I read it in the paper so it must be true
It’s official: the station wagon is back!
It’s official: the station wagon is back!
Kosher pizzerias have cropped up in the Midwood section of Brooklyn and on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Greeks have opened pizzerias in all five boroughs, making a Greek-style pizza with a highly seasoned sauce that finds echoes in the cornmeal-crusted pizzas served at the Two Boots minichain. Italians now share the Arthur Avenue neighborhood in the Bronx with Albanians, and while Tony & Tina's, a pizzeria there, serves decent if not great pizza, it has fabulous bureks — multilayer savory pies made with spinach, cheese and ground beef. And for the increasingly South Asian population in Jackson Heights, Queens, two Famous Pizza shops offer pizza with curry powder and jalapeño toppings. By the slice.But who's got the best vegan pizza in New York City?
"There some challenges at Jack Kerouac Park, where if you're an advanced skateboarder, there's a challenge in the grinding and things," said Thomas Bellegarde, director of the city's Parks Department. "The skateboard parks we have are for the learner and the inexperienced person."Lowell Sun: Kerouac fan wishes skaters would 'Beat' it.
"We've had some odd occurrences in the store," said Haslam's co-owner Ray Hinst. "The temperature seems to change in certain spots, and books have flown off the shelves." Hinst said a psychic recently went through the store with "little sensing things." "She concluded spirits were around and one was Kerouac. He was restless . . . but comfortable."St. Petersburg Times: Hunt for Haunts.
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BALLOT QUESTION 9 Shall the Nevada Constitution be amended to allow the possession and use of a plant of the genus Cannabis (marijuana) for the treatment or alleviation of certain illnesses upon advice of a physician, to require parental consent for such use by minors, and to authorize appropriate methods of supply to patients authorized to use it? |
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Things it hurts to learn: (1) The late Dr. Smith was from the Bronx, not the UK. (2) Flea from RHCP is the voice of Donny.
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Direct from Phil Agre’s RRE, “several astounding articles about the coming election in Florida”
She is showing even more of her ass. She is shrugging about her multiple body piercings. She says she likes to drink tequila. She has revealed the requisite amount of family problems. She claims she has actually had sex, and even liked it, sort of. Take that, Brit.Mark Morford, A cautionary tale.
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Boing Boing is the top blog.
rW is #252.
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October 23, 1979. I was in my bathtub in the wee hours of the morning, as naked as a cartoonist. I put two and two together, and voilà! Just two decades later, my book. (...)The New Yorker: Q & A: The Naked Cartoonist. You can see a few pages of the book through that link up there.
Cartooning is creativity stripped down to its core, because it's removed from the real-world constraints (and consequences) that complicate other applications of the creative mind. It's a form of play which depends on spontaneity and, by extension, creativity.
We bent down and began picking cotton. It was beautiful. Across the field were the tents, and beyond them the brown cottonfields that stretched out of sight to the brown arroyo foothills and then the snow-capped Sierras in the morning air. This was so much better than washing dishes South Main Street. But I knew nothing about picking cotton. I spent too much time disengaging the white ball from crackly bed; the others did it in one flick. Moreover, fingertips began to bleed; I needed gloves, or more expeience. There was an old Negro couple in the field with They picked cotton with the same God-blessed patience the grandfathers had practiced in ante-bellum Alabama; the moved right along their rows, bent and blue, and their bag increased. My back began to ache. But it was beautiful kneeling and hiding in that earth. If I felt like resting I did, my face on the pillow of brown moist earth. Birds an accompaniment. I thought I had found my life's work.from On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
Ladies and gentlemen, we've done it. The Buy Bush a PlayStation Campaign has collected $370, enough to send the commander-in-chief a PlayStation 2 with all the trimmings. Thanks again to everyone who made this protest possible with your donations, ideas and support.Wonderful. Via the important new No War Blog.
Over the next couple of days, I will begin the very serious business of buying the PS2, making the proper arrangements with the White House's office of presidential correspondence so that the Secret Service doesn't tear it apart, and turning the whole thing into a photo essay for your edification and amusement
Oh my god, have you seen the gamebutton arcade?
