February 2011
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Welcome to my life
From an interview with Edith Zimmerman of The Hairpin
What’s been the biggest challenge of running a blog?
Ah, crippling self-doubt, keeping ridiculous hours because I’m terrible at time management, sometimes just actually sitting at the computer with my fingers over the keyboard, frozen in a weird anxiety-induced panic paralysis? Also sometimes I drink a lotttttt of coffee verrrry quickly, and...
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“A census survey released in December determined that the proportion of...”
– From The New York Times’ “New York’s Little Italy, Littler by the Year”. Nothing in the article is all that surprising for anyone who has been down there in recent years. My grandfather lived on Bleecker while his father worked on the 1939 World’s Fair, and when he returned...
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Still Not Going To Do This Every Day: Allow Us to... →
the20s:
markcoatney:
At Tumblr we’re always excited to see innovative new uses. So we’re especially happy to note the arrival of The 20, NBC Local’s ambitious new venture to selectively crowdsource and curate news in cities across the U.S. The idea is to pick 20 smart, creative people in each of the 10 cities where NBC owns local TV stations, put them at the center of a Tumblr blog about...
“For every loser I’ve screamed at, there have been nice, normal single guys with...”
– From @thisisjendoll’s “Dear Single Women of NYC: It’s Not Them, It’s You.” The Village Voice cover story has been generating a lot of discussion among just about anyone who’s even been single in NY.
As it is anywhere — here or Boston or Dallas — the road to finding whoever you dream to be your...
“Peter remembers a drawing that Tina made when she was about seven: it showed...”
– Everyone quoting Tina Fey’s New Yorker essay made us think about this old New Yorker profile of Fey. (via entertainmentweekly)
