December 2011
3 posts
RT @thehudsonbranch: @JadAbumrad @patwalters on our way to new york! http://t.co/GKZUADxc
Anybody interested in a couple tickets to this play tmrw (Wed) night? Sadly can’t go! DM me: http://t.co/45Za8ePX
October 2011
1 post
RT @erikmal: The @wired homepage goes dark : http://t.co/dYA4feD0
September 2011
5 posts
Video: http://t.co/WSWPy7K
RT @susanorlean: After enjoying his first three days of school, son has just announces he is “never going back” and it’s “the worst plac …
RT @LongshotRadio: Here we go. What’s next for Longshot Radio, and how you can help. http://t.co/l1d1vE3
August 2011
18 posts
Video: http://t.co/FIEdJZL
RT @theatavist: Coming tomorrow! Atavist No. 7: Blindsight by @chriscolin3000: http://t.co/61Z0Hxv.
New @wnycradiolab, at long last, is waiting for you in your iTunes! Games and sports. Stories of crazed fans, underdogs and miracles!
RT @ksieff: My decision to evacuate Washington for Afghanistan has finally paid off. No tremors in Kabul.
“He was as cool as the other side of your pillow.” — Rick Bragg
RT @theatavist: The Atavist is looking to hire an interactive designer: http://t.co/RX8MKDL. Are one? Know one? Please pass it on.
RT @ThirdCoastFest: Producers! @InTheDarkRadio is seeking proposals for bold/adventurous new radio docs. 9/5 deadline. More here: http:/ …
RT @craigtimes: Oh #Florida! Church dispute prompts businessman to ram pastor’s car. Bonus: Businessman’s name is Wheeles http://t.co/Ze …
Who else knew beasts of this size call Brooklyn home? @prospect_park http://t.co/MAfkPQd #hellyesthatisurbanwilderness
RT @MothStories: Reminder! Tomorrow’s BUSINESS StorySLAM will be @HousingWorksBks with host @DanKennedy_NYC! Tell us about a time you so …
Off the script
A fascinating bit of cinema backstory from McPhee’s fact-checking opus, “Checkpoints,” reprinted in Silk Parachute, which my buddy Matt Martin gave me as a housewarming gift the other week and I’m finally digging into.
In describing a piece he wrote on Switzerland, McPhee quotes a terrific lines from Orson Welles in “The Third Man,” a noir film set in post-war...
RT @neiltyson: It’s progress I think, that science has joined philosophy metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars
Pulling nine hours of tape onto my Mac from an epic few days of @wnycradiolab reporting with @gangrey. #internshelpmenowplease
RT @michaelkruse: I read in the @WSJ that Budweiser has redesigned its can in an effort to boost dwindling sales. Was Plan B beer that a …
RT @gangrey: “I saw the blue lights, and I saw Chris running, and I heard the sirens going through the holler.”
RT @gangrey: The reporting can’t be bad when the source has a rebel flag sticker on his prosthetic leg and a gallon of Early Times on th …
Brainstorming performers for upcoming @wnycradiolab shows: Any suggestions? Musicians, comedians, puppeteers, stuntmen? Anything brilliant!
July 2011
11 posts
Cutting final tracking for the @longshot podcast. I just heard one of the magazine editors say he’s going out to pick up scotch. #soclose
It’s prettyyy cool, J. Bring Amil. Talk abt how he owes you several years of sleep. RT @rachelswaby @erinbiba @jadabumrad @longshotmag
The art of the growing-up montage
I saw War Horse this weekend with my sister and it was brilliant. And the one scene I couldn’t get out of my head, the scene that made me tear up out of happiness (sad tearing up came later), was the growing-up montage. In roughly five minutes, a foal (Joey, the main character of the play) goes from fearing his owner/rider (Albert) to loving him, they develop inside jokes and BAM suddenly,...
We Who Are Your Closest Friends
we who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group to devise ways to keep you in perpetual uncertainty frustration discontent and torture by neither loving you as much as you want nor cutting you adrift your analyst is in on it plus your boyfriend and your ex-husband and we have pledged to disappoint you as...
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“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...”
– Thomas Mann
Oral history of Friday Night Lights, the best show... →
Don't ever call an Australian late on a Friday... →
June 2011
15 posts
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I learned today that Hunter S. Thompson once retyped the entire Great Gatsby, just to see what it might feel like to write a great novel.
“His father was a working-class Scot who had worked his way up to an...”
– This morning’s Writer’s Almanac on Ian McEwan, who celebrates his 63rd birthday
“We shared a belief that words are unstable, that learning to read is a process...”
– Jeff Sharlet, “Sweet Fuck All, Colorado,” from Sweet Heaven When I Die
“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as...”
– Annie Dillard, from “Total Eclipse”
“The king died and the queen died,” is a story. “The king died, and...”
– E.M. Forster (via Malcolm Gladwell’s introduction to The New Yorker’s special Talk of the Town issue)
“Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as...”
– Javier Marias (via Paris Review)