Month: June 2011
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FarmingUp: Sky-Farming in Brooklyn
Alec Baxt and Lise Serrell make me love Brooklyn even more. Look at what these two are up to. They’re building farms on rooftops, with a plan to distribute locally grown, nutrient-rich crops to our farmers markets. Here they are in action: This is not some green-washing, fake corporate social responsibility sham. It’s just two…
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T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: The Latest Reason To Buy An iPad
Eighty-nine years ago, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land was published for the first time. Today, Harold Bloom still calls it “indisputably the most influential poem written in English in [the twentieth] century.” Helen Vendler says it “reached so far beyond its origins in both life and literature that it revolutionized modern verse.” Call it what you…
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Oops, Macy’s
Yes, this really ran in the Miami Herald this morning:
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I Love You, Casey Neistat
Catching up on my Fucked In Park Slope, starting with this blogpost about NYC bicycle vigilante Casey Neistat. You just have to watch as Casey shows us what happens when you follow the letter of the (NYC bike) law.
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Special Edition Puma Clydes From Undftd
These babies hit the shelves at Undftd in Santa Monica tomorrow morning. Classics…
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“Common People,” By Spock & Captain Kirk
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Islands To Avoid This Summer, From Our Friends At Atlas Obscura
Josh Foer and our friends at Atlas Obscura have generously curated a list of the top islands you DON’T want to visit this summer. Unless, of course, you fancy killer snakes: radioactive rabbits: and the like…
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Meet Brick Tilley
After last night’s pre-MTV Movie Awards dinner, I went to another party and hung out with Brick Tilley there. Who’s Brick Tilley? Well, here’s his business card. Read it carefully… You might know his name because he was an actor on the NBC series “ER”. He’s also the guy who did these underdiscovered gems…
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News Corp’s Acting CEO Jane Lynch Nails Greg Clayman In Her First Minute
Love ya, G…