ELSEWHERE ARCHIVE
Some photos from my wedding were recently featured on Brooklyn Bride, here and here. (There's also a pretty thorough write-up of the wedding details.)
— 02.25.09
People We Like. I've got a new photo in The Morning News: the co-owners of Frank White, an unusual coffee shop in my neighborhood.
— 07.17.08
Charles Atlas will make a man of you! "Against Atlas' better judgment, I declined performing all of my exercises in the nude." (accompanying shirtless photo of the author [my husband] taken by me.)
— 07.17.08
The Brooklynites. Great photos of a wide range of people from my favorite borough. (Thanks to Kurt [a talented photographer himself] for passing this on.)
— 12.19.07
Killer Boob. My childhood (and current!) friend Sarah talks about her experience with breast cancer on her well written and charming blog. She's an American living in Belgium and happens to be one of the best people I know.
— 12.19.07
Unexpected Guests: Irina Troitskaya. "Q: Who do you admire? A: Anyone who is keen on something -- cooking, writing, singing, drawing of course."
— 12.19.07
How to Make Friends and Poke People. "Facebook is old news for the sub-30 set, but plenty of their elders are tuning in, logging on, and tossing cows."
— 12.19.07
The Cloths of Heaven are Old Shirts and Dark Slacks. "'Carl Jung says that boring dreams indicate a boring person.' This burned its way into my brain like a curse and stayed with me for years."
— 09.21.07
25 Years of the Brown Sisters. Yearly photographs of four sisters 1975 - 1999, by Nicholas Nixon.
— 09.21.07
Lois, late at night. "I have never regretted saying, 'I'm sorry, you must have the wrong number,' so much."
— 09.21.07
Getting there. "It was as if overnight I had gone from working in the mail room to becoming the CEO, and I had no idea how to run a company. I didn't want to run a company."
— 09.21.07
Mr. Lee Cat Cam. A guy in germany attached a camera to his cat's neck, to see where the cat ("Mr. Lee") goes all day. The camera automatically takes a picture every few minutes.
I think I just found my favorite site on the internet.
— 06.08.07
Nice Work If You Can Get It. John Hodgman tells a great story about what it feels like to become sort of famous at 36 years old, well after he'd given up on the possibility of achieving any sort of fame at all.
— 04.19.07
Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937. (To see these outside of the frame, click here.)
— 04.11.07
World Press Photo Awards for 2006. "These photographs give us an idea of how photojournalists around the world see the world in which they live, in many cases, a world we here in America do not normally see."
— 03.30.07
Romantic Comedy Cab. Improv Everywhere wrote a romantic comedy and used a real cab driver as an (unknowing) catalyst in making the romance part come true.
— 03.26.07
Raccoons Creep Through [Brooklyn]. I've seen two in Brooklyn so far -- one crossing the street in Clinton Hill, and one on my old fire escape in Park Slope, climbing down the ladder.
— 11.28.06
How Cocaine Is Made. "Couple hundred pounds of coca leaves, a little cement, caustic soda, ammonia, quicklime, sulfuric acid and a lot of gasoline. Fascinating and horrifying, this could be the best anti-drug video ever..."
— 11.28.06
Terms of endearment. "Why do Southern folks elect regressive, warmongering politicians but still call you 'sunshine' when they serve your coffee?"
— 10.18.06
NationMaster. An impressive compendium of national statistics, ranging from murders per capita (Colombia's number one) to roller coasters per capita (Brunei!).
— 10.16.06
Getting Ready for the Close Up. Platon, a portrait photographer, discusses shooting famous celebrities. "On Christopher Walken, in the understatement of the night: 'Now this guy is weird.' Walken showed up for a shoot at Platon's house an hour early (unprecedented), alone (un-heard-of), and wearing black elastic pants pulled up to his armpits (what do you expect)." (via kottke)
— 10.11.06
An Elephant Crackup? "'Everybody pretty much agrees that the relationship between elephants and people has dramatically changed,' Bradshaw told me recently. 'What we are seeing today is extraordinary. Where for centuries humans and elephants lived in relatively peaceful coexistence, there is now hostility and violence. Now, I use the term 'violence' because of the intentionality associated with it, both in the aggression of humans and, at times, the recently observed behavior of elephants.'"
