March 2010
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In Our Parents’ Bookshelves →
In late 2001 among the people I knew, cellphones went from being a gadget of the technorati to something that everyone had. I was living in a dorm with five roommates at the time and one consequence of the change was that we no longer ever spoke with each other’s parents. Previously parents had called the room line and whoever was around would pick up. I enjoyed shooting the breeze with my...
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“I feel like every generation of guys want to look as much like their grandfather...”
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The Victors (Carl Foreman, 1963) →
The secret passion of the cinephile is to find a hidden treasure. It’s often a film that wasn’t well-received in its day; its makers were beleaguered; and it is definitely, certainly not on DVD. Check all three for The Victors, a 1963 World War II movie in which a battle emerges between a bulging international cast. The movie’s director, Carl Foreman, was one of the...
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Anecdotal notes on Haruki Murakami from a 2008... →
I had the opportunity to see Murakami speak this past weekend.
What interested me most is that he doesn’t seem to consider his work to be particularly artistic, instead he sees himself as just a guy telling stories, doing what he does. He compared himself to a taxi driver at one point, saying he sees himself “as a guy just doing what he has to do.” Craft of writing more than art...
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“There is literally not enough celery root grown in the world for it to survive...”
– McDonald’s Mac Snack Wrap: Chef Changes Fast-Food Menu (via petervidani)
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“The Times’s Jeffrey Marcus is three rows from Wayne Gretzky, who fell to his...”
February 2010
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Billy Bragg - A New England
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Watch(via mostexerent)
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Tumblr Stole My Domain At The Behest of A...
tumbledore:
[READ UPDATE]
I’ve run pitchfork.tumblr.com for almost a year now. I had several posts up and I followed 28 people with the account. All my posts are now gone and my address has been changed to pitchfork1.tumblr.com. Where my blog once stood now stands the official Tumblr for Pitchfork Media Inc.
Recently, one of my friends who is subscribed to my pitchfork tumblr was surprised to...
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How to Wrap Five Eggs →
How to Wrap Five Eggs, a mid-60s classic of Japanese design, is back in print. Assembled by graphic designer Hikeyuki Oka in 1965, this stunningly laid-out paean to traditional Japanese packaging is rife with sumptuous black and white photos by Michikazu Sakai of all manner of boxes, wrappers and containers that appear at once homely and sophisticated, ingeniously utilitarian yet fine...
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Toj: Tomatoes; ie. why food in Korea is so bad →
…Imagine a country where all of the slicing tomatoes they sold were completely flavorless, neither sour nor sweet, devoid of tang, mushy, pink, and generally a disgrace to the name. Well, guess what, I live here. Why Korean-grown tomatoes are so piss poor, I will never know, but the only Korean food I’ve seen them applied to is Kongguksoo, a cold soy bean noodle dish, and they...
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