February 2012
5 posts
Post Beast Feast Map
postbeastfeast:
Check out the PBF map to find spots to feast and link to our reviews. It’s clickable!!
I have a new blog. The brilliant, dashing Bryan Rucker and I write “sharp” food reviews of places close to the newly opened UCBeast, on 3rd street and Avenue A.
Bryan and I have taken your suggestion and made a clickable map. Thank you to dear Ben Ragheb for talking us though...
January 2012
17 posts
“Our morals are based on disgust. Being able to live with oneself determines how...”
– letter to the editor, NYT
Check Out Adam's OKCupid Show this week →
“These song arrangements for the ukulele are provided by Doctor Uke for his...”
Claude Debussy’s Études (L 136) are a set of 12 piano etudes composed in 1915. The pieces are extremely difficult to play, as Debussy himself admitted, describing them as “a warning to pianists not to take up the musical profession unless they have remarkable hands” [1]. They are broadly acknowledged as his late masterpieces.[2]
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_fram... →
Looking up antiquated slurs, as it turns out. Reading WARHOL by David Bourdon
“Rule #1 at ABC No Rio is that every person there has a great, great time! This...”
– Jon Reed, Inward Monitor Zine #3, Spring 1990
From Warholstars.org
OCTOBER 30, 1985: ANDY WARHOL FLIPS HIS WIG.
While signing copies of his newly published America book at a Rizzoli bookstore in the Soho area of Manhattan, Andy Warhol’s wig was pulled off his head by a woman who threw it to a friend who escaped from the store. The woman was held until the police were called, but no charges were pressed. Fortunately, the Calvin Klein coat that...
Appropriate Dealings With List Serves (from my...
Hello and apropos nothing specific between us, I wanted to share this —
The Four Sufi Gates of Speech
—is it honest?
—is it necessary?
—is it the right time?
—is it kind?
The “gates” are questions to consider before letting your words pass (or your letting your emails pass, I suppose!)
They struck me as beautiful and useful: two of my favorite things — especially to end on...
December 2011
25 posts
Paranoid Android About Phone Noize 24/7?? →
“At 9 years of age Campilongo discovered The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix through his...”
– from the mouth of Wikipedia, re: Jim Campilongo
“I remember my favorite nights were just getting drunk and walking around in the...”
– Legs McNeil in The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
'Cerned about Mispronouncing your friends' names?
Pinky Thakkar (silent “h”), an engineer from Mumbai, started the Web site www.pronouncenames.com after she moved to San Jose, Calif., and mispronounced the “J” in “San Jose,” not giving it the “H” sound used in Spanish words. Properly pronouncing person and place names proved nearly impossible for Ms. Thakkar and her friends from abroad, she...
schoolnight:
Kate Hess
Ben Kronberg
John Reaves
Ashley Hale
Joe Spellman
Ace & Son Moving Picture Company
Liesje Kraai & David Cowles
Hosted by Bridgid Ryan!!!
This will be a festive, tender evening. You’ll see some short films, including a TMBG music video, presented by its brilliant animators Liesje Kraai and David Cowles. You can catch a sneak preview of Kate...
“When David Bowie was palling around with Iggy, I was fucking David’s wife....”
– Ron Asheton in Please Kill Me - The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Where to find aromatherapeutic, essential oils in...
At I Hate Perfume, Enfleurage, or LifeThyme. Also, while doing research I found this great, cute quote:
“LifeThyme… a great essential oils selection. Right on 6th Ave by Greenwich, near a number of trains. I like shopping the littler guy, and they were doing the Whole Foods thing long before Whole Foods.”
“You are the sun
I am the moon
You are the word
I am the tune
Play me”
– Neil Diamond’s and, in my opinion, every performer’s to an audience.
WatchWell, Can’t Sleep (by Lee Rubenstein and me) is taking a spin around Funny or Die. Can you help me with this spin cycle? Pass it along, please?
Can’t Sleep - watch more funny videos
“But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being and...”
– Alan Watts
“I figured out why I’m all emotional about this—when I see people my age and...”
– from Diary of a Mad Blacktress, on why 20-somethings getting married is anxiety-producing.
I Hate Perfume (is a store)
I listened to a delightful NPR segment on I Hate Perfume, a store in Williamsburg. (If you have some time here ‘tis, for posterity) It put me squarely in the thrall of their scent called In The Library. Why yes, I would love to attract a bibliophile, my wrists giving off a warm blend of English Novel, Russian & Moroccan Leather Bindings, Worn Cloth and a hint of Wood Polish. ...
November 2011
12 posts
