Lindelof: Lost Finale Will ‘Generate A Tremendous Amount of Theorizing’ — Vulture
Annoying.
Freddy’s Bar, in Path of Atlantic Yards, to Close - NYTimes.com
We’ll pour it out, tonight.
BBC News - US military joins Gulf of Mexico oil spill effort
This is crazy. When the spill first happened, they were saying it’s “no where near the size of the Valdez.” In hindsight, I can’t say that I believe that we were getting all the information. It was a bunch of lip service to the effect of “These wells are super-sophisticated. They’re designed to automatically close-off when something like this happens” and now we’re hearing “We can’t actually say at this time why the safety devices didn’t work, but we will continue to look into it.”
That’s not what you say when wildlife, human livelihood and thousands (maybe more?) of jobs — bringing in millions of dollars — are at stake. Those wetlands along the coast are one of the only buffers between hurricanes and Louisiana, not to mention a wildlife habitat.
I remember being so sad looking at pictures on the Exxon Valdez oil spill — seeing videos in school about ducks and seals covered in oil. I feel the same way now.
I’m just glad that fat John Popper Blues Traveler is my music.
Inspiring story of what getting shit done in NYC.
Pregnant woman mugged; cop, good Samaritans come to her aid and catch suspect - NYPOST.com
She later said that she realizes it wasn’t the brightest idea, but hey, you can’t fight your instincts.
Mary-Kate Olsen Guestblogs for Lemondrop! (OK, That’s a Lie …) - Lemondrop.com
Tough to speak for all of us, but my best assessment would be taking advantage of this youthful, detached period in our life when we still have the freedom to chase our dreams to the biggest city in the U.S. Searching for answers to questions we’re not even certain of in the first place. We’re all trying our best to make sense of this crazy rat race we call life, while still enjoying ourselves as most we can along the way.
It’s a tough question to answer, but I guess if you had to boil it down to one word: living. We’re living. The best we know how.
That’s what we’re doing.
—Brian J.
Don’t mind if I check out that wine bar in Boerum Hill … love finding new spots in the neighborhood.
Some new neighborhoods to explore in here, plus some enjoyable-sounding places in neighborhoods you are sometimes stuck in while hungry (Midtown and Upper East Side, at least).
Looking forward to using this site all summer.
Must. Read. Later.
No time now…
Why are all the summer concerts they’ve announced so far during that last week of July? I understand that they’re making us buy tickets before they tell us what we can see for free, but they’re only doing themselves a disservice by clumping them all together in teh same week. I’d go to all of these shows — The National/Beachhouse, Black Keys, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse — and pay for them even, but I can only handle so many concerts in a week.
