October 2011
1 post
February 2011
1 post
James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream
December 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
Stardust: Music Sounds Better With You
August 2010
2 posts
Mogwai: Hunted by a Freak
Trailer for This is Spinal Tap
July 2010
2 posts
DFW on Kafka [pdf]
ceo: come with me
June 2010
1 post
Ariel Pink: Round and Round.
April 2010
2 posts
I had an idea for a site that was kinda like this one (warning: Flash). Click on “Let’s Do This” to get started.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy visits NYU art school
March 2010
2 posts
What can policymakers learn from happiness research?
An almost Lynchian cooking demonstration: not-quite-celebrity chef Katie Lee, profiled recently in the Times, makes hamburgers for former Times food critic Frank Bruni.
January 2010
2 posts
Foot on Bomb, Marine Defies a Deadly Trap →
December 2009
2 posts
November 2009
4 posts
September 2009
7 posts
I'm writing a novel
Here is the first line: “Stately, plump Sean Connery came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
What do you think?
August 2009
5 posts
“The pretend eaters who amused me the most, though, were the skinny men and women...”
– Frank Bruni, What They Brought to the Table, New York Times, Aug. 19, 2009
“A tall, shapely woman came walking from a long distance up the road. She wore a...”
– Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia — II, The New Yorker, Aug. 10 & 17, 2009
July 2009
3 posts
“The continuity of life blunts the edge of... →
“A few years ago, the oldest person in the world, a hundred-and-fourteen-year-old...”
– Clupeophilia, Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, July 20, 2009
“I read before my journey to Baja of what happens to people when they come in...”
– Watching Whales Watching Us, Charles Siebert, New York Times, July 8, 2009
June 2009
9 posts
The Gandhi diet
At least according to this wikipedia page:
1 litre of goat’s or cow’s milk
170 g cereals
85 g leafy vegetables
140 g other vegetables
30 g raw vegetables
40 g ghee
60 g butter
and 40 g jaggery or sugar
fruits according to one’s taste and purse
2 sour limes (juice taken with vegetables or in water, cold or hot)
salt according to...
The Jonas Brothers, the Beatles, Van Gogh and...
Today the Jonas Brothers release their new album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times, their fourth release in as many years, beginning with It’s About Time in 2006. An observer of pop music may scoff at such an output, deducing that Disney executives are eager to capitalize on the brothers’ success before it wanes and are therefore holding the boys to a rigorous release schedule. Well...
Has this kind of thing ever happened to you?
I’ve been reading a lot of J.D. Salinger in the past week, and spent an hour or so before going to bed last night reading a couple of his stories. I woke up in the middle of the night, and it was like my mind had been reprogrammed to think the way Salinger writes. Something odd was going on outside (see below), and my brain, of its own accord, composed a short vignette about it that could...
Is this a reason to get video games? As a follow-up, is it worth it to invest time to learn how to play Beatles songs on a five-button plastic guitar when I can already play them on a six-string acoustic guitar?
May 2009
7 posts
Listen to new Phoenix album on their Myspace →
They’re French, it’s good.
