2010
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scratch and sniff
A few days ago, I went through a stack of back issues of The New Yorker, pulling out articles I wanted to read and tossing the rest of the issue (this is really the only way to deal with the relentless arrival of that magazine; sometimes I feel like it breeds in my mailbox…). Somehow [...]
Jezebel flips through Time Out New York’s sex issue from 1996—a year “when business was booming and ‘hookup culture’ hadn’t been invented yet”—and finds that things were sorta-kinda different then, but not really.
Meanwhile, The Awl takes a pretty ambivalent look back at Kids, on the fifteenth anniversary of that movie’s release.
The Times reports on an [...]
sugar headache
If you look closely, you’ll see that there are “nostalgic candy mixes” for each decade. Amazon, which also sells them, describes the 1950’s mix thusly:
This swell medley of sweets is guaranteed to bring you back to an unforgettable decade where Moms stayed home, girls wore poodle skirts and the boys revved the engines of their [...]
corner store
Can’t see what that says? Let’s zoom in:
So, a high-end clothing retailer moves into the space a neighborhood Brazilian joint occupied for fifteen years—which it had to leave because of an unaffordable rent increase—and decides to pay tribute to its beloved predecessor. I’m pretty sure this is what guilt-ridden gentrification looks like. I guess it’s [...]
Before we left for Maine I was looking at a bunch of local tourism and Chamber of Commerce sites, trying to find places to stay and just generally looking at what would be going on while we were there. Aside from sections about accommodations and restaurants and weddings, there was almost always one called something [...]
The first night back from vacation, I slept the weird kind of sleep I sometimes do, where I’m not fully dreaming, but have a very clear sense that I’m somewhere else. I woke up many times that night, back in the cramped East Village loft bed with insistent cats, but it was to a feeling [...]
So cool: Part of an 18th-century ship (“30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel“) was found at the World Trade Center site, 20 to 30 feet below street level. “The vessel, presumably dating from the mid- to late 1700s, was evidently undisturbed more than 200 years.”
David W. Dunlap’s lede is totally over the top, but also [...]
I know Flavorwire means well with this list of ten women writers they love—supposedly, it was inspired by the whole Jezebel/Daily Show fracas, and I guess any large-scale conversation About Women gets people thinking about where women are and are not in every area of art and life. But the fact remains that this is [...]