Say good night, Gracie.
Gore Vidal. Ralph Nader. Two men, praise worthy in the past, who perhaps now need to go home and take a nap. 2LYT
View ArticleA relationship's ephemera captured in needlework
Ginger Anyhow (blog) has embroidered a series of romantic text messages, capturing the 21st century record of the waxing and waning of a relationship in a pre-industrial era form. (via notcot)
View ArticleSuccessful Bush jobs initiative
"Istanbul-based Baydan Ayakkabicilik ...has received orders for 300,000 pairs of the shoes since the attack, more than four times the number his company sold each year since the model was introduced in...
View ArticleThe recession hits Williamsburg (Brooklyn) hipsters
I realize that schadenfreude is a particularly ignoble emotional response, but how am I expected to control myself after reading:
View ArticleWilliam Gibson interviewed in The Vulture
The insight on the connection between the perceived threat from terrorism (not his term) and the attraction of lottery tickets (about half-way down) pushed me over to post this, but the rest of it is...
View ArticleAnti-Nazi t-shirt hacking
250 lucky attendees to a right-wing concert in Germany were given free souvenir t-shirts with the slogan "Hardcore rebels” and a skull and nationalist flags.
View ArticleAre we having fun yet?
As over 4,000 hungry and doubtless pretty funky passengers and crew of Carnival Cruise Line (Yeah, the Costa Concordia was theirs, too) ship Triumph, who've been without ventilation, hot food, and...
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