tennis courts: where the buffalo roam
Photo: Steve Ruark/Associated Press
PIKESVILLE, Md. (AP) -- A herd of buffalo somehow got loose and wandered around an upscale neighborhood Tuesday, disrupting traffic and alarming homeowners before officers managed to corral them in a tennis court.
- "Herd of Buffalo Disrupts Traffic in Maryland," new york times April 26, 2005
posted April 26, 2005 in printqueens-centric bloggers
i need to find some for a story i'm working on. contact me for details.
posted April 22, 2005 in deliveryNUMBER: 29991
NUMBER: 29991
QUOTATION: Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
ATTRIBUTION: Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British author. Walter Bidlake, in Point Counter Point, ch. 1 (1928).
BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.
NUMBER: 4460
NUMBER: 4460
QUOTATION: A silence already filled with noises,
A canvas on which emerges
A chorus of smiles, a winter morning.
ATTRIBUTION: John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. “Some Trees.”
BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.
NUMBER: 11799
NUMBER: 11799
QUOTATION: Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
ATTRIBUTION: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Narrator in The Enemies, Works, vol. 6, p. 35, “Nauka” (1976).
NUMBER: 37430
NUMBER: 37430
QUOTATION: Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
ATTRIBUTION: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), Belgian author. “Silence,” The Treasure of the Humble (1896), trans. by Alfred Sutro (1908).
NUMBER: 54686
NUMBER: 54686
QUOTATION: Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
ATTRIBUTION: Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. author. “The Aesthetics of Silence,” (1967).
BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.
... and desperately poor
a month from now i'll have a master's degree and be outta here. wild.
posted April 19, 2005 in deliveryon that bill keller memo
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller announced that any story over 1,800 words must be approved by one of a trio of high-ranking editors before it’s allowed into the paper.
- "Keller to Staff: Nix the Yak," april 11, 2005 (via gawker)
dumb "man date" article from sunday? 1,822 words.
coincidence?
posted April 12, 2005 in deliveryan effortless life is a meaningless life
I often tell my wife and son that the best life for me would be to get up in the morning and go to a cafe and have coffee and meet friends and read the newspaper. But you can't do it every day, because if you did, your life would be effortless. And an effortless life is a meaningless life.
- ha jin, "QUESTIONS FOR HA JIN: A Novel Perspective," new york times magazine April 10, 2005
posted April 11, 2005 in printboston
that's where i'll be from june to the end of the year. i don't know anything about boston, really. do you?
posted April 11, 2005 in deliverythe kind of parents who name their son Jake don't tend to live in the same neighborhoods or share economic circumstances with the kind of parents who name their son DeShawn
The 20 Whitest Girl Names
1. Molly
2. Amy
3. Claire
4. Emily
5. Katie
6. Madeline
7. Katelyn
8. Emma
9. Abigail
10. Carly
11. Jenna
12. Heather
13. Katherine
14. Caitlin
15. Kaitlin
16. Holly
17. Allison
18. Kaitlyn
19. Hannah
20. Kathryn
The 20 Blackest Girl Names
1. Imani
2. Ebony
3. Shanice
4. Aaliyah
5. Precious
6. Nia
7. Deja
8. Diamond
9. Asia
10. Aliyah
11. Jada
12. Tierra
13. Tiara
14. Kiara
15. Jazmine
16. Jasmin
17. Jazmin
18. Jasmine
19. Alexus
20. Raven
Most Popular Girl Crossover Names
1. Andrea
2. Whitney
3. Alicia
4. Kendra
5. Alexandria
6. Natasha
7. Tiffany
8. Brittany
9. Amber
10. Talia
11. Erika
12. Brianna
13. Ariel
14. Gabrielle
15. Veronica
16. Alana
17. Kyra
18. Ashley
19. Breanna
20. Erica
- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, "A Roshanda by Any Other Name," slate april 11, 2005
posted April 11, 2005 in printInvoke Concentration
Holy Arrow of Extend Due Date
Portal to Library
Banish Procrastination
Summon Term Paper
Fireball
- DANIEL MANNING, "Live-Action Role-Playing Spells I Could Really Use, Right Now," mcsweeney's april 8, 2005 (via the manpanion)
posted April 08, 2005 in printi'm stoked, mates
i got a job! doing real-live journalism! and earning only slightly less than what i made on the sunday shift at costco in high school!
posted April 08, 2005 in deliveryasiaphile turns to the dark side
A white male Princeton grad student has confessed to cutting locks of hair from nine Asian American female students without their knowledge, as well as pouring his urine and semen into the drinks of Asian female students on more than 50 occassions. Real smooth.
[ed: and there's video]
- lisa, "yuck," hyphen april 7, 2005
posted April 08, 2005 in printthings to loathe
so i'm helping bloggy out with artcal. updating gallery listings is a nice change from the rest of the week (i.e., looking for a summer internship, balking when you're offered one, pulling a feature story on wal-mart outta yer ass, trying to get your editor to let you do a story on paul wall's grills bidness, writing a 'think piece' [prof's words, not mine] on "sin city," then turning around and pitching it before the movie is reviewed to death. and repeat), but these faux-cerebral press releases are off the chain. observed:
- chronic misuse of "comprise"
- PDFs that are clearly just word docs squirted through acrobat, bungling my firefox tabs
- inability to say what the artist made in a straightforward way (e.g., "xxx's painterly reliefs compel the viewer to attend not only to the works’ objecthood but also to the evidence they give of their own process of construction and to the process through which they are perceived."
- are you ever displeased to announce something?
- your site is so crappy, why are you including the URL? (SUB-ISSUE: y'know that flash website that you probably paid dearly for? it is un-googlable, individual pages are un-bookmarkable, the text is un-copy/pastable, the images are un-downloadable, and is generally unlovable, orbiting the interweb in lifeless, unfindable obscurity. Even worse are galleries that just slap a JPG on their homepage.)
- i get in trouble with my editor when i use words like "posit" where "say" or "think" would work. so should you.
- "utilize" is a bad, bad word
- i'm thinking of more...
posted April 08, 2005 in art, deliveryhey, fever
spring is here in new york, and today i was sneezing so hard on the subway that even the homeless people backed away. i am open to allergy medicine suggestions that don't require needles.
posted April 07, 2005 in delivery