Today is First Sweater Day! Well, it is for me at least. Today is a scratchy-wool, red-and-navy, polo-style day with a stray fiber causing my neck to itch. Today is unhemmed sleeves with edges that roll back a little. Today, I have to admit, is an Abercrombie day.
First Sweater Day is always exciting because only […]
MIT Press has published New Media, 1740-1915, a collection of essays that examine the adoption of new media in historical, social, and cultural contexts.
Test: Gleaning, Exchanging and Vernacular Media discusses one such new medium, newspaper and magazine scrapbooking, which apparently arose during the nineteenth century, and its similarities to today’s weblogs.
[New Media, 1740-1915: MIT Press; […]
World Monuments Watch 2004 has placed two New York City sites on its list of endangered sites: St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn, and the whole of Lower Manhattan. Of Lower Manhatan, the Watch states: “Today, some 200 historic and architecturally significant buildings near Ground Zero are at risk, threatened with demolition […]
Ryan’s me cousin, see. I saw his name on a Wired News piece a whole bunch of months ago, and then I saw this and e-mailed him asking whether he was the same Ryan Singel who was related to me. A ha! He’s living in the Bay Area now, which is beautiful, but not quite […]
Two amusing Google links: Once in a blue moon, 1 ÷ Once in a blue moon. [via Polyglut]
The Post today mentions a special train parked under the Waldorf Astoria as an escape option for President Bush and other leaders staying at the hotel.
The Metro North train is parked at a platform that was built under the hotel during its construction in the 1930s; the platform was previously used by General Pershing and […]
Gothamist looks at Times critic A. O. Scott’s review of the new film Duplex. Damned if they’re not right: There are a helluva lot of strollers in Park Slope.
Scott even jokes that Park Slope residents are required to have a baby “within 18 months of arrival or face deportation back to Manhattan.” This amuses me […]
In which I describe an afternoon’s adventures on the High Line.
Beginning in the 1930’s, a freight rail line ran up Manhattan’s West Side, carrying cargo through Manhattan’s disparate neighborhoods, from Spring Street in Greenwich Village, up 13 miles to Spuyten Duyvil at the island’s northern tip. As trucking became the dominant mode of shipping cargo, […]
Vocabula Review published a piece today about the use of they as a generic, gender-free singular pronoun, as in the following: “If you love someone, set them free.” Many grammarians argue that the correct phrasing of such a thought would be, “If you love someone, set him or her free,” or, in an earlier era, […]
Here I am, settling comfortably into new digs. Poke around a bit, tell me whether you like or hate it. Over in Changes is a list of what’s changed on the site and with the weblog, in case you’re wondering.
