January 2011
Beautiful, musical subway map using real-life MTA... →
It probably doesn’t sound too interesting…but it is. Trust me.
The Decemberists Score Their First Number One... →
perpetua:
When I wrote this earlier I was astonished to learn that the Decemberists had managed to sell nearly five times as many copies of their new album in its first week than their previous record in its first week. Also, 65% of the units sold were digital albums, and Amazon was selling it for $3.99, which has to account for a pretty huge chunk of the overall sales. When Amazon do these deep...
Calexico - “I Send My Love To You”...
Buffalo Beast's 50 Most Loathsome People Of 2010. →
Finally… 2010 is officially in the books.
Colbert's Incredible Anti-Palin Rant | Splitsider →
gq:
Cosigned.
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we...”
– Lewis Carroll
Diddy Did The "Chris Gethard Show" Last Night →
ozonlaag:
“Mine Smell Like Honey”, R.E.M. (First...
“I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument...”
– Fox “News” chief ROGER AILES, in an interview with Russell Simmons, on the coverage of Tucson and, well, everything else I guess, by his right-leaning network.
By his own admission, Ailes is confirming two things: 1) Fox “News” is nothing more than a tool to rouse the right-wing rabble, and 2) yes,...
“Others will enter the gates of the ferry, and cross from shore to shore; ...”
– from “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” by Walt Whitman
“You could be time’s widow. You could grow old insisting to younger people...”
– Michael Cunningham, from the current issue of New York magazine, on why 2011 is the best year possible to be living in NYC.
Postal Service Honoring Great American Industrial... →
Henry Dreyfuss’s desk telephone among the items set to be immortalized in stamps. Shame people don’t really use stamps that much anymore, huh?
“There are no provisional lives.”
– Kaiji
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
– Neil Gaiman (via quote-book)
Bill Murray surprised Karaoke group, sings with... →
patbaer:
So, the story goes that Bill Murray just showed up a karaoke place and joined the party. While this is line with his previous behavior of showing up at frat parties and telling people “no one will believe you”….. this is from The Chive, the website that had that Girl Quits Job with Dry Erase Board hoax. So take it with a grain of salt.
I want to believe.
AV Club: 48 of our most awaited entertainments of... →
Lists!
Reagan insider: 'GOP destroyed U.S. economy' →
mohandasgandhi:
Stage 1. Nixon irresponsible, dumps gold, U.S starts spending binge
Richard Nixon’s gold policies get Stockman’s first assault, for defaulting “on American obligations under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement to balance our accounts with the world.” So for the past 40 years, America’s been living “beyond our means as a nation” on “borrowed prosperity on an epic scale … an...
Premiere: Hear 'Oh My Heart,' A New Song From... →
