December 2009
106 posts
new york times | The Best Inexpensive Restaurants... →
Sometimes the bill can help make the experience more enjoyable. Here are some of the best affordable places, all featured in The Times’s Dining Briefs and $25 and Under columns this year.
See me soon.
new york times | Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts... →
Want to eat more ethically? It may be more complicated than just giving up meat.
Haha.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Grizzly Bear (38)
Norah Jones (14)
Chauffeur (Mark Ronson, Theophilus London & Sam Sparro) (13)
Big Boi (11)
Tor / Sufjan Stevens (10)
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Girls, I ask em do they smoke // Ask em what do...
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more...
– Ethel Barrymore
Life ain’t a fairytale, it’s a documentary.
– John Mayer
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
– Warren Buffet
NYTimes.com | The Music They Made →
A sound collage featuring a sampling of musicians who died in 2009.
I’ve watched this thing 5 times already.
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a...
– Anaïs Nin
NYTimes.com | Paul Krugman: A Dangerous... →
The difficulty of trying to pass health care reform shows how dysfunctional the Senate, and the United States government as a whole, has become.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Beach House (56)
Devendra Banhart (33)
Beirut (22)
MGMT (18)
Dawes (17)
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a...
– Maya Angelou
IF YOU LET ME BE YOUR ANCHOR, I WILL HOLD YOU DOWN
Loonies speak their own language, like educated people.
– Patrick White, The Tree of Man (1955)
NYTimes.com | Steal These Books →
At independent bookstores, thieves are more likely to be following Abbie Hoffman than the Ten Commandments.
If you think you are sick of Joe Lieberman now, just wait until you get sick.
– Jim Shea
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Beach House (49)
Beirut (31)
Sade (19)
Robin Thicke (16)
Alicia Keys (12)
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Still
The 700 million sub-Saharan Africans outside of South Africa have access to the...
– Andrew Revkin, The New York Times
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on...
– Upton Sinclair, via Paul Krugman