2008

Jul

Just seeing the words “Wale” and “Blu...
Jul 4th
Top 10 albums of 2008 (thus far)
Jul 4th
“Many people treat their five senses with a certain respect...”
— Lydia Davis, from...
Jul 2nd
Derek Love constructed a consumer diary of sorts: the brands...
Jul 2nd
Listen Listen
Wale, “The Vacation from Ourselves,” (featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus) from The Mixtape...
Jul 2nd

Jun

In the NYTimes, a guy from IBM tells you how...
Jun 30th
publish date june 9th???!!! how did i miss...
Jun 29th

Full disclosure is the sincerest form of...

I knew about this place long before they opened - their website would show up on google searches for...
Jun 24th
perpetualstateofflux: And treats your body as well as she...
Jun 20th

So tired

noraleah: brieflynoted: What is my deal? I can barely keep my eyes open today? I don’t get it. I...
Jun 20th
Max Silvestri's The Big Terrific at Sound...
Jun 19th
Hot damn. This is the best article I've ever...
Jun 18th
“‘You must be a genius.’ He didn’t offer to...”
— Saul Bellow
Jun 16th
“Beside-itself humanity, hurrying, hurrying, with liquid...”
— Saul Bellow, The Adventures of...
Jun 16th
Bay Street, Sag Harbor, NY. That, my friends, is $5/ gallon...
Jun 14th
Warch Watch
noraleah: Nick and I at the “America’s Hottest College Girl” party. In the spirit of hot chicks...
Jun 6th
NYTimes chronicles German author who writes...
Jun 6th
ericlodwick: (via jakec) Gabe Perez, you’ve got me...
Jun 6th
from the Post-Star, my hometown newspaper in the Adirondack...
Jun 5th
Listen Listen
The Proclaimers, “Over and Done With.” From Bottle Rocket Have been looking for this for...
Jun 5th
Listen Listen
Lil Wayne, “Mrs. Officer.” Tha Carter III
Jun 4th
Tha Carter III was the most anticipated record of 2007. Lil...
Jun 4th

May

Dinner on Tuesday night at Mike Cirino’s. He started...
May 30th
The "Fry-Grease Theft" article in the New...
May 30th
ericlodwick: ?  I think Eric Lodwick has stumbled across a...
May 26th
The Baruch College Library, 1:30am. The place is packed.
May 22nd
“And it is not enough to have memories. You must be...
May 21st

Brian Quinn Website Retrospective.

I realize now (in my post-weekend haze) that I completely forgot to thank the extraordinary Brian...
May 21st
Special thanks to William, Marty, Nick,Steph, Pablo,...
May 19th
nickbennettusa: Oh yea… So this photograph by Amelia...
May 17th
After a week of prose in fits and starts, I finished this...
May 16th
“History would pass over Mrs. Colombo like a tractor, and she...”
— About the one-breasted,...
May 16th
“Our president’s latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi...”
— Thomas Friedman, New York...
May 9th
TONIGHT. I’m DJing a benefit in Tribeca with my friend...
May 8th
OK, Diddy just showed up.
May 8th
HOVA. With Memphis Bleek. I came back for a second night
May 8th
Lighting (feat. JayZ & Mary J Blige) at MSG
May 7th
Stephin Merritt writes a musical!
May 2nd
Listen Listen
The Replacements, “I Will Dare” (1984)
May 1st

"Bacon and cigarettes, a lousy dinner....

…not sure what brought this about, but I’ve been listening to The Replacements for...
May 1st

Apr

Steph's Photo of our dear friend William, who...
Apr 25th

McCain Watch #1

noraleah: “…as John McCain not only consolidates his own party but encroaches on theirs by boldly...
Apr 23rd

Generated.

I spent the weekend catching up on Boulevard’s past few issues. It’s one of the few...
Apr 21st
“Some recruits, though not on any network payroll, were...”
— The NYT admits it too was a...
Apr 20th
“Even analysts with no defense industry ties, and no fondness...”
— From the NYT article on...
Apr 20th
An extraordinary piece of journalism just hit...
Apr 20th

W&L After-Party. Saturday at 11:30pm.

For the Passover-challenged: There’s an after-dinner party at my apartment this Saturday with...
Apr 17th
Apr 17th

Mailer You Significant Bastard.

