Urban Honking

Jessica and I saw the neckface van on a rare trip to “north brooklyn” last sat, and immediately wrote over the double-headed bat part (our collective graf tag is SPIDER). Hey wmsbg, let’s see how you fare against Park Slope massif, whose primary defining characteristic is its disproportionate amt of babies & our tight calves […]

From our favorite Elizabeth Mendez Berry: Dear friends, Many of you know how profoundly destructive U.S. military aid has been to Colombia. There is an extremely important vote regarding the future of U.S. policy in Colombia and it’s going down today, and you can make a difference (it sounds corny but it’s true—by passing this […]

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Here is another reason listening sessions are the katie holmes’ foot of album appreciation: because if the record you’re reviewing isn’t actually finished when you hear it, three months in advance to comply with standard-issue mag deadlines, you do not actually write in your review that it includes a track with MIA, because IT HASN’T […]

Music has a time and a season. I mean, can you listen to Pavement in the winter, Aphex Twin after breakfast, or Sigur Ros during spring break? Still knocking around the subject of my last post (URLs for iTunes), I’ve been thinking about an Apple Script that would use the comment field and iTunes’ song […]

what is your address? myself, my friends and last night’s entire population of ESPN Zone want to send you something in the mail. it is a plaque called “THE BIASED REFERREE WINNER’S CIRCLE AWARD.” The only reason the pistons shut down mentally is because they knew they weren’t simply playing against the spurs–they were playing […]

Thanks to the internet, Peter Macia, he of left coast muscle, right brain flexing and both hands on all wheels, now blogging. OMG, his first long post is about bell hooks, gw bush, mike tyson, & fear. OMG! I’ll take it!

Congratulations to Dan and Lupine for being the 14,028 and 14,029 persons I know this year to get engaged, married and / or babied. It is sweet and fresh and I am humbled by, and hopeful for, the suddenly disproportionate amount of humans I know having genuinely healthy relationships. love, JS.