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2013–05–14 Ghostface calls it as he sees it
Quote On Supreme Clientele: “I went to jail. But before that, it was just one of those times. I was still Ghost, even though Ironman wasn’t really ...
2013–05–14 Privy Seal
Quote Neil Irwin’s The Alchemists gives us a time and a place at which the major advanced countries abruptly pivoted from stimulus to austerity. The time ...
2013–05–14 Niave Whorfianism
Quote I have often tried here on Language Log, in playful or polemical ways, to critique naive lexical strong Whorfianism, which seems to take up most of the ...
2013–05–09 (untitled)
Quote Bottle designed by Sergej Pavlin. In the early 1950s, the father of Cockta, Mr. Emerik Zelinka, working for the Slovenijavino beverage company, ...
2013–05–06 (untitled)
Quote Shirley Clarke screened Portrait of Jason for perhaps the most impressive and illustrious focus group ever assembled. Among the names on the RSVP list ...
2013–05–02 (untitled)
Quote Towards the end of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s father shows Nick Carraway a book Jimmy Gatz had ‘when he was a boy’, a copy of Hopalong Cassidy ...
2013–04–30 ‘Classic’ as trace of fashion
Quote “A classic,” suggested Anthony, “is a successful book that has survived the reaction to the next period or generation. Then ...
2013–04–29 (untitled)
Quote Around the time that I began to suspect that I might be a Marxist I became very depressed and spent a lot of time in bed watching television. One thing ...
2013–04–28 Common Foley tricks
Quote Corn starch in a leather pouch makes the sound of snow crunchingA pair of gloves sounds like bird wings flappingAn arrow or thin stick makes a whooshAn ...
2013–04–25 Reverse engineering?
Quote This week the Federal Reserve announced that a new, redesigned $100 bill is coming out, and as you’d expect, the thing is a cornucopia of ...
2013–04–22 ‘Repo Man: A Lattice of Coincidence’
Quote Like Billy Wilder and so many others, Alex Cox saw Los Angeles through the eyes of a foreigner. Perhaps this perspective helped him gauge the weight of ...
2013–04–22 Within You Without You
Quote Perhaps there had been a moment in the career of the human animal at which something like self-consciousness became a possibility, and a complex of ...
2013–04–17 Dwight Garner on Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Flamethrowers’
Quote This is a novel in which a fish’s head on a plate resembles “a shorn airplane fuselage.” An auburn beard tumbles down a man’s chin “like ...
2013–04–15 Slices both ways
Quote The price wars have put customers in an emotional quandary. Cheryl Costello used to frequent 2 Bros. Pizza, until one opened next door to Vinny Vincenz ...
2013–04–11 Suzie Frankfurt’s cookbook
Quote “So we did the book, Andy with his Dr. Martin’s dyes and Mrs. Warhol [Andy’s mother], her calligraphy. She was gifted and untutored, and we ...
2013–04–01 Bottoms up
Quote Prokofiev and Balanchine collaborated on the ballet The Prodigal Son of 1929, but as one of the most entertaining passages in the diary makes clear, ...
2013–03–27 A few more personal details
Quote A few months before the publication of Dusklands in 1974, J.C. Kannemeyer reports, Peter Randall, the director of Ravan Press in Johannesburg, asked ...
2013–03–27 Letters between J.M. Coetzee and Paul Auster
Quote Sometimes Auster endeavours to match Coetzee’s otherworldly tone, but it’s obvious that he’s too embedded in a world of opening nights and the ...
2013–03–22 (untitled)
Quote When a German soldier marched into P. G. Wodehouse’s home in France, in 1940, and gave the distinguished author ten minutes to pack, “Plum,” as ...
2013–03–22 An A from Nabokov
Quote I wandered into Lit 311 at the beginning of my sophomore year at Cornell in September 1954. The professor was Vladimir Nabokov, an émigré from ...
2013–03–22 (untitled)
Quote From Hugh Kenner, The Counterfeiters (1968): That is Babbage’s beatific vision [of his Difference Engine], that slow settling of suspended ...
2013–03–12 Karl-Marx-Allee née Stalinallee
Quote After its completion in the 1950s, the boulevard was very popular with Berliners and visitors alike. People crowded into the stores. “Taking the ...
2013–03–11 The fight of the century at Fanelli’s
Quote One turning point in the development of Artists’ SoHo came in the wake of the Joe Frazier-Mohammed Ali fight of March 8, 1971. As the Videofreex, ...
2013–03–11 Source code
Quote Joseph Jon Lanthier writes, quite wonderfully:With respect to your quaternary take on DESIGN FOR LIVING:Not having been the one on whom you picked (at ...
2013–03–11 Hike/saunter
Quote Hiking – I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike! Do you know the origin of that ...
2013–03–04 Whit Stillman
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2013–03–04 Regressions
Quote At the midway point in Margaret Wise Brown’s beloved Goodnight Moon (1947)—that instant when the book becomes a sort of palindrome and bids good ...
2013–02–28 (untitled)
Quote From Simon E. Fisher, “Tangled webs: tracing the connections between genes and cognition” (Cognition Vol. 101, Issue 2, Sept ...
2013–02–28 The shape of cheese to come
Quote IMAGE: In an extremely small 1991 study, C. J. Overbeeke and M. E. Peters of the Delft University of Technology gathered preliminary evidence to show ...
2013–02–28 (untitled)
Quote [Karl Ove Knausgaard] takes his little daughter, Vanje, to a classmate’s birthday party. She is a shy and introverted child, but she longs to play ...
2013–02–26 E.B. White, ‘Death of a Pig’ (1948)
Quote Shortly after five o’clock I remembered that we had been invited out to dinner that night and realized that if I were to dose a pig there was no ...
2013–02–26 An interview with Morrissey
Quote I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We ...
2013–02–26 (untitled)
Quote [Christopher Ricks] told me, with a great and sharp glint in his eyes, that Yeats was the most overrated poet in the English language. And, he added ...
2013–02–26 (untitled)
Quote [The Centre Pompidou retrospective on Eileen Gray] begins with the exquisite lacquerwork Gray made in the early 1900s after discovering the craft as a ...
2013–02–17 (untitled)
Quote Les Murray grew up in rural New South Wales in a two-room, earth-floored wooden shack roofed with shingles and later corrugated iron. The walls and ...
2013–02–15 Kuzmich studies
Quote When he was suddenly taken ill in the southern city of Taganrog on 8 November 1825, the 47-year-old tsar Alexander I had been considering giving up the ...
2013–02–14 (untitled)
Quote The lusts of the regime’s satraps were also a matter of public knowledge. During the disastrous military campaign in Greece in the winter of 1940-41, ...
2013–02–12 Genre as simile
Quote I did not really know where I was going, so, when anyone asked me, I said to Russia. Thus my trip started, like an autobiography, upon a rather nicely ...
2013–02–12 ‘Powerful and arrogant’
Quote The Tsar Bomba was flown to its test site by a specially modified Tu-95V release plane, flown by Major Andrei Durnovtsev. Taking off from an airfield ...
2013–02–11 Sylvia and Marty
Quote Sylvia Plath ’55 and Marcia Brown Stern ’54 Three weeks before she died on July 25, 2012, Marcia (Marty) Brown Stern ’54 sent me a registered ...
2013–02–08 (untitled)
Quote When in a good and merry mood Trisy would seize a dozen eggs, and a bucket of flour, coerce a cow to milk itself, and then mixing the ingredients toss ...
2013–01–31 40 Years of Artists Space
Image Artists Space staff, 1979. Photographed by Cindy Sherman as part of a photo shoot for Cover Magazine.January 31 – March 15, 2013 NYU Bobst Library - ...
2013–01–29 Krazy khat
Quote In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified it as a drug of abuse that can produce mild to moderate psychological dependence (less than ...
2013–01–29 Musical saw, 2
Quote [William] Styron would enjoy his first taste of fame at a party thrown in 1952 by Leo Lerman, who decades later became the editor of Vanity Fair and ...
2013–01–24 Me digress
Quote Alistair Cookie introduced viewers to a spot of culture while relaxing in a well-stuffed armchair. Though seemingly more sedate and urbane, Alistair ...
2013–01–24 (untitled)
Quote I had literally cut it myself earlier that year — with a pair of fingernail scissors — while working on the “Peyton Place” TV series at Fox ...
2013–01–24 Rubber-tree plant
Quote Henry Hubbard, congressional correspondent (1959–85): Mel Elfin, who went on to become the Washington bureau chief, once did a cover on psychiatry. ...
2013–01–24 Owp!
Quote First published in 1968, Judith Kerr’s The Tiger Who Came to Tea continues to be one of the best selling and best loved children’s books in ...
2013–01–23 (untitled)
Quote Glen Tomkins 01.23.13 at 6:52 pm Yet another mind wracked on the treacherous shoals of Thucydides.What Victor D is trying to do, ...
2013–01–18 Exclamation marks and colons
Quote From James Thurber’s The Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Guide to Modern English Usage, The New Yorker 1931. It is my contention that a ...
2013–01–16 57th Street Rag
Quote The Fisk Building had a stolid utilitarian look, like one of Ben Katchor’s cartoon office buildings, and was surrounded by automobile showrooms, at ...
2013–01–14 This strangely-neglected topic
Quote The MLA jobs tumblr lampoons the tendency of US institutions to make increasingly impossible demands of those hires they do make (‘The person ...
2013–01–14 From ‘Bartleby & Co’ (2001), Enrique Vila-Matas
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2013–01–13 The Reveille dynasty
Quote Reveille is the official mascot of Texas A&M University. Students adopted the first Reveille, a mixed-breed dog, in 1931. To thank Texas A&M ...
2013–01–12 Word association
Quote football (n.)open-air game, first recorded c.1400; see foot (n.) + ball (n.1). Forbidden in a Scottish statute of 1424. The first reference to the ball ...
2013–01–11 (untitled)
Quote Earlier this season, Harbaugh described public concern over Alex Smith’s confidence as “gobble gobble turkey.” And, coach, what is gobble gobble ...
2013–01–08 Elephants
Quote When he receives the papers, Mr. Depardieu will become a Russian citizen, liable only for a flat, 13 percent income tax rate, compared with the 75 ...
2013–01–07 Callimachus in Context
Quote He had the huge job, which he carried out in exemplary fashion, of creating, virtually ex nihilo, a catalogue raisonné, known as the Pinakes ...
2013–01–04 Pump full of lead
Quote Well, here’s one possibility: Pb(CH2CH3)4. In 1994, Rick Nevin was a consultant working for the US Department of Housing and Urban ...
2013–01–04 Most Read Topics
Quote Books and Literature Array Cooking and Cookbooks Alcoholic Beverages Actors and Actresses Restaurants Computers and the ...
2012–12–31 Umberto Eco’s lists
Quote Eco: Look, ever since the days of Aristotle, we have been trying to define things based on their essence. The definition of man? An animal that acts in ...
