harrison ford, give me a break

Wreckage from actor Harrison Ford's crash-landing in California. Ford has been hospitalized. http://t.co/mwuejSv0QV pic.twitter.com/JV0NEe47C1

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 6, 2015

fortnightly boat (book)

erik larson, author of many narrative nonfiction bangerz, including "the devil in the white city", has a new book and it is about...

the sinking of the lusitania! it's called "dead wake"!

you can read an excerpt here, before it comes out on march 10.

toot toooooooooooot.

can you spot the snow-covered zoo animal?

it's a bear! and there's more.

tell me how you really feel...

jerry saltz did NOT care for the bjork show at MoMA and seems to be kind of mad in general:

That sadness has mushroomed into dejection of late. Since 2004, when it reopened in its bland new Taniguchi building, many art-world conversations about New York museums circle back to and then plunge into people's pain, anger, sadness, and frustration about the Museum of Modern Art. On the one hand, the museum has the greatest collection of modern art on Earth. It always will. Yet not only is most of this collection permanently held captive in storage, what little of it is on view is seen in perhaps the most unpleasant viewing conditions in any major museum in the world — in far too few galleries that are far too small and poorly designed. Then there's the museum's twisted bid to transform itself into something like a multiplex mall, specializing in whiz-bang pop-cultural events. Now comes a Diller Scofidio + Renfro expansion plan meant to fix the problems it created in 2004, which looks much more likely to exacerbate them. (via)

what do you think?

(via)

thx a lot, de blasio!

there's a whole breakdown of just wtf exactly has been going on down in those tubes the last few months...

By one of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's measures, the total number of delays in 2014 increased an astonishing 45.6 percent over 2013. Even the MTA's less drastic numbers still point to slower service. More is at work here than meandering crowds of uncivilized cretins sullying the sacred shrine to transportation the the New York City subway once was. But the agency has no clear institutional explanation for the decline. (via)

i saw this happen to a bus on my way to work this morning.

A Delta plane has skidded off the runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport in a snowstorm: http://t.co/DM9DiQ6RCZ pic.twitter.com/cbh7q9q1s5

— Mashable (@mashable) March 5, 2015

vulture's new tv podcast

tv is my favorite.

something new to worry about.

loose octopuses.


is that a sally lightfoot?

here's an octopus long read about how they are too smart for their own good.