Archive for December, 2007
Jenn to Bush: sign the thing.
Why are both my current employer (Vanderbilt University) and my sabbatical host (Princeton University) not divested in the Sudan? My home city of Providence, Rhode Island, has the amazing ability to brag that they were the first U.S. city to divest from the Sudan. THAT is the kind of people I am from.
Congress [...]
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don’t you dare walk out that door and head to the mall, or open another browser window to buy that salad spinner. HOW COULD YOU? There’s etsy.com. All handmade. Real people. Pretty things. Easy shopping. Ship to you. REAL PEOPLE. Holy shit.
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Friends, whoot!
My friends are on the front page of the Times today.
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man down.
I have to agree with Shepherd that this is an excellent portrait of the “blackest of black men”. Whatever else he is, Ike is a genius.
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“best” of 2007*
i will update this throughout the next week or so but i’m unlikely to take things off the list. i may add new categories. i welcome suggestions.
Music:
Vampire Weekend: “Oxford Comma” and “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”
Cat Power: The Greatest
Feist: The Reminder
St Vincent: Marry Me
Antony: “If It Be Your Will”
Northern State: “Things I’ll Do’
Sharon Jones and the [...]
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rank ordered lists forthcoming
best of… on its way.
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making out
Dave’s book is now available for sale. Stock your stockings, stuff your stuffing!
And how could I not reproduce PSB’s blurb?:
““On the Make is where the action is. The settings are the cool bars and restaurants of the big city where adults pretend they look like kids, kids act out being adults, and masters of entertainment [...]
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Here is an interesting article on Richard Prince&. He’s the dude who takes photographs of other people’s photographs (often advertisements, like the Marlboro Ad featured in the story image) and calls his photographs art. Interesting for you to think about which side you’d take.
Then you might want to read this comprehensive history, in layman’s terms, [...]
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Peter starts the ball rolling, on- and off-line. Here’s the link to stage 2 of our on-going “tastes/preferences” symposium. More from me after the Affiliates lunch.
Ok, not that much more, since, well, I’m writing something else. I wanted to point to Matt Salganick, PEter Dodds and Duncan Watts’s work on tastes. [...]
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