November 2011
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Apparently I love Helen DeWitt. How had I...
lareviewofbooks:
Prose and Poetry Journeys © Brian Dettmer 2011 Courtesy of the Artist and Black Rat Projects
Helen DeWitt is the author of The Last Samurai, Your Name Here, and Lightning Rods, which I reviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books here [link]. She also maintains a blog at paperpools.blogspot.com. We conducted this interview over email last month (as the inserted images...
August 2011
6 posts
No sewing machin →
Here are the instructions. You’d totally need a sewing machine.
As if I had a sewing machine... →
Sweet owl costume for Halloween! Remember when costumes were hand-made?
Paintings from pictures →
These are beautiful— I’ve had my eye on his paintings for a while…should I take the plunge?
Champagne fountains are something I love. →
Wallpaper →
Wouldn’t a panel of this be sweet in a child’s room?
Cliff diving →
June 2009
1 post
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Wines of The Times - Taste-Testing Rosés -... →
Nice to see a piece in the Times about Roses— I think my favorite Bugey is out of their price range. You should try it, anyhow (it’s $28 at Pour): instead of Champagne at brunch, instead of a regular ol’ rose at the magic hour. It’s demi-sec but not too sweet (Th likes it!), and would go really well with a summer barbecue. Or a concert in Central Park.
Anyhow, what...
March 2009
5 posts
Trade 'excludes' 20m readers | theBookseller.com →
Grr. People think books are too intimidating!? Grr.
Foreign Correspondence: Letter from China: Online... →
The contraction of foreign correspondence in the news industry doesn’t really do us/anyone any favors. I know, I know: the newspaper world is radically changing, etc., and newspapers are commodities, just like anything else, but at what point does a newspaper/new service cease to…fulfill its heideggerian sein? Am I using any of the right words here?
Put hopes in shaker. Add dreams. Shake until... →
Go read about the Sloan Awards for Public Service. Go!
September 2008
14 posts
“Marcus runs into Nate when he’s jogging in Central Park. “I had a...”
– New York Magazine, thank you. Mainly for the “relieving his head of a terrible burden” part.
“Sunday: The Lower East Side BID and the NY Food Museum’s Eighth Annual NYC...”
– More quoting today. I should try to come up with something myself, I guess. This one’s via The Strong Buzz.
“When Mr. Sendak received the 1996 National Medal of Arts, President Bill Clinton...”
– today’s New York Times.
The best ever sketch-comedy-group out of Denton
is playing(? gigging? performing) on Friday night (note: I am involved only as a spectator):
For Richard Stands has a show this Friday. You are invited. OOooweee, special you! Just pay $6 and you get to see me and my friends be goofy for a short period of time. Then some other assholes will do the same thing. Only it will be totally different. Hope to see you there.
Friday, September...
“In a note to “grog” written in pre-ECCO days for Smollett’s...”
– This is from a list-serve I listen in on (shout-out to C18-L, y’all!); I’d never stopped to think about “groggy” (i.e., “I’m feeling all groggy and cotton-woolsy this morning) coming from “grog” (i.e., “It’s not a Christmas party until...
Choire takes on Fannie/Freddie →
Pair this with the This American Life episode and you’ve got The Hipster’s Guide To Understanding Your Economic Breakdown. And I mean that in the best possible way.
“Seduction” is the crucial word here (it is also the key word in the title...”
– “A Summer of Madness,” by Oliver Sacks in The New York Review of Books
Umbrella Today? →
This is pretty awesome.
“No, I bring this up to do something I don’t normally do, and that is to brag. To...”
– Sarah Hepola, The Morning News
I could totally beat her. Or bring her to a tie, at the very least.
For the (wealthy) workaholics among us... →
I’m sure there are more interesting/clever things to say about it, but I’m out. However, let it be said: this does not let you out of not working on our honeymoon.
August 2008
26 posts
More Queensboro Bridge tumbles... →
“The Queensboro Bridge is a beautiful artifact of the industrial age and this project represents the transition that can and must be made from the industrial age, dependent on fossil fuels, to an industrial era that lives off of solar income…wind is solar energy too, and all sustainability is about getting the income to...
“Consulting Weather.com, I discovered, and was not surprised, that the daily high...”
– Lost City
The Touch - Wedding Music →
I’m looking for a wedding band that doesn’t suck. Any other ideas?
“BUT WE WERE NOT GOING TO SEE JOE. In fact, when I inquired after Joe I learned...”
– Tremble.com. I’m still waiting for Jack to open a spot somewhere near me, but in the meantime, Joe will have to do. I’m getting sick of the lines at Macchiato (and, also, the truly mediocre coffee), so next time I’ll have to remember there’s satisfaction that’s black as...
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Sometimes When One Player Hits It the Other Player... →
Those ESPN reporters. So wise…
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Queensboro/Blackwell's Island Bridge →
Grr. I hate it when you can’t post a photo. Anyhow, thanks to the Museum of the City of New York’s Byron Company Collection.
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DOC's Other bridge: Queensboro →
Fascinating. No, really. If you’re interested in, um, the history of the Queensboro Bridge, like I am.
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View of the bridge, looking out the windows... →
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Picture of the ceiling.... →
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A home away from home-- sleek style. →
The comments, erm, comment on whether or not there’s a terlet. Which is what I was wondering, as well.
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This is the last one for tonight-- but boy, is it... →
Back to the NYPL’s digital collections…
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Workers gotta work (Queensboro Bridge edition) →
thanks, again, to the Municipal Archives.
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Pedestrians on-- what else?-- the Queensboro... →
gracias a the Municipal Archives.
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NYPL Digital Gallery is super →
Queensboro Bridge images.
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Queensboro Bridge, more (I'm trying to get a good,... →