2012–12–29 Dear Viola
Quote ‘Bad taste can be very much a symptom of immorality,’ Mary Whitehouse wrote to one of her supporters. They knew what was good, based on a solid ...
2012–12–24 Wam-doodler
Quote Patsy Cline was born Virginia Hensley in Winchester in 1932, the first child of a 43-year-old blacksmith with his 16-year-old bride. Her mother, Hilda, ...
2012–12–22 Toothbutter
Quote tandsmør: noun. Butter spread so thickly as to reveal teeth marks upon biting. Fru Storm said, November 13, 2012 Tandsmør goes very well with ...
2012–12–11 Mladen Stillnović, 1993
Quote My observation and knowledge of Western art has lately led me to a conclusion that art cannot exist any more in the West. This is not to say that there ...
2012–12–05 First appearance of ‘Bellini’
Quote 1956 Mary McCarthy Venice Observed 19/1 Harry’s Bar has a drink called a Tiziano, made of grapefruit juice and champagne and colored pink with ...
2012–12–04 Urban Dictionary: Oak Cliff
Quote A large community located in the Southwest part of Dallas known for being one of the rowdiest parts of the city. Oak Cliff is made up of almost ...
2012–11–30 Petting parties
Quote Shifter glossary Oil Burner: girl who chews gum Princess Mary: girl about to be married Dud: a Flapper who can’t keep in the swim Young Otis: chap ...
2012–11–29 From a letter from Frederick Engels to his sister, 1840
Quote Moustaches always were the pride Of gallant gentlemen far and wide. Brave soldiers faced their country’s foes In brown or black mustachios. So, in ...
2012–11–28 Saul Steinberg’s Manhattan
Quote An early impression of the city [in 1942], which he summarized in three words, proved indelible: “diners, girls, cars.” He wrote that he ...
2012–11–27 We will always have Parisians!
Quote Thin, pale, and refined, Apollonia Poilâne is more of a baguette of a woman than a miche. “I do not believe in making one bread with hazelnuts, ...
2012–11–26 (untitled)
Quote [Derrida] also had a strong distaste for the public prises de position by which French intellectuals transformed themselves into celebrities. While ...
2012–11–20 If-by-whiskey
Quote The label if-by-whiskey refers to a 1952 speech by Noah S. “Soggy” Sweat, Jr., a young lawmaker from the U.S. state of Mississippi, on the ...
2012–11–20 ‘When Dean Young Talks About Wine,’ Tony Hoagland (2003)
Quote The worm thrashes when it enters the tequila. The grape cries out in the wine vat crusher.But when Dean Young talks about wine, his voice is strangely ...
2012–11–14 Canada’s national dish
Quote … This makes Kraft Dinner, not poutine, our de facto national dish. We eat 3.2 boxes each in an average year, about 55 percent more than ...
2012–11–13 Herman Wouk at 97
Quote Old enough to remember Simon and Schuster as actual people (“they were as different as chalk and cheese”), Mr. Wouk has written a novel that is ...
2012–11–13 (untitled)
Quote The protagonist of this story has no name. It is known simply as the Chicken, a nonname that seems right, considering its obscure origins. How it came ...
2012–11–11 Ignoreland
Quote 35. Phil 11.10.12 at 3:33 pm +1 to Uncle Kvetch. I’d forgotten quite how much I hated Reagan (and why). Thinking of all the political leaders I’ve ...
2012–11–10 Occupy, 1978
Quote From A Manual For Manuel, Julio Cortázar. 1978. So just wait till I tell you about another form of response that only yesterday raised a big ruckus ...
2012–11–06 The photograph as truth-claim or art-object
Quote Is photography a way of documenting the world that has an inherent “truth-claim” on the real? Or is it, as Steichen suggested, essentially graphic, ...
2012–11–06 Bruced out
Quote … This material is well known. The Springsteen obsessive — I rate myself at about an 8.1 out of a possible 10 — will hunt instead for ...
2012–11–02 From ‘Privy Seal’ (1907) by Ford Madox Ford
Quote A boy brought her a trencher filled with chopped things, and a man in a blue jerkin came to her side bearing a middling pig, seared to a pale clear ...
2012–10–30 Horizon of mud
Quote We all knew which neighbourhoods faced the most immediate danger – Battery Park, Red Hook, Rockaway – but it wasn’t until late last night, safe ...
2012–10–23 Rosemary Hill remembers Sylvia Kristel
Quote It must have been almost exactly ten years later that I met Sylvia Kristel when she opened her front door to me in Ghent. It was just after Christmas. ...
2012–10–23 Himmler’s hobby horses
Quote To an extraordinary degree, the proclivities of the leader shaped the public life of the organisation. Even as a very young man, Himmler had ...
2012–10–22 The human microbiome
Quote “I thought he was nuts,” Goldberg told me. He never gave the encounter another thought—until a couple of years ago, when he begun to ...
2012–10–16 Interview with Rosalind Krauss
Quote Krauss: Oh, really?Bois: All these people who were branded as attacking formalism kept saying not to dismiss it so fast. Well, that’s where we came ...
2012–10–09 James Wood on ‘realism,’ again
Quote Over the years, Tom Wolfe has campaigned strenuously on behalf of the journalistic role in fiction. In “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast” and ...
2012–10–03 Christopher Tayler on the BBC/HBO ‘Parade’s End’
Quote What’s more, it was non-terrible in unusual ways for a high-end adaptation. Unlike last year’s movie of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and lots of ...
2012–10–02 King Tuff, ‘Screaming Skull’
Quote The Hoagies at about 23 hours agoTingly, metallic, sexy. This riff sounds how it feels to press the tip of your tongue against a 9-volt battery.
2012–09–21 Michael Friedman in the Tombs
Quote After some time, two other men are placed in my cell. They were arrested last night, but because of a leg injury in one man and an unclear condition in ...
2012–09–20 The Avalanches: Second Album
Quote The Avalanches have been working on their second album since at least 2005. Seltmann had said that after starting out as “ambient world ...
2012–09–17 On ‘A Wilderness of Error,’ by Errol Morris
Quote Warner Herzog, the German film director, had promised an unknown filmmaker named Errol Morris that if he completed his first movie, a documentary about ...
2012–09–17 Jonathan Rosenbaum’s ‘ten best movies of the 90s’
Quote In alphabetical order. Actress/Center Stage/Ruan Ling Yu (Stanley Kwan, 1991) A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991, the ...
2012–09–16 Torpedo juice
Quote Torpedo juice is American slang for an alcoholic beverage, first mixed in World War II, made from pineapple juice and the 180-proof grain alcohol fuel ...
2012–09–13 Politico-psychopathology
Quote According to Adorno, in psychoanalysis only the exaggerations are true. If you wished to characterize the Democrats and the Republicans in terms of ...
2012–09–11 From the critical writings of Ford Madox Ford
Quote [Joseph Conrad and I] agreed that the general effect of a novel must be the general effect that life makes on mankind. A novel must therefore not be a ...
2012–08–30 Joe Shlabotnik
Quote Joe Shlabotnik is a minor-league baseball player who, inexplicably, is greatly admired by Charlie Brown. He never appears in the strip, but is ...
2012–08–23 Studies in druggies
Quote I would take the stuff on Friday evenings after work and would then spend the whole weekend so high that images and thoughts would become rather like ...
2012–08–22 The bubble
Quote “You did it because you understood the campaign wasn’t about me,” he says, speaking out into a dark space filled with living people who he ...
2012–08–20 Excerpt from another ‘Ecstatic Alphabets’ review
Clip … Tauba Auerbach’s bravura RGB Colorspace Atlas at once anatomizes a language of digital color representation and re-encodes it into ...
2012–08–17 Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Quote The role of Poet Laureate is an honorary position that entails no specific duties, although there is an expectation that the holder will write verse ...
2012–08–15 Ostriching
Quote Gilberte belonged, during those years at least, to the most widespread variety of human ostrich, the kind that bury their heads not in the hope of not ...
2012–08–13 Secret world
Quote Q: In the American dub of “the Secret World of Arrietty” the barrowers refer to the humans as “beans” shortened from “Human Being”. Was ...
2012–08–13 From an interview with Lawrence Durrell, 1959
Quote INTERVIEWER Can you summarize what’s wrong with the way we’re living in [England]? DURRELL The things one notices ...
2012–07–08 ‘The Stiletto in Putin’s Side’
Image Opposition activist Ksenia Sobchak in her Moscow restaurant. At a few minutes before 8 in the morning on the eve of Russia Day last month — the ...
2012–07–08 ‘Song Of The Master And Boatswain,’ W. H. Auden
Quote At Dirty Dick’s and Sloppy Joe’s We drank our liquor straight, Some went upstairs with Margery, And ...
2012–07–05 From ‘The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard’
Quote Joe Brainard’s “Untitled (Bicycle Ace),” 1975. Mozart is coming out of the machine—real soft—just for company. Like that of a cat, in a ...
2012–07–05 Obama on the Upper West Side
Quote Dreams employed very permissively a technique the literary theorist Michael André Bernstein has called ‘backshadowing’: a device of conventional ...
2012–07–04 ‘A Farewell to Arms’: alternate endings
Quote And in No. 34, the “Fitzgerald ending,” suggested by Hemingway’s friend F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway wrote that the world “breaks ...
2012–07–04 (untitled)
Quote According to the Standard Model, the Higgs boson is the only manifestation of an invisible force field, a cosmic molasses that permeates space and ...
2012–07–02 Nora Ephron, from ‘Heartburn’ (1983)
Quote I have no problem with [Lillian Hellman’s] political persona, or with her insistence on making herself the centerpiece of most of the historical ...
2012–06–29 Lunch again today!
Quote The much-tweeted-about Lena Dunham has said her father finds Twitter “infinitely unrelatable”: “He’s like, ‘Why would I want to tell anybody ...
2012–06–29 (untitled)
Image … Yet how will this data-heavy approach translate to other sports, those based on more qualitative data, and what might this tell us about ...
2012–06–27 John McPhee: The Writing Life
Quote “He always said that he wanted to publish authors, not books. This principle contained not only an admirable loft but also a faint implication ...
2012–06–25 Red one-piece
Image The logo of Portland knitting company Jantzen, origin of the swimsuit, 1920. How far we’ve come only makes it all the more striking that Fawcett’s ...
2012–06–22 List of Peanuts characters
Quote Charlie Brown The main character; a lovable guy, dominated by insecurities Snoopy Charlie Brown's lovable dog Linus van ...
2012–06–22 More on Monroe
Quote David Thomson has high standards in film stars and he imposes rather firm rules about how they ought to twinkle, but he isn’t being fair to Marilyn ...
2012–06–06 ‘Don’t Come Around Here No More’
Quote “Don’t Come Around Here No More” is a song written by Tom Petty of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and David A. Stewart of the ...
2012–05–29 Orhan Pamuk’s museum
Quote Ten years later, Pamuk came up with an insane plan: to write a novel in the form of a museum catalogue, while simultaneously building the museum to ...