Death in the Family by Judith Lewis.
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When a drumbeat on a vinyl record is scratched back and forth under a needle, it makes a sort of percussive swishing sound. The first scratches the average pop music fan ever heard were Mr. Mizell's.The New York Times: D.J. for Rap's Run-DMC Is Shot to Death in Queens.
Someday music will be only air. There will be no objects to hold or fetishize and people will simply collect lists. No disc, nothing spooled or grooved, nothing to scratch or break, no heads to clean, no dust to wipe, no compulsive alphabetizing. Nothing to put away in shoe boxes in spare closets and be embarrassed about.The Washington Post: Unspooled. "It was a nation of tapeheads, living on some social margin, out past the faint hiss, waiting for nuclear war." I'm a sucker for these Style articles, but this one is different. It's an elegy, a last rewind; that excruciating moment when the tape runs out and the song cuts off and an apology is all that's left. Like a haircut so drastic you no longer recognize yourself in the mirror, it's time to throw those cassettes away.
BRAND: Was the crowd as large as expected?Nancy Marshall 'reported' for NPR on the march in DC on Saturday, and her crowd estimate appears to be a complete fabrication. I'd like to allow for the possibility that she's honestly mistaken, but -- well, she can't be. No one who was present, left right or center, would put the crowd at only ten thousand -- and certainly no ethical journalist would include such an outrageous figure in their work.
MARSHALL: It was not as large as the organizers of the protest had predicted. They had said there would be 100,000 people here. I'd say there are fewer than 10,000. However, they did accomplish their goal of actually marching around the White House in one continuous stream of people. It is a little bit thin in some areas, but nonetheless, they have marched around the White House.
The great article Top Ten Digital Photography Tips led me to the very attractive O’Reilly book, Digital Photography Pocket Guide.
I am not a junkie...Ive had a rather unconclusive and uncomfortable stomach condition for the past three years...I decided to relieve my pain with small doses of heroine for a walloping 3 whole weeks.From Kurt Cobain's journals, excerpted in this week's Newsweek and to be released as a book.
Mr. Dunne, who, naturally, is working on his own bird guide, said birders did not see the guides as competing because they bought everything, and more than one copy. He cited an informal survey he did recently of him and two other birders while they were out in the field. How many Sibley's did each of them own, he wondered. The answers were five, two and five.The New York Times: Vital Gear for Birders: A Good Book. "The Sibley Guide to Birds [is] a 544-page work that now has 700,000 copies in print."
Following the success of Ghost World, in fact, Tomine has received several calls from would-be producers of the first Optic Nerve flick, but the cartoonist actually talked the callers out of it.East Bay Express: Geek Chic. That's just a curious aside in this long, thorough profile of Optic Nerve creator Adrian Tomine.
A year later, scientists and physicians in New York City are still trying to figure out just what tens of thousands of people inhaled that fateful day.The American Prospect: Under the Plume.
My favorite part is when the kid is saying to the other kid you are me. They become friends. They point to each other a lot in the book. The book has marks like a question mark and exclamation point. I liked the book.Yo! Yes? reviewed by Chris B., age 7, for the Spaghetti Book Club.
If whiteness didn’t have a social meaning, if the advantages weren’t there, then people wouldn’t think of themselves as white.Metro Times Detroit: The problem with whites. The article is just race traitor 101, but this is a good quote. I remember being attached to my whiteness and utterly unable to even ask myself why. What I want to know is: why hasn't there been an issue of the journal published in a year? Is the project still active? (How long has this story been waiting to run, anyway?)
My personal top 40 tunes this week:
There's a Philip K. Dick novel, I can't remember the name of it, but I remember reading it and realizing that in order to understand it, the patterns of thought in your brain have to change. The Sound and the Fury does that, too. The Sound and the Fury reorders your mind. You can't just read it passively; it changes you. To understand it you have to work so hard that when you make the connections there's a physical change in your brain. Since everything the culture gives us is so mindless, and kills the connection in your brain, real art has to find some way to reorder the mind.Nobody quite gets Michael Tolkin's Under Radar -- including Michael Tolkin.