August 2009
68 posts
Route 66, Depeche Mode
(i’ll be more like...
T.G.I. Friday's and Tim Hortons to join the... →
Other big-name retailers moving into the trendy neighborhood include Nordstrom Rack and Best Buy. [Crain’s]
Well, once they’ve moved in, neighborhood won’t be trendy anymore. Yup, welcome to NYC the suburbs.
[not via queque — blogging from the boondocks. it’s boring up here. i’ve told myself not to bring my laptop, to enjoy nature, but i guess...
“I think I meant it more as an indictment of American life in the 1950s. Because during the Fifties there was a general lust for conformity all over this country, by no means only in the suburbs — a kind of blind, desperate clinging to safety and security at any price, as exemplified politically in the Eisenhower administration and the Joe McCarthy witchhunts. Anyway, a great many...
Don’t You Forget About Me, Simple Minds
"The bottles of Pellegrino and Orangina are gone,... →
and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has been spotted in the cafeteria, “eyeing reasonably priced stir fry.” Oh, yes, it’s that bad at Condé Nast [NYO via Cityfile]
True, by Spandau Ballet (not Tears For Fears) Got...
The NYT Knows This Much is True.
hman:
“An appraisal on Saturday about the director John Hughes’s career misidentified, in some editions, the band whose song can be heard during a school dance scene in his film “Sixteen Candles.” It was Spandau Ballet, not Tears for Fears.”
(NYT Corrections)
Obama baby →
You’ve heard of boomer baby; generation X; Y; millenium baby. Now there’s the Obama baby:The Urban Dictionary word of the day on November 5, 2008, was “Obama baby,” a child conceived during an act of celebratory sex on the night of President Obama’s electoral victory. It was theorized that if such sex was widespread enough, there would be something of a baby boom nine...
Let’s celebrate the irony Let’s Dance...
“Starting a sentence with “Like any normal New Yorker…” tells me you aren’t a New...”
– (via tumbling towards bethlehem)
If You Leave, OMD
Missed Connections
(via EV Grieve)
boy that asked about world hunger/saving the environment + i was rude - w4m - 22 (Union Square)
——————————————————————— Date: 2009-07-28, 5:23PM EDT
you were standing on 14th between 5th and 6th i believe, on the south side of the street...
Wish I knew what I was looking for Under The Milky...
