cant find the most recent ramones thread but i did find a baseball connection.

The location of this interactive dance floor looks like Rivington. Is it?

"As Life magazine gets set to relaunch October 1, New York's International Center of Photography hosts a retrospective of the magazine's most iconic prints."

it cant happen here

Film by Rick Prelinger on at Anthology

anyone have any experience with the internet archive ? via people like us.

long board critical mass photos [via EPofE]

where was that brian wilson smile thread ?

is 9/11 a national holiday yet? too close to labor day? can they be combined? national work yourself to death day? or maybe, national al qaida determined to attack usa but we'd rather wait out the attack outside of washington stage a photo-op on our fake ranch for a complicit and docile press corp during our monthlong vacation after only 7 months in office..*pant*...day. i cant wait for the parade.

A message from Tracey Emin (on how she feels about getting her own room at the Tate).

I bought about 50 beautiful tomatoes in ‘the country’ last weekend ($8 total, including the basket! The farm stand is unattended and one pays by leaving money in a milk pail. But as I was counting my crumpled dollar bills I could feel the farmer’s eyes on me from a distance. I decided to leave 10 – after all the basket was included - and sure enough as we were driving away I saw the farmer walking toward the stand, probably about to go count the money. Or am I just a paranoid New Yorker?). I spent part of Monday chopping sautéing and canning. I was thinking, as I stirred, about my grandmother. Would she be disappointed to know that ‘canning’ these days’ means carefully pouring into “ziploc” bags (which probably cost me more than the tomatoes)?
For me, Summer comes to a close at the end of tomato season. (And I see bill is ready for the Fall pig roast).

organ donor

a dirty shame

pier 57

edgeplay - film documentary on the runaways

Sack of Iraq

Coalition forces are doing little to prevent the widespread looting and destruction of Iraq's world-famous historical sites

a day ill always remember

An article on Energy Trust of Oregon, where my friend Fred works. Fred posted the Portland gentrification history on the cinefiles page a while back (the Penny Allen thread).

zig-zag-zell

philly considers free city-wide wireless access.

AGOR-
APHO-
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AGAINST
BUSH

i went to connecticut this weekend with skinny and the boy, and while we were out on the lake sunday we saw a pair of bald eagles. first time i've ever seen one - really amazing. one was so close, about 50 feet up in a tree eating a fish. beatiful birds. sorry alex, no photos.

hours of fun for tom and bill.

Fine whine

In retrospect, it seems that Parker was doing to wine what Bill James was doing to baseball in the same years, and in the same way. Both Parker and James began, in the late seventies, as unknown amateurs with privately printed newsletters, rapidly found a hungry and enthusiastic audience, and by the mid-eighties had become the reigning authorities among people impatient with the old wisdoms.

fmu audio link to F911 - right now