— 10.11.06
Gothamist News Map. "In nearly real time, it's mapping all the police, fire, and breaking news alerts" in New York City. This place is crazy, it turns out.
— 10.03.06
Ode to Marco (with a rebel yell). "It's caused my desire to talk about all that stuff to almost disappear. Weird...it's like he's some kind of EMOTIONAL SCIENTIST!"
— 09.26.06
Men standing around broken machines. "I realized not long ago that my age of deep feelings has passed."
— 09.26.06
NYC Subway Peeves, Each Nail Clipping at a Time. A commenter shares one of mine: "People who get on the train and then stop cold as soon as they step through the door so that you run into them from behind."
— 09.26.06
Going Green. "Americans are taking conservation into their own hands." Also relevant: 'Entourage' star Adrian Grenier (featured in this article) apparently just bought a place in my new neighborhood. All good news.
— 08.25.06
Girl takes photo of herself every day for three years. A quick video montage of those images.
— 08.23.06
Atlantic Yards Report. Analysis, commentary, and reportage about Ratner's proposed $4.2 billion Atlantic Yards project, the largest ever in Brooklyn, to build a basketball arena plus at least 16 high-rise buildings. The graphics projecting the impact are pretty foreboding.
— 08.23.06
4-foot-high room for rent in Williamsburg. "$600 Williamsburg loft Bedford ave L train: We have a small room in our 4 bedroom loft. Let's just get this out of the way, It's only 4 feet high. It's a loft built above one of the rooms, so you have to walk up stairs to get into the room..."
— 06.27.06
Can't get it out of my head. An article about songs you can't get out of your head ("earworms") and how to deal with them. In the top 10: Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner and The Village People's YMCA.
— 06.26.06
White House, GOP Leaders Plan All-Out Assault on Federal Protections. "GOP congressional leaders may bring to a vote within weeks a proposal that could literally wipe out any federal program that protects public health or the environment -- or for that matter civil rights, poverty programs, auto safety, education, affordable housing, Head Start, workplace safety or any other activity targeted by anti-regulatory forces."
— 06.26.06
Oceans in deep trouble. UN report warned that ocean degradation is "rapidly passing the point of no return." For one thing, there are more than 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean. (via Grist)
— 06.19.06
Rewind and fast-forward. "Thinking back on high school, I regret that I wasn't one of the truly weird kids." (scroll halfway down the page until you reach the May 12th entry)
— 06.15.06
Unphotographable. A text account of pictures missed. "Occasions when I wished I'd taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter."
— 06.15.06
Outcast of Originality. Some thoughts about photography from photographer Chip Simons. "Shoot whatever you want that makes you happy and gets you excited about shooting more and more."
— 06.14.06
Wockerjabby. "What's coming harder and harder to me these days is patience for the other people with choices, people who consistently make what seem to me to be the wrong choices."
— 06.09.06
Time and Again. "In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every last person in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he's doing it again, creating a unique portrait of heartland America." (via kottke) I would love to do a project like this.
— 06.08.06
8 Thoughts on Super 8. "It's impossible not to be doing calculations in your head all the time as you watch these movies: that person must be dead 56 years later, that baby still alive but adult, that puppy dead."
— 06.05.06
Was the 2004 Election Stolen? "Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House."
— 06.04.06
Morning Subway Demographics. "It's interesting to see how the ethnic, class, professional, and gender makeup evolves as the morning hours go by." (via kottke)
— 05.23.06
Hipster rebel punk outsiders -- 99 cents a dozen. "A disillusioned ex-boho argues that consumer culture has turned 'rebellion' and 'individuality' into meaningless poses, about as transgressive as a turtleneck."
