January 2010
29 posts
New Year's Retrospective, 2004
I’m pretty sure most of these links are probably dead. But this was written just about five years ago, in the middle of the decade now ending. It was a retrospective of a year in blogging when the very idea of New York magazine running an issue written by bloggers seemed ridiculous.
It was 2004. And that’s the way it was, baby!
It Happened This Year: New York Magazine—Blogosphere...
peterfeld:
The Replacements, “Here Comes A...
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The Replacements, “Here Comes A...
December 2009
79 posts
WatchEven though I’m officially on vacation this week, I made a super brief appearance on CNBC. If you care about your tax dollars getting used to pay millions in banker bonuses, you want to watch this.
Since I don’t say much and I’m super vain, all I noticed about this is that I really need a haircut.
Foreign models flock to China, which embraces a... →
newsweek:
johncarney:
Keith Richburg is one of three or four people writing in mainstream media who are worth listening to on questions of race and identity.
Hmm. We think it’s more than 3 or 4, but we agree that this indeed a good, smart piece.
Maybe, Newsweek. But I wonder who you would nominate?
Exploding The Myth Of America As A "Christian... →
Tom Fleming is right on here, tearing apart the conservative nonsense about America being a Christian nation corrupted by…well, whoever is the latest corrupter.
One point of contention I have with Fleming: in the early 19th Century, much of America was a Christian nation thanks to a late blooming religious revivalism. But this was a departure from earlier American practice and didn’t...
Foreign models flock to China, which embraces a... →
Keith Richburg is one of three or four people writing in mainstream media who are worth listening to on questions of race and identity.
King Dork: A Really, Really Funny Book
I bought King Dork when Krucoff was pimping it out a year or two ago. I only made it through the first dozen or so pages before I left it in a bag that I lost in the Annex or the Orchard Bar or some such place that a Lewitinn was probably responsible for me attending.
Anyway, I bought it again just before Christmas. I had intended to give it to a teenager I know as a gift. But I started reading...
The missing Iranian Nuclear Scientist
Here’s my version of the big McClatchey story about the missing Iranian scientist.
The US discovers the scientist is headed to Mecca for a pilgrimage. Attempts to recruit him as a defector.
Scientist refuses to defect. US leaks to Iran that it’s top Mid East recruiter is also in Mecca, hoping to scare scientist into defecting.
Iran sends agents to capture scientist if it looks...
Love and Theft: A Dialogue
The setting: It's Christmas eve in a house in suburban Maryland. My brother Tim, a newspaper man and author of the book Obamanomics, is in kitchen with his three year old daughter, Lucy.
Lucy: What are you going to do today, Daddy?
Tim: Write my column.
Lucy: Me too.
Tim: What's your column about?
Lucy: About I love Daddy and Momma and Charlie and Grandma.
Tim: What should I write about?
Lucy: About Big Government steals your money.
The Campaign Against the Phrase 'Pro Life' -... →
If there’s not an award for the tritest argument ever made on Gawker, there should be. And this should win.
What’s really odd is that it’s written without any awareness that this very same stupid thing—complete with references to guns and the death penalty—has been trampled by repetition.
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What The Hell Is formspring?
I went ahead and signed up. Now you canaAsk me anything http://formspring.me/carney
You guys kept talking about Formspring so I finally decided to check it out.
One warning: I probably don’t really care about you or your questions. So I’ll probably just use this to mock you. Sorry. It’s a generational thing.
The Worst Festivus Ever | The Awl →
Foster’s Christmas letter about Salkin is the best thing I’ve read on New York media in ages. Merry Christmas.
Los Angeles, A Twitter Dialog
@Carney: Never spent much time in LA. Whenever there I've found it intolerable. But four friends I trust now vouch for it. What am I missing?
@anal_yst: you're not a starfucker/impressed with celebrity/etc?
@Carney: It's not so much that I'm unimpressed. It's that I'm annoyed they aren't more impressed with me and the people who impress me.
When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like... →
This rant from io9 reads like it could have been written for the “Stuff White People Like.” It is, like SWPL, about Stuff Liberal White People like. Which I mean as praise.
I think in the end, however, Annalee Newitz strikes too idealistic a note. She seems to want white people to make movies about race that aren’t primarily about white people’s experiences or fantasies of...
Lindsay Campbell Jello-Fighting In A Bikini →
Merry Christmas!
Do You Hate That Gavin McInnes Guy?
Well, it turns out you can make him eat a bowl full of corn flakes and piss.
All you have to do is help him win the Hipster of the Decade contest at Gawker.
From Street Carnage:
Gavin said Gawker’s “Hipster of the Decade” thing was “gay” until Carles began creaming him in votes. This morning “gay” became, “That’s irritating. Carles isn’t even an actual guy. He’s just an insecure pube being...
“Beavers battle Cougars in Sin City”
– Seattle Post-Intelligencer wins today’s “Best Headline ever” contest.
How A Tweet From Rex Sorgatz Explains Our Economic... →
While it may appear we have a gigantic output gap — under the old measure — in reality we may have a shortage in the things we really need.
The Latest In Email Spam Scam Technology
This morning I found this waiting in my email box. It’s apparently from a real friend of mine, Martha Burzynski. I half believed it until I realized it was written in the patois of email scammers.
Here’s the text, sent under the subject line “Help!!!”
Hello, I’m writing this with tears in my eyes,i came down here to London,England for a short vacation and i got...
Watchnotesfromundervault:
Dropkick Murphys — Dirty Glass
I’m loving the brass knuckles dress!
One of my favorite songs.
This Magic Moment
You know that night, right?
The one where suddenly everything fell into place. You never expected it. It wasn’t supposed to be that type of night. It wasn’t a date. It wasn’t anything, really.
But there you were. Realizing that it was the night. You’d probably never feel like this around someone again. When her arm touched yours, when your arm went around her waist, you...
2005's 123 Reasons to Love New York Right Now →
My favorite thing I read all weekend.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! The Jungle Book... →
For some reason, this struck a chord
Julie Powell
I am finally watching Julie & Julia. It really does bring back a lot of old school blogging memories. Also: it’s making me hungry.
Amanda Knox In Stripes
“In Italian jails, inmates can wear their own clothing, and Knox wore a gray-and-white-flecked turtleneck sweater, black legging pants, white socks and black slippers. Her hair was pulled back in a ponytail.”
WatchI love New York. It’s like every Evelyn Waugh novel made real.
Spitzer’s Escort Ashley Duprey Lands Advice Column Gig At NY Post | Online | Mediaite
“…now the Herald Sun has done some extensive research (they went to...”
– -Fake Trend Alert: Male Cougars, mediaelites.com
This is a really sad attempt to respond the the Cougar thing. Drew Grant’s response is great, however.
(via dogsareadorable)
Sailer On Simmons NBA Book
Steve Sailer has invented an entirely new genre of literary criticism: reviews of books skimmed at the book store. He’s not, of course, the first reviewer to write about books he hasn’t read. But as far as I know, he’s the first to explicitly write based on book store skimming.
Here he is on ESPN’s Bill Simmons:
The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy...
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Help! We Need You To Come Work At The Business... →
Media jobs available! Stat!
Are You On THE LIST?
Deep Capture scraped the FaceBook accounts of a handful of journalists and hedge fund managers and listed all our friends on their website. So far we have no idea what the purpose of the list is.
Now the list has been culled down to exclude random friends and family members. It looks like they are trying to figure out what media folks we might be connected with.
It’s a pretty neat little...