2012–05–29 ‘The Solar Microscope,’ in Child’s magazine, Volume 2 (1816)
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2012–05–29 From a review of ‘Laguna Beach,’ 2005
Quote “Laguna Beach” is ingeniously shot. With photography by Hisham Abed, this reality series looks like no other; it is the best-looking show ...
2012–05–24 P.G. Wodehouse Quote Generator
Quote The fishy glitter in his eye became intensified. He looked like a halibut which had been asked by another halibut to lend it a couple of quid till ...
2012–05–24 Richard Belzer
Quote Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC)Law & Order (NBC)The X-Files (Fox)The Beat (UPN)Law & Order: Trial by Jury (NBC)Belzer's appearance on Trial ...
2012–05–15 (untitled)
Quote @egabbert I think poems, like poets, should end in despondency and madness. I don't care how they begin as long as it's iambic.— Sarang ...
2012–05–11 Hugh Kenner on the Oxford English Dictionary
Quote Set promised trouble as early as 1881, when James Murray, the chief editor, came to doubt if the language contained a more perplexing word. An ...
2012–05–11 Interview with Michel Houellebecq
Quote INTERVIEWER Why don’t you live in France? HOUELLEBECQ Partly to pay fewer taxes and partly to learn your beautiful language, madam. And because ...
2012–05–08 We can perceive guitars
Video Fuyuki Yamakawa. ATOMIC GUITAR model No. 1 + model No. 2 Stratocaster-type, 2011. Performance for Snow Contemporary, Art Fair Tokyo 2012. Two canary ...
2012–05–07 A critic and his cheese
Quote The Stilton stood encumbered with a swaddling band, girded about with a cincture, scooped out on top like a crater of the moon. It was placed in front ...
2012–05–07 The Magic Flute, summary of Act 2, Scenes 4–7
Quote Scene 4: A hall in the temple of OrdealTamino and Papageno must again suffer the test of silence, a more difficult variation this time: An old woman ...
2012–05–06 Grendel
Quote An illustration of Grendel by J.R. Skelton from Stories of Beowulf. Grendel is described as “Very terrible to look upon.” The poem Beowulf ...
2012–05–04 David Weiss, 1946–2012
Quote Peter Fischli and David Weiss, from the Equilibriums series, 1984–5 Peter Fischli: The little book of questions, includes the question: ‘Do I ...
2012–05–04 Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell, 1949
Quote I haven’t been able to “work” at all, so spend most of my time very pleasantly sitting on my balcony blowing bubbles.
2012–04–30 Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky in 8 rounds
Quote Marcia Miner at 11:23 am on April 27, 2012 I covered Susan Sontag who gave a public lecture in 2000 at Fairfield University. She recalled the ...
2012–04–30 ‘Pride & Prejudice’ in the editorial style of The Economist
Quote Comment 15. Neville Morley, 04.30.12 at 10:39 am The Bennet household is in desperate need of far-reaching reform, as it faces up to the consequences ...
2012–04–30 Punch and Judy
Quote Along with Punch and Judy, the cast of characters usually includes their baby, a hungry crocodile, a clown, an officious policeman, and a prop string ...
2012–04–30 Mestizaje
Quote The book tells many similar tales of white Americans (gabachos, he says, is the term Mexican-Americans use; gringo is now used only by gabachos) who ...
2012–04–26 Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery
Image ‘Girl with Beret’ (1951-52).Long before he was using paint as a blistering variant of flesh, the pictures had another sort of realism. The early ...
2012–04–25 Choccupy
Quote To celebrate President Obama’s inauguration, Ben & Jerry’s released a flavor called Yes! Pecan. What about an Occupy-themed flavor? ...
2012–04–10 Insta-gag
Quote jsavino83. What’s funny to me is that, years ago, subjecting people to your photo albums was considered the ultimate imposition. An untold ...
2012–04–10 The line-loin problem
Quote I thought this odd problem was caused by watching a bad TV show in which some of the characters have Southern accents. Nope. In wending my way through ...
2012–04–09 Gilberte Swann’s letterhead
Quote Better still, the tea-parties themselves to which Gilberte invited her friends, parties which for so long had seemed to me the most insurmountable of ...
2012–04–09 (untitled)
Quote Progress-minded intellectuals. They are the tricoteuses of the dialectic. As each head falls, they reknit the sleeve of reasoning torn apart by the facts.
2012–03–29 Handmaiden to an idea
Quote But Hollywood has a glut of young actresses who have more than that to offer—they have talent, and that talent isn’t being put to full use in ...
2012–03–26 Simon Reynolds and son
Quote We were playing chess and as he mused on his next Dad-destroying move, Kieran (12-and-a-half) sang a little made-up song. And then in the midst of this ...
2012–03–26 MLA rankings of American writers
Quote Ordered by “the amount of scholarship.” Changes in position noted in brackets. Henry James (3,188 items) [+1] William Faulkner ...
2012–03–23 Christopher Reid, ‘H. Vernon’
Quote The butcher, tired of his bloody work has made a metaphysical joke:Five pigs’ heads on a marble counter leer lopsidedly out of the windowand scare ...
2012–03–23 A political definition of resentment
Quote COMMENT 50 | Bruce Wilder 03.20.12 at 1:30 am What is “resentment”, if not the antonym of “admiration”? Certainly, it is ...
2012–03–22 Tostilocos
Quote Menu at Berta Nava’s shop in Escondido (Sandy Huffaker) “It’s everything at once,” Abraham Hernandez said as he jabbed a fork into a ...
2012–03–20 Pledge of allegiance
Quote On Jan. 1, after a new state law targeting Mexican-American studies courses that are perceived as antiwhite was upheld, it became illegal to teach ...
2012–03–16 Economics exceptionalism
Quote My best analogy to economics exceptionalism is Freudianism in the 1950s: Back then, Freudian psychiatrists were on the top of the world. Not only ...
2012–03–16 (untitled)
Quote The sky was blue. Except for sky you couldn’t see anything. Later, when I was moved to Camp Delta, I could look by the windows. The camp was ringed ...
2012–03–04 (untitled)
Quote “What, in the end, makes advertisements so superior to criticism?” Walter Benjamin had asked some ten years prior. “Not what the ...
2012–02–17 Flashy trickiness, artful dodging and general smartalecness
Quote The secret of Jeremy Lin's success?
2012–02–16 David Graeber on jubilee
Quote David Johnson: At the end of the book, you suggest one policy proposal of a sort, namely a jubilee, or a cancellation of all debts.David Graeber: Well, ...
2012–02–16 Richard Rorty on Saul Kripke, 2005
Quote As I see it, Kripke’s lectures in 1970 aroused the interest they did not because people cared all that much about which truths should be called ...
2012–02–14 Lengua franca
Quote One of the characteristic specialties of the Alamo City is the puffy taco. This consists of stewed, braised, or barbecued meats deposited in a tortilla ...
2012–02–10 Letter from James Joyce to his grandson, 1936
Quote The lord mayor asked him how much money he wanted for making such a bridge. No money at all, said the devil, all I ask is that the first person who ...
2012–02–10 Interview with John Jeremiah Sullivan
Quote JJS: Only from a distance. I really like to read everything that Kevin Baker writes about politics. He’s better known as a writer of historical ...
2012–02–03 David Cronenberg’s ‘Total Recall’
Quote I was going to do Total Recall. Like with a lot of Philip Dick stuff the concept of Total Recall was incredible. The beginning was great. It didn’t ...
2012–02–03 Mouth surfing
Quote As to not understanding why some of us like to set ourselves on fire with peppers, I recall an anecdote from a book on peppers I read many years ago. ...
2012–02–02 Michael Wood reviews ‘The Artist’
Quote The plot line is a bit schematic, resolute in its avoidance of swerves and complications. A new movie star is born, an old star fades. Time passes, ...
2012–01–26 Dole releases [chilling] critique of Gingrich
Quote In my run for the presidency in 1996 the Democrats greeted me with a number of negative TV ads, and in every one of them Newt was in the ad. He was ...
2012–01–20 (untitled)
Quote The male tree squirrel takes twice as long, as the female, to groom itself. They are the cleanest animal in the rodent family. A squirrels teeth ...
2012–01–18 Upside-downstairs cake
Quote Emily Nussbaum on "Downton Abbey"
2012–01–15 Luc Sante on the ‘Lost City,’ NYC in the 70s
Quote At that time much of Manhattan felt depopulated even in daylight. Aside from the high-intensity blocks of Midtown and the financial district, the place ...
2012–01–12 My little bucket of hair
Quote A fascinating Language Log post about the writer Paul West who “emerged from [a] stroke with a near-total obliteration of language” and how ...
2012–01–11 The other Barack
Quote Stanley Ann was self-sufficient and wilful. Her sympathetic biographer, Janny Scott, pictures her dreaming of escape from provincial boredom as she ...
2012–01–11 William James on careers
Quote William James believed that the careers we might have chosen don’t matter very much: ‘Little by little, the habits, the knowledges, of the other ...
2012–01–06 Roky Erickson and The Explosives, ‘White Faces’ (1980)
Video holy crap, does this bring back some memories. That was at the Soap Creek Saloon on North Lamar. It was the first time I ever saw Roky live. I remember ...
2012–01–06 Mummy as commodity
Quote Michael Neill notes that mummy or mumia was used ‘throughout the Christian West’ well into the early modern period (LRB, 1 December 2011). In fact, ...
2012–01–06 David Graeber on bureaucratic technologies
Quote Thursday, January 19, 7pm The twentieth century produced a very clear sense of what the future was to be, but we now seem unable to imagine any sort ...
2012–01–04 The American Restaurant, Kansas City (1974)
Image Warren Platner designed the American Restaurant in Kansas City in 1974 as part of a complex of modern buildings commissioned by the Hall family of ...
2012–01–04 Marianne Moore’s Ft. Greene
Quote She lived in Brooklyn at 260 Cumberland Street in Fort Greene; I lived in Hartley Hall on the Columbia campus in Manhattan. We didn’t talk on the ...
2012–01–04 There are not too many left
Quote “It was not so unusual in those days to find a bar that was filled only with men,” Mr. Bourscheidt said. “It was quietly known in the gay world ...
2011–12–27 Helen Frankenthaler, 1928–2011
Quote As a self-described “saddle-shoed girl a year out of Bennington,” Ms. Frankenthaler made her way into the burgeoning New York art world with ...
2011–12–25 Advertisements for things that were no longer made
Quote From V.S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival (1988) We lived, in Trinidad, among advertisements for things that were no longer made or, because of the ...
2011–12–23 Andy Warhol smells New York (1975)
Quote When I’m walking around New York I’m always aware of the smells around me: the rubber mats in office buildings; upholstered seats in movie ...
2011–12–22 Wilfred Sheed, 1930–2011
Image Photograph by Leonard Mccombe Sheed’s essays — misanthropic yet Nabokovian and light on their feet — embraced what he called “the whole crazy ...
