April 2009
1 post
from Self-Portrait at 28
If you were cool in high school
you didn’t ask too many questions.
You could tell who’d been to last night’s
big metal concert by the new t-shirts in the hallways.
You didn’t have to ask
and that’s what cool was:
the ability to deduce,
to know without asking.
And the pressure to simulate coolness
means not asking when you don’t know,
which is why kids...
March 2009
1 post
February 2009
1 post
This is a country song I recorded this morning. ...
December 2008
4 posts
CLN online →
CLN-a trade paper for the craft industry that i started reading last night. i can’t really believe that it’s for real. read about the subscription offer. $200 annually, and the only feature you get is email alerts. The content and archives of CLN are free to the general netfaring public. Also: what is up with their words on copyrighted material?
November 2008
1 post
Bottle of Smoke -- listen up bitchezz
Thanks and praises Thanks to jesus I bet on the bottle of smoke I went to hell And to the races To bet on the bottle of smoke The day being clear The sky being bright He came up on the left Like a streak of light Like a drunken fuck On a saturday night Up came the bottle of smoke Twenty fucking five to one Me gambling days are done I bet on a horse called the bottle of smoke And my horse won...
October 2008
3 posts
America's No. 1 Export →
In response to Cait’s question about how money can maintain a consistent value in light of borrowing so much abroad.
Some articles about the current financial crisis →
I love Paul Krugman. He wrote my International Economics textbook and explains things in ways that everyone can understand.
Voodoo Funk →
This German DJ, Frank, went to West Africa for three years to find obscure West African records and make great mixtapes for the bourgeois internet public who would never do so themselves. He is starting a weekly set in a basement on Lafayette St. in Manhattan now that he has returned to New York, and I hope to catch it sometime. Anyway, there’s some really, really good stuff on this blog. ...
September 2008
2 posts
WTF →
My friend Brad's blog →
August 2008
13 posts
Marty Markowicz presents... →
David Berman Interview →
Whatever you feel about the Silver Jews, Berman’s poetry, whatever, I think this interview is worth reading.
