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Getting to our apartment
Our address is 113 Park Place, Apt. 3, Brooklyn NY 11217, which is between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. There are two trains very near: the Bergen stop on the 2/3 and the 7th Avenue stop on the Q/B. Note that Google Maps and some of the other mapping sites put 113 in the middle of…
Quoted
Here’s a roundup of a few places I’ve been quoted recently: Nov. 19, The Lame Duck’s Waddle to Oblivion, New York Times. “Money men and politicians swap language the way lovers swap spit.” Nov. 12, How did ‘Kumbaya’ become a mocking metaphor?, Dallas Morning News, reprinted widely. Oct. 31, Snappy? Sure. Original? Not so much,…
Nerve: The Devil’s Dictionary
Mark Peters wrote a nice article about Double-Tongued for Nerve: The Devil’s Dictionary.
Jay Rosen
You know how, when you’ve really mastered something and there’s a news account of it, the news story will invariable get several (basic) things wrong? Eliminate the several things and respect will rise. If you want to inform the world of something, grok it before you rock it is a good simple rule.
A Farmer Fears His Way of Life Has Dwindled Down to a Final Generation
No political party seems to care much about the working man’s life, Mr. Warner feels. Stick a Republican and a Democrat in a sack, shake it up, pour it out, and the same rapacious thing crawls out. Creatures from a smoke-filled room.
Diekus
Saw these on the street last week: “diekus,” kind of cut-and-paste poems made from the names on tombstones. There were several new ones; the ones on Flickr are from December.
This would never fly today: Satchel Paige would have been considered a terrorist
In researching today’s entry for hit-and-run bag, I cited a 1971 article from the Charleston Gazette that also told an more interesting story about legendary baseball pitcher Satchel Paige. It was not directly related to the cite and was too long to include in the entry, so I offer it to you here. There’s the…
Body Collector in Detroit Answers When Death Calls
“You see,” he begins, “80 percent of people die naked and 70 percent die in the toilet. That means most people die naked in the toilet. I can’t explain it. It’s like Elvis.”
The 115GB iPod
Check it out: iTunes 7 thinks an external Firewire drive (named Ixnay) is an iPod with a capacity of 114GB (instead of showing a 30GB video iPod).