2011–12–20 Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil
Quote Hedwig Kiesler, at the time she met Mayer, had just run away from her suffocating life as Mandl’s bride, fleeing with only her luggage and jewelry in ...
2011–12–14 M. Wells Winter Carnival
Quote 12:00—6:00 PM, Courtyard M. Wells will host a Winter Carnival in the MoMA PS1 courtyard, complete with a wood-oven duck cassoulet, slices of ...
2011–12–14 Enfilade
Image Robert Polidori, Detail from A Portrait of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchess d’Orleans, Chateau de Versailles, 1991. Color photograph, 50 × ...
2011–12–12 Finnish Ruis
Image Nordic Breads’ Finnish Ruis There’s more to rye bread than what you get at Carnegie Deli. Take, for instance, this Nordic newcomer. It’s a dark, ...
2011–12–12 Londongrad
Quote In tsarist times Russian liberals based themselves in London; in Soviet times Russians who wanted uncensored news secretly tuned in to the World ...
2011–12–12 On Nicholson Baker’s ‘House of Holes’
Quote There’s a complicated network of motifs: in addition to body-part removal and replacement, recurring images include mountain zebras, women laying ...
2011–12–12 Every counterfeit bag on Canal Street
Image In the neighborhood near the 6 Decades shop dealers in counterfeit handbags do a brisk business. It’s illegal, of course, and the actual bags are ...
2011–12–08 Feminism in the expanded field
Quote ‘Pornography today is increasingly violent, body-punishing, degrading and woman-hating,’ it says on Object’s press release, which is ...
2011–12–06 Tell me what you want, what you really, really want
Image Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want by Jan Verwoert 2010. Berlin, Germany. Sternberg PressThe first compilation of writings by Jan ...
2011–12–06 The Federal Standard Color Palette
Quote The blue of rest stops (F.S. No. 15090), the brown of recreation signage (F.S. No. 10055), and acres of instructional green (F.S. No. 14115) sprang ...
2011–12–05 Battenberg cake
Image Battenberg cake is a light sponge cake. When cut in cross section, displays a distinctive two-by-two check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow.
2011–12–02 Temporality and immigrant cuisine
Quote I find immigrant populations to be a very interesting study in “authentic” food. You’ll find a lot of people calling “not ...
2011–12–01 Doo-wop dreaming
Quote As a single, “Buick 59” b/w “The Letter,” on the DooTone label, might perfectly illustrate that old ...
2011–12–01 A park in need of a gate (September 2005)
Quote “He was coming up on me a couple of times,” recalled Captain Henry, the owner of Island Towing and Salvage in Staten Island and a ...
2011–12–01 ‘Back to the Future’ (1995)
Quote The high 60s cut deep: that is what all concerned meant to do. The attraction of those dark scenes in Blow-Up (1966) and Performance is underlined by ...
2011–11–29 Keehnan Konyha
Quote Keehnan Konyha is an interior designer and writer based in New York. His work has featured in magazines such as Self Service, Apartamento, House & ...
2011–11–29 Summary of ‘America’s Sixty Families’ (1937)
Quote In the first two chapters, Ferdinand Lundberg develops his thesis and names the 60 richest American families, based on the tax reports for the years ...
2011–11–29 Green bean casserole
Quote The green bean casserole was first created in 1955 by the Campbell Soup Company. Dorcas Reilly led the team that created the recipe while working as a ...
2011–11–28 Easy come, easy go
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2011–11–21 Geoff Nunberg on blogging
Quote It encourages me to add some snippets from the disorganized drawer of Thoughts I have on this topic, some of them from stuff I wrote but never ...
2011–11–21 Hundred highest-rated TV series, 1950–2000
Quote Twilight Zone (US 1959, 9.4) The Sopranos (US 1999, 9.4) The Godfather: A Novel For Television (US 1977, 9.3) Freaks and Geeks (US 1999, ...
2011–11–21 (untitled)
Quote In an uncollected letter to TS Eliot, Pasternak explores their shared aesthetic in ambitiously faulty English. Eliot’s art, he writes, like his ...
2011–11–18 Torrisi Italian Specialties reopens
Quote In preparation for [the reopening of their restaurant], Carbone delved into what he calls “how it used to be” books, such as William ...
2011–11–18 Interview with Jacques Pépin
Quote If you only have the technical knowledge, you won’t go that far, but you can still run the kitchen. There are small restaurants at, say, the ...
2011–11–16 The new fifty pound note
Quote On the new fifty, Boulton and Watt, provided with what might as well be speech bubbles, seem to be talking to each other about their engine – ...
2011–11–15 Boswell
Quote We talked of memory, and its various modes. Johnson. “Memory will play strange tricks. One sometimes loses a single word. I once lost fugaces in ...
2011–11–14 Letter to the editors, 1964
Quote To the Editors:As a student of military history I was pleased with John Phillips’ perceptive review of Ladislas Farago’s biography of that “quite ...
2011–10–09 Customer review
Quote Comments about Antennacraft® FMSS Omnidirectional FM Antenna from BUCK, power user in MUNICE, INDIANA:Owned several FM omnitennas. For the size ...
2011–10–08 Aileen’s looking for a roommate
Quote Date: 2011-10-26, 7:12PM EDT Reply to: hous-rq9vj-2670715078@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] Looking for a mid to long term roommate ...
2011–10–08 Zooey Deschanel Sings the National Anthem
Quote What is there to really say about Zooey D? She, through no act of her own, has convinced a generation of lonely men that she somehow means more than ...
2011–10–08 What to do with pork tenderloin?
Quote Maybe Pork Felix, my poor boy version of Steak Oscar? Pork medallions marinated, grilled, sliced as usual, topped with alternating spokes of snow crab ...
2011–10–07 Tags
Quote TAGS bellboy, buddy, crisps, fridge, guerilla, Hilton, Hong Kong, hotels, kiddie, minibar, peanuts, Robert Arnold, Siegas, St. Peter, Thai Airways, ...
2011–10–07 Wax on wax
Quote There are hazards and difficulties in the DJ booth that must be overcome outside of the odd overdrunk attendee: lousy needles, broken or substandard ...
2011–10–07 Humphry Slocombe
Quote Hidden happy hour at the ice cream parlor: “Jesus juice” sorbet (red wine and Coke) and “secret breakfast” ice cream (Jim Beam ...
2011–10–07 “Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.”
Quote From Andy Warhol’s Tuesday, 9 October 1984 diary entry. It’s Sean Lennon’s 9th birthday party. We went into Sean’s bedroom ...
2011–10–05 T.S. Eliot’s juvenalia
Quote I guess this must be the 1916 version of The Triumph of Bullshit: Ladies, on whom my attentions have waited If you consider my merits are small ...
2011–10–05 Karma
Quote KARMA is a bookstore, gallery and publisher specializing in artist publications, located in the West Village of New York City. In addition to its own ...
2011–10–04 (untitled)
Quote “Vegetable instruments are another way of getting people to be fascinated,” says Gates, who paused briefly to play his carrot clarinet ...
2011–10–02 Peter Falk
Quote Falk’s right eye was surgically removed when he was three because of a retinoblastoma; he wore a glass eye for most of his life.[11] Despite ...
2011–10–02 Black flower in the white house
Quote As for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, who was killed Thursday after a revolution, Condoleezza Rice adds details about his well-known “eerie ...
2011–10–01 Tom Ewing listens to ‘Nevermind’ for the first time
Quote We crave surprise: could there possibly be any left in Nevermind? A little, as it turned out. When I played it — finally! — what jumped out ...
2011–10–01 Caleb Crain on ‘Planet of the Apes,’ road rage
Quote Being intelligent inside an ape is like being human inside a car. You’re saddled with a prognathous mask for a face. You’re incapable of ...
2011–09–30 Shaggy dog
Quote The commonly believed archetype of the shaggy dog story is a story that concerns a shaggy dog. The story builds up, repeatedly emphasizing how shaggy ...
2011–09–30 Dwight Garner: food lit
Quote But the greatest food novel ever written, hands down, is ‘‘The Belly of Paris,’‘ by Emile Zola, published in 1873. Anthony ...
2011–09–09 Chuck Eddy, King of the Contrarians
Quote Chuck Klosterman writes in the foreword to Chuck Eddy’s Rock and Roll, “[T]he music he likes makes him impossible to understand. If you ...
2011–09–09 Israeli falafel
Quote When the Israeli tent protests began, some of the movement’s fiercest critics — outside the Israeli government — were progressive ...
2011–09–09 Flying Nun celebrates 30 years
Quote While, it wouldn’t be a party without live music, we also have a bunch of new releases and re-releases out soon on CD, digitally and Vinyl. Plus ...
2011–09–09 Netflix: The Killing
Quote With the precision of a watchmaker, “The Killing” lays out each component of its ingenious racetrack heist in meticulous detail. Even in ...
2011–09–07 The Terrence Malick of rockers
Quote You’ve said in interviews that you’re finding the process of writing songs increasingly mysterious. Can you elaborate on that? I might ...
2011–09–04 Comment
Quote >Glen Tomkins 09.14.11 at 6:35 pmComment 36 said:You can at least make a case that the miseries associated with enclosure and the creation of the ...
2011–09–03 University of Houston Libraries acquires DJ Screw’s records collection
Quote The majority of this collection was donated by DJ Screw’s father, Robert Earl Davis Sr., with additional support from the John and Rebecca Moores ...
2011–09–02 Lawyer joke
Quote Not long after the Soviets launched Sputnik 1, in 1957, New York City’s Department of Education concluded that one impediment to keeping up with ...
2011–09–01 Coming up short
Quote I make this ‘covering’ [in short selling] sound routine, but it isn’t, and can go horribly wrong – wherein lies much of the ...
2011–09–01 On the serve
Quote Althea Gibson Dwight Davis, a St. Louis native who went on to found the Davis Cup, added a new dimension to the serve in the 1890s, using heavy ...
2011–08–09 Creeper Ohio ‘Double Dwa’
Quote fairly early on, mike rep jumped on the creeper bandwagon and this tape surfaced soon after. contains two kickass 45s ("new hit single" and ...
2011–08–09 Rainer often likened his film oeuvre to a house he was
Quote Rainer often likened his film oeuvre to a house he was building. He said of his films: “Some of them are windows and others are doors, and others ...
2011–08–08 Robin Robertson: ‘Strindberg in London’ (2005)
Quote My new wife fills the bed, fills every room, tells me it will all be fine. Dragged through other people’s lives, pursued through my own. What ...
2011–08–06 The Times film critics take on Keanu
Quote Q. Is Keanu Reeves a Good Bad Actor or a Bad Good Actor? ROBERT SCHROKO DARGIS Who cares? He’s Keanu Reeves, dude, and an excellent movie star, ...
2011–08–06 RELI 157/311—Religion and Hip Hop, at Rice
Quote Religion and Hip Hop. Dr. Anthony B. Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies and Bernard “Bun ...
2011–08–06 from the New York Times, 15 August 2011
Quote …Fueled by the free espresso offered by pharmaceutical companies hawking their wares, scientists at the Orlando meeting moved from session to ...
