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Jan 31st

Hot to Tot

That’s it: I’m essaying tater tot nachos, or “totchos” for the game...

Jan 31st

technical question

designage: why does everything i google search this morning have a disclaimer after that says “this...

Jan 31st

Watch

Funky Tut, people.

Jan 31st

Blog Platform Issues

lowlife: Can someone tell me when the Tumblr platform turned into Livejournal? I signed up here...

Jan 30th

Productivity.

alexbalk: Of course, it’s difficult to define exactly what it is, but I’m pretty sure that it’s...

Jan 30th

“Like everyone else, my life now is simply a string of...”
— Adam Gopnik roams the...

Jan 30th

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Lips are Unhappy—Lucky Soul

Jan 30th

Geek Out!

Sorry for this: it’s so cheap to buy tickets to Buenos Aires from New York right now. I just...

Jan 30th

Frat boys have feelings too, apparently

From a Yelp review of Lemming’s, a dive bar on North Damen Avenue in Chicago: Then you have...

Jan 29th

Sticker Shock

Sometimes, only Kraft macaroni and cheese will do. I reach for it when I am feeling self-destuctive,...

Jan 29th

Also considered: grub with a guido

Bar Martignetti is going to close and revamp; when it returns, there will be a host of improvements...

Jan 28th

Vulture just linked to a video because it was making the rounds on “influential...

Jan 28th

Cause the Love Sac is a little old place...

katiebakes: alexanderbasek: A bean bag chair company is now following me on twitter. I have no...

Jan 28th

A bean bag chair company is now following me on twitter. I have no idea what this means. Are they...

Jan 28th

“How do restaurants survive in this economy? Who knows? I...”
— Keith McNally

Jan 28th

Bassmaster

Did anyone else notice that Simmons’ Super Bowl Preview is an “ESPN Bassmaster...

Jan 28th

lowlife: Globalization, blah blah blah. As this picture...

Jan 28th

Go ahead, just pin your bra next to the...

Flight attendants for Spirit Airlines are unhappy with a new uniform design that includes aprons...

Jan 28th

Let's Ask Harry Anderson (But Not in HD)

To pick up on Katie’s mention that Billy Joel’s “You May Be Right” is the...

Jan 28th

“Wall Street dreamed up increasingly complicated things, and...”
— Michael Lewis in the Atlantic

Jan 27th

One Sentence Review: Char No. 4

Jan 27th

Watch

Keith Law agrees with me: the Slap Chop rules.

Jan 27th

brianvan: foureleven: allthingsalishan: ...

Jan 27th

katiebakes: Alexander asks how the Slap Chop did. Looks...

Jan 27th

Hmph.

katiebakes: Darren Rovell has the best job EVER. I’m so jealous of him. Usually he covers sports...

Jan 27th

This week in Obama food and beverage marketing. Spotted at...

Jan 27th

katiebakes: (via suburbanhomeboys) New Jersey is...

Jan 27th

I can't embed, but the video for Annie...

Jan 26th

Will someone let me know when this is over?

Jan 26th

Bird is the Word

Jan 26th

Asia Recap: Hong Kong

Jan 25th

Jan 24th

douglaswolk: dyfl: (via skylor)

Jan 24th

“You are a lion. Take what’s yours.”
— (via brianvan) Back in the...

Jan 24th

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brooklynmutt: Sham WOW! This Slap Chop is GREAT!

Jan 24th

Whoah, Alexei Kovalev is 35! Remember when he was just a young surly kid on the 1994 Rangers squad?

Jan 23rd

Is there a button I can press to hide the Nick Denton painting reblogs?

Jan 23rd

Right This Way, Please

Jan 23rd

My reputation precedes me

From an email this morning, suggesting a dinner venue: “They are well known for their pork...

Jan 22nd

The Magic Kingdom

Please, can we retire “poop chute”? It’s a bodily function, not a ride. And if we...

Jan 22nd

what to eat when it's cold and you're...

designage: $18: plain pie and pitcher (pizza gruppo, west village) $12.50: pair of pork buns...

Jan 22nd

Save Kristen Bell

Jan 22nd

Twin Peaks

This reminds me of a student in the first Gallatin class I ever took, a beardo with a double...

Jan 22nd

Liver? You brought 'er!

Jan 21st

“I got up at 9 am, opened a bag of Cheetos and did nothing...”
— NYO Say what you will about...

Jan 21st

Word on the Street

Man, it’s tough out there on those East Village streets. Today I saw flyers announcing the...

Jan 21st

Man, what a slow day. Who wants to go listen to some Oasis B-Sides?

