October 2009
Fast Company: 10 Things Corporations Can Learn... →
This is a fantastic article with some excellent points. Sometimes it helps to be completely shameless. Of course, many of you probably disagree this is true about wrestling.
An Appropriate Level of Spectacle Is Crucial
Humor and Charisma Always Make a Connection
Create a Serialized Connection with Your Audience
“Shiny New Objects” Don’t Last
Your Audience Uses You as...
“I hate your latest post. Hate. Hate. Hate. ‘Stay out of the meatpacking...”
– ZRL [via caryrandolph]
I mean seriously, ever since Florent closed that area has been devoid of anything resembling a good time. Bring back the meat markets. And I don’t mean trendy lounges.
AdWeek: The 'Crazy Ones' →
Barbara Lippert comments on the advertising panel that featured Matthew Weiner, Lee Clow, and Steve Stoute from The New Yorker Festival. She captured the essence of the panel well. In a word: Disappointing. Except for this gem:
The truth is, the ad guys and Weiner made for an uneasy trio. When moderator and New Yorker contributor Ken Auletta asked Weiner if he thought advertising was indeed...
WatchCan Bill Simmons’ 700-page “The Book of Basketball” stop a speeding bullet? ESPN’s SportsNation attempted to find out on Wednesday.
WatchSubtle Sexuality (Mindy Kaling & Ellie Kemper) featuring ‘Nard Dog (Ed Helms) Introducing Mr. Understood (B.J. Novak) “Male Prima Donna”
[via rach]
Vampire Weekend - Walcott
This feels like a good...
The Book of Basketball: Why Patrick Ewing Was the... →
Ewing ranks this highly because you could build a contender around him in his prime, and because he absolutely could have won the ‘94 championship playing with Richmond, Rice, Miller, or really any good two-guard other than John Starks. Much like fellow Dream Team players Drexler, Robinson and Malone, we’ll remember Ewing as a second banana masquerading as a first banana, even if...
NYT: Mets Fans Have Choice of Two Evils in World... →
You’re right. I was not 100% correct on my preseason predictions. But COME ON. Who is? Let’s take a look, shall we? All things considered, I’d say these are pretty decent predictions.
American League
East: Red Sox (Yankees took the east as the best team in baseball, but the Sox still made the postseason with the Wild Card)
Central: Twins
West: Angels
Wild Card: Rays...
NYT: Mets Fans Have Choice of Two Evils in World... →
In response to Stephanie:
Regarding my predictions at the start of the season: I don’t think anybody could have foreseen the Mets season that took place. It surpassed any sort of late-season collapse by leaps and bounds. Every starting position player, all but one starter in their rotation, and their second-best reliever were all injured for a significant period of time. If people knew...
“Really hope that “Precious” doesn’t become a schoolyard insult for fat kids with...”
– Michael Orell, ladies and gentlemen. NAILED IT.
NYT: Mets Fans Have Choice of Two Evils in World... →
“This, my friends, is Baseball Armageddon,” wrote John Coppinger on his blog, the Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus, who falls in the boycott category. “There is no happy ending. Satan has been unleashed.” And, he continued, “The next two weeks are going to be the worst two weeks on earth.”
Paraphrased WWE Commentary
Michael Cole: And here comes The Big Show. That traitor. That Judas. That Brutus.
Jerry Lawler: Beefcake?
Cole: No! The one that killed Caesar!
GUTENBERG! Performance at Barnes & Noble →
Oh, I’ll go to this.
[via anthonyking]
FIPS: I Will Never Go To The Court Street Movie... →
Erica has an accurate account of every movie-going experience at the Court Street United Artists. I’m not sure what it is about this particular theater, but it certainly seems like the place where people don’t understand they need to be quiet during a movie, or just how to behave appropriately in public as humans.
“Little roller up along first… behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! ...”
– Vin Scully, 23 years ago today.
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NYT: Mechanic Uses 2 Manuals for Refrigeration... →
A old Times piece on an interesting business, whose van I often see parked on 8th Avenue.
The van is not filled with Jewish missionaries, but rather with a greasy jumble of valves, fan motors, blowtorches and other equipment and tools. On the door, in English, is the company name: Aleph Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Service. Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Instead of some...
WatchMaurice Sendak on the origins of fantasy.
“I think there is no such thing as fantasy that is unrelated to reality. When fantasy is unrelated to reality, then it’s very bad. … Children don’t go into the backyard and have fantasies about nothing. They have fantasies about what went on upstairs, and that’s what they act out. Fantasies have to come from a very...
WatchDeath Cab for Cutie - Stable Song (2006)
Directed by Aaron Stewart-Ahn, starring Max Records (of “Where the Wild Things Are”) for “Directions,” a DVD of music videos inspired by songs from DCFC’s album “Plans.”
[via We Love You So]
NY Mag - Vulture: We Check Out Jay-Z’s Old ‘Stash... →
NY Mag’s Vulture blog with a fun little investigative piece on Hova’s shoutout to Boerum Hill in the “Empire State of Mind” lyrics.
NYT: Op-Ed Columnist - Where the Wild Things Are →
Not a movie review. David Brooks, who I have mixed feelings about, writes this great essay on the philosophical principles of “Where the Wild Things Are.”
WatchHow will the Chuckolytes respond to this absurdity from yesterday morning’s The Today Show?
[via TV Squad]
WSJ: Drenched in Pop Culture →
Michael MacCambridge reviews Chuck Klosterman’s new book of essays, “Eating the Dinosaur.” FYI, Klosterman is reading at the Union Square B&N on Monday evening @ 7:00p. I hope to see you there.
Star Ledger: NJ Nets warming to the idea of a... →
In a way, I love this. I’d definitely go see more Nets games if they played in Newark as opposed to the Meadowlands. But on the other hand, I’m afraid if they move to Newark they’ll just set up shop and never come to Brooklyn. BROOKLYN NETS 2011.
NYT: Seeing Faces Just Made for Radio →
I first started listening to “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me” right around the time they started recording in front of a live audience about four years ago. I’ve listened to nearly every episode since, including attending one taping in Chicago, and I’m incredibly disappointed I missed this New York show at Carnegie Hall. I highly recommend you listen if you’re...
NYT: Spike Jonze’s Kanye West Film Is Leaked... →
Dave Itzkoff with an interesting story regarding the Internet’s leaking of “We Were Once a Fairytale.”
WatchEpaulet, a fantastic shop in my neighborhood, recently visited the Alden Shoe Company in Middleborough, Massachusetts. Here is a short doc they made of the trip.
[via A Continuous Lean]
