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• Hugs and Kisses #18: The Final Episode in Everett True's Desktop Trilogy

  November 6, 2007

• Au Revoir, Baudrillard

  March 6, 2007

• Things I Learned Watching Dreamgirls

  December 28, 2006

• Soft Circle: Not Built for iPods

  May 1, 2007

• Hugs and Kisses 23: Vampire Weekend Bassist Chris Baio on His Favorite Records

  December 11, 2007

• Bonde Do Role Tonight and Tomorrow

  May 14, 2008

• Interview: Chris Baio of Vampire Weekend

  June 10, 2008

• Hugs and Kisses 50: Conor Oberst and More

  July 9, 2008

• New Ted Leo: 'Rapid Response,' a Trip into Punk Rock Live Blogging

  September 16, 2008

• The Most Fabulous Destinations in the World

  September 24, 2008

• Andrea Peyser Rips a Page Out of My Book!

  October 21, 2008

• Strange Snacks of the World--Noodle Sandwich

  December 23, 2008

• Word of the Day: Blandiose

  December 24, 2008

• YouTube Treasure: The Golden Girls Theme In Its Nascent Form

  When he wrote "Thank You For Being a Friend," Andrew Gold probably didn't expect it to end up as an anthem for Depends-wearing Golden Girls, but his obscure ditty did find its place as the bouncy theme song to that classic '80s sitcom. Here is his own version of the song, and it's surprisingly almost semi-rock-and-rollish, with extra verses and choruses than we've come to know, and even a surreally creepy middle section (which is very similar to MY surreally creepy middle section.)

  January 26, 2009

• Cops Nab 59 in Queensbridge Drug Sweep

  Back in 1940, the New York Times celebrated the completion of the first big move-in at the Queensbridge Apartments, which they said were the "last word in modern living quarters and have auxiliary units designed to protect the health and meet the requirements of the 3,161 families living there." Today the Times reports that after a "seven-month investigation into violence and drug operations at Queensbridge," cops arrested 59 people, and seized hundreds of bags of crack, coke, and weed, as well

  February 5, 2009

• Stars Like Fleas Get Dirtier on Purpose

  Brooklyn's best and worst live act records a typically messy full-length

  June 10, 2008

• DOUBLE TROUBLE

  August 19, 2008

• Stuyvesant's Finest Run for Class Prez. in Frontrunners

  What you expect ensues

  October 15, 2008

• The Mexican on Canada

  November 5, 2008

• Nickelback's Shitfaced Nights and Blowjob Queens

  A freshly reunited nation struggles to take this band seriously

  November 19, 2008

• Listening to Dancing

  August 29, 2006

• Paan: A Good Smell with Your Breath

  November 17, 2006

• Things We Hate--Truffle Oil

  Truffle oil has nothing to do with truffles! It's a synthetic chemical with an odor that makes week-old fish smell good. [ref: Wikipedia]

  June 2, 2009

• Choose Your Own Encyclopedia

  February 1, 2005

• Mondo Wikipedia

  January 3, 2006

• The Art World Jungle

  September 26, 2006

• States of Flux

  October 10, 2006

• With This Ring, I Thee Bed

  January 23, 2007

• Disastrous Disco

  February 6, 2007

• Nuts, Ninjas, and Metamorphic Sprites

  July 3, 2007

• BREAKING BARRIERS

  November 5, 2008

• Quick Hits

  Minnesota GOP Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann says Obama's expansion of the AmeriCorps volunteer program establishes "re-education camps." ObamaHitler y'all! Defacements of Wikipedia pages are usually just crudely funny, but the altered Wiki page on Welsh village Gilfach Goch is a work of comic art ("Once an hive of industry Gilfach Goch's only export these days is in the production of chavs"). h/t jstrevino. Mets win opener 2-1! Some followers of That Other Team are not enjoying Joe Biden s

  April 6, 2009

• When Now Wasn't Soon Enough

  November 13, 2007

• Letters

  May 2, 2006

• Web Love

  May 2, 2006

• Turf Wars

  April 25, 2006

• Factually Speaking

  December 20, 2005

• Alexi Murdoch

  April 15, 2009

• Free Will Astrology: April 22 through 28

  April 22, 2009

• City Says Fat Kids Lag in Learning; We Suggest the Prince Fielder Approach

  Mike Bloomberg, whose Administration has made education a priority, has bragged on rising test scores, greater matriculation into CUNY schools, and especially the shrinking achievement gap between minority students and white students. But what about the achievement gap between physically fit and physically unfit students? There we are found wanting by a Department of Health study, which finds that kids ranking among the top five percent in physical fitness score an average of 36 percentage point

  July 14, 2009

• On the Exhausting Exhilaration of Oneida

  July 28, 2009

• Radio Shack Becomes "The Shack" to "Friends"

  Radio Shack, the place we visit for signal splitters and batteries and which also sells phones, TV gear, and even radios, now says "Our Friends Call Us The Shack." Sales at the chain are down, and maybe they think this will make people think of "Love Shack" by the B-52s, and want to hang out there...

