April 2011
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BREAKING: Police carrying in an armload of pizzas... →
today:
via @peternbcnews
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Chris Mohney: The Tornado Nature →
chrismohney:
But the neighbor had to go. The tornado came and spared the neighbor’s house, but the old man’s was reduced to kindling, scraped down to the bare foundations. The old man was dead. The thing that frightened him most in the world had killed him.
Read this.
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Sex and/or Breakfast with Socialite Annabelle... →
Credit where it is due: They do not bury ledes at BlackBook.
Even with a two-person crew working to tidy... →
This profile of the Le Baron guy by Megan Conway at my old stomping grounds, BlackBook, is fantastic. Even if you’re not into nightlife, fun read.
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How to Dress Well - Ready For The World (Star...
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Penn Frat Cleared of Camel Molestation →
Dude, that camel was totally into it. Don’t try to change your story now, slut camel.
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Live with Ben Bernanke! A Peanut Gallery's Review... →
“The Federal Reserve has been looking for ways to increase its transparency for years, and we’ve made a lot of progress,” Mr. Bernanke responded to a question about the difference between facing the press and facing Congress. For the record, he was speaking to the revolutionary innovation that is holding a press conference.
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"I can't tell you how many people have dined out... →
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"The bottom line is the police department should... →
Alternately: If Diddy didn’t not get a police escort, neither do you!
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Mr. Dream is not a band. It’s an immersive ‘stunt’... →
Next Spring, when my Interview Quotes March Madness bracket gets underway, I’m immediately advancing Nick Sylvester to the finals.
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Litz: A Partial List of Adjectives Used in Today's... →
backleftlitz:
daunting, hyper-productive, dense, writhing, dizzying, tweaked, abrasive, frantic, jittery, haunted, pulsing, trunk-rattling, bright, glittering, thin, tiny, fearsome, striking, devastating, ambient, fleet-fingered, leftfield, aimless, minimalist, textured, hypnotic, charming, unpredictable,…
THE DAILY BEAST, INDEED.
cheatsheet:
Donald Trump: So are we doing a radio show?
Meghan McCain: No, this is an interview for The Daily Beast.
Donald: Oh, OK, good. I like you. I see you a lot on television. I like you and I like your father, I’ll tell you. And I like your mother. I like your whole family. Hey look, I supported your family, right?
It gets better.
“So what’s the point of this? Why even write any of this out in this long winded...”
– David Cho: The Awl is now two years old. (via langer)
Endasher: Niall Ferguson: Not counterfactual so... →
endasher:
One of the many charming things about British academe’s gentlemanly disdain of too much density (read: rigor) and specialization (work)—in some quarters, PhDs are still considered a dour optional credential imported from the “German research university” (which, thank god, American ones mostly…
Great read on something maybe off of your radar that now - if it ever crosses it -...
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On a recent Saturday night, the casino was almost... →
Dealbook gets down.
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The mayor has also acknowledged a potentially... →
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The Wall Street Section →
youngmanhattanite:
There’s been a lot of awesome Observerness going around, and we’re fully on board, but speaking of conspiracy theories, what happened to the Wall Street section? It was featured in the main nav bar a week ago. Now, nothing. Foster, did you take the bull by the horns to the cleaners?
It dropped about 106 basis points since Seedz left and we’ve been struggling to keep it...
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Predictable "Likes"
are predictable.
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spiers:
If you string together the first letters of every word in the first graf of this article which is located on page 20 of the printed-on-dead-trees version of the New York Observer, it spells out SUCK IT, JOHN COOK.
(I’m just kidding; it doesn’t. Pssst! John! I’m hiring!)
It actually spells SUCK COCK IOHN JOOK.
Spiersblr: And in Non-Trump News: Nate Freeman... →
spiers:
And in Non-Trump News:
Nate Freeman goes to Lands End.
Jen Wright covers the action (hoarding! screaming! punches! dead birds!) at the National Arts Club.
We wrote about non-book editors who become book editors.
We thought about whether the Drake Hotel development signals the beginning…
In Trump-related news, we may or may not have been ordered to adopt Gary Busey for our...
“The book has become a little bit mysterious to me. I feel like I need to go back...”
– Jennifer Egan on Winning the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Speakeasy - WSJ (via housingworksbookstore)
S&P Cuts U.S. Ratings Outlook →
marypilon:
Weird story behind the story here. I’m halfway through Gary Shteyngart’s most-excellent “Super Sad True Love Story” and was reading it on the subway this morning. Those who have read it know a theme of it is the decay of America, as the characters traverse a country that is pegged to the yuan rather than the dollar, riots and technological isolationism. I would (and will argue to my...
Litz: What I Think it Might Feel Like to Be the... →
backleftlitz:
So imagine you’re an Aspiring Artist type, specifically a writer, and you have just dedicated the last two years of your life to writing a novel. You have been told that thinking about reviews is bad, but you do it anyway, and your mental reviews are almost outlandishly positive. You know it…
Read this, people who listened to late 90s/early aughts emo (no Drive-Thru). It is...
"Donald said he wants to run for President, the... →
