December 2009
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The Best Stuff of the Year:
Just flexing a bit to wake up. Below is a list of highlights of the year for me, and various things that I loved this year.
Books, I loved:
Lush Life by Richard Price.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. To which I owe my girlfriend for introducing him to me, he’s enlightened my life and I owe that to you, dear.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
And that’s about all ‘cause the...
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Oh, also:
To the last post. I really liked Regina’s “End of the OOs” post too, and Natasha’s. For whatever reason Regina’s post didn’t show up like it was linked. Weird. Hopefully it works now.
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“New York is a town without time, but it has a date. I moved to the city after...”
– A pretty lovely piece by Joel Johnson as part of The Awl’s series: The End of the 00s.
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“In four years together, Obama and Favreau have perfected their writing process....”
– Profile on Obama’s Chief Speechwriter, Jon Favreau, while he was working on the Inaugural Address.
It’s been pretty interesting for me to read about this young speech writer in the White House, and his transition there. To say the least, it’s been inspiring.
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Welcome to GeekWeek.com →
That new thing that I mentioned I wasn’t allowed to talk about until January 1st? Well, here is a early-New Years Present.
Above is the message from Jeff Katz, introducing you to his new site GeekWeek.com. I will be one of your contributors, and I certainly hope you enjoy the site.
I just wanted to take a moment to formally welcome you to GeekWeek.com.
GeekWeek was one of the first...
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From William Gibson's SPOOK COUNTRY.
He looked up at the dark skylight and tried to feel New York. Trucks were rattling over metal on Canal Street, he told himself. Trains blowing past, beneath the pavement, though a maze his family had mapped with exquisite care. He had come to own in a sense; every corner of every platform, every line of sight, many keys, storage closets, lockers; a theater for appearances and disappearances. He...
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WatchImplosion of the Lake Champlain Bridge from New York to Vermont. Sad to see it go, I have fond memories driving over that bridge looking for the Lake Champlain monster. See also: Loch Ness.
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Help a Social Studies teacher get a Projector for... →
One of my best friends from St. Bonaventure, a Social Studies teacher in Ridgewood, Queens, needs your help. As a lot of you may or may not know, education funds for New York City Public Schools are despicably low, and my friend needs as much help as he can get to gain an important tool to help inspire the kids in his class. Make with the clicky above for some further context. Thanks to all who...
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Highlights.
This is the view from out my kitchen window back home. Completely refreshing to be home now, currently listening to the rough cut of Eminem’s new album, which I have to say I don’t care for. That one track with the fire truck horn is especially terrible.
Went bob sledding today for the first time, my stomach is currently still somewhere in my throat area, but we made it down the...
Sad news.
writer-a:
bonerparty:
there’ll be no Boner Party book :( at least for a while. it appears i hired the wrong people to shop it around. these things happen. so in order to gain some interest back in the project and actually get a good deal …
thinking about putting the whole propsosal online for free, all 45 pages. Y’interested?
This book NEEDS to be published. Crazy that it’s not already.
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... and Merry Christmas, Everyone.
nedhepburn:
its been a christmas from hell, for obvious reasons. i miss dad. he was the absolute fucking best, the coolest person in the entire world. regardless, i’ll spare you those details again, i’d rather talk about you right now.
i hope y’all are doing great with your families and such, even if you dont like them, you only get one, so snap the fuck out of it and give them all a big fat...
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When will people realize 'Big Bang Theory' is not...
danhacker:
It’s the ‘Two and a Half Men’ for a younger generation.
I’m waiting for people to realize that about “Glee” and they go back to the better version: “Freaks and Geeks.”
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Scrolling through Tumblr on a Blackberry Pearl is...
I feel you, man. I wish there was an app or something for it.
(via davidfuternick)
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Holidays 2009.
I’m off for the semester. Thank God. So there will be some posting here, mostly of my favorite things from the past year, but probably not much, because I’ll be upstate starting tomorrow through the weekend. I’ll mostly be focusing on a couple of things until the beginning of 2010.
Finishing my first novel (and seeing if I have to rewrite the whole damn thing so it resembles...
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The Daily Cross Hatch: The Best Damned Comics of... →
When the good sir Brian Heater, over at everyone’s favorite Indy Comics Blog, asked comics creators, critics, and bloggers to take part in their Best of 2009 list, Mr. Heater also asked us to include our Best of the Decade list. Here’s mine:
David Press Casanova by Matt Fraction, Fabio Moon, and Gabriel Ba: the most fun book on the market. Matt Fraction may have been part of a team...
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“AVATAR is the BIRTH OF A NATION of film’s second century. It’s an...”
– Matt Fraction on AVATAR.
If it’s good enough for him it’s good enough for me to see. Though the $16 price tag here is pushing it.
“Auto Rock” by Mogwai.
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Listicle Without Commentary
natashavc:
pareene:
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kryz:
pareene:
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The Greatest Christmas Movies of All Time, In Order
2. The Apartment
1. Batman Returns
Dude. Die Hard.
Life of Brian. Duh.
While I agree very strongly with all this, I must say that Home for the Holidays is actually an exceptional movie that is, like Die Hard, really about the spirit of the holidays. (Honestly I love that movie...
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“It was late and every one had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the...”
– “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway. Every year, around this time, I always go back to some Hemingway to just remind myself of what started this whole thing.
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WatchHot Tub Time Machine trailer. This could go either way, but I think whatever direction it ends up going in is a direction that I’ll enjoy. I’m shallow, what can I say? This movie comes out sometime in March.
“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via bibliotheque)
Love that. My other favorite of his: “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk, that will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” I have it printed on a pint glass.
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Grant Morrison Disinfo Lecture →
Just saving it because it appears I haven’t, and it’s a pretty incredible speech.
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Charlie Huston offers up his ALREADY DEAD novel... →
Case in point: Random House is offering the first Joe Pitt casebook, ALREADY DEAD, for free in multiple ebook formats.
The free offer is going to last for about two months. But that’s just the download window. Once you have the book, you get to keep it. It won’t be disappearing from your device two months down the road.
When everyone was getting lost in this Twilight/True Blood shit,...
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“I can only imagine how it feels to be Ralph Macchio, the only person still in...”
– Tom Brevoort on celebrating 20 years at Marvel.
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BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES Writer Guidelines. →
Direct download. The original bible to people who wanted to write for the brilliant Batman series of the early 90s. It’s got some interested highlights.
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‘Up in the Air’ Nabs Some Golden Globe Love →
“Up in the Air” continued its award season march Tuesday morning, as Golden Globe voters nominated the Paramount Pictures film for six trophies, including best picture drama. The musical “Nine” also emerged as a front-runner at the Globes with five nods, including one for best comedy or musical.
“Up in the Air,” about an executive who travels the country to fire people for companies too...
