2010
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the girl that i do not call must pack her bags and go home
New Zealand marketing itself via America’s Next Top Model…this is just confusing. It’s random enough that NZ was the destination this “cycle” (though it’s obvious now that it was result of some canny marketing), but seeing ads for New Zealand tourism pop up all over the place featuring the ANTM girls wearing those horrible rubber [...]
what we talk about when we talk about nostalgia
Reviewing Pulino’s, Sam Sifton quotes Richard Price and calls it “Restaurant dressed as theater dressed as nostalgia.”
Liberty Magazine, which ceased publication in 1950, is being revived online—sort of. Robert Whiteman has 1,387 issues worth of Liberty material in his basement, and on a pulpy new website—emblazoned “The Stories Never Die!”—he occasionally highlights old articles that [...]
on “date night”
A.O. Scott, how I love you:
[T]he word vagina has no intrinsically humorous properties, but it’s uttered here as if believing that it did were sufficient to make it so.
I was just Googling the word “heartbreak” in search of ideas for a headline, and among the sites offering “Heartbroken Quotes, Emo Quotes, Sad Quotes,” “Quotes for Teens on Heartbreak and Breaking Up,” and advice on “How To Mend Your Broken Heart,” there was this little mistranslated gem at iloveindia.com: “How to Sustain Heartbreak.”
Those romantic, [...]
About halfway through, this Times article about people who take pictures of their food gets all serious:
That some people are keeping photographic food diaries and posting them online does not surprise psychotherapists. “In the unconscious mind, food equals love because food is our deepest and earliest connection with our caretaker,” said Kathryn Zerbe, a psychiatrist [...]