April 2009
March 2009
Ultimate Battle: The Snuggie vs. Slanket vs.... →
Outstanding service journalism from Gizmodo, with the take home message: “Get the Slanket if you’re serious about staying warm while lying on your couch, the Freedom Blanket if you’re not. Nobody anywhere should buy the Snuggie. The Blankoat is for rich people who can afford Icelandic wool. Bathrobes do not work, no matter how much you wish them to.”
Salt Lake City, on the way to Denver →
Those mountains look so much more sudden and looming in person.I overslept and missed my early morning flight due to a misconprehension of the AM/PM difference on my alarm clock. A nice Delta agent helped me rebook when I arrived disheveled, improperly buttoned, and anxious in glasses. I just hung out there for a whileand now a little more in Salt Lake City, where the airport feels half a size...
jstn:
The Whitest Boy Alive - Keep A Secret
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Let The Wrong Subtitles In To LET THE RIGHT ONE... →
A collection of screencaps showing the really awful dumbing of the DVD subtitling for Let the Right One In. My favorites are “ooh-hh” and “time to go home” They’re so bad that people are recommending the dubbed version. That, or find a screener or learn Swedish.
(via spangley & spencer)
update: the outrage among the vampire-o-sphere and blogoverse has been so...
“he distinguished himself as the blogosphere’s first native poet, and in so...”
– er, what? From the painfully titled article (“Choire Sicha, An Ancestor of Ephemeral Gawker, Writes a Book”) about a forthcoming novel about sad young people in sad depressed New York. [nyo]
“Not since Eleanor Roosevelt’s World War II-era “Victory Garden,” has an...”
– Michelle Obama is planting a 1,100-square-foot fruit and vegetable garden, aiming to grow spinach, onions, shallots, garlic, chard, snap peas, arugula, carrots, okra, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, rosemary, thyme and oregano. [WSJ] (So much better than returning to a ranch to clear brush,...
The Memefication of Your Band →
… the latest thesis-level entry from Carles of the influential blog Hipster Runoff. I feel like such a failure for missing the “Ben Gibbard Attacked By Scorpion” storymeme. What I first assumed to be a hilarious bit of photoshoppery turns out to have been a real live incident [stereogum] that is likely to inspire an angst-ridden stalkery lovesong on the next album.
spangley:theduty:figout:
Kings of Convenience...
“Detroit right now is just this vast, enormous canvas where anything imaginable...”
– Toby Barlow, explaining some of the magical things happening in the remains of Detroit. [nyt]
“It was all very epic and mystical and tidy and morally straightforward: in other...”
– Laura Miller, on the finale of Battlestar Galactica [salon]. I think I mostly agree. It was close to what I expected, and not entirely what I wanted, but mostly acceptable with a few things left tidily ignored or unresolved. Maybe it’s what the characters earned.
crocodile →
We went to see the reincarnation of the Crocodile last night and boy is it ever miraculously spacious and prettied up. I think that it will be a great place to see (and hear) shows and eat pizza, but I can’t help but hate it a little bit for being so completely and utterly different from the old Crocodile Cafe. I really loved how it was such an unironic junkyard of kitsch and imperfection,...
hello spring →
Walking home last night, after a meetup at Oddfellows, checking out the new Crocodile, and stealing the foursquare mayorship of Linda’s back (a brief tenure, I’m sure), it was suddenly springtime from the look of all of the trees on Thomas Street.
The crocodile's new old skylight →
“Uh, what?”
– Hurley, last night on LOST. [New York Magazine]
WatchJosh Schwartz’s new indieclubrockwebshow, Rockville, CA is finally online today with four short episodes and a stack of ‘live’ performances from Nico Stai, the Kooks, the Broken West, and the Duke Spirit. They’d do well to include more band, less “show”: the dialogue is off to a cringeworthy, namedroppy start (trendy nonfiction included) and like the...
florida, seattle, canoes
My left eyelid has been twitchy for over a week. At first I thought it was that I was allergic to whatever the trees were doing to get ready for spring, and later someone told me that it could be symptomatic of a potassium deficiency so I drank a couple “smoothies” from my office’s Starbucks. They are reasonably delicious.
I’ve also been feeling chronologically...
“When I think of every possible hipster stereotype, not a single one involves...”
– Chas Bowie, reclaiming “the H word”. [Portland Mercury via omgs]
“Get ready for “Heathers: The Musical.”
– I’d rather not. [hr via nymag.]
“If you keep doing the same things over and over again, if you go to the same...”
– Dennis Crowley, explaining some of the Foursquare rules. [New York Observer] The leaderboard, badges, and game parts of the system really are a lot of fun. We spent a bunch of time over drinks last night trying to figure them out. (via fimoculous)
The gulf of mexico →
Left the conference premises for a few hours to look at the beach. This is Honeymoon Island, which was the closest place, yet I got lost many times on the way there (two “highways” with the same “name” are problematic.)
Play foursquare →
Foursquare, the dodgeballiest Dodgeball successor, is now open to thepublic (http://playfoursquare.com) and the shiny iPhone app is in theApp Store.
Hello Tampa →
I think this airport is a clone of Orlando’s
“the Moon (version)”
the Microphones...
“Next Monday night’s episode is one of the two Baueral Equinoxes this season....”
– JANLEE25, commenting on the absurdity of this week’s 24. [vulture]