December 2009
16 posts
“The company says its processed beef, a mashlike substance frozen into blocks or...”
– Michael Moss, “Company’s Record on Beef Treatment Questioned” (NYTimes)
Remember when you were a kid and you said, “One day I’m going to grind my own hamburger meat.” Yeah, me too. Looks like today turned out to be that day.
Places I Slept, 2009.
Brooklyn, NY
Haleiwa, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
San Francisco, CA
Philadelphia, PA
Montreal QC
Quebec City, QC
Easton, NY
St. Helena, CA
Nags Head, NC
Schenectady, NY
Salvador, Brazil*
*..as of tomorrow morning, and each of the next 24 sun-drenched summer mornings.
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“Do the ‘lower classes’ smell? The habit of washing yourself all over every day...”
– George Orwell, quoted in The Economist’s article about the first-world obsession with over-cleanliness.
Wu-Tang Clan, “I Can’t Go To...
“6th over: South Africa 15-1 (Prince 6, Amla 4) Broad follows a bouncer with a...”
– -Sports Section, GuardianUK.
I’m trying for the millionth time to learn more about cricket. Even when I’m listening to the most die-hard enthusiasts, it’s “in one ear out the other” with this sport. I watch matches in Corona Park, Queens in the fall and spring on...
PechaKucha netherlands →
(via grapefruite)
What an incredible idea. Do we have a Brooklyn Pechakucha? Let’s get on this for 2010.
T.Rex, “One Inch Rock,” (demo) from...
“If it really is the thought that counts then what were you thinking when you...”
– Nick Bennett
George Harrison, “Apple Scruffs,” from...
“She stared at the moon that hung over the building across the street. From the...”
– Roberto Bolano, from Antwerp (2010)