Jan 21st

Not his first contrib photo in CN Traveler,...

Jan 21st

He has the fine coat of a Yale man!

One of my life’s greatest pleasures was, for many years, the Simpsons in syndication. (The...

Jan 21st

““There was an editorial meeting two days after Sept....”
— From a 2003 David Rees...

Jan 21st

thegurglingcod: Is Farrah Fawcett the Jim Rice of...

Jan 21st

"Nothing beats a fresh can!"

Jan 21st

katiebakes: This is all funny because this is all true. Hey...

Jan 21st

(via cuteoff)

Jan 21st

“I’ve lived here for a long time and I’ve never seen so many...”
— Chris Matthews. (via...

Jan 20th

brooklynmutt: adamiss: lfarm: (via marco :...

Jan 20th

Let's Go!

Jan 20th

Jill Biden’s wearing Condi’s old boots!

Jan 20th

Is MSNBC’s coverage turning into a Very Special Episdoe or what? They have bumper ads starting...

Jan 20th

Around the World with Restaurant Girl

Congratulations! All the dishes you list aren’t traditionally Czech or Slovak: Like New...

Jan 20th

If you hear tell of a dumpling-related explosion on East...

Jan 19th

Spirit Airlines Tries To Charge Cancellation...

Jan 19th

Inauguration Special with Alice Waters

Jan 19th

Hail to the Cheese

I wonder what the Obama’s personal food legacy will be. I don’t think he likes eating...

Jan 19th

“It’s kind of like the Tower of Babel. At a certain point in...”
— David Kuo in the Vanity Fair...

Jan 18th

Where I Went in 2008

Jan 18th

Multi-Sentence Review: Absinthe

Jan 17th

It's my Tumblrversary

One year today. This time last year I was in the breakfast room of my hotel in Budapest, plotting...

Jan 17th

So, I like ladies, food and bitterness, I guess?

Jan 17th

Watch

YouTube answers my question about whether big cats purr.

Jan 16th

One Sentence Review: Ippudo

Jan 16th

The one with the wagglely tail.

katiebakes: The press is getting all antsy in their pantsy: Obama has disrupted the natural “order...

Jan 16th

Ed, it’s not a diet buddy you want, it’s a sponsor. [via]

Jan 16th

Puff Daddy

Man, curry puffs are just always disappointing, right? The problem is the name; it’s not...

Jan 16th

Watch

thegurglingcod: monaghan: Please let this be the end of the arch-ironic lionizing of Journey by...

Jan 16th

Good news for the ladies

Jan 16th

brianvan: Well, aside from the fact that today’s events were amazing in an uplifting sort of way...

Jan 16th

Memo to CNBC Squawk Box

You missed a real oppurtunity to shift the coverage to all-birds, all-the-time this morning.

Jan 16th

designage: hey look! it’s a chandelier made of gummy...

Jan 16th

US 1549 Flight Aware map

Jan 15th

adamfrucci: Holy shit. [via]

Jan 15th

designage: so… Son of Rambow.  after much bitching on my part because i, uh, thought this actually...

Jan 15th

And speaking of Michael Caine, anyone remember the Ipcress...

Jan 15th

Watch

British anti-cocaine ad. Very strange: it involves a talking dog, talking aspirin and a talking...

Jan 15th

Behold, the meatballtini!

Jan 15th

The NYT natives are restless about Matt Gross’...

Jan 15th

On the Fresh Direct home page this morning. Not-so-subtle...

Jan 15th

the choice seems obvious.

designage: nine american architecture firms have been selected as finalists for a project building...

Jan 15th

Stall Tactics

Oh, blogs. Do we really need to celebrate the fact that there are no more bathroom attendants at...

Jan 14th

So if Steve Jobs buys the farm, does that mean all Apple products will brick at the same time?

Jan 14th

One Sentence Review: Momofuku Noodle Bar

Jan 14th

brianvan: right before my phone died while I’m in some...

Jan 14th

Latvia Shaken by Riots Over Economy

Jan 14th

Kill Me, Y'all!

thegurglingcod: alexanderbasek: I’m interested in this new AVIA property down Savannah way, but is...

Jan 14th

Guess who just got a press release for a...

Jan 14th

I Got it!

I’m going with “Tumblrette Trail of Tears”. Or am I too late?

Jan 14th

Oh, and one last thing

cajunboy: Gossip Girl is a breathtakingly shitty television show. It’s The Young and the Restless...

Jan 14th

Kill Me, Y'all!

I’m interested in this new AVIA property down Savannah way, but is being “50...

Jan 14th

Alpha and omega

paulbrady: Now that we’ve gone from this to this, should we all now retire the word fameball? Gah,...

