May 2010
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“Thanks to everyone for a great year at [redacted], and a lovely send-off. I will...”
– …and then I realised that my farewell email to the entire company (~250 people) at which I’ve been a notorious (‘high-handed’) editor for the last year had a massive editorial mistake in it.
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“BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company....”
– JIMMY FALLON, Late Night (via The New York Times, inothernews, 24freedinners, dhk) (via noraleah)
On things I've been thinking about today
(aka a general post of some links)
- The BBC National Short Story Award - the deadline is soon, and I think it is VERY SILLY that the Ts&Cs specify that authors are not eligible unless they have published fiction with a publisher or an ‘established magazine’, in print. While I understand that is must be intended in part to prevent everyone who’s ever written a short story ever...
“I am afraid of flying. When I tell that to anyone—I am afraid of flying—most...”
– A Simple Flying Phobia / Jean Hannah Edelstein
(so delighted to make my debut today in The Morning News)
On the time I cared about the World Cup
Today at work we got an email informing us that we would be allowed to absent ourselves from the office during the course of the World Cup, provided there was nothiing ‘mission critical’ going on and provided that we identified ahead of time which teams we supported. I presume this latter specification is because pretending that you support ALL of the teams in order to get out of the...
“Waters says he knows where Baltimore got its creative ferment. “Poor...”
– John Waters’ “Role Models”: The creator of “Hairspray” really lets his hair down as a memoir emerges from profiles of his favorite people - baltimoresun.com
Lovely piece on my new American hometown through the eyes of its’ weirdest favourite son, via Dadelstein
Poutine champ eats 13 pounds in 10 minutes →
trustjondaly:
The World Poutine Eating Championship - the first of its kind - went down yesterday at a rain soaked BMO Field. The marketing genius behind the event was Ryan Smolkin, owner of Smokes…
Um, respect?
“Zoli lives in the beautiful basement flat of the house and his family provides...”
– What The Butler Saw… | The Lady
Very educational article about the life and times of a London butler. I didn’t know that ‘buttling’ was a word but I am certainly going to incorporate it into my vocabulary.
Forgive me Dadelstein, for it has been three years...
…until today.
The British approach to dentistry really is different from that in the US - most people just don’t go all that regularly, preferring to wait until they are on the precipice of dental disaster. Or well over the precipice. It’s about troubleshooting, rather than prevention. I swore when I moved here I would continue my American-stylee dental attendance, but soon I...
One Person Trend Stories: New York Man Dates Less... →
doree:
meltzer:
Nate Thompson and his girlfriend Victoria Bridges* are, in many ways, a typical New York couple in their late 20s: He’s a banker; she works a nonprofit that helps the homeless; they share a garden apartment in Boerum Hill; they have a puppy named Skip; they met through friends at a holiday party…
New. Favourite. Blog.
“At mealtimes, we are like so many other extended families: we sit down around...”
– Locally Sourced
My debut as a food blogger…
“Here were these two young men (they’re both forty-three), calmly intoxicated...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg: Boys Will Be Men : The New Yorker Because politics is for boys, everyone. Don’t forget it.
“Did you not previously associate porridge with sex, dear reader? You will.”
– The London Review of Breakfasts: Towpath, De Beauvoir Town
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On what I did on Election Day
On Thursday I spent most of ten hours, give or take, knocking on doors and asking people if they had voted Labour yet. And if they had not voted Labour yet, when were they planning on voting? And at the time at which they were planning on voting, would they like directions to their polling centre? Or would like someone to come and pick them up and drive them there?
It was exhausting, trailing up...
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On the three fights that I have witnessed in my...
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It is the beginning of high school and it is still warm enough outside that the cafeteria line has spilled out on to the pavement, rather than winding down the corridor towards the English department. High school is supposed to be the most grown-up thing that we have done so far, but now that we are freshmen I feel even smaller than I did last year, when I was 13. We are talking about...
“When did my body become public property for open commentary by just about...”
– The Ram Family: Pregnant Body: Public Property
Interesting post on the pregnant body as public property by my friend Veronique.
On fighting fascism
Let’s go fight fascism, Jude’s email said. He was going leafleting in Barking and Dagenham, where the BNP has a fighting chance of taking over the council and getting the vile Nick Griffin into parliament.
OK, I said. I definitely can get behind fighting fascism.
We were given a stack of leaflets, and a map, and two other anti-fascist colleagues, and we were instructed to put the...
“Whenever my flight is delayed I try to have a beer at the airport bar. I don’t...”
– Modern Love - For the Jobless, Relationships Are Different - NYTimes.com
Craig was my airport bar.