— 05.02.06
Colbert Headlines the White House Correspondents' dinner. "Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32 percent approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'reality.' And reality has a well-known liberal bias." (See the full transcript at the link above. It's pretty amazing [awesome] that Colbert got away with this.)
— 05.01.06
Chernobyl Legacy. A photo essay by Paul Fusco, on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
— 04.25.06
Lung. "Standing at the top of the steps my shirt was pressed against my chest and my hair was lifted straight up; I imagined a billion tiny comets, rushing past me on the way to 4th Avenue."
— 04.25.06
NYC Album Art. New Gothamist series about famous album covers that feature New York City. (Covered so far: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti, and The Doors' Strange Days.)
— 04.18.06
Seven Songs with Factual or Logical Mistakes In the Lyrics. "Well, since the Earth is round, and its circumference is roughly 24,000 miles, that means that at 20,000 miles away, 'N Sync's digital girlfriend would also be, at most, 4,000 miles away." (via bo)
— 04.06.06
I Can Now Be Bought for a Modest Sum. Gah! A photo of me that my friend Jena took is on sale through Getty Images. I don't think it looks anything like me. Also, I didn't dress myself that day. Those pearls! And hair!
— 04.05.06
Cockroaches Make Group Decisions. "For example, if 50 insects were placed in a dish with three shelters, each with a capacity for 40 bugs, 25 roaches huddled together in the first shelter, 25 gathered in the second shelter, and the third was left vacant."
— 04.04.06
Are You a Global Warming Skeptic? A Scientific American blog tries to address the need for a civil, non-politicized discussion of global warming science, in which global warming skeptics address which aspects of climate change they do not accept, and their concerns are addressed one by one. (Part 1; Part 2.)
— 04.03.06
Well Cured in Billyburg. Former crack den is priced at nearly $1 million. "It was filled with dead pigeon parts and was covered about two feet high with rotting mattresses, broken pieces of wood and parts of the roof were strewn about." New York real estate is impressively baffling.
— 03.29.06
Up With Grups: The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood. "He owns eleven pairs of sneakers, hasn't worn anything but jeans in a year, and won't shut up about the latest Death Cab for Cutie CD. But he is no kid. He is among the ascendant breed of grown-up who has redefined adulthood as we once knew it and killed off the generation gap."
— 03.29.06
A Can of Worms. "I cannot understand why a woman would consent to this arrangement, and the whole time I'm watching this show I can't get one thought out of my head: if you have a choice, why would you do this to yourself?"
— 03.28.06
Eyewitness at the Triangle Fire. "A young man helped a girl to the window sill. Then he held her out, deliberately away from the building and let her drop. He seemed cool and calculating. He held out a second girl the same way and let her drop. Then he held out a third girl who did not resist. I noticed that."
(Tomorrow is the 95th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. via gothamist)
— 03.24.06
Humans spur worst extinctions since dinosaurs. "'The direct causes of biodiversity loss -- habitat change, over-exploitation, the introduction of invasive alien species, nutrient loading and climate change -- show no sign of abating,' the [U.N.] report said."
— 03.22.06
Brushes with the Law. "I came to believe the police specifically designed the emergency 911 phone number around the rotary phone system. The nine functioned as a last-minute reprieve for criminals-in-progress; it was polite society’s way of giving them one last chance to change their ways."
— 03.22.06
How to spot a baby conservative. "It could be that whom we vote for has less to do with our judgments about tax policy or free trade or health care, and more with the personalities we've been stuck with since we were kids." I've always thought this was the case, which is why it's confusing to me when people switch sides.
— 03.22.06
Real Life Simpsons Intro. The intro of the cartoon show, but performed by real people. (via kottke)
— 03.06.06
Trading Places With the Boss. My friend Jena took this ridiculous photo of me and Todd as part of her romance novel parody project. That's us trying to look 'corporate.'
