For the past 14 years, I’ve been studying the nocturnal goings-on in a dilapidated loft building at 6th Avenue and 28th Street, Manhattan’s wholesale flower district from 1954 to 1965. Ten years before that, I began listening to wee-hour sports talk radio from New York’s
* A study of Twitter moods finds everyone has nearly the same ups and downs throughout the day. * How do I make my document look like it was written by an Cthulhu worshipping madman? * Only the truly bookish could penetrate the "atmosphere of funlessness" once found in small bookstores.
* Excellent, lucid summary of current events in the Middle East. * Al Qaeda asks Ahmadinejad and other conspiracy theorists to stop giving the U.S. credit for 9/11. * Paper says the economic crisis is no longer making Americans unhappy, so maybe we're heading for a cliff. * More Pinker
I resolved to take action. I’d been doing this crush series for nearly two months, and even I had grown weary of my precious little poet’s inability to do anything but yammer on about boys like I was sketching the clouds. “I am playing around with continuing this
Perhaps bigamists have it the worst: “You must refrain from changing your relationship status to “It’s Complicated,” regardless of how true it may seem. To monogamists, a status change signals marital instability. This will only attract inquisitive wall posts and potential temptations from ex-paramours and those meddlesome divorcees
* A month after the White House promised a crackdown, 2,900 illegal immigrants with criminal records arrested. * Reebok to pay $25 million in arrears over toning shoe health claims, but stands behind its technology. * Michael Moore at the Wall St. protests. * Last year only 60 children were adopted in the
* Western governments shy about defending human rights; liberty declined for the fifth year in a row. * Long-term cost of detainee abuse: Now torturers can say, "But you torture too." * Rick Perry rumbled for trashing North Carolina BBQ. * Jenny Diski not shy in analyzing published "happiness project.
* For every step forward Bulgaria makes to shed its Communist past, the old guard is right there, refusing to let go. * Conservatives latch onto Gibson Guitar illegal wood raid as an example of big government hurting U.S. businesses. * Nicholas Feltron, designer and analyzer of self-collected data, credited with
Running into your father on the internet can be a startling event when it’s unexpected. Particularly when your father is dead.
I’m not the only one who enjoys getting lost in the Cumberbatch. Legions of Cumberbatch fans roam the internet like Medieval highwaymen, hijacking comment threads and shooting them up with Sherlock mania. Benedict Cumberbatch—the man sounds like his own classification of mania. “But I can’t go outside,