2011–08–05 Shirley Braha’s Weird Vibes
Quote I guess it was nice seeing Matt Pinfield‘s familiar face again, at that epicenter of NYC alt rock Arlene Grocery, but… the show felt safe, ...
2011–08–05 (untitled)
Quote “When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly,” Umberto Eco has written of Casablanca, “we plumb Homeric profundity. Two cliches ...
2011–08–03 Obama and the dog
Quote “There was a dog?” Obama interrupted. James nodded and said that Cairo was in an adjoining room, muzzled, at the request of the Secret ...
2011–08–02 More on Simon Reynolds
Quote Jacques Attali: “Music is a herald, for change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.” That music has stopped changing, ...
2011–08–02 Nickelodeon’s Nineties Nostalgia Block
Quote Ratings are in for Monday night’s first broadcast of the cabler’s new late-night block of late-century Nick sitcoms (All That, Clarissa ...
2011–08–02 A list of words for which the first OED quotation is from 1925
Quote a list of words for which the first OED quotation is from 1925: incl. arachnophobia, chewy, Comintern, cuppa, electron volt, enhat (i.e. provide with a ...
2011–08–02 Cold Sesame Noodles
Quote Serves 4 as a main or 6 as an appetizer 12 ounces dried spaghetti or Chinese egg noodles 2 tablespoons peanut oil 2 teaspoons minced garlic 2 ...
2011–08–02 Cold Noodles with Sesame Sauce
Quote The noodles were, in fact, just one among many other more ambitious and totally exotic Szechuan delights that Shorty would no doubt have preferred to ...
2011–07–31 “It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange”
Quote As the summer of writing papers yields to the fall of trying to find work, one is naturally much troubled by introspection — which, in my case, ...
2011–07–08 Not just one of your holiday games
Quote French law requires that a purebred dog or cat – that is, an animal belonging to one of the breeds listed in the Livre des origines francais or ...
2011–07–07 About the London Review of Breakfasts
Quote We love going out for breakfast. We love the hungry hours of anticipation before we decide on a venue. We love the splendid taste of expertly cooked, ...
2011–07–07 Duke Ellington all over the world
Quote From a 1944 interview I have special places marked for special dishes. In Taunton, Massachusetts, you can get the best chicken stew in the United ...
2011–07–05 Food stamps
Quote Food stamps also help stimulate the economy more than other forms of government spending, points out Jim Weill of Food Research and Action Centre, a ...
2011–07–04 The 27 Club
Quote 2. Dave Alexander Bassist for legendary punk band the Stooges. Died of pulmonary edema (associated with alcohol) on February 10, 1975. 3. Janis ...
2011–07–01 Marching powder
Quote In “An Anatomy of Addiction” Dr. Markel braids [Sigmund Freud and William Stewart Halsted]‘s stories intricately, intelligently and ...
2011–06–09 The Smiling Shaw Machine
Quote The Smiling Shaw Machine Dreamed 1894/4/19 by William Butler Yeats THAT DAY …I listened to [the opening performance of George Bernard ...
2011–06–08 Florence Fabricant at Txantxangorri
Quote If you do not have an earthenware casserole, you can make the whole thing, from stovetop to oven, in enameled cast iron. Rice With Rabbit Adapted ...
2011–06–08 (untitled)
Quote … the word ‘crown’ should always be either at the beginning or the end of its line, since only there can it enact itself; unlike, ...
2011–06–07 Jonathan Rosenbaum on self-hatred
Quote Although it didn’t impress me too much when I first saw it, The King of Comedy has gradually come to seem the most important and resonant of ...
2011–06–06 Select 1977 RECORDS reissues, 2000-2010
Quote 1977-S073 radio city/love and a picture 7" 1977-S072 the retreads/would you listen girl 7" 1977-S069 perfectors/YT502951D 7" 1977-S068 the ...
2011–06–06 AFI‘s ’50 Legends’
Quote Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars is a list of the top 50 greatest screen legends of American cinema, 25 ...
2011–06–05 DJ Quik at the Knitting Factory
Quote … This, though, was something different: a bare-bones showcase for Quik, in a warm-up jacket and jeans, his hair pulled tight into thin cornrows ...
2011–06–05 A Talk with Peter Falk
Quote In memory of Peter Falk, the French newspaper Liberation has posted an interview with the actor by Marie Colmant that first ran there in 1996, and ...
2011–06–04 The F.B.I.’s Most Wanted List
Quote With the death of Osama bin Laden in May and the arrest of James (Whitey) Bulger on Wednesday night in California, there are only eight fugitives now ...
2011–06–03 Christian Schwartz’s Neue Haas Grotesk
Quote Top: Neue Helvetica 95 Black; Bottom: Neue Haas Grotesk 95 Black Neue Haas Grotesk underwent its first radical transformation when it was refitted to ...
2011–06–03 H.G. Wells and Rebecca West
Quote By the early 20th century Wells was one of the most fashionable writers in Britain. He rode a bicycle. He looked forward to the formation of a ...
2011–06–02 Miles Davis: selections from the fourth blindfold test (Down Beat, 1968)
Quote 3. Archie Shepp The Funeral (Archie Shepp in Europe, Delmark, recorded 1963) Don Cherry, cornet; John Tchicai, alto saxophone; Shepp, tenor ...
2011–06–02 Miles Davis: from the third blindfold test (Down Beat, June 1964)
Quote 7. Eric Dolphy Mary Ann (from Far Cry, New Jazz). Booker Little, trumpet; Dolphy, composer, alto saxophone; Jaki Byard, piano. That’s got ...
2011–06–01 Cahiers du cinema, 12 best films of all-time from 1958
Quote In 1957, in preparation for an event at the Brussels World Fair of 1958 called the “Confrontation of the Best Films in the World”, the ...
2011–06–01 Molly Fischer on Russian Samovar
Quote “Mazel Tov!” said Philip Roth to Roman when he arrived around eight-thirty, in the middle of several Russian speeches. Roman had already ...
2011–06–01 The Tuneless Cole Porter Musical
Quote John Simon’s Esquire review called it “maybe the worst movie musical of this—or any decade”: “Sitting through this movie ...
2011–06–01 What They Ate
Quote James Baldwin (1924-1987) Though often associated with Greenwich Village and Paris, novelist and civil rights activist James Baldwin grew up in Harlem. ...
2011–05–31 Marcel Bloodthaer’s sister’s dress
Quote The Museum of Modern Art is on a mission to become a leader in American and European Conceptual art from the 1960s and ’70s. This week it ...
2011–05–31 Breakfast Martini
Quote Breakfast Martini at Fort Defiance In the morning, Fort Defiance serves the classic Breakfast Martini, developed by illustrious British bartender ...
2011–05–09 Kinda like us
Quote Consider the “special collector’s issue” of the kids’ magazine Disney Adventures devoted to “Pocahontas: The Movie, The ...
2011–05–09 NAVSPECWARDEVGRU
Quote In 1987, a new unit was formed, given the official title of “Naval Special Warfare Development Group” (abbreviated to NAVSPECWARDEVGRU, or ...
2011–05–08 Three Kay Ryan springs
Quote “Spring,” from the 26 May 2001 New Republic: It would be good to shrug out of winter as cicadas do: look: a crisp freestanding you ...
2011–05–08 Lavvi Ebbel, ‘Coffee Koffie’ (1983)
Quote Lavvi Ebbel – Kiss Me Kate Label: Les Disques Du Crepuscule, Ariola Benelux Catalog#: TWI 172, 205.488 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: ...
2011–05–08 The Grilling Hot Line Center
Quote Most of the time, Ms. Olsen said, the answer is an easy one. People sometimes simply forget to turn up heat. “You’ll tell the man the ...
2011–05–07 From ‘Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana’ (1957) by Carlo Emilio Gadda (t. William Weaver)
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2011–05–07 Malick’s ‘Tree of Life’
Quote As Mr. Malick’s films grow increasingly allusive and amorphous, he seems more than ever to find them in the editing. “Our focus was to make ...
2011–05–07 PUEBLA CELEBRATION
Quote 05.28.2011 – 05.28.2011 Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center Puebla Celebration Saturday, May 28, 2011 2-5pm Clemente Soto Velez ...
2011–05–06 Select Rich Kroneiss reviews from Terminal Boredom #28, Winter 2010
Quote Liquor Store “Free Pizza” 7” The much-anticipated debut from Jersey no-counts Liquor Store. What a novel idea…dumbasses ...
2011–05–06 Whit Stillman’s ‘Damsels In Distress’
Quote NEW YORK, NY (March 29, 2011)—Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release Oscar nominated Whit Stillman’s latest film ...
2011–05–06 Alfred Kazin’s Journals
Quote Journal keeping, for Kazin, was a ritual. He wrote regularly in his for more than half a century, and it ultimately ran to more than 7,000 pages. ...
2011–05–06 BABYCAKES
Quote RUSCHA, Ed. Babycakes. New York: Multiples Inc., 1970. 12mo.; illustrated throughout in black and white; hole punch bound with pink ribbon; green ...
2011–05–05 Masa messiah
Quote Tamales and masa, their cornmeal base, may not have the street cred of drugs, but Chingo Bling has tried to do for them what Tony Montana did for ...
2011–05–05 Nukes
Quote A key part of the Nazis’ nuclear programme was the heavy water production facility at the Norsk Hydro fertiliser plant near Rjukan in the wilds ...
2011–05–05 New restaurants in Long Island City
Quote Right next to Canz is a distinctly odd storefront place called Queens Comfort. The chef, Casey Sullivan, a recent arrival from Georgia via Kansas City ...
2011–05–04 “My Manticore”
Quote We named him Manticore, after the Robertson Davies novel (he was, after all, Canadian) and generally assumed he would be a whimsical addition to the ...
2011–05–03 Common courtesies
Quote Royal occasions offer the pleasure of mass atavism, including the revival of antediluvian words and attitudes. As journalists and newsreaders ...
2011–05–03 “A black Irish beer that disappears in the course of the creative process”
Quote Brodsky describes the daily routines of Auden, with whom he briefly stayed in Austria (I assume in Kirchstetten though the article doesn’t ...
2011–05–03 List of movies
Quote Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1000 Essential Films (chronological order)
2011–05–03 Donald Justice on Philip Larkin (1995)
Quote It has been claimed for Larkin that he was never sentimental, never brutal. But the truth is that I find him both sentimental and brutal, though in ...
2011–05–03 Emily Fragos on Emily Dickinson’s Letters
Quote Did Higginson’s corrective responses to her poems play a role in her decision not to publish under her name during her lifetime? Yes, I think so. ...
2011–05–03 Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Julian Assange
Quote HUO: She was the investigating judge. I remember reading about it when living in France at the time. It was in the daily news every day. JA: Right. So ...
2011–05–03 Donald Judd: 101 Spring Street
Image In November 68, I bought a cast-iron building in the Cast-Iron District of New York City. The building was built in 1870 and designed by Nicholas ...
