June 2009
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Good Beer Demands Good Food - NYTimes.com →
Happily, it’s increasingly easy to be a beer snob in NYC.
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“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
I think this might be the real secret to happiness.
(via ajhan)
I’ve been saying something like that a lot recently.
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“If I didn’t fundamentally believe in The New York Times building and...”
– David Carr [again]
What about all that money that was sloshing around? Hmm.
Dumenco’s Media People: New York Times Columnist David Carr - Advertising Age
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“Reporters get stuck on the idea that there is a single, objective truth. As an...”
– David Carr
I think about the “single, objective truth” a lot. During my few months of “professional reporting” at The Sun I wrote some obituaries which highlighted the phenomenon starkly: I’d talk to someone’s mother and then their wife, or someone’s...
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Tumblarity Zero
Alternate Title: The Speed of Life
Since I left work a few weeks ago, I’ve discovered it’s not as hard as I thought to leave the constant content streams behind. I feel like I dip into them when I want or need to, not because I have to.
But when I do need something, knowing where to look — and who to look to — is useful and rewarding. I can honestly say my life is in some...
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A Town Fights to Save an Oasis of Baguettes →
I hope these types of stories never stop being written.
Old media nostalgia moment?