August 2008
northern exposure →
McCain Chooses Palin as Running Mate [nytimes] Lieberman must be so sad right now.
“For the first time, the millennial generation is growing up realizing and...”
– David Karp, in response to a question about tumblr enabling the narcissism of the millennials. [mediabistro]. On a related note, memesite of the day, “how many of me” informs me of what I could have inferred from my google: there is (probabialy) only one person in the U.S. with my name.
Are Black Kids Done Making Music? →
catbird:
the online music press machine now uses up, chews up, and spits out bright-eyed young people so fast, it’s going to give the New York Media scene a real run for its money.
And now, thanks to Pitchfork, we have our first case of a band killed by a LOLdog?
Howard Wolfson: Political talking head by day,... →
Hillary Clinton’s former communications director has a music blog. He likes Grizzly Bear and wanted a KT Tunstall song to be the campaign theme song. This all makes me feel unwell. I can’t remember where I found this link, either.
“Once upon a time, on an Internet far, far away, there was a site called...”
– trainwrecks (giving people the thing they most desperately want.)
“When u walk around NYC, the city doesn’t have speakers that play Mika,...”
– HIPSTER RUNOFF, ”Is this movie going 2 ruin New York City’s personal brand?”
“New York I love you” Teaser by Mollyryan
Or, everyone is either worried or certain that NEW YORK I LOVE YOU is going to be awful. Did the French feel this way about PARIS JE...
tylercoates:I’d like to see this silly little space of ingenious web design used for something more interesting, like pictures of puppies. Do you know how many days it has been since I’ve seen a genuinely cute puppy?
fine. how’s that for a cute puppy? now can’t the internet just get along?
old river →
Speaking of boating, that last post reminded me to see if the adventurous snow dragons on the shores of the Wenatchee ever posted pictures of our summer river adventure. It turns out that they did. Unfortunately, none capture scenes of throwing bucketloads of water at other rafts or being thrown cans of beer by teens on the riverbank: (borrowed from snowdragonadventureshots; more at their online...
weekend : seattle →
this is from last week, but who can tell anymore? I got an SMS from my cousin about a plan involving a kayak and caught a bus from my office to Agua Verde. I found them eating mexican deliciousness in the park and quickly fortified myself with yam-based tacos and chips before stowing my possessions in a subaru and lining up to rent a boat. This would be the second time this summer I have...
“… the fun part about Olympic Closing Ceremonies isn’t the spectacle,...”
– Gary Kamiya, on the closing ceremony. [salon] I had already overdosed on Olympics and didn’t stay home to watch the it, but the few seconds of athletes faces during the five minute recap [nbc] nearly put the tower of acrobats with floating ribbons to shame. See also, both the USA basketball...
“Fast Blood”
Frightened Rabbit / the...
“at 65, it appears unlikely that Mr. Biden would be in a position to run for...”
– [NYT]. Er, in eight years he’ll be a couple years older than McCain is now. Other fun tidbits: a history of inadvertent racism, with a touch of plagarism and two aneurisms. (not that I’m saying that he’s a bad pick. Go JoeBama, Go.)
“Hallelujah”
the Helio Sequence...
“once we were eliminated from our respective competitions, we lunged at each...”
– Matthew Syed, with tales from the Olympic village. [timesonline]
urban haute bourgeoisie on hulu. →
Dizzyingly good internet news: you can watch Metropolitan in its entirety for the price of two advertisements online [hulu]. Before or after re-watching, you might read this interview with Whit Stillman about it and prospects for new movies [ifc].
(via popwatch [ew])
“Fun new game: the next time you see a blog entry photo, take just a moment to...”
– catbirdseat (this game will change your life. when you’re ready for a cleanser, then you can look at this post about taking pictures at the olympics that you probably already saw linked at kottke.org [newsweek])
“The Olympics are about all those things and more but what they’re really...”