2011–05–03 Dean Young: A Poet’s (Transplanted) Heart
Quote Red Glove Thrown in Rose Bush If only bodies weren’t so beautiful. Even rabbits are made of firecrackers so tiny they tickle your hand. If ...
2011–05–02 Interview With Harsh Patel
Quote Any recent trades to speak of? Yes, with two of my favorite publishers, Juan Moralejo and Benjamin Sommerhalder. I forgot what I traded Juan for a ...
2011–05–01 T.J. Clark at the V&A
Quote Albert Moore, ‘Reading Aloud’ (1883-84) First, I found myself in the exhibition repeatedly trying to decide how seriously the fine artists ...
2011–05–01 The intimate Orwell
Quote And in his famous “Some Thoughts on the Common Toad,” he added:If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a ...
2011–05–01 From ‘Homage to Catalonia’ (1938), George Orwell
Quote Early one morning another man and I had gone out to snipe at the Fascists in the trenches outside Huesca. Their line and ours here lay three hundred ...
2011–05–01 Franzen’s Ugly Americans Abroad
Quote What a wonderful insight this careless moment of blurb-talk gives us into the contemporary American mindset! We want something worldly, but if it seems ...
2011–04–30 The genius of Buster
Image Buster Keaton as Rollo Treadway in The Navigator, 1924 More than fifty years have passed since critics rediscovered Buster Keaton and pronounced him ...
2011–04–09 Bittersweet
Image Grapenut (single scoop, $3.50), one of this coffee shop’s housemade ice creams, features the wheat-and-barley cereal — which ...
2011–04–09 Torrisi’s Fried Rice With Prosciutto
Quote From the chefs of Torrisi Italian Specialties. 1 tablespoon canola oil 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 ounce sweet Italian sausage, crumbled 1/2 cup finely ...
2011–04–09 Village Voice Food Blog: 10 Best Secret Gardens
Quote Lauren ShockeyB Bar and Grill’s Expansive Outdoor Patio� 9. B Bar and Grill: Ok, so this patio isn’t 100% hidden, but if you entered on ...
2011–04–08 Frank Bruni: Torrisi Italian Specialties
Image Curry cavatelli …“That really struck me: an iconic Italian street in Chinese characters,” [Rich Torrisi] says. “I thought: we ...
2011–04–07 Michel Foucault on sexuality and solitude
Quote Now let’s turn to Augustine’s text, whose meaning is the point at which we want to arrive in our analysis. In The City of God, and later on ...
2011–04–07 Elif Batuman is a wino
Quote 1. Lowered attention span. This means I order a lot of free samples. As a former destitute graduate student, I still have a lively interest in free ...
2011–04–07 Alt Screen
Quote Event listings and alternative film screenings in NYC. Repertory revivals and advance previews, festival screenings and local premieres, in-person, ...
2011–04–07 Peter Gidal’s milk cup
Quote “When I came to New York in September,” English avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist Peter Gidal tells me, “I noticed that almost ...
2011–04–07 Anouk Aimee (b. 1932)
Image Anouk Aimee is perhaps best known for her remarkable presence as an icon of cool, sophisticated beauty in more than seventy films across seven decades, ...
2011–04–07 Gareth Williams & Marie Currie — Flaming Tunes
Image The album Flaming Tunes was recorded in collaboration with Mary Currie after Gareth Williams left This Heat in the early 1980’s and returned from ...
2011–04–07 Qaddafi to Obama
Quote In Colonel Qaddafi’s letter, addressed to “Mr. Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu Oumama,” the Libyan leader reiterated his ...
2011–04–07 How to beat a dead octopus
Quote “Some General Instructions” was one of a number of discoveries I made while going through the five-hundred-odd poems that the Review has ...
2011–04–06 Orson Welles’s Purloined Letter: F FOR FAKE
Quote I met him at La Mediterranee — the same seafood restaurant that would figure prominently in the film he was editing — and when I began by ...
2011–04–06 Sally Foster Wallace
Quote Mrs. Wallace has written just one book, an English grammar textbook called Practically Painless English. It is the only book of English grammar I know ...
2011–04–06 The tropes of ’80s commercials
Quote The “Balanced Breakfast”: So we’re all familiar with the cliche of the balanced breakfast. The weird thing, the thing I didn’t ...
2011–04–05 White Columns — Archive in Progress
Image Invitation for Gordon Matta-Clark’s ‘Open House’, May 1972, 112 Greene Street White Columns is pleased to introduce its ARCHIVE IN ...
2011–04–04 Marinetti’s cookbook
Quote ‘Prescribed doses of poetry and music’ would ‘accentuate the flavours of a given dish with their sensual intensity’. ‘A ...
2011–04–04 Eternal return
Text When the band performed Pink Flag once more at London’s Barbican Centre earlier this year, and Newman duly delivered the pointed preface to ...
2011–04–03 From the Andy Warhol Chronology: June-December 1964
Quote At Pickwick Lou Reed met John Cale. Terry Phillips, one of the owners of Pickwick met John at a party and asked him to the studios with the possibility ...
2011–04–02 The rhetoric of happiness
Quote … like Ian Leslie, I dislike the “Trendy Vicar tone“ of the happiness movement, all the “stop to think about it” / ...
2011–04–01 Offshore/Elsewhere
Quote The need for anonymity is common to all these activities, which take place in what one might call the ‘secrecy world’. Secrecy is a ...
2011–03–09 Christgau on Elvis Costello
Quote My Aim Is True [Columbia, 1977] I like the nerdy way this guy comes on, I’m fascinated by his lyrics, and I approve of his rock and roll ...
2011–03–09 Christgau in 1983
Quote Madonna [Sire, 1983] In case you bought the con, disco never died—just reverted to the crazies who thought it was worth living for. This ...
2011–03–08 Matthew Carr
Quote His sitters found Carr just as fascinating as he found them. Tall and painfully thin, despite an addiction to Cadbury’s Dairy Milk (economy ...
2011–03–08 Power cookies
Quote Due to the game’s wild success, Pac-Man became an economic term. When a company that is about to be acquired instead takes over the hostile ...
2011–03–08 Sandwiches that you will like
Quote Spiedies It’s said that the spiedie, a sandwich made of meat cooked in a manner similar to shish kebab, was introduced to America by Augustine ...
2011–03–08 The art wave
Quote [of the David Colman article on John Currin and Rachel Feinstein in the NYT Style section] I will say that it’s the conveniently swattable straw ...
2011–03–07 Chesterton on lying in bed
Quote I remember having a conversation a couple of days ago about the bases on which people are likely to discriminate against others in the future. My view ...
2011–03–07 Leo Steinberg, 1920-2011
Quote Leo Steinberg, a giant among art historians, died on Sunday in Manhattan, age 90. At the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) awards ...
2011–03–06 Proust, petit windowlicker
Quote There’s a scene in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1922) which gets at this much more elegantly than I can. Little Marcel is on the ...
2011–03–06 Zizek: ‘Good manners in the age of WikiLeaks’
Quote The ultimate show of power on the part of the ruling ideology is to allow what appears to be powerful criticism. There is no lack of anti-capitalism ...
2011–03–05 The Mr. Big Scenario
Quote Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2009, Vol. 15, No. 3, 168-193 II. The Mr. Big Technique: A Noncustodial Interrogation Procedure Generally reserved ...
2011–03–05 Butyraceous
Quote Today’s word, in association with the superlative Oxford English Dictionary, is butyraceous (adj.) (1) Of the nature of butter; buttery. (2) ...
2011–03–05 Geoff Dyer, from ‘Sleeping Under Four Stars’
Quote At this point a slight qualification is needed, namely that in some ways a room is more erotic than a suite. A suite subtly revives the division of ...
2011–03–05 Interview with Jeremiah Goodman
Quote —“I mean, what do you want to see? It’s ten times better if Yves Saint Laurent does a sweep of a drawing than somebody else drawing ...
2011–03–05 Lucy Lippard at SVA
Quote Lucy Lippard: Ghosts, the Daily News and Prophecy: Critical Landscape Photography Thursday, April 7, 7pmBased on her book The Lure of the Local: Senses ...
2011–03–05 A century of ping-pong
Quote Heller: I’m dying to ask this. What is the origin of the term? And is there any connection between the digital connotation, as in ...
2011–03–04 Peter Lorre Eyes
Quote Many jobs require such degrees in Germany, where, as is not the case in America, calling oneself doctor for having completed a thesis in, say, ...
2011–03–04 Immersive uptown gallery experience
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2011–03–04 Americans and Apricots (through 30 April 2011 at Hilary Crisp Gallery)
Image The exhibition is loosely organized around the eighth and penultimate edition of Spirale Magazine, which functions less as specific historical ...
2011–03–04 Phil Patton on the Selectric
Quote The Selectric was the centerpiece of Eliot Noyes’ s work as IBM’s chief design consultant in the late 1950s. Interviewed in the ’70s, ...
2011–03–04 Rosoff’s Victory
Image 2. Rosoff’s Victory Room, 147 West 43rd Street The Victory Room was located in Rosoff’s Hotel, owned by one Max Rosoff, who came to New ...
2011–03–04 Harsh Patel – LESSON ONE
Image Harsh Patel – LESSON ONE Although the greater extent of Harsh Patel‘s practice is producing art multiples, Lesson One focuses on a ...
2011–03–03 Jonathan Rosenbaum on Madonna
Quote Loudon Trott (Griffin Dunne), a yuppie attorney, has just been assigned to deliver a snarling cougar to an eccentric client (John Mills) when ...
2011–03–03 Jonathan Rosenbaum on Spielberg
Quote As the most gifted and congenial by far of all the New Hollywood tyros, Steven Spielberg may be the only consummate master of the post-TV movie ...
2011–03–03 (untitled)
Quote “If a certain date is given correctly in A Vision this must be the Anniversary of our marriage. Last night I had a nightmare. I was in a crowded ...
2011–03–03 (untitled)
Quote “As she and other Yeatsians know to their cost, the poet’s handwriting staggers across the page, as one critic has put it, like a ...
2011–03–01 Andrew Carmellini: Artichoke instructions
Quote … 4. When the artichokes have cooled, remove them from the pot and slice each one in half lengthwise. Using a spoon, scoop out the fibrous, furry ...
2011–03–01 Eagleton on idleness
Quote It is often forgotten how staggeringly well read [Marx] was, and what painstaking labour he invested in the literary style of his works. He was eager, ...
2011–03–01 Baidu Maps
Image Q: How do you offer a satellite-style map solution (a la Google Maps) when your government censors what can/can’t be shown in overhead photos? ...
2011–03–01 Mary Sweeney
Image “Very often, particularly in independent films, the editor ends up doing all the producing work in post-production because there is nobody else ...
2011–02–28 Archivists do not find my anecdotes amusing
Quote I guess if you think about it, archivists really wouldn’t think it’s exciting, or even that amusing, when you tell a story that wrongly ...
