December 2008
63 posts
am I a top?
On Dubai’s refrigerated beach:
“We will suck the heat out of the sand to keep it cool enough to lie on,” he said. “This is the kind of luxury that top people want.”
(via Clusterflock)
“It’s a beautiful day for lovers of meat and the Marlow and Sons/Diner/Bonita empire. The always-excellent eateries have been buying their own whole, properly fed, locally raised animals and butchering them for use in their restaurants for a while, but today they’re opening a butcher shop down the block and going retail. If dining experiences at the restaurants are telling at...
FYI
Some fatty flakes are falling in DUMBO right now.
WatchBell at the Music Hall of Williamsburg for the Gummy Awards! This is one of her new songs, “Hero”. See more videos of the performance here, including Deerhunter and Violens.
news-worthy
Zach: I’m going to be quoted in the New York Times about how I never defriend anyone on Facebook.
think it over with your morning coffee
a good word in my book is “autological” - it means “a word which describes itself”. some good examples are: polysyllabic (having many syllables), or, better still, pentasyllabic (having five syllables), sesquipedalian (describing a word which is long), short (which itself is kinda short), written, etc. the antonym of autological is “heterological”, which means...
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Interview with Tom Lee, Arthur Russell's partner →