February 2012
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Tom Spurgeon interviews X.O. Manowar writer Robert... →
Quite a number of gems in this Sunday interview. People watch Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and whatever other Sunday morning news talk program, I read Spurgeon’s Sunday interview.
VENDITTI: The thing about Chris’s [Staros] style that I really appreciate is he doesn’t try to turn your story into his story. Instead, he finds out what it is you’re trying to say, and he...
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Salon.
Bitch, you went to Salon last night; how in the werrrlldddd did you get in? I called Johnnie and he said I totally know Aberdeen at the door and if you give him a hando, he’ll let you in. I replied, in kind, “Muffburger! What kind of Road Person do you think I am?” He said something untoward and not for the golden ears of this here over ninety crowd that is sharing this fine underground trailer....
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People are hilarious.
What does it say about a person when they are riding on the subway and seeing something saying, “That is blog-worthy,” or Twitter-worthy, or any other social network…worthy?
Earlier today, I saw a little girl wearing an Alaskan Malamute head for a hat. The sides of the hat, what must have been sheared off the shoulders of this dog, dangled down to this little girl’s shoulders. Otherwise,...
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The incomparable Jordan D. White, editor of...
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“Basically, what I learned from Japan is that creativity isn’t solely the domain...”
– Momus, in this fascinating interview with Marie Calloway at The Rumpus.
I’ve only recently begun noticing the work of Momus, mostly because of the attention to the Marie Calloway thing, but I’ve started becoming more and more intrigued with their work. This particular section from the...
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WatchAdirondack Time Lapse Project-Fall by Rooftop Media.
I updated my Current Projects page, with a slight announcement: I’m leaving New York City to move back to Lake Placid in June. After seven years here, I feel I’ve had a good run and had amazing experiences, but now—in my thirties—it’s time to move on and build something.
I just want to thank you all for making...
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SOPA.
Today there will be no posting. For a bit this morning I was thinking: there are an awful lot of people posting on and about Blackout day, but aren’t they missing the point? There isn’t supposed to be any content. Isn’t not posting protesting the bill? Depends on who you ask, I guess. Doesn’t matter. I’m posting because I support the protest and we need to do all we...
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“There is a danger in believing that all of anxiety is somehow wrong or a problem...”
– My friend Tim Brearton on my friend Lana Del Rey.
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“Not only is his over-all tendency like mine—making knowledge the most powerful...”
– from Nietzsche’s postcard to Overbeck, written July 30, 1881 in Sils Maria, from The Portable Nietzsche.
This book makes me question everything I do. From this blog to the files and folders and notebooks in my filing cabinet and how all of this stuff could be assembled into a portable edition...
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Tintin as a Gonzo Journalist. →
I love it. The reasons being: he packs heat, he never takes notes, his sidekick is a drunk, he never files expense reports, he’s 14, and the story is always about him.
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“For my whole career, I always said that the best path to making someone laugh is...”
– Chris Onstad, in an excellent interview with Laura Hudson on the return of ACHEWOOD.
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“Over the next few months we agreed on the topic of film language and drew up a...”
– from R. John Williams’ article on “What It’s Like to be James Franco’s Professor” at Slate.
What is interesting to me is this study of film as a grammar or language, which is something I wrote in my new introduction to my expanded thesis. A lot of the scholarly work...
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WatchHere is a shitty cell-phone video of Tim and Oakley playing with some dancing puppets last night. Here also for some entertainment value is the Internet Identity entry from Dec. 27, 2011.
Boardwalk Empire is basically a HBO superband. The best actors from The Sopranos, Deadwood and The Wire with a big writer from The Sopranos, like a superband it does nothing special. “He fall into shoe polish?”...
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Write Place, Write Time: Joe Hill →
Austin pointed me in the direction of a blog that satisfies my obsession with writers’ offices. Called “Write Place, Write Time” here is the entry on Joe Hill’s office with his corgi:
Over on the eastern side of the office, there’s an eyebrow window with a view of the street and the woods beyond. Beneath it is the couch where I read over manuscripts and nap extensively....
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Internet Identity.
Felt like I needed to take a bit of a hiatus from the Internet. On Christmas Day, in the wee hours, I tweeted: “Live your life somewhere that isn’t online. Try it. Merry Christmas, everyone.” And decided that I was going to abstain from interacting with the Internet for a week, until New Year’s Day and instead just think about my identity, the things that I put forth. A week of reflection...
