First Follows: Weird Choices in First Twitter Follows!
A new one by yours truly over at The Awl.
View ArticleThe Frothiest, Most Excrement-Filled Rick Santorum Quotes
A new one by yours truly over at HuffPost: I’m as happy as the next person to see the underused adjective, frothy, have a resurgence. Too bad it’s due to Rick Santorum’s strong showing in Tuesday’s...
View ArticleComing Next Year: Summer 2013 Movie Preview
Via The Morning News With blockbusters like Snow White and the Huntsman, Zombie Overkill, and Yahtzee: Alien Invasion, it’s already a smash hit for summer movies. But serious film buffs know Summer...
View ArticleSeven Great Under-the-Radar Christmas Albums
It’s that time of the year again when new indie renditions of syrupy holiday songs are shared by music snobs who wouldn’t touch Harry Connick’s Auld Lang Syne with Michael Bublé’s Mele Kalikimaka....
View ArticleYour Phone Is Ruining You For Us
I find it impossible to write fiction that’s set after 2002. Not because I’m a Gen-Xer waxing nostalgic about relaxing to Morcheeba on a distastefully stained sofa I found partially torn apart by a...
View ArticleHappy April Fish Day
As the youngest of three siblings, the arrival of April Fools’ day was never exactly a reason to celebrate. As a kid, I recall awakening — breathless, disoriented, in a cold sweat — to the sight of my...
View ArticleGentrification Tales
I wrote a short little thing on gentrification and, uh, The Village Idiot for Curbed: When I moved to Williamsburg in 1996, there was little to do on Bedford Avenue other than eat really good massaman...
View ArticleInhofe’s Greatest Climate Change Denial Hits
James Inhofe making decisions about climate change legislation could be the most depressing thing about the GOP taking control of the Senate. I wrote a little piece for The Huffington Post on the...
View Articlea lower-case explosion of feelings…
Here’s a little ditty about Bernie and Hillary. Boy, things are getting tense. I hope you read it all, but if not, here’s the highlight: ultimately, progressives acquiesced to supporting sanders when...
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And end of an era (for me)
After 22 years, I shut down FREEwilliamsburg this month. Deemed the “Grandaddy of Brooklyn Blogs” by Brick Underground and an “essential New York blog” by New York, I can’t believe I kept this thing...
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