The Bronze Medal

Oct 1st

“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a...”
— W. S. Merwin, Separation

Oct 1st

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Josh Ritter ~ The River (Springsteen Cover)

Oct 1st

Full list of Polanski Supporters

Oct 1st

missb: my office building is turning pink for the rest of...

Oct 1st

“Now the burglars are in jail, and if they keep on, they will...”
— Mark Twain, after his house...

Oct 1st

“There we were in the vaulted tunnel running, You in your...”
— Seamus Heaney, The Underground

Sep 30th

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The presenter at the program I went to this morning was a systems librarian from the Metropolitan...

Sep 30th

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Matt Nathanson ~ Thunder Road (Springsteen Cover) Interestingly, Springsteen named this song after...

Sep 30th

Activism, a cartoon by Mr. Fish in Harper’s.

Sep 30th

Marathoning, Fundraising: Buy a mile for...

Sep 29th

“Roman Polanski raped a child. Let’s just start right...”
— Kat Harding in Salon I agree...

Sep 29th

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Pete Yorn ~ Dancing in the Dark (Springsteen Cover) From the terrific bonus disc that came with his...

Sep 29th

“Imagine Lucifer An angel without angelness An apple...”
— Jack Spicer, Imagine Lucifer

Sep 29th

“Flaubert was convinced that each idea can have but one form,...”
— Paul Valery, Memoirs of a Poem

Sep 29th

When you put the words "Flu Vaccine" in...

Sep 28th

“It’s funny. If your average guy were to rape a 13-year-old...”
— Jeff Fecke (via katoleary)

Sep 28th

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Bat For Lashes ~ I’m on Fire (Springsteen Cover) Apparently last week was his 60th birthday,...

Sep 28th

patrickmoberg: The New (Media) Workout Plan Love it.

Sep 28th

Someone just dropped a flyer in...

Sep 27th

“I write from Caracas, the murder capital of the world, where...”
— Fernando Perez, outfielder and...

Sep 27th

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Ani Difranco, Shameless

Sep 27th

“Fox masks, wolf masks, I try them on as if I were a savage....”
— Loren Eisley, from Notes of an...

Sep 27th

Wine tasting @ Laurel Lake

Sep 26th

En route to north fork wineries. Limo and mimosas FTW

Sep 26th

We are spending the day in the city with Brook, who’s...

Sep 25th

F.D.A. Reveals It Fell to a Push by Lawmakers...

Sep 25th

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Jay-Z ~ Run This Town It’s Friday and I don’t have to work today. Holla.

Sep 25th

And you thought your workplace had a bug problem. Get away...

Sep 24th

“When I made the decision to move overseas, I also made the...”
— Jessa Crispin in The Smart Set

Sep 24th

Norman Maclean, trying to convey the importance of formal...

Sep 24th

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Colin Meloy, Sister I’m A Poet (Morrissey Cover)

Sep 23rd

I'm running a marathon in less than a...

icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse: NEXT WEEK!  LESS A MONTH! That is a frighteningly short amount of...

Sep 23rd

By request, #swoon iPhone wallpaper is now available for him...

Sep 23rd

Last Night on the Reference Desk

Kid: Can I use your phone to call my house?
Me: Ima let you call your house, but E.T. had one of the best phone homes of all time. Of all time!
Kid: .......
Me: yeah, you can use the phone.

Sep 23rd

patron: hi, my son needs a book for class.
me: do you know the title?
patron: Ninjas Don't Bake Pumpkin Pies
me: is this a class in being a ninja or in baking?

Sep 22nd

“All day I tried to distinguish need from desire. Now, in...”
— Louise Gluck, Elms

Sep 22nd

I wrote this a while ago but never posted it here. If...

Sep 21st

“We have never closed the Dark Ages. Our own age is still...”
— Michel Butor, from here.

Sep 21st

I imagine that this is what it looks like when you are about...

Sep 21st

Among the many physical hazards of...

Sep 21st

Dad.

Sep 21st

“The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is...”
— G.K. Chesterton, A Defense of...

Sep 21st

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Old 97’s ~ Four Leaf Clover Rhett Miller did a killer job on this song last night at Webster...

Sep 20th

“The work presents a meticulously fashioned fantasy of a...”
— A new exhibition at the...

Sep 20th

“Mr. Soderbergh has frequently been identified with the “one...”
— A.O. Scott on Steven...

Sep 20th

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The Lucksmiths ~ Camera Shy Perfect music for a morning when you’re getting a new passport...

Sep 19th

25 Best Book-To-Film Adaptations

Sep 19th

I get to go take care of this little guy in a bit.

Sep 18th

“It is strange that an ‘accomplished fact’ should...”
— Paul Valery, Fluctuations on...

Sep 18th

Patron just asked for the 'St. James...

Sep 17th

“Outside Latin America, I found to my dismay very few people...”
— Benjamin Moser on Clarice...