— 03.05.06
Good News for Photobloggers: You Can Sell Your Shots. "This seems to reaffirm the right of photographers to take and sell pictures of people without getting signed waivers, as long as the purpose of the pictures is making art."
— 02.14.06
Honda. Sometimes I sneak my own photos onto the NRDC website, such as this one, of my old Honda Accord. (Here's a more permanent screenshot.)
— 02.06.06
The Onion interview with Stephen Colbert. "It doesn't seem to matter what facts are. ... It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist."
— 01.31.06
Radical Cartography. A scale comparison of Manhattan with a few major U.S. cities. It's hardly visible next to L.A.
— 01.19.06
Dogs Excel on Smell Test to Find Cancer. "The tubes were ... presented to the dogs, five at a time. If the dog smelled cancer, it was supposed to sit."
— 01.17.06
The Year in Cities. My list: London, England; Berlin, Germany; Krakow, Poland; Cape Cod, MA; Barryville, NY; Woodstock, NY; Albany, NY; New York, NY; Raleigh, NC; Buies Creek, NC; Belmar, NJ; Coral Gables, FL; Los Angeles, CA; San Luis Obispo, CA; Santa Cruz, CA; San Francisco, CA.
— 01.11.06
Self-help's big lie. "Self-esteem-based education presupposed that a healthy ego would help students achieve greatness, even if the mechanisms necessary to instill self-esteem undercut scholarship. Over time, it became clear that what such policies promote is not academic greatness but a bizarre disconnect between perceived self-worth and provable skill."
— 01.03.06
Building the Times. Annie Leibovitz's photographs of the contruction of The New York Times building.
— 12.15.05
New York Times silliness. "I love the idea of sending an unnecessary email about unnecessary email."
— 12.07.05
Posting Doctrine. "Always assume that anyone could and will read a post. ... My parents will read it. My colleagues and employers will read it. My students will read it. My nonexistant children will read it, many years from now."
— 12.07.05
Successful Halloween Costume. It looks like someone found a photo of me dressed up as Siouxsie Sioux (for Halloween 2002) and thought it really WAS Siouxsie Sioux. Here I am, right below Trent Reznor.
— 12.02.05
Thank Me Later, Betsy. "There wasn't room for all of us in there, but I heard someone exclaim, 'Yo! Somebody musta stole tha lever!' before I slipped, all unassuming and Captain of Democracy-like, out of the gym to join my fellow citizens."
— 11.30.05
Everyone's Best Friend. "I think the real reason everyone feels so social after a collective near death experience is that they finally have a sure-fire topic of conversation."
— 11.29.05
One Hundred Views of the Empire State Building. "100 Views is my attempt to take 100 interesting pictures of the Empire State Building." (He's at 29 so far.) This one's nice.
— 11.28.05
Quiet Depravity: profile of comedian Sarah Silverman. "The more innocent and oblivious her delivery, the more outrageous her commentary becomes."
— 10.19.05
The Leta Walking Experience. "She will break my heart and I will stumble into her sixth grade science class wearing rollers in my hair and leopard-print furry slippers on my feet and beg her to love me in front of all her peers."
— 10.17.05
Followup/Distraction. "I worry that my knowledge of the world is actually growing shallower...because for every idea there are a dozen articles and Wikipedia entries to read that allow me to avoid thinking for myself."
— 10.16.05
Double-Tounged Word Wrester. "A growing dictionary of old and new words from the fringes of English." (some recent ones: leg attack, stoozer, swardspeak, heroic dose)
— 09.22.05
Oblivio. After taking a nearly two-month break from his site, Michael Barrish is planning to post something new every day for the next 100 days (or the next 96, at least). "This is probably a stupid idea, another in a series of self-made prisons, but stupid or not, it's still an idea."
— 09.21.05
Rigorous Institution. A political weblog that reminds me that it's kind of fun to pay attention. It has nice graphics, too.
— 09.21.05
Bikers 1; Bumps 0. The bumps on the Williamsburg Bridge, which assisted me in breaking my arm (etc.), are finally being removed.
