July 2011
47 posts
“Until fifty years ago or so, tailors made people’s clothes. Working men had one...”
– Put This On • On Gay Talese & Limited Budgets
For real, I spend too much money at H&M. Don’t care much for Old Navy. Either way, I think it is easier for a man to wear the same things over and over again. One blue suit from another blue suit isn’t as striking of a difference....
“America, do you understand how famous you made this person? Are you really OK...”
– Flavorwire » 10 Things Middle-Aged Rock Stars Aren’t Allowed to Wear
Spending my Saturday morning watching Mary Tyler Moore. Right now, they’re mocking Manischewitz wine without naming it. I’m enjoying it. It’s good to know Manischewitz has such strong brand identity—square bottle! Gross taste!
“A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that’s why...”
– Sherwood Schwartz: ‘Gilligan’s Island’ creator Sherwood Schwartz dies - Page 2 - latimes.com
Obituary: Jerry Ragovoy, soul songwriter, dies at... →
Jerry Ragovoy was so awesome! Do yourself a favor and learn more about this man.
All I want to do is buy a lot of Japanese pens. →
Of Another Fashion: You might not expect to find... →
ofanotherfashion:
You might not expect to find the fashion history of women of color in a book about the early days of the NASA space program in the 1950s and 1960s written by an architecture professor. But if Of Another Fashion has taught us anything it’s that the fashion history of women of color pervades…
Scott Brown on Braff's new play →
His Garden State made a hubristically deliberate bid to be The Graduate for the Exhausted Aughts — and it did, in fact, crystallize the profound self-absorption of mope-is-me Bush-age late-twentysomethings. We briefly, guiltily enjoyed Braff’s ad hoc quirk collage, his breezy use of modern anxiety as fashion accessory, his crypto-jailbait Flowers for Algernon girl-child love interest. We enjoyed...
a self-congratulatory note/but also a thanks
Hey Eat Real festival I went to over Carmageddon,
I was a little annoyed that a little jar of beer was $7, not because I was so opposed to paying $7 for the beer—as it was, after all, craftsman and local, but because it was NOT delicious.
I am, however, super happy it came in a jar! I finally stopped using plastic cups (even though they are made out of corn or something) at work and use...
El Monte Legion Stadium →
The El Monte Legion Stadium is super fascinating to me. Thank you Thom Andersen for including it in your Get Out of the Car! or I would have no idea what it was!
“No surprise that’s a joint headline. My super PAC and the Transformers series...”
– Stephen Colbert on the headline “Colbert is a Super PAC; LaBeouf Over Transformers” (via statelyxanadu)
Please Don’t Mflugah the Pn - The Morning News →
dinosaurparty:
Did you know I’ve spent over ten years learning Hebrew? I haven’t spoken it in about four or five years, but this article about the difficulty of learning Hebrew makes me feel a little better about my terrible grammar.
I read this article, too. Woo Morning News! Anyways, I hereby extend my Hebrew-teaching skills in exchange for being taught some other skill. What you got,...
“Being told you have privilege, or that you’re privileged, isn’t an insult. It’s...”
– “On the difference between Good Dogs and Dogs That Need a Newspaper Smack” (Sindelókë)
EDIT: Of course we should struggle to eliminate privilege on a structural and societal level - the context of the above quote is from a article on Privilege 101, more or less, that is fairly individual-focused.
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Sharks 7" feat. on Buzzbands →
Why best-seller lists are bad for readers,... →
rawkblog:
kavalierandclay:
The best-seller list functions, in essence, as a restraint of trade, a visible hand that crushes the life out of the literary marketplace. If one were to magically eliminate every form of the list, in print and online, as well as all those best-seller tables in Barnes & Noble, what would happen? People would spend more time browsing a bookstore’s stock,...
Just premiered my very favorite LA Font song on... →
rawkblog:
Been waiting to share this one for months.
wild Up - nuance megaphone. Classical Music in LA:... →
nuancemegaphone:
The Porch of July is a folk music singalong held annually at Machine Project, your friendly Echo Park art-collective//storefront//FryBQ-headquarters. Laura Steenberge, Ezra Buchla, Adrian Tenney, and Heather Lockie put together a song book, and performed for/with about 50 people who…
This sounds awesome. I need to remember to go next year!
Sandwich, Grilled Cheese, 1/2 sandwich ~... →
I don’t know how this happened, but I ended up at this website that sells “perfect substitutes to demonstrate perishable real foods!”
“4. Justin Timberlake likes Radiohead! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. In 2011,...”
– Jamieson Cox — the Justin Timberlake Playboy interview - a few thoughts
[ Allison Krumwiede | Illustration ] →
AWESOME
“No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a...”
– Pal Gauguin
Watchgood:
It’s time for a new 30-Day Challenge! In July, GOOD is going to try and waste less. Way less. Like, only produce one standard grocery bag of trash per person per week. Senior editor Cord Jefferson explains:
Every year the residents and businesses of Phoenix alone send one million tons of solid waste to Buckeye, Arizona’s, SR85 landfill. That’s about one ton per resident, and it’s enough...
“LAND -it takes 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat. By cutting out...”
– http://good.tumblr.com/
I’m not a vegetarian, but I don’t eat cows because of the above.
“You know how we all hate irony now? Whimsy is even worse because it pretends to...”
– Don’t Be the Worst: The Fight Against Whimsy
Julieanne kills this.
Yep, couldn’t agree more. On another note, when I first started dating my current SO, he said to me with complete sincerity: “I like you because you’re not whimsical.” Still unsure what to make of that.
(via nhersey)
Haven’t read...
ofanotherfashion:
There’s very little known about this photo taken in 1959 by the Kirksey Photo Studio but what I love about it is the bride’s eyeglasses. Today, more often than not, contact lenses replace eyeglasses during formal events - it was a happy surprise to find them here.
Credit: Anacostia Community Museum, Percival Bryan Collection