Sep 17th

I gotta get back to California soon. I’m not down with...

Sep 17th

I decided my iPhone’s wallpaper needed more #swoon....

Sep 17th

“But have you ever gone over, in the ways of the mind, one of...”
— Paul Valery, Fluctuations on...

Sep 17th

I was just told that my twitter and...

Sep 17th

IN CASE MY NEW YOUNG-ADULT NOVEL DOESN'T...

Sep 16th

A.O. Scott likes Jane Campion’s new Keats film Bright...

Sep 16th

“After only a few paragraphs, a basic grammatical howler...”
— Mark Lawson on Dan Brown’s The...

Sep 16th

“Shall I tell you what I think? The past can no longer prove...”
— Paul Valery, The Passion for...

Sep 16th

“In Eden there were two marvelous trees. The apples on the...”
— Paul Valery, The Passion for...

Sep 16th

Sep 15th

Generally I don’t like the results of using my flash,...

Sep 15th

“Love removes none of the contradictions of our lives but, by...”
— Randall Jarrell This is from...

Sep 15th

Sep 15th

Book Titles, if They Were Written Today

Sep 14th

“It could be you move through a crowd and your arm touches a...”
— William Stafford, from...

Sep 14th

I just drove past a man crossing the...

Sep 14th

Literary Map of San Francisco via Strange Maps

Sep 14th

“The last TV set I had, I shot. I don’t know what commercial...”
— Utah Phillips Look, I get...

Sep 14th

Hanging out with my brother at his apartment. I made him sit...

Sep 13th

“Only Tarantino would dare or even want to write a pastiche...”
— Leo Robson, from an article in...

Sep 13th

“As we keep being told that all newspapers, including the New...”
— Wallace Shawn in...

Sep 13th

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icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse: hungryghoast: The xx - Infinity sometimes The xx sound like a...

Sep 13th

This monkey kept staring at me as I registered patrons for...

Sep 12th

““There’s machinery in the butterfly; ...”
— Vachel Lindsay, The Horrid...

Sep 11th

“Reading my own band name within the book’s pages was...”
— Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie...

Sep 11th

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Bjork, Play Dead

Sep 11th

Animal rescue group pledges donations for...

Sep 11th

Yes please.

Sep 10th

Occasionally on Tuesday nights (luckily, my night of the...

Sep 10th

“I decided that the idea of manhood that I had been given,...”
— Utah Phillips

Sep 10th

Explore and Enjoy Yesterday’s Nature Parks One of a...

Sep 9th

Venice Beach, Summer 2009 Even though we have a crisp new...

Sep 8th

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It’s Tuesday but feels like a Monday. And here’s R.E.M. with Daysleeper

Sep 8th

It appears I will be going to London for...

Sep 8th

“Southern California’s special horror notwithstanding,...”
— 25 year old Thomas Pynchon...

Sep 8th

“That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have...”
— Lorrie Moore, What is Seized ...

Sep 7th

“Cold men destroy women…they woo them with something...”
— Lorrie Moore, What is Seized

Sep 7th

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Smoking Popes, If You Don’t Care

Sep 7th

Ex-US Soldier Gets 5 Life Sentences For Iraqi...

Sep 7th

“I then went to Amazon .com—is there a more coarsely ironic...”
— Lorrie Moore, on Clarice...

Sep 6th

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Jenny Owen Youngs, Drinking Song

Sep 6th

Food Among the Ruins

Sep 6th

Edel Rodriguez for the New York Times

Sep 6th

“…the world we see Dorothy living in at the beginning...”
— Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

Sep 5th

Open mic night @the library.

Sep 4th

icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse: I thought we were going to...

Sep 4th

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Mariachi El Bronx ~ I Would Die 4 U (Prince Cover) This makes me really want to go salsa dancing...

Sep 4th

My Tumblr dashboard appears to be...

Sep 3rd

Great Moments in Library Lunch Breaks

I just walked by some middle-aged guy changing his pants in the staff area of the parking lot....

Sep 3rd

Trial by Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent...

Sep 3rd

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D’Angelo ~ She’s Always In My Hair (Prince Cover) Prince covers week rolls ever forward...

Sep 3rd

happycap: In case you were wondering, the blue whale in the Museum of Natural History is still...

Sep 3rd

In the “I can’t believe there are actually...

Sep 2nd

Stasis 13 Work by artist Chris Dorosz, who creates by...

Sep 2nd

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Ani Difranco featuring Maceo Parker ~ When U Were Mine (Prince Cover) (Live in Minneapolis) Not the...

Sep 2nd

Mythical Creature

Sep 1st

“Jesus preached. Samuel Johnson bullied. Carlyle fulminated....”
— William Gass, Habitations of...

Sep 1st

Constitutional Hipsters via Toothpaste For Dinner

Sep 1st

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My Morning Jacket ~ I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (Prince Cover) Prince covers week...

Sep 1st