December 2009
29 posts
If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a... →
Slide well into 2010, all.
Sound Opinions →
Desert Island Jukebox Special.
What lasts? And is lasting what counts?
A juxtaposition from the Poetry Foundation’s collection of responses to the question, “How has poetry changed in the past ten years?”
Matthew Zapruder: “In the weeks after the 9/11 attacks, there were, as we remember, public gatherings all over the country. People instinctively and correctly had the idea that we needed to be together as a group, as Americans, in order to...
4ad 2009 →
A dozen tracks for free.
Frohe Weihnachten →
Collaborative tumbling I have nothing to do with but will enjoy checking in on now and then.
Ulysses: Fast Track to 1934 Best Seller:... →
A history of the publication and the persistence of the original design. Plus, a terrific little slide show.
“Progressives can push for bigger subsidies; stronger exchanges; a reinstated...”
– Paul Krugman
“The message to China: you play, we’ll pay.”
– David Corn for the Atlantic on what the hell is going on in Copenhagen
How Did the GOP Get More Done With Fewer Votes? →
A matter of good faith vs bad, evidently.
“If the ’90s were devoutly digital then, the 2000s should be the...”
– Steve Heller, “The Decade of Dirty Design”
“Ironically, the effort to contain the crisis required government intervention on...”
– Paul Krugman, NYT
“All that hot air about the threat of ‘talent’ leaving the bank if...”
– k-punk, ”Capitalist Realism after the crash”
“These vampires could be legally arming up without having to go through the NYPD.”
– Maybe Goldman’s bankers are getting guns after all (and even if they aren’t, man, this shadowy carry-permits-for-the-rich thing is scary) Boing Boing
“[T]rademark elements include: The embrace of contradictions (in this case, a...”
– James Fallows, “Obama’s Nobel Speech”
Richard Cizik, quoted at the site for Waiting For Armageddon: “Evangelicals need to see this movie to understand the unintended political consequences of what many of them believe.”
“In 2009, women have a stranglehold on the pop zeitgeist. Taylor, Beyoncé, Gaga,...”
– “My top 10 albums of 2009,” Ann Powers, Jody Rosen, Jonah Weiner and Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine
“As for London, when once it had welcomed me like a dowager to her run-down...”
– Jan Morris on her favorite cities; she refuses to name just one top favorite, but I suspect that if she had to, it’d be Trieste.
“London was considered far more of a ‘problem’ back then - a...”
– William Wiles digs up a 1990 Observer special on “London in 2010”
“Love them or hate them, these are the 50 books that defined the decade.”
– Well done, Guardian Review.
World leaders apologise from the future →
Helluva campaign from Greenpeace in the run-up to Copenhagen.
In Which The Artist Inhabits His Studio →
Alex Carnevale, sweetly sour.
Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of... →
I remember this going around a couple of years ago. Definitely worth a revisit.