December 2009
12 posts
Christmas in Baltimore
“City police were seeking whoever broke into a Gardenville house Wednesday evening and stole several Christmas presents, electronic equipment, video games - and the family dog.” —The Baltimore Sun
“It’s 30 minutes till my bedtime and I want ice cream. I had a big dinner...”
– One of the many hilarious, ridiculous questions sent in to Slate’s Explainer column this year. This annual feature of the Explainer questions that went unanswered may be the best thing Slate publishes all year. Another classic entry from this year: “Please give me dimensions for a wooden...
nathanieljames:
God Only Knows (1967 Rehearsal...
The 25 Greatest Gen X Books
Details has come up with a decent list of the best Gen X books, whatever that means. I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read (an embarrassingly scant amount). You can argue with some of the choices (Zeitoun instead of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius? C’mon). But all in all, these are some good books!
AMERICAN PSYCHO,
BEFORE THE STORM: BARRY GOLDWATER AND THE UNMAKING OF THE...
This Is How Gay I Am
I’m making the table of contents for my torts outline (final on Friday!), and all I can think about is how to design it and what fonts to use.
“The leaders of the industry, even the successful leaders, like Chris Curran,...”
– Rich Cohen, “Closing Time,” The Believer. (via)
Correction of the Day (II)
Apparently, I spoke too soon…
choire:
doree:
I mean… I MEAN… WASHINGTONPOSTOMGWTFWHAAAAAAAT!@!()#$*$ [head explodes]
A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.
Correction of the Day
“An article on Nov. 13 about Sean Bedford, the Georgia Tech offensive lineman who is also an aerospace engineering major, misstated the terms that David Scarborough, a senior research engineer, used in teaching the jet and rocket propulsion class. The terms were ‘isentropic flow,’ ‘stagnation states’ and ‘adiabatic efficiency for the diffuser’ — not...
