2008

Jul

Vegan vs. Vegetarianism: Which is better for...

Medical Care Reform: Forget the Candidates

NYC's Bike Rack Design Finalists

Entire Star Wars Series Coming in 3-D?

Great Unread Books: Respectable authors admit which classics they are ashamed to admit...

The Aisle of Least Resistance

K-Swift & Scottie B's Unruly Records Sampler

Too Weird for The Wire: How black Baltimore...

perpetua: Kevin Fanning strikes again! Do not stop to think...

Job perk

I keep getting all of this erotica. It’s probably because I wrote this review awhile...

The Lion and the Mouse: The battle that...

More on K-Swift

From DSJ on the Hollerboard: It’s with the deepest regret, the heaviest heart, and in a state...

R.I.P. Baltimore club queen K-Swift. One of the best DJs...

Ten things you need to know about Haruki...

Real Talk About the Economy From the NYT

the brain on love

Race in two and a half weeks. Nervous nervous nervous.

My co-worker Sara Vilkomerson wrote a great story on the...

This week, I wrote about mustaches. Reporting and writing...

Nelson Mandela's Rules of Leadership

1) Courage is not the absence of fear — it’s inspiring others to move beyond it 2) Lead from...

Loving Benjamin Butler’s work right now.

cakeface: birfday birfday birfday HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADY!

“She’s “my fucking soulmate, dude.”
— A-Rod on Madonna. Barf! I hate...

One hundred years ago, L.M. Montgomery did for women’s...

Pollution Tourism: A Travel Guide to Man-made...

Barack by the Books. Which books have influenced this...

“Your mind can justify double standards, it seems, but in...”
— Deep Down, We Can’t Fool Even...

They are turning Kafka on the Shore into a play at...

“They work inside these fancy buildings where there’s this...”
— Robert Kotch, who regularly...

Sprinting for Art

From NYTimes’ Arts Briefly: A runner will speed through Tate Britain’s neo-Classical sculpture...

Jun

Going vegan (slowly)

So, it’s official. I’m weening myself off of my favorite foods (oh, omelettes! oh,...

As Gas Prices Rise, Teenagers’ Cruising...

Little triathlon training update

I live about three blocks from a real pool now! So I won’t have to swim in the gross, teeny...

I wrote this book review on Dirty Words: A Literary...

No Country For Young Men | The New Republic

How Your Brain Lies to You

ch-ch-ch-changes

cakeface: so based on some footage that i saw on 30 days the other day i am going to actively try...

I wrote about female baseball fans a couple of weeks ago. In...

subinai: animalinsider: soupsoup: rachelanastasia: mong:W...

George Lucas testified in front of the House Subcommittee on...

From ANIMALNY: This clip, that’s “part of a campaign to promote writing on designated...

The Guardian recently asked its arts critics to cover sports for a day — and vice versa. The results...

AP: School locked down after 'ninja' sighted...

Gaaahd I love this show!!! (Fast forward two minutes to get to the dance)

I can’t wait to wield a Wii lightsaber for this game.

“I’m pretty sure I ain’t a queer. And I’ve...”
— Dave “Mudcat”...

AP: Everything seemingly is spinning out of...

My favorite Iron Man 2 Rumor

“Captain America’s shield has been spotted lying around Tony Stark’s workshop; there...

The New Classics: Books

Good thing I decided not to do the...

I’ve had three flats in the past two days. Time to change my bike’s back tire. But guess...

A moment of zen.

Condoleezza declaring rape an official weapon...

Sammy Bananas is soundtracking my early summer with this...

cakeface: anjalouise:dalasverdugo:oats:exstrax: Benefits of...

I wrote about clueless baseball girls this week. You know, those pink-hat wearing ladies...

If Obama is the bully, so be it

Kelly Cutrone, revealed

doree: My co-worker Meredith Bryan wrote an absolutely brilliant profile of Kelly Cutrone, the...

Arming the Drugs Wars | Portfolio | by James...

New York Mag has a great photo essay on ghost bikes around...

A documentary about Tumblr. Meta.

Sexism sells — but we’re not buying it.

Scary

When I mention my troubles with reading to friends and acquaintances—literary types, most of...

Mr. Obama's Neighborhood

I know TV is stupid, but I’m sooo going to tune into this show every week. I’ll probably...

NYC to close 5 miles of Manhattan road on 3...

Oh right, I wrote a book review on Lara Vapnyar’s collection of short stories Broccoli and...

Decisions, decisions

This weekend I did a “test-tri” at my gym. I swam .8K in the gym pool, peddled 25K on a...

Dogs: Humankind’s savior. (via aldaily)

Obama doll. SCARY!!!

Google vs. Facebook vs. Apple

A week from today

I will be in Philly preparing for my triathlon. I purchased my wetsuit and I look like Batman in it....

A Bug to Save the Planet

Three A.M. for Feminism by Michelle...

Ride The City. Google Maps but for Bike...

Say what you want about Shepard Fairey, but the man raised...

The Observer’s Matt Haber wrote a great article this...