— 09.20.05
Interview with Errol Morris. "[Gates of Heaven is about] the fundamental belief that if you scratch the surface of any person, you will find a world of the insane, very close to that surface."
— 09.14.05
Katrina Relief Auction. A benefit photo auction, in which the proceeds go to the American Red Cross Emergency Relief Fund.
— 09.05.05
The Charity Navigator website provides tips about how to make a donation that will be used effectively to aid hurricane victims.
— 09.01.05
Katrina's destructive waves. "An MIT global warming expert argues that the damage wrought by Atlantic hurricanes in the past decade has more to do with rampant development than a vengeful Mother Nature."
— 08.31.05
Celebrity Last Requests. "Jane Fonda: Demands to have remains fired out of a cannon directly at U.S. Troops."
— 08.31.05
Metro Arts and Architecture: photo gallery. "A somewhat subjective selection of about 40 remarkable metro systems." (link via anil)
— 08.30.05
Iraq: The unseen war. "The grim reality of Iraq rarely appears in the American press. This photo gallery reveals the war's horrible human toll."
— 08.25.05
Dying Young. "Burdened with a weird haircut, clothes from the Goodwill and parents who drove the wrong car, I had few opportunities to really shine. I needed bonus points wherever I could get them."
— 08.25.05
99 Problems. "That song '99 Problems...(but a bitch ain't one)' really rankles me. Just saying, if Jay-Z were my boyfriend...he'd have 100 problems."
— 08.24.05
Photo Fakery. "We have a keen ability to sense that something is wrong with an image and trusting our common sense works most of the time. If an image looks unbelievable, then it probably is unbelievable and is a fake."
— 08.24.05
Senators say Alaska visit confirms climate change. "If you can go to the Native people and listen to their stories and walk away with any doubt that something's going on, I just think you're not listening," Graham said. [via Daily Grist]
— 08.18.05
Crossed, Tangled, Braided. "We hung up and I thought for a while, and told my girlfriend about that phone call because telling everything is a way to keep the lines crossed, tangled, and braided."
— 08.12.05
Katie's first period. "It didn't exactly bring a tear of joy to my eye, but seeing as she's the closest thing to a daughter I'm ever going to have I gave her a hug and took her to buy some maxi pads." (Katie's a dog.)
— 08.12.05
Unpictured. "It depresses me to know that all the awards go to those who take photos of us at our suffering worst."
— 08.11.05
My very short film, Coop, is screening at Rooftop Films on Friday, August 12th, for the New York Nonfiction Series. You're invited.
— 08.10.05
Quotable quotes. "Whoa, watch out, Amanda, we're hurting each other enough in this building... what with all the lies..."
— 08.08.05
Veiled Intentions. Photos I took of unhappy models in veils, for Bitch and Moan Vagazine.
— 08.01.05
Starburst. "I practiced my speech in my head and kept telling myself to remember to remain calm and call him 'your honor.'"
— 07.26.05
NYC now randomly checking bags at subway stations. "Random police searches of people without any suspicion of wrongdoing are contrary to our most basic constitutional values. This is a very troubling announcement."
— 07.22.05
Design Yourself. See page 30 for a few photos of mine, as well as a short article I wrote about photography. (PDF)
— 07.20.05
Lead singer of the Knuckleheads. It made sense at that moment, you know, to roar incoherent nonsense while standing on stage with one of my musical icons.
— 07.14.05
Underground Typography: Signage in the New York, London, and Paris transit systems. "The New York subway system, as you might guess, is the most chaotic as well as the most complex."
— 07.13.05
You're in a bad spot here, Scott.
MR. McCLELLAN: If you'll let me finish --
Q: No, you're not finishing -- you're not saying anything.
— 07.12.05
How About Those Knicks? "Now that I'm going to be a dad, I realize what a lousy trait that carelessness is going to be. ... I'll teach him things that aren't really right, and he'll grow up misinformed and deformed because I shot from the hip at something or other."
