straight. (via soupsoup) (via think4yourself) (via thegreg)

S: (n) terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear) (via Princeton)

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TriBeCa is my new jump off.

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Passion Pit - “Little Secrets”: “Manners”

(imagine the video here, if MTV let people embed and share)

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Originally Posted By soupsoup

grapefruite:

john:

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Something really crazy/wonderful about these modern olympians

Yeah! this was so fun to watch last night. along with women’s downhill skiing - what a thrill! I was squealing on the couch sipping hot cocoa.

But Peter and I did wonder… why do the women have to wear so much make-up?? That was kind of sad (and just weird with Cusamo’s tiara). They are already beautiful and have the most amazing bodies and talent.

The Olympics are compelling, that’s for sure, and Andrea and I picked a good first night to watch them. Women’s Downhill had three wipeouts and a great narrative (the girl putting on the tiara prematurely deserved to be knocked down to second with that kind of karma going against the injured favorite) and Half Pipe is always a pleaser with it’s own great SW narrative as well (what a sport that can be played in jeans). All in all a lot of fun, and I don’t pretend to understand/appreciate make-up in any context, Olympic podium or not.