2008

Aug

Portland, Oregon

Yes Im drunk and on vacation, with that said, Portland, Ore has lived up to every one of my...

biteofpythias: I’m going to bed thinking it looks like Biden. I am hoping I wake up to a text...

Vacation time....

Goodbye NYC….off to Portland Oregon for family, mountains, and beer. I feel like I have not...

McCain opens 5 pt lead over Obama

As reported by the latest Reuters/Zogby poll….and the Tumblr world collectively gulps. As if...

On recession sob stories...

So I need to say something about this very touching and earnest re-blogging of the Our Cupboared was...

bikerfish: Greenwich Village, 1970 via Really? 1970? I...

Blue Planet BBC series footage segued to one of the most intriguing of the many Detroit tech-electro...

Snug Harbor, Montauk NY - Solid weekend at the beach.

374 days until....

Burning Man 2009, here’s this year’s link BURNING MAN 2008 - I am planning a trip of...

Video: Georgian TV reporter shot by Russian...

Valparaiso, Chile (taken a year ago to the day)…i...

Great meal and great conversation

I can sleep content tonight. If you haven’t already, treat yourself to a meal at Blue Ribbon...

Good to see

UPDATE: AUDIO LINKS FIXED!!! News: Over the past year Breakbeat Science has gone through a series of...

What it sounds like when James Wood...

rach: [In Robert McCloskey’s “Make Way for Ducklings,” Mr. and Mrs. Mallard are trying out the...

Hipster: The Dead End of Western...

So my nightly surfing led me to the above titled Adbuster’s cover story. Wow, does this guy...

Morphine - Candy (a long time favorite)

Bill never pulled his punches. You know I still love you all, I can only imagine what he’d...

Im lying out in Newport RI when I look up and see this...

Now you can hate on Pitchfork via T.V.

Hell, I like Pitchfork, never been one to deny it. So I look forward to the premier of their...

Sorry my friend, but this is just sooo good.

Great time at the inaugural Brooklyn Electronic Music...

happycap: CSS APW, Liberty State Park, August 8, 2008 Two...

Another heads up…check out the electro-breakbeat...

In brief, Radiohead put on a great show. The bulk of In...

All Points West --tips after day 1

1. Take the Ferry, but know that its docked over by the South Street Seaport, many people were on...

t-minus 18 hours and counting….woohooooooooo

Getting carded for girls flatters their youthful appearance, the way getting carded for guys...

Whoa.

lfarm: There sure are a lot of freaks in New York! Awesome!

emails you do not send....

Received by my friend this morning (she rocks)…. “Out there riding some other cock these...

The Five Greatest Things Ever Accomplished...

“There’s something about risking your life … for something you love, and testing...

All Points West -FRIDAY SET TIMES Apart from a way too early Go Team! set, I kinda like what they...

“I would love it if everyone could contemplate this ocean of...”
— Hugues d’Aubarede,...

“I’ve been asked again and again for my response to the now...”
— Kathy Hilton (via bg5000) (via...

All this mountain climbing news has made me nostalgic, check this link and scroll to the bottom to...

A good visual of the K2 stages. The ice avalanche occurred...

Accident kills 9 on K2

There are few communities out there that I respect more than the mountaineering community. So it...

-Leonard Cohen - Suzanne A stressful week has led me to this song time and time again. Calming and...

Jul

jennifur85: I have lost a considerable amount of hearing in...

“What the McCain campaign doesn’t want people to know,...”
— David Kiley, senior...

Beck + MGMT --- Oct 9th @ United Palace...

Presale is this Friday. Rarely do we see a twin bill this good, playing at such an awesome...

My increasingly insane uncle re:...

Portland is the Paris of the Pacific — as you will see. We don’t speak French out here,...

biteofpythias: (via miss-r) wow, when he puts it like...

The Ethicist (tumblr version)

I have always enjoyed The Ethicist columns in the Times, and kinda find myself in a weird quandary...

Rember - the drug that you will use to fight...

marco: Last night’s Tumblr NYC meetup. (Compare.) Wow that...

byrdie: NPR All Things Considered: Once Naked For...

MGMT, this Sunday @ McCarren Park Pool :...

mascarah: Who is with me? MGMT Plays McCarren Park Pool The indie rockers with a song-of-the-summer...

Courtney Love and Ryan Adams (I cant...

I can only guess that if I chose to write a thousand word message after concocting a healthy...

“Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the...”
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)...

Drunk driver just a step below dead

Tumblrs and The Dark Knight

Um. What the fuck? If you have something to say, go to IMDB boards to waste your time . Was there...

Half priced wine Mondays and Tuesdays

Before the “No Spin Zone”, Mr. O’Reilly shows his true colors on that now extinct...

nycmeetups: THIS THURDAY! ALL WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED!...

Its officially a slow news day.

I just dominated the 5k corporate race I ran in this evening. When I say dominate I mean, I beat my...

“The heart of Atlantic Waves is a step sequencer, a large...”
— The Atlantic Waves Project ...

The trials and tribulations of Tumblr married life.

I little bit Batman, a whole lotta Balls.

jennifur85: Just.Say.No. I couldn’t agree more.

Its 1:29 am and Im at home with two buddies STILL watching the MLB All-Star game. This is torture. ...

Sex, Murder, and Justification...(oh to...

So Im here at the firm doing nothing but waiting for my pink slip. My boredom led me to read the...

more from Rothbury….

