September 2008
34 posts
Alaska Women Reject Palin! →
finally, some news from the present day I can actually stomach.
Pennsylvania Seeds a New Crop of Local Grocery... →
This is a really beautiful example to set for the rest of the country, because the issue of access to fresh and local (or often any) groceries in low-income neighborhoods is a real one in cities all over the country, including San Francisco. This especially insightful excerpt gets at the core of the issue:
“That no big chains have yet taken advantage of the fund suggests that the added...
Talking Points Memo | The Big Question: 2+2=4? →
emptyage:
dustinblake:
The New York Times reports this evening that “foreign banks, which were initially excluded from the [Wall Street bailout] plan, lobbied successfully over the weekend to be able to sell the toxic American mortgage debt owned by their American units to the Treasury, getting the same treatment as United States banks.”
The Times further reports that two of the biggest foreign...
In hard times, tent cities rise across the country →
“We’d like to thank you Herbert Hoover, for really showing us the way…”
Everything Hot Chip touches turns to...
jimrock:
Chemical Brothers - Electronic Battle...
“I tried to lose myself, as fledgling adults are wont to do, by drinking cheap...”
– My Life in Jest by Jessanne Collins - The Morning News
a pretty essay about (privileged) young adulthood, in the form of a David Foster Wallace homage.
want. →
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“Considered “The Queen of Orchidaceous Plants,” and one of the world’s largest...”
– A 200-Pound Orchid Blooms Again - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
on diplomacy and an expanded worldview.
Ben: ha
so, today i went to a meeting by the World Bank
and there was free wine
shrimps
hors devooors
etc
served on silver platters by dudes in bow ties
me: oh nice
they just skim a little off the top of the Laotian GDP or something?
Ben: hahahaha
it was cohosted by USAID
so maybe it was our tax dollars
me: they are like, Kosovo won't miss this at all! get extra shrimp!
Ben: hahahaha
i learned something rad though
(Well, lots rad, but this fact is best)
me: ?
Ben: after agriculture, nigeria's biggest industry is cinema
me: dang!
Ben: "Nollywood" employs
1,000,000 people
me: whoa!
Ben: and makes more movies per year than Bollywood. And, of course, Hollywood.
me: amazing!
Ben: weird, no?
me: yeah... that seems a very large chunk of the Nigerian population?
also, why have we not seen any of these films?
Ben: for reals.
and who watches them?
“don’t let the fucking media paint us like The Generation That Was Too Busy...”
– Dr Ned, M.D.
Ummm, can a brother say amen. (via jimrock)
Stars - Undertow
My god I love this album so...
“For the wreckage begat greed; and it came to pass that while America’s young men...”
– Great op-ed from Roger Cohen today (via emptyage)
Thanks @mat for directing me to this; it’s simultaneously fun to read and totally sickening.
Stars - Going Going Gone (Live)
Off the new EP...
“Treating transit like an afterthought is nothing new for the state (just last...”
– Without Transit Funding, State’s Smart Growth Efforts Not Enough
Last Call, Bohemia →
syntheticpubes:
“It isn’t possible to quantify the extent to which society and culture are indebted to Bohemia. In every age in every successful country, it has been important that at least a small part of the cityscape is not dominated by bankers, developers, chain stores, generic restaurants, and railway terminals. This little quarter should instead be the preserve of—in no special...
damage new! →
WatchThis weekend I was thisclose to the New Pornographers singing this, one of my favorite songs. I don’t really have superlative adjectives to adequately explain how I feel about it.