So I’ve started doing something I’ve put off for years and years. New Years Day 2005, 4...
Apr 17th
“Though he is now pushing seventy, he is still going strong....”
— Gay Talese, on the...
Apr 17th
If you’ve ever wandered aimlessly through New York...
Apr 17th
After years of listening to the same four songs (which...
Apr 16th
Warch Watch
eec: Gil-Scott Heron - The Bottle  There needs to be a “Museum of New York in the...
Apr 13th
Warch Watch
oats: my video from Frosty Freeze Benefit Jam… Camera by Mark. A...
Apr 12th
Breakdancin. West 92nd.
Apr 12th
About a month ago, my neighbors Daniel and David invited me...
Apr 10th
Listen Listen
Elliott Smith, Waltz #2 (XO), The Steamboat 05.03.03 
Apr 9th
A few weeks shy of five years ago, Elliott Smith played an extraordinary set in Austin that’s...
Apr 9th

Weekend Invention #1: Poached Garlic...

I made a new salad dressing in about 6 minutes, 9:45pm, Saturday. Here’s the recipe: -6 cloves...
Apr 8th

Weekend Invention #2: Habanero & Honey...

Ok, I didn’t invent this (as I’m sure someone’s made this before…...
Apr 8th
…it’s back to tranquil domesticity here at the...
Apr 7th
Week Two of the United Artists Retrospective...
Apr 7th

Tumblr Meetup

ericlodwick: chainchewinggum: nycmeetups: Rollcall, who is coming? Kinda want to go to one of...
Apr 2nd

Mar

I went aboard a cargo vessel as Nick’s guest. I...
Mar 31st

Tumblr Meetup at Whisk&Ladle

sharingtime: It’s time for another meetup! Instead of congregating at a bar, we’re doing things a...
Mar 31st

(Silence...)

ericlodwick: I just deleted about 40 gigs worth of music. :(:(:(:(  My worst nightmare. I have...
Mar 28th

Today's Articles of Note

Today’s NY Times was a watered-down glass of Crystal Light; I went on a bit of a soft-news...
Mar 28th
I stayed at a house upstate a few weeks ago and found this...
Mar 27th
“Wasn’t it noticeable at the end of the (First World)...”
— Walter Benjamin, The...
Mar 27th
Richard Widmark Dead at 93
Mar 26th

Today's Articles of Note

Torch Relay’s Passage Through Tibet from Human Rights Watch. The Financial System: What Went Wrong...
Mar 25th
My student Jacob laced his shoes with the Star of David....
Mar 23rd

Needed: News Tumblr

jakoblodwick: streeter: Will somone either point me to or make a tumblr that just posts little...
Mar 21st
“Perception can force you to crawl on God’s great stone...”
Mar 20th
This article in the New York Times about the...
Mar 20th

Benefits of Strategic Recovery

oats: After nine days of not lifting weights, I had an amazing workout yesterday. I can tell...
Mar 18th

Weekly Items of Note.

BLK JKS at New Museum,  Thursday. Also Thursday: Robert Klein on 1970s Stand-Up at the 92nd St...
Mar 18th

In. That. Order.

noraleah: from The New York Magazine Getting-to-know-you Questionnaire What makes someone a New...
Mar 15th
I've added "Running" over to your right.
Mar 15th
“No doubt this is one of the most x-treme confidential...
Mar 14th
Now that Danielle is making ice creams for Sweetwater, and...
Mar 14th

Crane on the Train.

Read this tonight underneath 14th Street. Excerpted from Hart Crane’s The...
Mar 14th
 Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood Hills. 3.09.08
Mar 13th

On A National Day of Silence.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve repeated myself to someone who has askedme a...
Mar 13th
The Wednesday Night Risotto Massacre.
Mar 13th
So for those of you who haven’t seen Kyle in about a...
Mar 12th
noraleah:  …them’s fighting words. Sure, I’ve always...
Mar 12th
A strange vision of the plastic folk apocalypse, as a Lego...
Mar 12th

Los Angeles Soundtrack.

In a rush to JFK for a flight to LA, a Mustang convertible waiting for me at LAX. No time to burn...
Mar 12th

Charitables.

At the beginning of last week, Norah “donated” a dinner reservation for two at the...
Mar 10th

On returning to winter's last gasp.