2011–02–28 Dwight Garner on Les Murray
Quote As it happens, Mr. Murray also resembles James Beard, the gastronome, and has written a poem comparing the moon to a baked pig’s liver. As a boy, ...
2011–02–28 Dot Dot Dot
Quote For me, Dot Dot Dot was most thought provoking and exciting when it was staring graphic design directly in the face, through the visible development of ...
2011–02–28 ‘The Museum is History’
Image The Museum of American Art opened its doors in 2004 in Berlin, in a ground floor apartment on the Frankfurter Allee 91. The MoAA is filled with ...
2011–02–28 Museum collection top tens: MoMA
Quote The ten artworks most-accessed on the website of The Museum of Modern Art. Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 Vincent van Gogh, The Starry ...
2011–02–28 John Smedley SS11 Concept
Image Our menswear collection draws inspiration from the personality of ‘The Archivist.’ Exploring the concept of a ‘collection’ in ...
2011–02–28 Can’t get enough Food
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2011–02–28 Otis Stout Bread
Image Cayuga Pure Organics near Ithaca, N.Y., has been one of the leaders of the local grain movement. It is also selling breads made with their grains that ...
2011–02–09 Martha Rosler’s kitchen mise-en-scene
Image Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition (video still), 2011. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). An Audition was but a small part of ...
2011–02–09 Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker
Quote One of the pleasures of “Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker,” a new collection of her correspondence with that magazine’s poetry ...
2011–02–09 Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies
Quote Title page of 1773 edition Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies (1757 – 1795) was a directory of prostitutes in Georgian London. It ...
2011–02–09 The other one
Quote One may or may not be familiar with the Daily Universal Register, but people are almost certainly familiar with the newspaper it became, the Times. It ...
2011–02–08 Talking drum
Quote Kele is a tonal language with two sharply distinct tones. Each syllable is either low or high. The drum language is spoken by a pair of drums with the ...
2011–02–07 Matisse’s typography
Image Pages 26-27 of Florilege des amours by Pierre de Ronsard, Paris, Albert Skira, 1948. Lithograph, 38.1 × 29.2 cm. Le guignon, 1930-1932, from ...
2011–02–07 Joyce/Matisse
Image Limited edition of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator, and one of 250 signed by the author. Designed by George Macy, this is the twelfth and final ...
2011–02–05 Jonathan Rosenbaum on Alain Resnais
Quote Barring only the octogenarian Robert Bresson, who may never shoot again, Resnais is incontestably the greatest living French filmmaker, and quite ...
2011–02–04 Extradition in the E.U.
Quote The Swedish definition of ‘rape’ is wider than in the UK, where some form or degree of coercion is required. Much of the press comment on ...
2011–02–04 ; )
Quote Q: I just read a blog post about why sending someone a “wink” on a dating Web site is stupid. This seemed like a reasonable argument to ...
2011–02–04 Urgh! A Chicken War
Quote A Chicken War in New York, as Afghans Rule Roost By DAN BILEFSKY Abdul Haye, armed with the trademark for the Kennedy Fried Chicken brand, has ...
2011–02–02 ‘Pathography’ ?
Image Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) Douglas Coupland: … we’ve obviously entered the age of near total medicalization of personality. To write a ...
2011–02–01 Simplifying crumpled paper
Quote The ridges and valleys on a crumpled piece of paper look complex. But there may be only two basic types of formations, which can be stitched together ...
2011–02–01 ‘The Icicle Thief’
Quote The film’s Italian title Ladri di saponette, a play on the Italian title of De Sica’s film, means “Soap Thieves”; it is ...
2011–02–01 A.O. Scott on ‘No Strings Attached’
Quote Let me check my notes. The name of this one is “No Strings Attached,” and it also stars Ashton Kutcher, a perfectly nice-looking fellow and ...
2011–02–01 Interview with Ted Bafaloukos
Image Did you make many friends? I was there for so many years, I had to make friends, to open up all my cards. I did not have many, but I wanted everyone ...
2011–02–01 Letters on the raging peloton
Quote Wasn’t it Jarry, mentioned by Iain Sinclair, who used a revolver instead of a bicycle bell? And didn’t he reassure a pregnant woman who ...
2011–02–01 A conversation between Stephen Willats and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Quote Please join us for A conversation between Stephen Willats and Hans Ulrich Obrist Originally published in 1973 by Gallery House Press and long out of ...
2011–02–01 Archives: 1968-1972 Walker Performing Arts flyers
Image Here is another (slightly overwhelming) group of images from our archives: a series of performing arts pamphlets from the late 1960�s/early 70�s ...
2011–01–09 Parts of Chopin
Image Cast of Chopin’s left hand by Clesinger Many people who had not been present at Chopin’s death would later claim to have been there. ...
2011–01–09 (untitled)
Quote “And this man with whom I am comfortable kayaks in the summer all over the world, in Alaska, the Aleutians, where Inuits since the Ice Age have ...
2011–01–08 James Agee on ‘Les enfants du paradis’
Quote Children of Paradise, which Jacques Prevert and Marcel Carne produced and directed in France during the war, is close to perfection of its kind and I ...
2011–01–07 A dubious seduction strategy
Quote I would love to read a book with really excellent dialogue (as in, clever but recognizable as spontaneous human speech). I feel that reading good ...
2011–01–07 Jacques Derrida interviews Ornette Coleman
Video Coleman tells a story of his early days as a professional musician and a lesson he learned about the bitter practicalities of artistic creation: I was ...
2011–01–06 Interview with Experimental Jetset, from “If We’re Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants, What Are We Reaching For?” by Rudy Vanderlans
Quote EXPERIMENTAL JETSET: “For us, one of the many ways to underline the physical, material qualities of a design is through the use of ...
2011–01–05 Jeff Koons v. Park Life store
Quote From the Complaint for Declaratory Relief; Demand for Jury Trial Filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, San ...
2011–01–05 The plain beauty of well-made things (Donald Judd’s writing)
Quote The excerpt begins: Until lately art has been one thing and everything else something else. These structures are art and so is everything made. ...
2011–01–04 Writers’ rooms: Heston Blumenthal
Image Photograph by Eamonn McCabe This is the Fat Duck’s development kitchen, also known as the lab. Before we got this space I was in a garden shed ...
2011–01–03 Twice Removed
Image Twice Removed: A Survey of Take Away Work Encountering the “take away” artwork, consisting of unlimited or large-run editions whose ...
2011–01–02 Godard on E-Books
Image “What I call time is this,” he said, as he opened the book and flipped its pages back and forth. “For the electronic book, ...
2011–01–02 Hypnic Jerk
Quote A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, or night start, is an involuntary myoclonic twitch which occurs during hypnagogia, just as the subject is ...
2011–01–02 Pals For Life / Life For Pals
Image Actual Size Los Angeles is pleased to announce, Pals or Pals for Life / Life for Pals, a teleplay about the dialectics of friendship under the strain ...
2011–01–02 From Samuel Beckett, ‘More Pricks Than Kicks’ (1934)
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2011–01–02 Pancake people
Quote Description of the Internet generation, whose knowledge is wide but shallow. Writing for The Huffington Post in December, Marshall P. Duke commented on ...
2010–12–31 Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century
Quote The Stranger (The Outsider), Albert Camus (1942) Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust (1913-1927) The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925) The Little Prince, ...
2010–12–31 Four poems by Richard Meier
Quote Tables for two Sometimes we eat at a broad, thick farmhouse table, with drawers above our laps where cold, bone-handled knives lie ...
2010–12–31 Surgery Degree Zero
Quote Year-Zero FaceTerm for the ageless visage created with fillers, Botox, chemical peels, and the like. Writing for The Guardian, Eva Wiseman ...
2010–12–31 Nilsson Sings Newman (1970)
Quote Nilsson often reminds the listener that he is listening to the recording of a studio album. Nilsson’s voice in the control room is heard on ...
2010–12–31 Huysmans’ Bus Ticket
Image A couple of weeks ago I posted on my blog the cover art for a 1959 Penguin edition of J.-K. Huysmans’ Against Nature, in ‘a new translation ...
2010–12–31 Auden reviews Tolkien
Quote This idea appears repackaged in a much later poem on the Soviet invasion of Prague:August 1968 The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible ...
2010–12–09 Some people’s cows can moo
Quote The Russians missed no opportunity to criticize Washington over the leaks. On Thursday, in Moscow, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin said that the West ...
2010–12–08 In the Heart of the Heart of a Color (1976)
Quote In its reliance here on metaphor, language shows us how separate its function must always be from that of sensation. The philosopher’s point Mr. ...
2010–12–06 Becherovka
Image A bottle of Becherovka, a bitters made in the Czech Republic and bottled at 38% ABV. Becherovka listen (help.info) is an herbal bitters made in ...
2010–12–06 James Wood on Keith Moon
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2010–12–06 The Essential House Book
Image ALL TEXT AND IMAGES TAKEN FROM THE ESSENTIAL HOUSE BOOK BY TERENCE CONRAN, 1994; “THIS TOO SHALL PASS AWAY [FOR FREDDY]” BY XIU XIU, FROM ...
2010–12–05 This keeps happening to me
Quote Argh
2010–12–04 Icelandic Art News
Image In may 1965 an article in Morgunbla, Reykjavik’s most widely-read newspaper, announcing a Musica Nova concert with composer and pianist Nam June ...
2010–12–04 Response to ‘Generation Why?’
Quote To the Editors:I’m old enough that any thoughts I have on social networking are of limited value [Zadie Smith, “The Social Network,” ...
2010–12–03 ‘Supercalifragalistic’: Dick Van Dyke’s musical memories
Quote “I hear you like to harmonize,” he said. “I love to harmonize,” Van Dyke replied, and invited the man and his friends to come ...
2010–12–01 Donald Barthelme’s Syllabus
Image SYLLABUS P. 2 SYLLABUS P. 3
2010–11–08 An Interview With Alan Stillman
Quote NCR: Where were those people hanging out before you opened your bar? Stillman: At the time, it was all cocktail parties. What would happen is that on ...
2010–11–08 Christgau on Prince’s ‘Dirty Mind’
Quote Prince Dirty Mind [Warner Bros., 1980] After going gold in 1979 as an utterly uncrossedover falsetto love man, he takes care of the songwriting, ...
2010–11–04 (untitled)
Quote I was eating some Fish and Chips the other day. The first french-fry I absent-mindedly put in my mouth was, by a large margin, the absolute worst item ...
2010–11–03 Disappearing Ink
Image Hans Haacke: News, 1969/2008 I left the New Museum’s “The Last Newspaper”—a show that sets out to explore the relation between ...
2010–11–03 Girolamo dai Libri: Madonna and Child with Saints (20.92)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Image Madonna and Child with Saints (detail), altarpiece, ca. 1520 Girolamo dai Libri (Italian, Veronese, 1474/75-1555) Tempera and oil on canvas Arched top, ...