“How to run the marathon, as a woman. How to grieve, as a...”
— Jessa Crispin on all these...

Our Drugged Up Army

Getting on The List: The Race for Survival

Uh, remember the Chuck E. Cheese band? Here they perform “Love in This Club.” It’s...

I had a huge crush on Dana Carvey. Okay, I still do. I was completely obsessed with his HBO special...

FFTKAT: We detect sarcasm in the right parahippocampal gyrus. Huh. My mom seems to be missing this...

I wrote this teeny article based on an interview with Andre...

Free Shows/Movies/Etc. Calendar for NYC

A vintage Tiffany fixed-gear bike sells for $57,000. Sigh....

YAY! My dudes. Caps & Jones - Backyard BBQ Mix for...

Dana Goldstein makes some good points about Hillary and what she did for women in American...

Summer jam of the day. Souls of Mischief - 93 ‘Til Infinity

The New York Times Book Review asked authors which books...

I contributed to this somewhat silly, somewhat loving “college campus” tour of...

Sorry about the posting binge today

I promise to slow down tomorrow. It has been awhile.

katespencer: “America, this is our moment. This is our...

Kids who vandalized Robert Frost’s place have been ordered to study his poetry as punishment. (via...

Weekly Groceries From Around the World (via an old article...

subinai: okadots: so yeah… I saw this on the MashSF blog....

The Unraveling: The Jihadist Revolt Against...

perpetua: claudia: gregbrown: Ira Glass talks about why you shouldn’t give up early on in an...

There’s nothing new about TV and fashion magazines...

Top Ten Solutions to the World's Biggest...

Over two years, more than 50 economists have worked to find the best solutions to ten of the world’s...

Anne d’Harnoncourt, the first woman to lead a major museum...

New Nabokov in the New Yorker : Natasha

The Book Collection That Devoured My Life |...

May

Technology is freaking me out

The astronauts on the mission to Mars have a Twitter and a blog. They are… postin’ from...

A rebuttal of that 60 Minutes segment

Nancy Pelosi vs. Hillary Clinton | The New...

Wildberry SangriaServes about 73/4 cup each of any three of...

My buddy Sarah is the food critic for the Village Voice. She has a great review of Wildwood in this...

“Ugly crying” in public doesn’t happen for...

Four contemporary American classics "really...

Square Pegs is on DVD now. ::Puts in Queue::

I wrote about “ironic food” this week. You know, food in “quotation marks,”...

Triathlon Training Week 7

My hip hurts. Well, it’s either my hip or my butt or maybe the joint that joins the two....

The Risk Premium

Nigeria is the poster child for high-risk oil exploration and production, a living testament to the...

Six 'Uniquely' Human Traits Now Found in...

What Genes Remember | Philip Hunter in...

A completely unsurprising FFTOKAT: Of eight native-born Americans awarded the Nobel Prize in...

The only cool thing about working on...

Being able to fly up the middle of the ghoststreet known as First Avenue at 8 a.m. on my bike. No...

The Real World in Carroll Gardens?

The Nation's Spring Books issue is out

They’re making a movie out of Bolano’s The...

Oh noes! The 7th Avenue branch of Tea Lounge is going to...

World Science Festival, NYC, May 28 -...

Is it weird that I am honestly excited about this? Probably. But tell me these events don’t...

Last night

MAC, wine, daisies, breast feeding, pumpkin cheesecake, drizzly New York City streets, more wine. I...

IFC Channel OKs Three Henry Rollins Specials The hour-long...

My most wonderful, beautiful, loving friend Cait did my...

“Alcohol science is full of crap. It will tell you, for instance, that drink does not really...

Steven Poole has a blog

Steven Poole wrote the most clever book on video games I’ve ever read (free download here). He...

My buddy Rebecca Cathcart wrote this article for the New...

“Emily Dickinson had the attic. Rivers Cuomo had the garage. And in an essay in this...

Author Jeanette Winterson at the Sydney...

According to this article: “Festivals like this [respond] to a need, to a hunger, to an...

“If there’s something keeping women away from enjoying...”
— Rant: What Chicks Don’t Like...

Cute Tees and Booties

Chrissie Miller, daughter of astrologist to the stars Susan Miller, has a ’70s-inspired...

gotdatkevinnealon: shorterexcerpts: via...

“The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all...”
— George Orwell. So true. I...

Foods cooked yesterday

- Two spinach and mushroom omelets with roasted onions. Salsa, fake bacon and wheat toast on the...

Triathlon Training Week... Um 6 I think

Yesterday morning was too beautiful to go to the smelly gym studio for Pilates. So I went for a run...

Why aren't there more women in science and...

Will Obama Make Good on His Promised "Poverty...

The Secret Rivalry Behind Michelangelo's...

Amidst all the excitement about yesterday’s California ruling legalizing gay marriage,...

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower | by...

Nintendo coffee table.

Beer Pong as art at Alex Da Corte and Jack Sloss’s...

Authors Pick Their Favorite "Obscure" Books |...

Outside Southpaw. For Andy.