— 07.11.05
How to make a cheap coffin out of Ikea parts. "A book by Joe Scanlan, an artist, describes how to build an Ikea coffin for less than $400."
— 07.06.05
I do not want to say the book's title until I'm finished re-reading it. And maybe not even then. "Clearly, the odds of this endeavor being a huge personal disappointment and/or embarrassment are off the charts."
— 06.29.05
Jon Stewart's Commencement Address. "I was mediocre here. And I'm not saying aim low. Not everybody can wander around in an alcoholic haze and then at 40 just, you know, decide to be president."
— 06.28.05
Groups aim to give pets a chance. An article I was interviewed for, back in May. Probably not terribly exciting for you, but here you go anyway. (Btw, "October" should be "December.")
— 06.22.05
The spammers have taken our language from us. "I remember, back in the good old days, the late 90s, how we were all so drunk with this new 'electronic mail' that we would the task of writing subject lines like a seven year-old."
— 06.20.05
New US Move to Spoil Climate Accord. "Among the sentences removed [by the White House] was the following: 'Unless urgent action is taken, there will be a growing risk of adverse effects on economic development, human health and the natural environment, and of irreversible long-term changes to our climate and oceans.'" Unprecedented levels of arrogance from the Bush Administration.
— 06.20.05
Interview with David Sedaris. "I'm not a funny person. I'm OK if you give me paper and a deadline; in three weeks I can work something up. But I'm not a comedian. In a show like Howard Stern's, someone has to be getting the laughs, and if it's not you, the host is gonna get 'em."
— 06.17.05
The Mix Tape: Art and Artifact. An article & interview with Thurston Moore. "Before long, there were warning stickers on records and cassettes, stating: HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC!"
— 06.16.05
Photographers Becoming Security Concerns. Photographers across the country have complained of getting harassed by law enforcement officials citing security concerns since the September 11 terrorist attacks. (NPR audio)
— 06.16.05
Great Bad Ideas: Interview with Morgan Spurlock. "Think about you're washing your car, you reach under the driver's seat, and you pull out a french fry. Who knows how long that thing's been there. But it looks like you bought it yesterday. Why is that? How does that happen?"
— 06.15.05
The Time Between Ordering and Eating. "They're not even talking. They've been sitting there since before we came in, and they haven't said one word to each other."
— 06.05.05
Not Dead Yet. I like this site a lot. There aren't any archives (she deletes each entry as she replaces it), so this excerpt won't be good for very long: "When she was four she used to tell me things that had happened to her when she was forty."
— 06.02.05
Interview with Steve Martin. "I do have one luxury, which is that I don't earn my living from writing. So I can afford to wait, even emotionally, until a really good or impassioned idea comes along."
— 05.30.05
Is Wi-Fi changing the coffeeshop environment? "I don't like going into a cafe -- any cafe, including my own -- and just seeing a sea of laptops and people not interacting."
— 05.30.05
A fire hydrant photo of mine is featured in Puma's summer e-Catalog. (You have to turn three pages or so to see it.)
— 05.24.05
Crazy eBay mom. "I don't know what's in any of these boxes ... Most of them are from eBay and have never been opened, just put straight on the pile." Take the tour!
— 05.06.05
Criminals Belong in Prison. "The butcher's bill to date: 1,594 American soldiers dead, times ten grievously wounded; over 100,000 Iraqi citizens dead; ... no weapons of mass destruction anywhere in Iraq."
— 05.06.05
Red carpet photos. I took a few pictures of smiling famous people at the Tribeca Film Festival.
— 05.03.05
Group Encounter on the High Line. Michael's detailed account of a problematic excursion on Manhattan's abandoned elevated freight line. (I'm the "Lisa" in his story.)
— 04.28.05
Why I should probably be back in therapy. "Finally, I thought. I've broken through. She could only resist my charms for so long."
