Radical Work Links

I made this list last week while sharing my go-to websites while I'm at work. Figured I'd share 'em with you. Enjoy!

http://www.cnn.com/
This is a staple, I check it probably 100 times a day. Always excited to read "BREAKING NEWS."

http://www.nytimes.com/opinion/
I may not have time to read the entire NYT.com, but I always read the Op-Eds. It's essential to keeping up on things.

http://news.yahoo.com/i/964
Yahoo News "Most Popular." This site has pics and headlines no respectable news site would link, like DEAR MARGO and "Babies Know Happy Songs from Sad Songs."

http://www.puttingthingsinplainsite.blogspot.com/
This is a fun blog written by some guys I know. You know most of them too.

http://gawker.com/
This is my lunchtime reading now that I don't eat with work buddies. I always liked Gawker more than Russo anyway.

http://www.dealbreaker.com/
This is a Wall Street tabloid/blog, may not interest you, but can be funny like a story about the Lehman Brother's CEO hiring bodyguards so his former employees don't kill him.

http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/
3 Quarks Daily is a "sophisticated" blog introduced to me by Shahab, links stories about poetry, science, arts, philosophy, and politics. David Byrne and Richard Dawkins read it.

http://boingboing.net/
This is like a science/nerdy blog. I don't read it religiously, but it's interesting when work isn't.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nypdblotter/nypdblotter.htm
It's thrilling to read about people who get stabbed near your apartment.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
Written by the Freakonomics dudes, also can be boring

http://www.emilymagazine.com/
This is a personal blog written by Emily Gould (of former fame). Very introspective and diaryesque. Drama comes up time to time.

http://thesearemymemoirs.blogspot.com/
This is a personal blog written by Josh David Stein (of Gawker fame, now he writes for the Post). He's Emily's ex. However since he's been engaged he doesn't blog as much as he used to.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Liberal bullsh*t, but I still read it time to time.

http://lovefortheloveless.blogspot.com/
Probably one of the funniest blogs I've ever read. It's a friend of my roommate's who mostly blogs in code about her fat, Jewish sister. Good writer too.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/
This is a New York City Metro affairs blog, mostly dealing with local politics and whatnot


HONORABLE MENTIONS: New York Magazine website, Vanity Fair website, Slate website.

Babies Thrown Off Tower

Last night (and I don't know how I got into it, but I mentioned to some friends) "yeah, kinda like how some Indians throw babies off buildings and shit." Anyways. They tried to deny me.

"Impossible," they told me. They thought I was joking.

"Please don't doubt me," I said with confidence. "I'm sure the YouToob's got it." Less than a minute later we're watching this:



"Babies are dropped several stories for good health and good luck at a shrine in Solapur, in Maharastra, India. I wonder if it will catch on in America, mothers throwing there new born babies off the roof of the hospital for good luck and fortune?" - text from beside the YouToob video.

I was happy that I'd got the part about them being from India right. Think of the embarrassment if they had been Pakistani! Then to address the, "wonder if it will catch on in America" comment... Um, yeah right. Don't be silly.

When watching the video, first there's a feeling of shock and amazement. So bouncy! How could those babies keep from getting hurt? That building they're throwing them from appears to be quite tall. I've also always wanted to throw babies off towers, glad to see someone's actually doing it. Wait. MAYBE IT'S FAKE.

"Of course not," I bellowed back at the shanagan-sayers. I remember seeing it on TV. At least I think I did. Several moments of heated debate continue.

Later today I receive this email:

Subject: Baby Dropping Apology
According to CNN, Indian baby dropping is REAL:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/01/babies.tower/

There's just some things you never forget.

RADICAL LINKS
- Poor Bennifer got caught in Ali G's storm.
- God save the Queen! Got to give it Denny K., he's always willing to go "there."
- Someone else is peeing in the Bush.

Beyond the Horizon

Head's up! Everyone's favorite troubadour, Bobby "It Ain't Me, Babe" Dylan is coming to Brooklyn, NY (Prospect Park) on Tuesday, August 12th. I already have my ticket! Tickets officially go on sale 6/30 at noon; however, insider sources have discovered the Fan Club Internet PreSale password is: tilden

RADICAL LINKS

-here Neil Young is making an electric car, and it's only cost him $120,000 so far to make it. Given current gas prices, it should pay for itself in a matter of months.

-here Cigarettes cost more than ever in NYC. Thank goodness I gave that up!

-here Forty years ago today some crazy bitch shot Andy Warhol. The LATimes wants to make her a prophet, since men really are no longer necessary.

REAGAN DIARIES

"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his n'er-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida; the one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work."

From the REAGAN DIARIES------entry dated May 17, 1986.

Above the photo from the REAGAN DIARIES is a quote that Reagan wrote about George 'W' in his diaries, recently edited by author Doug Brinkley and published by Harper Collins.


"Bush Confesses to Waterboarding. Call D.C. Cops!"

"Politicians tend to talk very, very big about supporting our men and women in uniform."

“If You Aren’t Outraged, You’re Not Paying Attention”

UPDATE: Seems like the above Reagan Diaries entry was never written by THE Ronald Reagan. I was a bit skeptical (consider the source) of the authenticity. Thank you for pointing that out.

Homeowners Need To Sleep

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"We really can't have a divided convention."

"We even said maybe it's aliens..." Thanks, Tom.

"Worthless piece of paper"

Subway graffiti will find a way.

I made another Muxtape. I put Jimi between two chicks. heh-heh.