January 2010
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“On the same night, around 200 decoys are planted around New York City in what is...”
– City Room
ONE NIGHT. 3,000 NEW YORKERS. LET'S MAKE IT COUNT. →
youngmanhattanite:
“HOPE is still scheduled for tonight and WILL NOT be postponed due to rain/weather”
Just got asked coming home if was homeless (on Jay’s old block). Really interested to hear how the count went. M Licinius Bloomberg is going to be buying a lot of bus tickets to Philly tomorrow.
Watchjoecoscarelli:
This is the only thing making me feel good.
day 3, play count 87. almost as meteoric a rise in my top 25 as when i fell asleep with party in the usa on repeat two nights in a row.
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Yesterday in the shower I decided it would be cool... →
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How Many Moguls Can a Mogulling Mogul Mogul? →
“Christian and Baptist. Funky Baptist, which means you focus on the blood at the...”
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– Got to meet Cornell West when I was 11. He called me brother Ezekiel. That’s the coolest I’ve ever been.
“The thing about these St. Ann’s kids is they’re socially very able,” he told me....”
– re Tino Seghal [NYT]
St. Ann’s Picks A Successor To Headmaster
things people do when they're lifting weights
Whenever I go to the gym I just swim, and I never never lift weights. I think lifting weights is scary and weirdly habit forming (my nightmare is to be 40 and looking in the mirror, worried that my 35 inch biceps aren’t puffed-up enough). Meanwhile swimming is peaceful and fun and you get to wear a Speedo; you just watch a blue line skate beneath you in silence and think about breathing.
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the lyrics mean nothing and the song is about... →
De Classibus Referentibus In Magazinis
Sometimes classical allusions are legit. Sometimes they’re lazy.
Contrast, compare.
Newsweek, Jon Meacham, this week:
Perhaps it was the economy, or maybe it was our mindlessly divided (an altogether different thing from being intelligently divided, which is the natural state of a democratic republic) political climate. But for whatever reason, my holiday reading included Gregory...
Basic Scientific Principles, Gym Resolvers
Physical activity has long been known to bestow such benefits as helping to maintain a healthy weight and reduce stress, not to mention tightening those abs. Now, a growing body of research is showing that regular exercise—as simple as a brisk 30- to 45-minute walk five times a week—can boost the body’s immune system, increasing the circulation of natural killer cells that fight off viruses...