I'd Rather Be Farting

Awesome

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:51:00 -0400

"If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which..."

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:39:00 -0500

“If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”

- Montesquieu

Urban Science

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:09:08 -0500

Urban Science

Lost World's Fairs

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:57:32 -0400

Lost World's Fairs

Skybarn: Are New Yorkers suddenly starting to believe that they are angry even...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:52:50 -0400

Skybarn: Are New Yorkers suddenly starting to believe that they are angry even...:

Are New Yorkers suddenly starting to believe that they are angry even though they are not, in fact, angry. It reminds me of my twins when they were infants. One would cry and then the other would cry because they thought they were the one that was upset. It’s no fault of New Yorkers who have never…

Fighting Flags

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:53:53 -0400

Fighting Flags

Was Israel A Mistake?

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:42:24 -0400

Was Israel A Mistake?

Lost Languages of New York City

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:06:00 -0400

Lost Languages of New York City

A Bridge Over Musicians' Barrier Into the U.S.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:33:28 -0400

A Bridge Over Musicians' Barrier Into the U.S.

"Offices are either the theatres of our ambition or the prisons where we were condemned when we..."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:45:30 -0500

“Offices are either the theatres of our ambition or the prisons where we were condemned when we betrayed our dreams.”

- Christian Lorentzen, Question time

Trippy Burger Maps

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:00:41 -0500

Trippy Burger Maps

"I didn’t set out to write a great Brooklyn novel, or a Brooklyn novel at all. I set out to..."

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:25:41 -0500

“I didn’t set out to write a great Brooklyn novel, or a Brooklyn novel at all. I set out to write the great novel of Dean Street between Bond and Nevins, on a certain summer’s day in 1972. To think you’re going to write Brooklyn is, for me, a pathetically hopeless position.”

- Jonathan Lethem in the Guardian

When the Swiss Voted to Ban New Minarets, This Man Built One

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:26:57 -0500

When the Swiss Voted to Ban New Minarets, This Man Built One

"Not to follow the West is to fall behind; to copy it is to lose one’s soul."

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:12:21 -0500

“Not to follow the West is to fall behind; to copy it is to lose one’s soul.”

- Wanting to Be Something Else

Review of Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence, by Adam Shatz

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:49:00 -0400

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De-pressed

30 Mosques in 30 Days

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:39:05 -0400

30 Mosques in 30 Days

This was totally me in law school.

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:49:25 -0400

This was totally me in law school.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same..."

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:11:09 -0400

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Social History of the MP3

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:46:19 -0400

The Social History of the MP3 :

I didn’t know pitchfork published this kind of stuff

Dustin McLean, Literal Video Mastermind

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:34:09 -0400

Dustin McLean, Literal Video Mastermind:

My hero