August 2011
Veev—an organic, kosher, gluten-free,... →
I mean…
… My generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for...
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Memories Of My Melancholy Whores” (via nedhepburn)
I am going to NYFW to see what it’s all about, and to find out if jeggings are...
– Chuck (via richtong)
I suppose that finally New York is a Broadway theater where one play after...
– The last paragraph of City Boy by Edmund White (via thatitmoves)
Men Prefer Brunettes →
via villagevoice
Hear that gentlemen?
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What if the moment’s prevailing mood is hard to pin down — sometimes voluble,...
– NPR
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop...
– Ray Bradbury
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David Remnick is 52. He’s got all of his hair, which is black, and he’s got an...
– Nicholson Baker on David Remnick (via capitalnewyork)
Sex appeal: Women kiss science goodbye →
infoneer-pulse:
The findings come from a series of studies, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, that were undertaken to determine why women, who have made tremendous progress in education and the workplace over the past few decades, continue to be underrepresented at the highest levels of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Lead author Lora Park, associate...
Hipster Ipsum →
wnyc:
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Weekly Poem: 'Observation'
newshour:
By Jenn Koiter
Today despite your usual preference for things you can’t quite see— mist over mountains reflections of the countryside in the opposite window of the train grand old houses almost hidden by a thick cross-hatch of leaves— the glare of the sun on the lake bothered you for once...
Hey, how’s it going? Mind if I sidle up? I saw you over here sitting alone and I...
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A Post Gender Normative Man Tries to Pick Up a Woman at a Bar. (via thefrisky)
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