— 04.20.05
President Bush's iPod. "'One thing that's interesting is that the president likes artists who don't like him.' ... Nonetheless, Mr. Bush had not gone so far as to include on his playlist 'Fortunate Son,' the angry anti-Vietnam war song about who has to go to war."
— 04.13.05
Cops, lies and videotape. "Four hundred of the cases were dismissed based on videotape evidence that showed either that the protesters hadn't violated the law or that police testimony about their actions was simply false."
— 04.12.05
Actual Urgent Message from Robert Redford Goes Unheeded. The organization I work for is parodied in The Onion.
— 04.05.05
Report drug smuggling bookmark. "Does the dog on the left smell drugs in the mouth of the dog on the right?"
— 04.05.05
Quitters Never Win. "Given their philosophy of causation and responsibility, I suppose in the 1850s, these four would have blamed the failure to abolish slavery on the abolition movement rather than the slaveholders and the economic interests tied to them."
— 04.05.05
The Rise and Fall of Hip-Hop's Intelligentsia. "For a brief, shining period in time -- from about 1988 to 1992 -- rappers bragged not about how much 'bling' they had or how many people they shot, but about how intelligent they were." [via sixfoot6]
— 04.02.05
Two people I know (in the online sense, at least) have had bad bike accidents on city bridges in the last two weeks: Naz and Noah. (It looks like both will be okay.)
— 03.31.05
My Cat Abraham Lincoln. "One says of ones cat: my cat is the best; he is not like all the other cats; he has a personality. I do not say these things about Abraham Lincoln."
— 03.30.05
Comprehensive assessment of world's ecosystems released. "The largest and most comprehensive assessment of the world's ecosystems ever undertaken was released today, and the results constitute a 'stark warning' that 'the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted.'" Not a fun story, I know. Next time.
— 03.30.05
FOXBlocker. "FOXBlocker is an innovative new product that filters out the FOX News network."
— 03.28.05
Oil Drilling in Alaska. "I think the nation just reached the point where we sold our wedding ring for one night's fix." (The Onion)
— 03.24.05
Even without new emissions, planet would still see global warming. "If various ice sheets melt entirely, sea levels could rise high enough to soggify chunks of Florida, Bangladesh, and Manhattan."
— 03.18.05
I'm Feeling Jealous of Technology. "If I'm washing dishes I can't just click over to a new window and be on the phone...It's like I'm an old, slow computer that can't run two programs at once."
— 03.07.05
"Me" culture. "To the degree that your life is literally furnished with people, things, activities, places that you've chosen, there's a slight feeling of surface-ness about it all. Because on the horizon there is always 'Oh, I could have done this other thing, or been this other way, and maybe I still will.'" (really interesting article)
— 03.04.05
Fun and Games. Together with a friend, take turns naming things you hate and why you hate them.
— 03.04.05
I'm mentioned in the New York Press, again for my bike dismount on the Williamsburg Bridge.
— 03.02.05
Tearing Down the Press. "Is [the] real goal [of the Bush administration] to undermine the press itself -- and thereby eliminate inconvenient truths?"
— 03.02.05
Top 10 Useless Limbs (and Other Vestigial Organs). "Of course, some body hair is helpful to humans [...] all the rest of that hair, though, is essentially useless."
— 02.25.05
I'm quoted in the Daily News, for having performed an elaborate bike crash on the Williamsburg Bridge. The quote was sort of constructed by the reporter, and I am 30, not 33, but whatever.
— 02.25.05
I'm Not Sad, I Just Took Too Much Sinus Medicine. "But I can tap dance. But I really know how to PROJECT MY VOICE. Doesn't matter; their opinion has been sealed."
— 02.17.05
Interview with Malcolm Gladwell. "Ideally, you'd want to find someone who satisfies both of those criteria." ... "It's obviously the most difficult decision in the world, and that's why we try and fail and try and fail..."
