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I thought I’d posted a link to this interview with Wendy McClure–author of I’m Not the New Me and connoisseur of kitschy recipe cards–who is writing a book about her Laura Ingalls Wilder obsession (which will be out early next year), but I thought I did a lot of things these last couple weeks that [...]
I was reading the New Yorker on the subway the other day, and saw this ad. It took up a full page, and there was a full-color shot of Michael Phelps, dripping wet, on the facing page.
They’re really milking that swimming metaphor, huh? If anything, I’d say we “swim” in the Internet and “surf” magazines [...]
This weekend’s Times Magazine story about how people who lost their spouses in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake are now getting remarried to each other (with some help from the Chinese government), reminded me of this pretty amazing 2004 piece about NYC firefighters who left their wives for 9/11 widows.
Virginia Heffernan contemplates the lost art of the analog datebook, with this caveat: “As a committed user of the BlackBerry, Kindle, MacBook Pro and World Wide Web, I rarely get nostalgic for print.” Conclusion? “You never know what you’re going to miss.”
The new book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, points out that [...]
Last year, upon watching a six-hour DVD of the BBC documentary, The Story of India, our creative director realized that his three-year-long suspicion was indeed correct–that India, a subcontinent grandly described as “a land of a one billion people, 400 languages, and 33 million gods” by writer, historian, and documentary narrator Michael Wood, would serve [...]
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 [...]
