2008

Just seeing the words “Wale” and “Blu...

Top 10 albums of 2008 (thus far)

“Many people treat their five senses with a certain respect...”
— Lydia Davis, from...

Derek Love constructed a consumer diary of sorts: the brands...

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In the NYTimes, a guy from IBM tells you how...

publish date june 9th???!!! how did i miss...

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...

perpetualstateofflux: And treats your body as well as she...

So tired

noraleah: brieflynoted: What is my deal? I can barely keep my eyes open today? I don’t get it. I...

Max Silvestri's The Big Terrific at Sound...

Hot damn. This is the best article I've ever...

“‘You must be a genius.’ He didn’t offer to...”
— Saul Bellow

“Beside-itself humanity, hurrying, hurrying, with liquid...”
— Saul Bellow, The Adventures of...

Bay Street, Sag Harbor, NY. That, my friends, is $5/ gallon...

NYTimes chronicles German author who writes...

ericlodwick: (via jakec) Gabe Perez, you’ve got me...

from the Post-Star, my hometown newspaper in the Adirondack...

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Tha Carter III was the most anticipated record of 2007. Lil...

Dinner on Tuesday night at Mike Cirino’s. He started...

The "Fry-Grease Theft" article in the New...

ericlodwick: ?  I think Eric Lodwick has stumbled across a...

The Baruch College Library, 1:30am. The place is packed.

“And it is not enough to have memories. You must be...

Brian Quinn Website Retrospective.

I realize now (in my post-weekend haze) that I completely forgot to thank the extraordinary Brian...

Special thanks to William, Marty, Nick,Steph, Pablo,...

nickbennettusa: Oh yea… So this photograph by Amelia...

After a week of prose in fits and starts, I finished this...

“History would pass over Mrs. Colombo like a tractor, and she...”
— About the one-breasted,...

“Our president’s latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi...”
— Thomas Friedman, New York...

TONIGHT. I’m DJing a benefit in Tribeca with my friend...

OK, Diddy just showed up.

HOVA. With Memphis Bleek. I came back for a second night

Lighting (feat. JayZ & Mary J Blige) at MSG

Stephin Merritt writes a musical!

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

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

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

McCain Watch #1

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

Generated.

I spent the weekend catching up on Boulevard’s past few issues. It’s one of the few...

“Some recruits, though not on any network payroll, were...”
— The NYT admits it too was a...

“Even analysts with no defense industry ties, and no fondness...”
— From the NYT article on...

An extraordinary piece of journalism just hit...

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

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

Mailer You Significant Bastard.

So I’ve started doing something I’ve put off for years and years. New Years Day 2005, 4...

“Though he is now pushing seventy, he is still going strong....”
— Gay Talese, on the...

If you’ve ever wandered aimlessly through New York...

After years of listening to the same four songs (which...

Breakdancin. West 92nd.

About a month ago, my neighbors Daniel and David invited me...

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A few weeks shy of five years ago, Elliott Smith played an extraordinary set in Austin that’s...

Weekend Invention #1: Poached Garlic...

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

Weekend Invention #2: Habanero & Honey...

Ok, I didn’t invent this (as I’m sure someone’s made this before…...

…it’s back to tranquil domesticity here at the...

Week Two of the United Artists Retrospective...

Tumblr Meetup

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

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

Tumblr Meetup at Whisk&Ladle

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

(Silence...)

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

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...

I stayed at a house upstate a few weeks ago and found this...

“Wasn’t it noticeable at the end of the (First World)...”
— Walter Benjamin, The...

Richard Widmark Dead at 93

Today's Articles of Note

Torch Relay’s Passage Through Tibet from Human Rights Watch. The Financial System: What Went Wrong...

My student Jacob laced his shoes with the Star of David....

Needed: News Tumblr

jakoblodwick: streeter: Will somone either point me to or make a tumblr that just posts little...

“Perception can force you to crawl on God’s great stone...”

This article in the New York Times about the...

Benefits of Strategic Recovery

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

Weekly Items of Note.

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

In. That. Order.

noraleah: from The New York Magazine Getting-to-know-you Questionnaire What makes someone a New...

I've added "Running" over to your right.

“No doubt this is one of the most x-treme confidential...

Now that Danielle is making ice creams for Sweetwater, and...

Crane on the Train.

Read this tonight underneath 14th Street. Excerpted from Hart Crane’s The...

 Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood Hills. 3.09.08

On A National Day of Silence.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve repeated myself to someone who has askedme a...

The Wednesday Night Risotto Massacre.

So for those of you who haven’t seen Kyle in about a...

noraleah:  …them’s fighting words. Sure, I’ve always...

A strange vision of the plastic folk apocalypse, as a Lego...

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...

Charitables.

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

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...

Coffee cubbies, Groundworks Organic Roasters, Venice CA.

Another solid recommendation.

Book recommendations at Book Soup, W. Sunset Blvd

Life of Harry Crosby

I’d pick nearly any other genre of book besides biography, but here I am reading one. There...

““For the sake of art, it was his preposterous ambition...”

Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, taken two hours before they were...

Sean Flynn

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

Kids watching television.

Wolfram Hahn’s photographs of children ages 3-12 watching television. The viewer sees adult...

Chewbaca in Lego. FAO Schwartz.

Take a look at this article in the NY Times...

(via garfieldminusgarfield) I’m loving this website. 

Miles Davis, Tribute To Jack Johnson, 1971

Teo Macero died last week.

Circus Skills. Kat and William at the House of YES

Lil Wayne

I ran into an acquaintance’s girlfriend on Friday, on my way to see The Roots. She said...

“Forget a good or even great show; what they got, instead,...”
— How the fuck did I miss this...

““And so, if my memory serves me right, here’s my...”

Saturday Night's Tea Menu

oats: Tonight I had the pleasure of serving tea to a very large audience (thanks Mark). This menu...

Black Thought soloing. The Roots, Apollo Theater.

Stocks.

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

Duck Stock Recipe.

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

Invisible Man

I read it four years ago and gained only the lessons I did not want to learn. I had just finished my...

“There being no “hired help” in the...

Rail and cruise ship menus make up a large part of the...

Visit to the Menu Archive.

Yesterday afternoon, I visited the New York City’s Menu Archive, which is housed in the Rare...

You can buy photographs of pot from my...

Complete Poetry fills a mere 145 pages. The volume is 800...

I spent Forty Bills on The Complete Poems of Hart Crane. I...

Photo by C. Leombruno

One of my oldest friends, Chris Leombruno,...

I’m hosting Jelly today. Jelly is a co-working session for other self-employed and...

Seconds later (new condos for N4th St)

On the way to Oslo, 4pm.

Industrial History of Williamsburg...

An extremely confusing explanation of the...

Pomelo

Jazz, Content, Etc.

Two fascinating posts that I haven’t had time to look over and consider until tonight (excerpted,...

via The Rye Centennial.

On the Fear of Chickens.

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

Picasso 1907.

On Les Demoiselles.

Leafing through, but trying desperately not to read (for the 3rd time), Walter Benjamin’s The...

I will absolutely see you there.

Warning: This is just a link to a flying...

RSVP here to get free entry to the Apes &...

Duchess Clothier

Gulag, Blogs, Prisoners Online.

Solzhenitsyn is changing me. I highly recommend him. The Gulag Archipelago tells the story of his...

topherchris: CNN thinks we’re stupid. Me, You, and US  I...

Menu Archive

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

Soundtrack Miles

A friend asked me to pick a great song. Just one, and email it. This sounds difficult. One song?...

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