“I ragequit this article like, 10 times, and couldn’t get past that awful opening line. But eventually, I managed to put down my frying pan and unbunch my apron, and I sat down on my princess tuffet and asked a man to help me read the whole thing.” —
NYT-“MEN invented the internet” - Boing Boing
Fucking Jardin is the fucking funniest tech type writer I know of.
“Afterparty at the Brother Jimmy’s BBQ by Penn Station” —
8 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before June 10 | GalleristNY
The Whitney’s Art Party afterparty will be held here, in the event that you were wondering if they knew their audience.
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Today was the famed Manhattanhenge, where you could walk to any block and see the sun perfectly aligned through Manhattan from East to West. the optimal time was 8:17.
I set up shop on 14th Street all the way at the east end, the ideal place to be. And as I was standing there watching it, I just had this thought, “OK, OK, hold off being wowed until something really amazing happens. Just hold off til something incredible happens. Yeah, this view is pretty and all, but just wait for something spectacular”.
And, I had this thought: I’m standing on 14th Street watching the sun be perfectly aligned over an improbably spectacular city. I’m eating organic almonds %25 over market price living by myself in a fancyish neighborhood while I’m two generations removed from being illiterate and being in some hyper-religious destitute village in the Ukraine. It’s 2012, my health is fine, I’ve had sex with pretty women, I’ve had days where I’ve eaten foie gras and yogurt in the same day. I don’t have to wait for something amazing to happen anymore. There are those rare moments of clarity where you realize everything else is just icing on the cake. of course, 12 minutes from now I will complain that this particular cake doesn’t have the frosting I like, but for now, things are fine.
“For one of the paintings, Mr. Prince threw a few paint splatters on one of the Rastafarians, and placed a separate photo of a guitar in his hands. The message of the piece, Mr. Prince said in the court record, was, “Hey, this guy is playing the guitar.” —
Court Jester: Is Richard Prince Using the Legal System as a Medium? | GalleristNY
Greatest title for a painting I’ve ever heard of.
(via Bullies Take Note: The World Is Changing)
It’s a nice sentiment but you’re just exacerbating the situation. What happens when that same bully is like, “Well, now it’s time to beat up people with cleft lips”?
Do we have to wait for a linebacker with cleft lips?
Maybe tell the kid he’s an asshole for the principle instead.
The Neuroscience of Choking - Ideas Market - WSJ -
This article is so much less sexy than the headline would suggest.
“During dinner, Nancy Reagan turned to him and asked what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. Straight-faced, Davis replied: “Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?” —
Miles Davis: his wardrobe, his wit, his way with a basketball … | Music | guardian.co.uk
Miles Davis: an interviewer’s dream
“Hostile letters and e-mails poured into the company from customers canceling their business and demanding to be removed from its e-mail list. “I understand that your company donated $250,000 or so to the effort to ban the marriage amendment,” read one. “I am very concerned that with an increased visibility and acceptance of the gay and lesbian lifestyle, one of my children, who would have grown up and been happily married to a husband, could be tempted to the lesbian lifestyle.” —
Replacements Limited’s Stand for Gay Marriage Has a Cost - NYTimes.com
I like that this guys is basically saying, “the only thing that stops me, as an adult, from just cold popping dicks into my mouth is the fact that it’s socially unacceptable”. Maybe it is, who knows? It’s just such a funny unaware argument.
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