Canada, before Facebook
Posted by jessekg in Art, Canada on 09. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
“This image is striking (and also sad) because, while it was taken in 1966, it’s still current,” Cronenberg told the Post (parentheses mine) Toro Magazine, that once great magazine that went the way of online only and has since become and pretty good site, purchased some 24,000 photographs of Canada from the New York Times. [...]
WTF is up with that sentence?
Posted by Simon in Curiosities, Internet, Pop Culture on 02. May, 2010 | 2 Comments
Much of my adult life has been spent learning how to write. Every day I hope to get a little better, weed out bad habits, pick up new tricks and make myself a better craftsman. When you think of good writing however there can be a lot of culturally entrenched presuppositions. A survey of places [...]
The Morning Dump: Sexy writing, non-sexy writing, being stupid about Jay-Z and dinner with Ebert
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 09. Jan, 2010 | 3 Comments
Sex is always a compelling topic, particularly when debated in the New York Times. Katie Roiphe recently wrote an op-ed for the NYT Book Review bemoaning the lack of literary moaning amongst contemporary writers. An interesting read in itself, Steve Almond soon blogged a response equally insightful but with five times the sex appeal. And [...]
The Dump: Free Gucci, fuck sexting and knowing when you’re going to die
Posted by theashcan in media, Politics, Pop Culture, Rappers on 12. Dec, 2009 | 2 Comments
Whether you’re on a post-gym high or post-partying low spend this Saturday morning catching up on some of the week’s best stories. New York Times Magazine’s Ninth Annual Year in Ideas Everybody loves lists. The New York Times has compiled more than a bunch of links however. Rather, this is a bullet point presentation of [...]
