November 2010
15 posts
The Slowest News Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew... →
April 11, 1954 was the most uneventful and boring day of the 20th century. Every day something of significance occurs, but nothing remarkable had happened on the said day in 1954, according to experts who inserted over 300 million important events of the century into a computer search programme to calculate.
If you know anything about me, you’ll know why this date popped out at me....
Tankboy: Drawing a blank.Today Leah wrote about... →
tankboy:
Drawing a blank. Today Leah wrote about having nothing going on.* I realized that while I have the opposite problem I have a really hard time articulating it. Whenever someone asks me “what’s going on?” my answer is always “not much” or “same old same old.” It’s akin to when someone asks me what I’m listening too or what my new favorite band is; there’s just too much going on there...
“Looks like bribing getting a blogger to write about your food by offering free...”
– —Eater Chicago
Actually, all that’s happening here is that it’s out in the open, and it’s the restaurant presumably cutting out the publicist middleman and going direct to the blogger. Not a whole lot different between this and the “invite to dine” emails food writers...
The City defeats you.
That’s the funny thing about living in one city for a while, is that you get to reflect back on who you were when you got there. I guess, I’m 14 years older and there are certain parts of me that came here that are now defeated. And there are other parts of me that came here that are much richer and much savvier. Whether that’s Chicago or whether that’s life, I have no idea. I guess [laughs]...
This plus that.
I want a mash-up of this:
and this:
“Four Loko cans — I paid $3.50 apiece for mine — are something to see, each...”
– Caffeine and Alcohol - Wham! Bam! Boozled. - NYTimes.com
Frank Bruni taste-tested Four Loko in a story that, appropriately, appeared on Halloween. Trick or treat!