I’m on my way back to New York after a long weekend in Los Angeles. This stanza by Wallace...
Mar 10th
Coffee cubbies, Groundworks Organic Roasters, Venice CA.
Mar 10th
Another solid recommendation.
Mar 9th
Book recommendations at Book Soup, W. Sunset Blvd
Mar 9th

Life of Harry Crosby

I’d pick nearly any other genre of book besides biography, but here I am reading one. There...
Mar 9th
““For the sake of art, it was his preposterous ambition...”
Mar 9th
Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, taken two hours before they were...
Mar 5th

Sean Flynn

In Dispatches, Michael Herr’s account as a correspondent in Vietnam, he tells incredible...
Mar 5th

Kids watching television.

Wolfram Hahn’s photographs of children ages 3-12 watching television. The viewer sees adult...
Mar 4th
Chewbaca in Lego. FAO Schwartz.
Mar 1st

Feb

Take a look at this article in the NY Times...
Feb 29th
(via garfieldminusgarfield) I’m loving this website. 
Feb 29th
Miles Davis, Tribute To Jack Johnson, 1971
Feb 28th
Teo Macero died last week.
Feb 28th
Circus Skills. Kat and William at the House of YES
Feb 28th

Lil Wayne

I ran into an acquaintance’s girlfriend on Friday, on my way to see The Roots. She said...
Feb 27th
“Forget a good or even great show; what they got, instead,...”
— How the fuck did I miss this...
Feb 27th
““And so, if my memory serves me right, here’s my...”
Feb 25th

Saturday Night's Tea Menu

oats: Tonight I had the pleasure of serving tea to a very large audience (thanks Mark). This menu...
Feb 24th
Black Thought soloing. The Roots, Apollo Theater.
Feb 23rd

Stocks.

Only the Lobster eludes me. I make stocks for the W&L. I’ve...
Feb 22nd

Duck Stock Recipe.

Whole duck, roasted and cleaned of meat 5 yellow onions, rough chop (all below should be roughly...
Feb 22nd

Invisible Man

I read it four years ago and gained only the lessons I did not want to learn. I had just finished my...
Feb 22nd
“There being no “hired help” in the...
Feb 21st
Rail and cruise ship menus make up a large part of the...
Feb 21st
Feb 21st

Visit to the Menu Archive.

Yesterday afternoon, I visited the New York City’s Menu Archive, which is housed in the Rare...
Feb 21st
You can buy photographs of pot from my...
Feb 20th
Complete Poetry fills a mere 145 pages. The volume is 800...
Feb 19th
I spent Forty Bills on The Complete Poems of Hart Crane. I...
Feb 19th
Photo by C. Leombruno
Feb 17th
One of my oldest friends, Chris Leombruno,...
Feb 17th
Feb 15th
I’m hosting Jelly today. Jelly is a co-working session for other self-employed and...
Feb 15th
Seconds later (new condos for N4th St)
Feb 14th
On the way to Oslo, 4pm.
Feb 14th
Warch Watch
Pourin on the “Milkalicious,” the Rolling Stones from 1964.
Feb 14th
Industrial History of Williamsburg...
Feb 13th
An extremely confusing explanation of the...
Feb 12th
Pomelo
Feb 12th

Jazz, Content, Etc.

Two fascinating posts that I haven’t had time to look over and consider until tonight (excerpted,...
Feb 12th
via The Rye Centennial.
Feb 8th

On the Fear of Chickens.

A lot of emails I receive are either asking me for something (94%) or responding to something...
Feb 8th
Picasso 1907.
Feb 8th

On Les Demoiselles.

Leafing through, but trying desperately not to read (for the 3rd time), Walter Benjamin’s The...
Feb 8th
I will absolutely see you there.
Feb 7th
Warning: This is just a link to a flying...
Feb 7th
RSVP here to get free entry to the Apes &...
Feb 7th
Duchess Clothier
Feb 7th
Feb 7th

Gulag, Blogs, Prisoners Online.

Solzhenitsyn is changing me. I highly recommend him. The Gulag Archipelago tells the story of his...
Feb 7th
topherchris: CNN thinks we’re stupid. Me, You, and US  I...
Feb 6th

Menu Archive

The W&L was asked by the Menu Archive of the NYPL to submit past menus and a photograph of our...
Feb 5th

Soundtrack Miles

A friend asked me to pick a great song. Just one, and email it. This sounds difficult. One song?...
Feb 5th
Listen Listen
Miles Davis, Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Take 1), 1958