December 2009
10 posts
ODE TO BERKELEY by Michael Chabon →
Walter Benjamin - The Arcades Project Pt.1 →
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“I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night
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new news
News that Cousin got engaged (not, as my mother was quick to point out, actually married) at the ripe age of 22 came today; this set in motion a series of electric gossip volts that quickly connected me to family members I haven’t seen or spoken to in years. It also inevitably brought up two equally portent questions: “who will be engaged next?” and, “will any of us...
“The canon of Hanukkah songs written by Mormon senators from Utah just got a...”
– A Senator’s Gift to the Jews, Nonreturnable - NYTimes.com
“Listening to a radio show in the dark can be really intimate. It’s like...”
– Ira Glass
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Voxtrot’s The Warmest Part of the Winter
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