– King Kauffman [salon] on the 100 meter hurdles, one of the more crushing defeats I’ve watched in the games so far. But, hey, that Canadian woman who took the bronze was sure happy. That’s something, right?
weekend: nyc/nj/apw
I took the train from the airport into the city and got to see a bit of Ellen’s fancy office before going back to Brooklyn for pizza. After venturing out for coffee and breakfast, I spent most of the next day at the apartment doing some work, dodging a freak thunderstorm, and listening to CNN’s commentators going on and on about the “mist” smog in Beijing. Once the rain...
“Everyone agrees that members of the other group are total jackasses who don’t...”
– Margaret Mason, with fourteen simple rules of twitter [themorningnews]. If we can’t elect her President of Twitter can we at least nominate her to be its Ms. Manners? And give her a Ray of Death to enforce? (via fimoculous [#])
wtfdintk: "White people are having drama on the...
(wtfdintk)
caro:
Just reading these things makes me feel awkward, as though I’ve inadvertently listened in on a phone call or read someone’s personal e-mails. But clearly there was an active choice in making something so deeply personal available to the public, whether it’s a cry for help or a call for attention or even an attempt to get the Interwebs to take sides.
… Remember when you...
joshc: 8:36 pm : flipping through stacks of... →
Rain. →
Is the heatwave ending early?
WatchDo I love this or HIPSTER RUNOFF more?
joshc: What's this? Thorpedo is hugging mother... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : winding down the metblogs... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : trying to understand why these... →
The answer, courtesy Yahoo! via Dylan and Rhiannon: “to keep their muscles warm” apparently the air temperature is much colder than the water. No idea why they do it in public, maybe because they want to see their scores. Plus they’re tubluvas. [fourthplacemedal]
confession/revelation →
Although they are widely and appropriately reviled, after a couple hours with maybe too much wine and too vehement declarations that no library is entirely intuitive and facing a long walk back home from Presse with the day’s heat wave temperatures not yet dissipated by midnight, I shamefully admit that the appeal of the American Apparel v-neck t-shirt was obvious from the perspective of...
“The Netherlands is between Belgium and Germany.”
– Seattle Post-Intelligencer on the stunning move of Starbucks opening stores in the Netherlands (until now, their only presence there was a roasting plant that supplies coffee to other countries). Don’t worry, they’ll only be in trainstations and no one will be allowed to smoke anything...
“In the past two years, about half a dozen Dodgeball competitors have launched....”
– survey of the state of the social mapping mobile universe. [newsweek] What I really want, though, is for Google to keep dodgeball alive. I have accounts on all these stupid new services but I refuse to use them, mainly because they assume that you only want to be friends with people who have...
“although Spitz and Phelps have much in common athletically, they are far...”
– or, Mark Spitz was an asshole and everyone hated him. [nyt] Still, it’s pretty crazy that people swam without goggles in 1978, right?
distorte:
I DON’T LIKE CHANGE.
… I just always thought tumblr when I found it was one of the most perfect CMS front-ends I’d ever seen. Beautiful and balanced and simple.
on the impending changes to the tumblr dashboard (see www.tumblr-beta.com). what’s meta-funny about this complaint (that I agree with) is that it coincides with a change of his user picture.
“an advantage for younger gymnasts is that they are lighter and, often, more...”
– Nellie Kim, quoted in an article about the questionable ages of the Chinese “women’s” gymnastics team. [nyt]
“Want drama? Surprise? You’re either going to have to be dumb or play dumb....”
– Blair Anthony Robertson, on the tape-delayed Olympic experience. [sacbee.com] (via waxy.org’s “state of the pirating address”)
The National @ Sasquatch Music Festival →
cameraphonic recorded the National’s set at Sasquatch this spring. It was one of my favorite shows of the festival and now it’s right there for your downloading pleasure.
kinda sad, kinda true: olympic fever explained →
Juliana Bunim on why hipsters love the olympics while the games slip from mainstream appeal:
Whereas everyday sports fans relish their fluency in RBIs and yards-per-carry, taking delight in the Olympics requires almost no homework. Simply flip on the tube—or surf a Chinese-government-approved website—and you’re all caught up, a completely foreign element to professional sports viewing. You don’t...
joshc: Back in Seattle, thinking those extra... →