No Unrequired Reading next Friday! I’ll be traveling all week, so live it up with this installment!
I’m glad someone has the vocabulary to explain why the drumming on The National’s album Boxer is so goshdarned good. (Boy, I can’t wait for that new album
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Caffeinated maple-bacon lollipops. That is all.
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As mentioned previously, I do care a lot more about how I dress, but no, I will never spend $550 for a pair of khakis.
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Saltier living through chemistry.
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It’s just a rambling interview with Anthony Bourdain. Go read it.
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Maybe I’m overselling things, but welcome to the future. (More here.)
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Rufus & Otis love to lunge after the deer we see during our walks, but I think they’d be terrible at hunting coyotes.
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I can’t think of any business that has been under assault from more directions than Blockbuster has.
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All roads lead to The Situation.
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Yet another excuse for why I don’t try to write professionally: there’s no money in it!
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It’s the weekend! Let’s go to the park with NYC Grid! Carl Schurz, Madison Square, Thompkins Square, and Stuvyvesant Square!
This is THE real G Roth of NJ?