2010–11–03 Tim Lincecum
Quote … Outfielder Cody Ross, who scored on Edgar Renteria’s decisive three-run homer off Cliff Lee in the seventh inning Monday, said Lincecum ...
2010–11–02 On “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”
Quote Exo: grand statement alert: Exo: Kanye’s most emblematic quality has been his willingness to speak ego to power. that’s sorely missed by ...
2010–11–01 Fits and starts
Quote Toddlers and Tiaras. My present intrigue is the walk/dance of “glitz” contestants when they’re modeling swimsuits/talenting. ...
2010–10–31 Because Samuel Beckett already writes the way he does
Quote Mark McGurl, quoted by Elif Batuman, argues that the ‘ultimate commitment’ of the discipline of creative writing ‘is not to knowledge ...
2010–10–31 Marilyn Monroe’s Stuffing
Quote Scrawled on stationery with a letterhead from a title insurance company, the recipe describes in some detail how to prepare a stuffing for chicken or ...
2010–10–08 The Barthes who painted water colors
Quote Barthes has always been one of my favorite authors. He is really a writer, not just a theorist or critic. What I particularly like is that he is really ...
2010–10–07 Mainly Spaniards – 1982 – That’s What Friends Are For 7’‘ (NZ)
Image Mainly Spaniards – 1982 – That’s What Friends Are For 7’‘ (NZ) download@rapidshare
2010–10–07 Bad Boy Mixtape Vol. 3, 1996
Image Stretch Armstrong & Puff Daddy: Bad Boy Mixtape Vol. 3 (1996) Medafire Side A: 01. The Lox & The Notorious B.I.G. – Freestyle 02. Nas, ...
2010–10–06 The Riptides – Sunset Strip 7” (1978)
Quote DOWNLOAD Video de “77 Sunset Strip”
2010–10–06 Aesthetic Judgment and Its Suspension
Quote The suspension of aesthetic judgment can be liberating. Not having to worry at every moment about “how good it is” is a foundational ...
2010–10–05 Privacy is history, 1888
Quote In Silicon Valley Paris, the software coder Mark Zuckerberg the gossip reporter George Flack pitches his idea for a new kind of social-networking site ...
2010–10–05 Favorite kitchen tool: spoon
Quote The best tools are the simplest tools. The above spoon sat around among my stove-side utensils, lonely and forlorn, seldom used. Just a spoon, after ...
2010–10–02 Frank Santoro on comics’ framing devices
Image (Grids in North American comics.) … Also, most grids in comics fluctuate – the panel size may be uniform for a page, but often not for a ...
2010–10–02 Mexican Authorities Burn 134 Tons of Marijuana
Image And so up in smoke went the equivalent of a few hundred million joints in what Mexican authorities called the largest seizure of the drug in the ...
2010–10–02 Hotel Slang (1939)
Quote CAVE | Guest room. TO CLIMB THE CLEATS | To use the stairs. COMP | Non-paying guest. CRACK | Prostitute. CROCK | Bottle; drunken person. ...
2010–10–02 Osborne’s Kidney Cuts
Quote An extract from George Osborne’s statement in the House of Commons on the 2010 Spending Review: I am grateful to the work of my right honourable ...
2010–10–02 Sorry, we didn’t know you were invisible
Quote That the stealth submarine is currently so hard to miss brings to mind the mocking Serbian apology offered in 1999 after its military shot down an ...
2010–09–08 Thomas Mann on smoking
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2010–09–08 Wimple Winch 4 track acetate
Quote Was this a proposed EP for release in 17th January 1967? This 10 inch Fontana acetate brings together all tracks from their 2 singles with the ...
2010–09–08 The problem with Shakespearean authorship theories
Quote Imagine an aristocrat, an enormously gifted polymath of the early 17th century. He produces two bodies of literary work: the first, under his own name, ...
2010–09–07 A reality that exists largely independent of our convictions
Quote Thomas Nagel, in his review of my book Natural Reflections, mistakenly infers that I do not ‘believe in’ a ‘reality that exists ...
2010–09–07 Pizza Obsessives: Colin the ‘Slice Harvester’
Quote Wow. That made me hungry and I just had breakfast…. Um, let’s see, what’s next on the list here … What’s your favorite ...
2010–09–07 Interview with Phil Schaap
Quote Can you name all the WKCR jazz festivals? Let’s see if I can name them all — I betcha I can. The first one was Albert Ayler in the fall of ...
2010–09–06 Meghan O’Rourke, Poetry, “Apartment Living,” The New Yorker, September 20, 2010, p. 63
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2010–09–04 Mayhew’s novel idea
Quote Literary works are about exactly what they seem to be about.
2010–09–04 Annotation: Recycled Ideas and Bottles
Quote At February’s “The Medium Was Tedium” panel discussion at the New Museum (and later, in his contribution to issue 9), artist Mel ...
2010–09–03 “Vows”—Ariana Rockefeller and Matthew Bucklin
Quote A puff of white cloud strayed across a powder-blue sky as Ms. Rockefeller walked the aisle of fresh cut grass in a Monique Lhuillier embroidered lace ...
2010–09–02 Jonathan Rosenbaum: Fritz Lang “Spione”
Quote Lang shares with Orson Welles a taste for using powerful authoritarian figures to forge a kind of autocritique of his own artistic practice and its ...
2010–09–01 “About seventy per cent of the world’s tufted carpet is…
Quote “About seventy per cent of the world’s tufted carpet is produced in the vicinity of Dalton, Georgia, according to the Carpet and Rug ...
2010–08–31 Frank Kermode’s cannabis plant
Quote What first grabbed my attention was not Kermode sitting there in his tennis whites, but rather the large near-to-flowering cannabis plant growing from ...
2010–08–09 Anthony Lane on “Get Low”
Quote “One thing about Chicago: people knew how to die,” Quinn says of happier days. When I tell you that Quinn is played by Bill Murray, you ...
2010–08–07 The Freshies, ‘My Tape’s Gone’
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2010–08–07 Rodolfo Fogwill obituary
Quote A brilliant description of life underground during the conflict, Fogwill stressed that the book was above all a “mental experiment”. ...
2010–08–01 Sorts of Success
Quote Stefan Collini notes that Graham Greene became the literary editor of Night and Day, which folded within a year (LRB, 5 August). In fact, Greene was ...
2010–08–01 My brother on ‘Seinfeld’
Quote “Neurotic narcissists prove unable to help each other.” – October Hare‘s seven-word summary of Seinfeld In each episode of ...
2010–07–31 The Hollinwell collapse
Quote How the mysterious collapse of nearly 300 young musicians at a rural English fete became one of the most controversial examples of ‘mass ...
2010–07–31 When the Republicans were right
Quote When the House of Representatives passed the 19th Amendment in May 1919 it did so by 304 votes to 89, with Democrats only 104 to 70 in favour but ...
2010–07–31 Poptimist #32
Quote V is for Virtue (and Vice): Guilty pleasures appeal as a concept because the feeling you oughtn’t to be enjoying something is a really powerful, ...
2010–07–09 Tom Stoppard returns to BBC with Ford Madox Ford adaptation
Quote Playwright’s five-part BBC2 version of the first world war story Parade’s End will be his first projects for corporation since 1970sTom ...
2010–07–03 Jerry Devo’s Belushi Coke Yarn and Other Stories
Quote Crawdaddy!: Didn’t the immortal Fred Willard host the episode of SNL you did? Casale: Yeah, I think so. I think—wasn’t Martin Mull on ...
2010–07–03 Mark Twain on interviewing
Quote By some cosmic fluke, the Mark Twain Foundation has just released a previously unpublished essay (written circa 1889 or 1890) by the great writer ...
2010–07–03 Improbable research
Quote In the ordinary eating of shredded wheat biscuit with milk or cream, if a thin milk is used and the biscuit is allowed to soak even for a comparatively ...
2009–10–08 Les cahiers purple, Elein Fleiss
Quote “I think most Purple Fashion readers are new readers, if you can call them readers, I think they’re part of these people that go through ...
2009–10–07 Discontinuities in maggots
Quote Michael Berry’s old Physics Today article on singular limits opens with this brilliant analogy:Biting into an apple and finding a maggot is bad ...
2009–10–04 Damien Hirst: Dead on Arrival
Quote “They’re thoroughly derivative. Their handling is weak. They’re extremely boring. I’m not saying that he’s absolutely ...
2009–10–01 Society #40
Quote September 2009 When I arrived on the train in Seattle, I was supposed to be picked up by two people I had never met. Their names were Kari and Abby, ...
2009–09–09 The phenomenon of “swing”
Quote The phenomenon of “swing” has received a lot of attention. Does it swing or doesn’t it? Today I’d like to consider another ...
2009–09–09 A Wikipedia Reader, 2009
Quote A Wikipedia Reader, 2009. Now online for download and for pre-purchase.
2009–09–08 Guy Kibbee Eggs
Quote An egg fried in the center of a holed-out slice of bread goes by many names. One of them, Guy Kibbee eggs, originated because an actor named Guy Kibbee ...
2009–09–01 Siedlung
Quote Got to meet Erik at Motto’s book fair and picked up a copy of Siedlung, published by one of my all-time favorite imprints, Roma. Van der ...
2009–08–08 #329 — Highest Common Denominator
Quote An increase in scale does not always entail reductiveness: one effect of the best mass culture is to trace or forge the connections among the ...
2009–07–08 Thread: ‘RobMix—tell us about MJ!!!’
Quote One morning MJ came in with a new song he had written overnight. We called in a guitar player, and Michael sang every note of every chord to him. ...
2009–07–04 Wylie Dufresne’s Garlic Bread
Quote We roast off several heads of garlic in foil and then put that through the food mill and blend it with some raw parsley and some butter. You get this ...
2009–06–04 Take “Dixieland” jazz
Quote Take “Dixieland” jazz. Armstrong’s Hot 5 and Hot 7 sessions are perfectly listenable today. They still sound fresh and new. But any ...
2009–06–04 The exact acoustic shape of the skies above Los Angeles
Quote An email was sent out last week from the Regional Public & Private Infrastructure Collaboration Systems (RPPICS) — an organization with no ...
2009–05–03 Nick Lowe, ‘Bowi’
Image On this date in 1977, Nick Lowe released his first EP and called it Bowi. Nick Lowe used to feign annoyance that David Bowie had released an album ...
2009–05–02 After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman
Quote With the choice of Carol Ann Duffy, the post held by such poets as Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Ted Hughes went to a woman for the first time.
2009–03–31 New Jack Swing video party
Quote I was driving to work this morning and took a left turn instead of the usual right turn and next thing I knew, I was in New Jack City. The clouds ...
2009–02–08 (untitled)
Quote One of the coolest grids of all time is Karl Gerstner’s grid for Captial magazine. Based on subdividing a square into 58 equal units, Gerstner ...
2009–02–04 James Wood’s best books since 1945 (Circa 1994)
Quote I had never seen the list – it's not available online – until Nicholas Richards, one of my readers, forwarded me a PDF of the original ...

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