If you’d asked me yesterday, I would have sworn up and down that I got into Amon Tobin way back in high school, on the strength of his album Supermodified. I just noticed that Supermodified was released in 2000, when I was already a couple years in at NYU. Go figure. Now I’m trying to […]

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This post at Unclutterer rings true: Often imposing certain kinds of limits on yourself as a writer—practical, technological limitations on the act of writing, rather than stylistic or substantive limits on content, though there’s something to be said for that as well—can be enormously helpful. The post highlights a handy looking writing tool whose primary […]

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Bemused thanks to the reader who mailed me a “Cosmos” sticker featuring the logo of the defunct New York soccer team. As chance would have it, I used to go watch the Cosmos play with my father as a very young child, so it’s apt in both the literal and the ironic/political sense. It has […]

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I’ve just learned Tim Blair has cancer. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, from “Echoes of the Jazz Age”: Now once more the belt is tight and we summon the proper expression of horror as we look back at our wasted youth. Sometimes, though, there is a ghostly rumble among the drums, an asthmatic whisper in the trombones that swings me back into the early […]

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The more astute among you may have noticed something subtly different about the blog this past week—viz, no posts. I’ve been off camping, and without the sporadic Internet access I had imagined I’d find time to trek into town for most days. But I’m back, and your regularly scheduled posting should resume momentarily.

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My blogging is already unpredictable enough that I seldom feel the need to post one of those “blogging may be light” warnings when I’m on vacation. But since I’m down at the Outer Banks with a posse of bloggers, it may actually get heavier: We seem to have set aside a dedicated hour-of-blogging each morning […]

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Matt Yglesias announces his move to The Atlantic—congrats Ygz! Update:: Hah! Via Kriston:

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Just in case you need to find the feared and respected blogger clique next time you’re in prison, memorize this helpful hand-signal. Thanks Kriston!

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So I assume this is self-evident to anyone who routinely avails themeselves of the Internets, which is, by definition, pretty much everyone reading this, but: One of the reasons the Net is so lethal to productivity seems to be the way it facilitates modular procrastination. That is, it used to be that if you were […]

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