— 02.16.05
The Unfiltered News by Kent Jones. I listen to this man every day. This broadcast is a few days old (Feb. 1st), but I thought it was a particularly funny one. (3-minute audio file)
— 02.05.05
I'm reading at the Bowery Poetry Club with Michael Barrish and Todd Levin this coming Sunday.
If you don't come for me, at least do it for the talking walrus, the pony rides, and the free candy you can expect during intermission. (maybe)
Sunday, Feb. 6, at 2 p.m. at the Bowery Poetry Club (on Bowery between Bleecker and Houston). $5 cheap.
— 02.02.05
Asshole. "My idea was to replace all instances of INTJ with SUPER-SEXY BRAINIAC. It didn't work." (I'm an ENFP, which I think is code for Friendly Neurotic.)
— 01.28.05
Bin Laden is dead or alive. "Not much to be said here. This does rule out the terrifying possibility of an unkillable zombie Bin Laden though."
— 01.28.05
Secrets. (via bluishorange) This reminds me of a friend of mine who once regularly (and anonymously) sent his secrets by mail, one by one, to a specific business address. Eventually his letters were blocked.
— 01.26.05
Maximum Starbucks Density. There are 159 Starbucks within 5 miles of my apartment, and 167 within 5 miles of my office.
— 01.24.05
My Three Favorite Computer Games of 2004. "Abu Ghraib: This game is totally different. In this one you're plucked from a rural community in America, separated from your family, and flown to a foreign country."
— 01.23.05
Expansion joints blamed for scores of injuries on Williamsburg bike path. You don't say.
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(Also, another story here, along with a photo I took.)
— 01.20.05
Tsunami, ground zero. "Every time we walk amid the destruction, locals wave us over. They want us to see what remains of their lives. This is where their children went to school; this was a restaurant, or post office, or hotel."
— 01.11.05
Tsunami coverage on Fox News. "If the Republican National Committee doesn't have an angle on the story, then neither, apparently, does Fox News."
— 01.07.05
A Squirrel Story. "I should have known the Park Slope squirrels would be self-righteous liberals."
— 01.05.05
On Tuesday (Jan 4), my short film What's the Big Idea? will be playing at Flicker, at the Knitting Factory [details here]. Of course, you can watch it online for free, but the live version comes with other Super 8 films as well as homemade cookies.
— 01.03.05
Oxfam's Asian Earthquake & Tsunami Fund is included on CharityWatch's list of best organizations aiding in the relief effort. Other groups can be found here.
— 12.29.04
I have pictures in The Morning News. (Be sure to read the story! The full photo gallery can be found here.)
— 12.21.04
Too much of a good thing? "My ability to produce and acquire has far outstripped my ability to consume." (via kottke)
— 12.16.04
Long-lost soldiers emerge from jungle: Cambodian soldiers hide in the jungle for 25 years, unaware that the Vietnam War ended.
— 12.08.04
Homeland Insecurity: Why U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers Us All. (Read this, pretty please.)
— 11.27.04
No Baby. "I excused myself, got up, went to the bathroom, checked that she was up to date on the pill, pretended to pee, then came back to the living room."
— 11.24.04
Women vs. Wal-Mart. "Part of the problem with the Wal-Mart business model is that it requires more poverty in order to grow."
— 11.22.04
This summer I took photos of college basketball player Julius Hodge for an NC State sports magazine. You can see some of the photos here.
— 11.04.04
How to Let Your Guard Down, Selectively. "...in the future, you can only say you dated a psycho if that person was clinically diagnosed psychotic."
— 10.21.04
"Hero pigs! Brave swimming pigs! Pigs rising above obstacles! Unsinkable pigs with seven highly effective habits, getting things done!"
— 10.18.04
One-third of all amphibian species threatened worldwide. "...amphibians may be a type of warning, like the canaries miners used to take with them."
— 10.16.04
Headphones Headshots. What is your name? What are you listening to? Where are you? What did you have for breakfast?
— 10.10.04
Silly photo, taken at the Beautiful Mutants gallery opening. (Art by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo.)
— 09.18.04
