February 2012
10 posts
I'm looking for a second team to root for this... →
aldoushuxtable:
Only rules:
No Cubs.
No Marlins (too soon!)
No AL teams. I don’t know crap about the NL other than the pitcher has to hit.
Root for the Pirates with me! There is a cachet in cheering for the most unsuccessful team in all of professional sports — which has potentially huge payoff as this could very well be the year that the Pirates finally have a winning record (last...
Pitchfork: The Tale of Grimes' Insane 2009... →
Wait, Grimes is fucking that person? This is not to reflect at all on Grimes, whose music I’m sure is wonderful (although the one song I’ve heard is meh), but Grimes is fucking that person?
Okay, maybe you think this is cool, but, as someone who was living in Minnesota in the summer of 2009, I can assure you that this was a roundly mocked story. Was it on Hipster Runoff, maybe, even?...
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GQ's Ten Best New Restaurants In America; shouts... →
Number 9 is right around the corner from me in Chicago, and it is probably the nicest restaurant I have been to in the city. Everyone there is super nice, and the food is really good, duh. Two things that make it worth going (if you’re willing to wait, well, now, probably 3 hours for a table) that aren’t mentioned here: they make their own sodas daily, which are super dope, and they...
I was interviewed for Jack Silverstein's "People... →
kingdrake1:
We talked for quite awhile so there’s some stuff that didn’t make the final transcript which is cool, I think our conversation tended to be very footnotes on footnotes of footnotes if I remember right, just going off on tangents on occasion, so he did a good job of bringing this stuff together. Of course, shouts to Jordan Sargent who did the piece on Gucci with me—I shouted out him...
Bonnie Raitt - “I Can’t Make You Love...
Lead Belly - “Irene”
On repeat.
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New York Magazine: Vines by the Rhyme →
willystaley:
I wrote a short Intelligencer piece for New York Magazine about how rappers have helped make moscato more popular than it might be otherwise, and how that’s interesting because it’s the first time rappers used their considerable influence on consumers to drive us towards a species instead of a product (maybe?).
This is entertaining! I am looking forward to the new single...
