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New To Me
Jul 30, ’09
6:00 PM
I discovered a couple of sites this week, and figured I’d share ‘em with you. Since they’re not around individual posts, they don’t make as much sense for Unrequired Reading: NYC Grid – a photoblog that chronicles a different block of Manhattan each day (discovered via Subtraction) Feinstein on the Brink – John Feinstein is [...]
Heavy-Duty Yarmulke
Jul 30, ’09
10:05 AM
One of my pals from high school just e-mailed to tell me that she found her mailbox crushed in this morning, with this motorcycle helmet lying nearby: She asked if I would translate the text, which looks like a slightly miswritten YHWH to me. There’s only one conclusion I can draw: there’s a hasidic biker [...]
0-fer of the Week: Paris, Toilet
Jul 29, ’09
10:49 AM
In Duck Soup, Groucho Marx gets locked in a bathroom by Harpo, leading him to shout, “Let me out of here! Hey, let me out of here! Or throw me a magazine!” For reasons I won’t bother to mention, a shelf in our downstairs bathroom contains a number of essay collections (Orwell, Rosenbaum, Amis) and [...]
Lost in the Supermarket: Sick Day
Jul 28, ’09
11:34 AM
I’m home sick today, dear readers. Achiness, exhaustion, mild nausea: it’s a rough life. Maybe some tea would help. I hear this stuff is the bomb! See the whole Lost in the Supermarket series!
What It Is: 7/27/09
Jul 27, ’09
6:01 AM
What I’m reading: I finished A Drifting Life, and started Edwin Mullhouse, which came up in last week’s 0-fer post. What I’m listening to: I had Underworld Day at my office last week. That kept everyone away. What I’m watching: Things Change, Napoleon Dynamite, Get Shorty, some Arrested Development, and the second-to-last episode of this [...]
Sally Mander
Jul 26, ’09
2:19 PM
It was one damp greyhound hike today up in Wawayanda State Park. I’m glad Amy brought along the bug spray, because we’d have been eaten alive without it. And our remains would’ve been noshed on by this guy! But instead we had a nice, long meander through the woods. Not exactly a lazy Sunday, but [...]
I only tweet after eating Mexican food
Jul 25, ’09
8:07 PM
Follow me on Twitter. I’m twitter.com/groth18. Given my prolixity, I don’t think I can do much in a 140-character limit, but hey.
The B.S. Report
Jul 25, ’09
3:38 PM
I’m too giddy with anticipation of Rickey Henderson’s Hall of Fame induction speech to do any real blogging this weekend, dear readers! I know it’s too much to hope that he’ll deliver his speech in the third person, but chances are it’ll be a memorable speech (not as awesome as Ozzie Smith’s, but hey). To [...]
