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December 2012

4 posts

Song For Whoever The Beautiful South

Song for Whoever, The Beautiful South

Dec 6, 20123 notes

Some men like to undress a woman with a single gaze;

Denis Benitez indulged in a far more presumptuous pastime. He could wrench the hidden truth from every woman who passed him in the street.

Since in their eyes he no longer existed,

since he was no longer a physical presence in their world,

he had discovered that he had a talent for invisibility

which allowed him to brush by women like a ghost,

to spy on them

and steal their secrets.

~ from the The Thursday Night Men, by Tonino Benacquista

Dec 6, 20123 notes
#gpoy #The Thursday Night Men #Tonino Benacquista
Dec 5, 20126 notes
#Bright Lights Big City #Jay McInerney
Dec 3, 2012376 notes
#Charles Constantin Hoffbauer #New York City street scenes #why hello tumblr #Madison Square #NYC

August 2012

7 posts

Thieves Like Us New Order

Thieves Like Us, New Order

Aug 10, 20124 notes
Aug 10, 201211 notes
#Broadway at Night #Alvin Langdon Coburn
I can’t help feeling nostalgic for the Brooklyn I never got to see — the one that existed before Brooklyn was an adjective, an international brand of hip → lareviewofbooks.org

“He’d fallen out of love with his neighborhood, a place that had become so shiny and new that it no longer felt like a respite from the corporate world. “I didn’t feel guilty about leaving Williamsburg; Williamsburg had already left me.”

Aug 10, 20123 notes
#The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg Brooklyn #Robert Anasi #Williamsburg #Brooklyn #book review #gentrify gentrify #Brooklyn Agonistes
Aug 9, 20129 notes
#Christopher Moore #Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d’Art #bleu #blue #esquared now recommending books to read #Le déjeuner sur l’herbe #Edouard Manet
Sad Elton John vs Pnau

Sad, Elton John vs Pnau

Aug 3, 20121 note
Aug 3, 201289 notes
#gpoy
Aug 2, 20125 notes
#fo' real

July 2012

33 posts

Most of my tumblr posts here have been self-plagiarized from my previous tumblr posts, fabricated, made-up, and altered. And the quotes in my posts either do not exist, are unintentional misquotations, or represent improper combinations of previously existing quotes.

Jul 31, 20126 notes
#Jonah Lehrer insidery #a cautionary post #fyi #Even this post itself has been plagiarized and made-up

At 25, [Redacted] was the most sought-after young reporter…, producing knockout articles for magazines… . Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.

Guess who? Jonah Lehrer? Jayson Blair? Baron Münchhausen? …

Related:

Jul 31, 20121 note
#Jonah Lehrer #Jayson Blair #[Redacted] #Plagiarism #fabrication #Journalism
Ceremony Joy Division

Ceremony, Joy Division (demo — from a rehearsal tape made in 1980)

[not by New Order, although both versions and bands are great]

(one of the last Joy Division songs to be composed, with lyrics written by Ian Curtis)

Related: Ceremony by New Order live at Ukrainian Hall in the East Village 1981

Jul 27, 201216 notes
#Ceremony #Joy Division #Ian Curtis

Streets of London or New York City?

First one should be easy

(see New York Press for the answers)

London Street Photography — “images by over 70 photographers who have recorded fleeting moments in London, capturing the faces and lives of ordinary people who populate this complicated and ever-changing metropolis” — and City Scenes: Highlights of New York Street Photography — “30 key works by New York photographers will provide a counterpart illustrating the rich tradition of street photography in New York City” —at the Museum of the City of New York.

Now thru Dec. 2.

And MCNY is now on tumblr

Jul 27, 20122 notes
#London Street Photography #Museum of the City of New York #You're welcome as always #London #New York City
Jul 27, 20124 notes
#Andrea Nelli #Graffiti #Graffiti A New York #Graffiti in New York #street art
Sovereign Light Cafe Keane

Sovereign Light Café, Keane

Jul 24, 20123 notes
#I'm going back to the time when we owned this town

Mothers of America

                                     let your kids go to the movies!

get them out of the house so they won’t know what you’re up to   

it’s true that fresh air is good for the body

                                                                             but what about the soul   

that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images

and when you grow old as grow old you must

                                                                            they won’t hate you   

they won’t criticize you they won’t know

                                                                            they’ll be in some glamorous country   

they first saw on a Saturday afternoon or playing hookey


they may even be grateful to you

                                                            for their first sexual experience   

which only cost you a quarter

                                                       and didn’t upset the peaceful home   

they will know where candy bars come from

                                                                                 and gratuitous bags of popcorn   

as gratuitous as leaving the movie before it’s over

with a pleasant stranger whose apartment is in the Heaven on Earth Bldg   

near the Williamsburg Bridge

                                                       oh mothers you will have made the little tykes

so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies   

they won’t know the difference

                                                         and if somebody does it’ll be sheer gravy   

and they’ll have been truly entertained either way

instead of hanging around the yard

                                                                 or up in their room

                                                                                                     hating you

prematurely since you won’t have done anything horribly mean yet   

except keeping them from the darker joys

                                                                             it’s unforgivable the latter   

so don’t blame me if you won’t take this advice

                                                                                      and the family breaks up   

and your children grow old and blind in front of a TV set

                                                                                                        seeing   

movies you wouldn’t let them see when they were young

Ave Maria by Frank O’Hara

(From “Lunch Poems”, the title refers to both O’Hara’s capacity write the poems while sitting in Times Square during his lunch hour, as well as the ease in which a reader could take the pocket-sized volume along and read it during his own lunch hour.)

Jul 24, 20125 notes
#Ave Maria #Frank O'Hara #Lunch Poems
Somewhere Else Razorlight

Somewhere Else, Razorlight

Jul 23, 20122 notes
#On where I wish I were
"New York has become like a gorgeous antique that someone bought, refurbished, and restored, then offered back to you at a price you couldn’t possibly afford." → nymag.com

(h/t)

Jul 23, 20128 notes
#High Line #Highline #NYC #fuck it either way #NYC is dead. Long live NYC.
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