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On The Best Songs About New York That Don't Have 'New York' In The Title

I'm pretty sure the sun does not "pour in like butterscotch" in London, like, ever. Team Chelsea New York.

Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:14 pm 0

On 32 Greatest Recorded Performances of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations

I humbly submit Juliette Binoche's version in The English Patient.

Posted on August 2, 2010 at 5:10 pm 0

On Staff Memo: Some Plans For Year Two

Me-awl: Cat videos. Alternatively, Me-awl!!: catfight videos.

Posted on April 19, 2010 at 6:12 pm 0

On Don't Worry About The Government (Oh Wait, Yeah, Do)

"the party resolved to fuck things up on such an epic scale that even the most competent of administrators would find it nearly impossible to dig out from under" - my lifelong civil servant father and I had a similar conversation right after Hurricane Katrina.

It's things like this that make me wonder, though, why "neoliberalism" isn't in wider parlance.

Posted on April 19, 2010 at 2:58 pm 0

On I Prayed to the Newly-Returned Jesus that Anthony Lane Would Review 'Clash of the Titans' And Hooray!

Yeah, but his creepy Natalie Portman thing keeps me from boarding the Lane Express.

Posted on April 5, 2010 at 2:52 pm 0

On Today In Rap Music Corrections: Freeway and Young Chris

Even sadder when you consider that Shirley Hemphill's body wasn't discovered until days after her death. How quickly we forget.

...Seriously, though, "Hemphill" doesn't scan.

Posted on July 16, 2009 at 1:23 pm 0

On How's Your Inbox?

Gah! It was caught in the spam filter! This does seem deeply ironic.

Posted on June 17, 2009 at 4:17 pm 0

On Joseph Heller and Bill Moyers, 20 years ago

As the descendent of Midwestern farm stock, his voice reminds me of nothing so much as a (way) less histrionic Al Pacino as Roy Cohn in Angels in America.

Posted on April 22, 2009 at 10:06 am 0