  August 3, 2009

• Strange Snacks of the World: Chakri

  ​​Chakri is the Gujarati name for an extruded snack made from rice flour, and available widely at South Asian groceries stores. Sometimes it contains urad (dal) flour, as well. The snack was supposedly invented in Tamil Nadu, in the small town of Manapparai, where it's known as muruku or murukku. While the snack looks like it might be sweet, it's savory instead, with a nice firm crunch, and an ensuing mild burn. It's also lightly flavored with cumin seed. Eat one, and you'll want ju

  August 18, 2009

• Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 Tracklist Looks Like Mad Libs

  ​ The Blueprint 3 tracklist is out, and the stats are in: four solo Jay songs, at least one of which is nearly guaranteed to be Jay going not so hard (unless "Venus vs. Mars" is about something entirely different than we think it is), and another one of which is "D.O.A." There is indeed a song called "Empire State of Mind," but unlike on the fake tracklist that circulated a few weeks ago, Nas is not featured on it. His replacement? Alicia Keys. Kid Cudi, Drake, and J. Cole all catch cameo

  August 19, 2009

• Happy 60th Birthday: Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Acme

  According to A View From a Goon (obviously an unimpeachable source -- oh, Wikipedia says so too), today is the 60th anniversary of the first Road Runner cartoon's debut. Hard to believe "Fast and Furry-ous" is from 1949, though the noisy version above makes it seem like a relic from the early sound era (you can see a better reproduction here). Most of the hallmarks of this modern Sisyphusian saga are already in place: the fruitless quest for bird, the single "meep meep" line of dialogue, the a

  September 16, 2009

• Week in Review: ZOWEE

  Photo of Ida Maria plus models by David Wentworth.​In the week "I'mma Let You Finish" became the new "WAZZUP!" (see how well that one aged!), we leaned back, helpless as the Maxwell Man (our references are old today, huh?) as Kanye annihilated his own website and the hopes and dreams of a 19-year-old millionaire. We live-blogged it. Kanye apologized for it, deleted it, apologized again, had his Wikipedia page defaced, exposed half the internet as latent racists, endured having the "what wo

  September 18, 2009

• MTA: 150 Subway Stations Will Get Digital Train Timers

  ​Lucky L train riders have had digital signs telling them when trains are coming (not always accurately, in our experience, but usually close enough for comfort). Now the MTA, which has mainly offered us blood, sweat and tears lately, says on December 2010, if not sooner, they'll start equipping more than 150 stations with train-arrival announcement signs. Digital signs were among the priorities mentioned by Jay Walder when he was being proposed as executive director of the MTA, for whic

  October 2, 2009

• Battle of the Dishes: Big Mac vs. The Whopper

  ​ One bag telegraphs purity, the other an earthy earnestness. Which will win? Could it be a tie? And why do they insist on calling them "sandwiches"? The Big Mac was born in 1968, when a burger modeled on the Big Boy invented by a Pittsburgh franchisee was nationalized. It has been the flagship of the McDonald's fleet ever since. the Big Mac features a pair of small patties, a bun sectioned latitudinally into three, pickles, twin slices of American cheese, iceberg lettuce, and a "special

  October 8, 2009

• Talking Turkey: This Year, Pick Your Own

  r_gnuce/flickr​Six days into November and turkey tips are already clogging the collective consciousness. Here's one from Feather Down Farms: For the ultimate locavore experience, spend an afternoon upstate and pick out your own live bird. The Stony Creek Farm location of Feather Down in Delaware County, N.Y., is offering guests the opportunity to visit the farm and select their very own turkey while it's still frolicking around the turkey pen. The farm will reserve it for you, then handle

  November 6, 2009

• Video: Bike Polo in Sara D. Roosevelt Park

  NYC The Blog finds something we hadn't noticed: Bike Polo in Sara D. Roosevelt Park downtown. There's a U.S. Bicycle Polo Association, which claims the game's a hundred years old, but they seem to play on grass; Wikipedia traces "Hardcourt Bike Polo" to "early 2000s Seattle" and links to a "malletcam" video. The Park polo players' site is here. Apparently the game is sufficiently popular that the Chattanooga Parks and Recreation Department encourages matches, but the Kansas State Collegian r

  November 10, 2009