Manhattan Transfer | 11:59 AM
LS.com eagerly awaits its transition back to its home office on Rivington Street at the end of this month. To get ourselves mentally prepared for NYC again, we've been checking in on our neighbors by way of the
NYCBloggers Delancey Street subway stop map. Here's what we've seen.
Observers. Some offer sage notes on LES life.
George at
likeanorb (wow, gorgeous blog) spins a yarn about the torrential rain of early August ("The neighborhood looked strange in this weather. In front of the guitar store on Rivington Street, a discount beer truck sat idle").
Catwoman loves her Rivington roof as much as we do ("after the last revelers left (at 6 a.m.! we do not mess around with our parties) i spent some time contemplating on the roof. there is nothing like my roof for that sort of thing"). And
Dodai is finding love and loss ("this overlapping love-interest thing is twisting my brain into knots").
Critics. Others blog with a more cricial eye.
FelixSalmon has
been reading this summer, offering commentary on two books I also enjoyed ("I've been slowly developing a theory of what I call built-in obsolescence in art").
Jim has been
engaging in one of our favorite guilty pleasures: reading Debka.com ("Interesting weapon. Quite useful no doubt, if it exists").
Here at LS.com, we've been doing a little of everything and a lot of nothing, gearing up for an active fall. At least we've got our tan in place.
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Beam Me Up | 4:39 PM
One sad political note:
Rep. James Traficant's
expulsion from Congress last month has led to the deletion of his
One Minute Speeches from the House website. Google
maintains a cache of the old site, but how long until gems like this, delivered on the floor of the House in Spring 2001, disappear forever?
Madam Speaker, it started with the training bra and then it came to the push-up bra; the support bra, the Wonder bra, the super bra. There is even a smart bra. Now, if that is not enough to prop up your curiosity, there is now a new bra. It is called the holster bra, the gun bra. That is right, a brassiere to conceal a hidden handgun. Unbelievable. That is next? A maxi-girdle to conceal a stinger missile? Beam me up. I advise all men in America against taking women to drive-in movies who may end up getting shot in a passionate embrace. I yield back all those plain old Maidenform brassieres and chain link pantyhose.
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Beam Me Up: A Colorful Career Ends [washtimes.com]
Tip Sheet | 4:00 PM
We're informed by
MOP that ABC News'
The Note is the great daily political read. For our taste, it's got too much tiresome information. Plus, you need to register to read it. Where's
Orvetti when you need him?
This article seems to imply that he'll be kicking this fall, even if his site is a deadzone at the moment.
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The Note [abcnews.go.com]
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Orvetti.com
Wednesday, August 07, 2002
Book It | 1:46 PM
After weeks of
torrid negotations, the
JVG/
JA/LS literature project
Book of Ages is a go! More details once we know more ourselves. This is also a good moment to alert loyal readers that
FringeNYC, the festival that gave the world
Tiny Ninja Theater, kicks off this weekend. Insiders whisper that
Christina Nicosia's one-woman play "Man of Infinite Desire" is the pick of the litter.
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Man of Infinite Desire [moid.com]
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Book of Ages [bookofages.com]
By soon, we mean "fall 2003"
Tuesday, August 06, 2002
'Where We Were' | 1:39 PM
Interesting
Dave Eggers Q&A over at the New Yorker's website. Seems Dave will sell his new novel direct from McSweeneys in a limited pressrun of 20,000 copies. At last, CS and I will settle our bet over whether he can write fiction or not.
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Around the World in a Week Q&A [newyorker.com]
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New Novel by Dave Eggers [mcsweeneys.net]
Rufus and Russell Update | 1:31 PM
Spent the weekend on Nantucket at the fabulous
Gifford-Bennett wedding/committment fete. Congratulations to the happy couple, who received some society coverage for their vows.
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Boston Herald Inside Track [bostonherald.com, Scroll down a bit]
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Buzz, Peoples, Places, Parties [NantucketFoggySheet.com]
Monday, August 05, 2002
Steve Earle Update | 11:34 AM
Jeez, if
Palmermix is back in action, what excuse does LS.com have anymore? MOP's got the scoop on the upcoming
Steve Earle release. Bad tidings, alas:
Sadly, Jerusalem is a departure from that winning streak. It starts with the music -- this is a step back for Steve, going back to the boring Bon Jovi and Mellencamp hard guitars of his weakish "middle period" -- Copperhead Road, the Hard Way, etc. His vocals also are slurred, and often kept in the back of the mix, so that you can't hear the lyrics too well. Which might be just as well, because the real flaw of the album are the lyrics.
Ooof.
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Steve Earle, Off the Tracks [Palmermix]
Thursday, August 01, 2002
Dog Days | 6:04 PM
Ah, the dog days of summer. Happy August.