Jan 14th

The last days.

Jan 14th

Frankie Take a Bao

What happens when goys live on the Upper West Side: Although hardly anonymous, Mr. Huynh has a...

Jan 14th

Remember when no blog of any kind would ever post more than twelve times a day? Yeah. That was...

Jan 14th

State Your Case

Jan 13th

Welp, 24 is so-so thus far (good tension but the whole...

Jan 13th

brianvan: marco: This is actually a real product that we...

Jan 13th

Unlike his namesake, this dog is not...

Jan 13th

Also, this article from the same summer titled “World’s Oldest Goldfish Has His...

Jan 12th

Crown Royal

Katie’s post reminds me of my all-time favorite Royal Family story. In 1999, one of the...

Jan 12th

Things That Annoy Me Greatly - Part Fill...

thegurglingcod: trainwrecks: kiamatthews: Unnecessary gender-specific nouns. More specifically,...

Jan 12th

John Hodgman answers questions over at City...

Jan 12th

Oh, Eli…

Jan 11th

this is important.

Jan 11th

Amazing story on Detroit from the Weekly...

Jan 10th

Bang! You’re Dead. UPDATE: You know, I would have...

Jan 9th

Playing the Field

“Alex,” you say to me, “What could I possibly be missing by not listening to the...

Jan 9th

Fat Man in a Little Coat. In Mordor.

Jan 9th

What, you didn't know Lily Allen and Katy...

Jan 9th

What happens when I work late

On the elevator this morning, I almost said to someone I didn’t know “This is your...

Jan 8th

This note-taking technique isn’t always the smoothest.

Jan 8th

It would give me no end of pleasure of the Egg Custard King...

Jan 8th

Tu Quynh doesn’t seem to sell Vietnamese sandwiches...

Jan 8th

Prepping for Risks of Overseas Travel

Q: I’m a regional account manager and our company is departing from usual practice by...

Jan 7th

“Allegiant Airlines RPMs were up 9.6% while capacity was down...”
— PlaneBuzz: Airline Traffic...

Jan 7th

That's a wrap

So now that there’s the inevitable conflagration in the Middle East, what’s happened to...

Jan 7th

This came out blurry because I was grabbing my order as I...

Jan 7th

Consider this payback for Jaret Wright

Jan 6th

Watch

The BPA (that is, the artist formerly known as Fatboy Slim) w/ David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal,...

Jan 6th

A New England girl ponders.

katiebakes: justsayjolie: Which city is bleaker: Hartford or New Haven? Do not malign the Have....

Jan 6th

Senator Pothole Redux

I haven’t been following the Caroline Kennedy situation that closely, but then again, I...

Jan 6th

“To the 15-year-old doing back flips in the bathroom to get a...”
— Schrambling

Jan 6th

"Yet in snark Denby sees a symptom and...

katiebakes: Adam Sternbergh on David Denby’s new book, Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s...

Jan 6th

Watch

I ask for this every year, but I hope in 2009 there will be as many saxophone solos in popular music...

Jan 5th

“You know what you’re going to get from...”
— Ta-Nehisi

Jan 5th

My Fortune

“As long as you don’t sign up for anything new, you’ll do fine.” Cripes!

Jan 5th

A new spin on calling a restaurant...

Colandrea New Corner Restaurant, the Dyker Heights red-sauce joint reviewed by Sietsema last week,...

Jan 5th

In the Kitchen with PTSD

thegurglingcod: alexanderbasek: Alas, “Cooking with Dexter” is not a column about eating MREs in...

Jan 5th

In the Kitchen with PTSD

Alas, “Cooking with Dexter” is not a column about eating MREs in an unlit second-story...

Jan 5th

Porn or Social Commentary?

One of the options via Time Warner Adult on Demand is “Young Divorcées Can’t Get...

Jan 5th

The Diluted Mystery of Absinthe - NYTimes.com

Jan 5th

Why not?

magicmolly: You can’t write about food if you dislike it. You can maybe write about food if you love...

Jan 5th

In Soviet Russia, Suspense Eats You!

Just finished the excellent Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, a policier set in Stalinist Russia circa...

Jan 4th

(via designage) Schweet. My piles of books along the wall...

Jan 3rd

ViVi Bubble Tea (also home of the “chicken...

Jan 3rd

The menu from Absinthe, on First Avenue just south of...

Jan 3rd

I wish I had bought this humidifier. Spotted in Johor Bahru,...

Jan 2nd

Just a bit outside

My favorite conversation snippet on the street last night was between two dressed up ladies, around...

Jan 1st

Time Trap

Jan 1st