Move over Bonnaroo. So my old touring buddy Kevin called me...

On the chopping block.....

Ask anyone you know who wears a suit and tie for a living and they’ll tell you that despite...

Feeling abstract on Sunday evening. Some south american...

Spain extends human rights to apes....

I saw this story in the Sunday times and am not sure how I feel about it. Its obviously a bit...

So I managed to get to Robert Moses beach and Shea Stadium today. The windows were rolled down and...

what the internet is doing to our brains

Thoughts as the weekend ends.

July 4th should always fall on a Friday. Simple as that. This nation already celebrates its...

The city is dead calm this weekend and I love it. Ive had my car here all weekend and I found...

Bowery Ballroom last night. Mr. Brownstone the best cover...

Health & Family

Events in the past month have reminded me in a rather earth shattering way just how much I have...

biteofpythias: brianvan: Streetwars is back in NYC....

Phish is maybe re-uniting, do you care?

biancarocksout: Speaking of cute drummers… or amazing drummers in general… One of my favorite drum...

brieflynoted: Amazing. I would give anything to be right...

MULATU! - matt

wesharemusic: If you haven’t ever taken a ride on the gravy train that is Ethiopian Funk, climb...

“Toward nightfall, Khrenov’s temperature had risen. The...”
— Vladimir Nabokov...

Jun

handa: Descending the coxcomb (via mikep) So jealous, I...

Its Sunday night. Seratonin levels are low. For some reason this video is speaking to me, although...

Sunday

Another Saturday night wrecks havoc on Sunday plans: My plans for Sunday: 1. Brunch 2. ...

Last weekend off the coast of mystic, ct.

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All journalists can cop to this: The semicolon allows woozy clauses to lean on each other like...

XTC- Making Plans for Nigel You know when you rediscover a track and then play it constantly for a...

It will be Obama/Gore

Miles to go? Yeah, to Canada, which is...

urg: Confession of the day: I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. In New Hampshire. I know, I know, I am...

Market trends: Brooklyn Brewery > Budweiser

Wire - The 15th. Fischerspooner’s cover is spot on. I admittedly had no idea they covered...

Slutfishing in Gloucester, MA

Conservative pundits froth at the mouth, blame the usual suspects (Obama, Juno and Jamie Lynn...

soupsoup: deadscreen: RIP George Carlin

bikerfish: And I’m still proud to be an American (for some...

katherinemarie: Q: How secret is it?A: Not so secret that...

Presidential Swing States (FL, OH & PA) Obama...

jamiew: play moar drum & bass Yes. Please.

“When you’re doing the work you’re meant to do, it feels...”
— Oprah, in her commencement...

exstrax: This is a photo of my roommate Eric hitting golf...

soupsoup: youngmanhattanite: Tim Russert: Dead. whoa. Much like when Peter Jennings died, this is...

When candy design goes terribly wrong.

those natural history museum exhibits ain’t too far...

"uncontacted" tribe photographed in Brazilian...

i'm following you, but not really, but...

iamneurotic: Whenever I’m behind a car and the car happens to turn on the street I do, I...

“The stardom of a movie director is awesome. The standard...”
— From Slate’s review of...

brieflynoted: The size of Africa. Via the Daily...

Corner of Spring and Elizabeth.

Downtown shopping with my “wife”.

We met “Hudson” at Madison Sq. Park during the...

The N Train heading uptown.

Samurai FM - wonderful online radio from...

exstrax: these pictures of apes and androids at bowery are...

May

Wired Magazine -your source for...

So I saw Wired’s most recent cover article while walking through Penn Station and came home to...

The Wedding Withdrawal

There is no greater reminder of just how much the New York City bubble distorts social expectations...

rach: “Whilst Google has led the drive to make book content ‘discoverable’ online, publishers have...

I had fun in the Meatpacking District. ...

The fact that I had a blast last night is no surprise, great music + great crowd is always a...

I call this “started the weekend one night too...

Detective's Second Phone Call to me re:...

The hilarity continues: Detective: Good afternoon, I need the contact information for your...

Detective's phone call to me

Detective: Hi, so I have a few questions. Are all of these beer bottles yours? Me: Um, well yes,...

Ransacked bedroom…

M-nus presents Contakt

Minus, the Berlin based, uber-elitist, minimal techno label headed by Richie Hawtin, never fails to...

lfarm: My very favorite New York bar, taken last...

Sunday afternoon big buck hunter rage. My friend was like,...

Siren Music Festival 08 :read: FREE LIVE...

Machu Picchu time sequence 9/1/07. If you havent...

8 am (surreal) Not gonna lie, the fact we just climbed for...

10 am (serenity)

Word from the Vatican -- Its ok to believe in...

R.I.P. Robert Rauschenberg

mediaeater: My new favorite tumblog.

“Longevity-predominately, though not exclusively—is the...”
— Ayn Rand - Introduction to the...

Ellen Alien - Floating Points She’ll be in town with her labelmate Sascha Funke @ Studio B...

a snippet from some afternoon chatter

Bianca: all the GS is gone from my life i am NOT a nice girl i am NOT innocent i am NOT...

Media A.D.D.

Ever since Ive owned a laptop (4) years, I have slowly let myself fall into the awful world I label...

Film Noir

I shouldve known that seeing a film at the Tribeca Film Festival on a sunday afternoon, which deemed...

Ahhh, this feels good