Category: things

The NYT on Banh Mi in Brooklyn and beyond.

Robert Krulwich makes linguistics fun and accessible in a five-minute segment for NPR on grammatical gender.

Is The Oprah Winfrey show ever a downer? I don’t think so. Even when it tackles the toughest of topics, the show manages to be optimistic. That optimism i...

What Steely Dan get right in Aja is mood. It’s rare to hear music that is both sunny and cool. The instrumentation and the lyrics may become dated but the...

If you can read this, you’re not infected.

When Brett Hinds is singing, Mastodon is the new Black Sabbath.

Found while searching for the literary fad of 1909: “Officials of the Pasadena Rapid Transit Company announce they are meeting with success in their proje...

Joseph Fuller: The models themselves—and particularly the interaction among models—has grown so complex that it may have become impossible for any human to full...

Dana Stevens: Provocative without being thoughtful, Towelhead is an exercise in button-pushing that seems unsure of what it wants to say (except to assert, corr...

Google Maps van hits deer.

The fantasy outlined in The Time of the Wolf is a reality for millions of refugees around the world. So, why go through so much trouble to tell that story witho...

A good movie review of a great movie, Private Property: Written by Mr. Lafosse and François Pirot, “Private Property” embraces the banal and the monstrous, and ...

Two weeks in, I’m a big fan of whitest boy alive. Ana says it reminds her of New Order. It reminds me of what I hoped many of our songs might become. Some...

Golden Cage by The Whitest Boy Alive is both fragile and firm. Teetering. Taunting failure. A remarkably good song.

With a few snips, “Let the right one in” (Låt den rätte komma in) may be the best movie I’ve seen since “Children of Men” which in...

Todd RundgrenI saw the light, particularly at 1m53s. Of Montreal An Eluardian Instance, starting at 2m50s.

61.mp3, 64.mp3 and 67.mp3, from the spring, summer and fall.

Sitting in the living room, I looked out at Ana who was standing at the far end of the backyard, photographing a salamander that she’d fished out of the p...

It’s 1:30 in the afternoon but it looks like the sun is setting. The sky is filled with smoke of a dozen fires. update: our smoke detector went off. twice...