jay-video op-ed re: the war on drugs

i already saw that movie.

just got a NYT notification to tell me:

Another Earth could be circling the star right next door to us.

Astronomers announced on Wednesday that they had detected a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest neighbor to our solar system. Intriguingly, the planet is in the star’s “Goldilocks zone,” where it may not be too hot nor too cold. That means liquid water could exist at the surface, raising the possibility for life.

Although observations in recent years, particularly by NASA’s Kepler planet-finding mission, have uncovered a bounty of Earth-size worlds throughout the galaxy, this one holds particular promise because it might someday, decades from now, be possible to reach. It’s 4.2 light-years, or 25 trillion miles, away from Earth, which is extremely close in cosmic terms. (via)

this is really good and not very sweet

read the nytimes take on this clip, and watch it!

cracker barrel gets with the nytimes

I wrote about my personal utopia (Cracker Barrel) for @NYTmag https://t.co/55NUTE1rl4

— Jia Tolentino (@jiatolentino) January 28, 2016

fact

Adding Asian ingredients to your pantry can help you be a better weeknight cook http://t.co/Qob8e2XuzQ pic.twitter.com/faQ14cDSNQ

— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 22, 2015

knock knock.

the lights have always been my favorite 9/11 memorial.

um. hello? is anyone there?

The struggle to save the pangolin, the planet’s most frequently trafficked mammal http://t.co/6LMkrmt5jR pic.twitter.com/ge0YHOqkOL

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 30, 2015

the gray lady gets mystical about memphis

did you read this article in the nytimes about the new bass pro shops development they are putting in the great american pyramid? READ IT

the nytimes is obsessed with pies in memphis

click through

Some travelers will tell you the best way to get to know a town is by spending time in its bars or coffee shops. Not me. I go by the crumb. I’m always on the lookout for pie, a national theme with regional variations. Memphis convinced me my guided-by-sugar mode of tourism is a sound one.

get with the nytimes

guess who woke the fuck up and realized there is a trend happening. the new york times, of course.

Normcore (noun) 1. A fashion movement, c. 2014, in which scruffy young urbanites swear off the tired street-style clichés of the last decade — skinny jeans, wallet chains, flannel shirts — in favor of a less-ironic (but still pretty ironic) embrace of bland, suburban anti-fashion attire. (See Jeans, mom. Sneakers, white.)

2. A sociocultural concept, c. 2013, having nothing to do with fashion, that concerns hipster types learning to get over themselves, sometimes even enough to enjoy mainstream pleasures like football along with the rest of the crowd.

3. An Internet meme that turned into a massive in-joke that the news media keeps falling for. (See below). (via)

are you describing yourself, new york times?

what it is like to spend time with baz luhrmann

nytimes magazine (sort of) long read.

he looks like he has had some work done on his face.

another Ms.Dangles photo credit in the nytimes

he doesn't just blog about cats ladies and germs, he also takes pictures that sometimes go in the new york times. he does other stuff too. good work ms. dangles.

wililamsburg is the new wililamsburg

TREND ALERT!

i'm writing this trend piece about the trend i've caught onto of various new york-based blogs writing angry backlash pieces about trend pieces written about williamsburg. CONSIDER THIS TREND PIECE BACKLASH TREND COVERED.

you heard it here first. williamsburg is the new williamsburg. now and forever.

memphis makes the big time(s)

my city (and joel's) gets the frugal traveler treatment in the times.




I want that sandwich in my mouth right MEOW.

Navy finally catches up with "Real Genius" style weapons

and they are sending them to the gulf

 "a prototype shipboard laser will be deployed on a converted amphibious transport and docking ship in the persian gulf, where iranian fast-attack boats have harassed american warships and where the government in tehran is building remotely piloted aircraft carrying surveillance pods and, some day potentially, rockets."

 you should click the link to see their video of how it works, but it's pretty much like this. \/

thanks nyt

every once in a while the nyt features all the adorable puppies. today they have a piece on how to name your pooch. A subject that is important to me because i'm preparing to get a doggie this summer. hopefully he (or she) will look as CEYUTE as this guy. his name is blackout.

get with the nytimes

someone just figured out that there is a rabid trend spreading out of brooklyn, and it's called "cuntry ladies". guess what, ladies who are not taylor swift who make country music are getting their shit together and making music i want to listen to. and the new york times finally noticed:

Even with the same goal the two take different approaches. Ms. Musgraves’s assault is full frontal. Her indictments come with names, or at least a boatload of identifying details. They’re about the enemy. Ms. Monroe’s, on the other hand, are sung into the mirror. They’re about the enemy within. (via)

listen to kacey "muscovite" musgraves and ashley monroe today!

fairway's back

fairway market, an anchor in red hook, reopens

see what they did there?

nytimes trend alert

hey, owls are a thing. NEW TREND ALERT, owls.

     In the Western imagination, the owl surely vies with the penguin for the position of My Favorite Bird. “Everyone loves owls,” said David J. Bohaska, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, who discovered one of the earliest owl fossils. “Even mammalogists love owls.” 
     Owls are a staple of children’s books and cultural kitsch — here wooing pussycats in pea-green boats and delivering mail to the Harry Potter crew, there raising a dubiously Wise eyebrow in the service of snack food. Yet for all this apparent familiarity, only lately have scientists begun to understand the birds in any detail, and to puzzle out the subtleties of behavior, biology and sensory prowess that set them apart from all other avian tribes.

nytimes gossip about japanese people

Hey Liz, is it true that Japanese people are obsessed with fax machines?