February 2012
1 post
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
4 posts
Radical empathy
Trying to come to terms with this madman I used to know. If anyone has a Kindle or iPad and manages to get through this 26,000-word piece I would love to know what you think.
It’s the same as masquerading subjective opinion... →
youngmanhattanite:
I had been emailing this girl for weeks. I stumbled onto her tumblr through an acquaintance and found her thoughtful, incisive, and full of good wisdom. I thought we might be friends, and had talked it over with my girlfriend, Eloise, before I began emailing her. Eloise was alright with the idea,…
An education
11: 15 AM
ok, here's what i want for chanukkah
you have to give me a lesson in tumblr
Katherine: yo ask david
idk anything
me: really!?
Katherine: tumblr is for kids
and pictures!
tumblr is all about pictures
i'm text-based
11: 16 AM
me: i have a tumblr and i get how to publish but what i don't get is how to follow and just basically know what the fuck IS GOING ON
how do you work it?
Katherine: it's predicated on the idea that you have a vast amount of free time
me: oh, that makes sense
Katherine: seriously
i can't name any grown ups who use it
11: 17 AM
I think it's a way to reach an alternate group of "commenters"
me: which is why we're becoming obsolette. that's my point
Katherine: ify ou post an excerpt of a story with a large photo
and a link
people will reblog click etc who wouldn't normally read observer
but it's not even worth following other people
11: 18 AM
me: not even to find good writers and/or young girls who want to sleep with editors?
Katherine: because you'll see who reblogs you, and i'ts not like you have time to kill reblogging w/ witty comment
me: jk
Katherine: i don't even think there are good writers!
except david
who admits that tumblr is a bad platform for him but stays on it due to his teen girl following
me: oh, really? but choire and balk are all over it. they understand something i don'tl. and i need to know what it is
11: 19 AM
Katherine: no they're not1
they post like, a photo to it
or a link with witty comment
and watch their supplicants reblog
me: supplicants. right...
11: 20 AM
i think i should post this entire chat to tumblr
Katherine: NOW YOU GET IT
October 2011
1 post
Occupy Wall Street and the Poetry of Now-Time →
I met these guys the other night drank the Kool-Aid on Occupy Wall Street.
June 2011
3 posts
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
3 posts
“Comply Foam Tips are foam tips that replace the run-of-the-mill tips found on...”
– Try saying this sentence from The New York Times in your coolest voice!
December 2010
2 posts
Watch“I like violence! I love violence!” The brilliant Alejandro Jodorowski to the BBC back in 1991, when violence was still really scary. Via DangerousMinds.
Jewish Girl Is "Mayor" of Al-Aqsa Mosque →
I had a chat with a couple Israeli 4sq enthusiasts who are occupying some contested terrain.
November 2008
12 posts
“I’m pleased with what I have done…but 25 times I’ve not eaten...”
– Les Stroud, Survivorman
Why they run for President →
Obama gets his first intel briefing this morning. So all that stuff about Area 51, plans for the New World Order and the secret passageway linking the executive residence to the Camelot Show Bar, HE NOW KNOWS.
More Mickey D's news! America really IS back
From Pravda:
The Moscow police have recently arrested two pedophiles, one of whom was known as ‘Big Mac.’ The perverts would lure their victims into a trap with the help of McDonald’s sandwiches.
The two men were hunting for boys aged from 7 to 14, picking presumably those from unhealthy families.
The healthy kids eat McNuggets, duh!
We used to call it "tickle torture"
Unruly children to be punished with ‘innovative’ foot massages - Telegraph
“Our best sellers continue to be our starter packs (male, female, hermaphrodite),...”
– A little context.
Those blacks...always becoming President!
“A single instance of unusual behaviour by a minority group may be enough for us to stereotype the whole group according to recent research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.” (MindHacks)
The age of audacity begins!
If a black man can win the presidency, surely a newly unemployed one-time member of the creative overclass can start a tumblr thing and update it every couple days.