2008
Aug
Names on the Land
Aug 7th
You're standing on my foot
Aug 6th
Watch
Aug 5th
Jul
Fuck you, clown!
Jul 24th
Clearly tumblr has failed to engage my interest… .
Jul 20th
The BOTTOM of the HARBOR
Jul 2nd
Jun
Farewell Navigator
Jun 18th
An item about Poets House and some famous...
Jun 11th
May
I Write a Gossip Item!
May 29th
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May 12th
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May 7th
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Martha Wainwright sings Leonard Cohen’s stupendously beautiful song “The Traitor,”...
May 5th
From the BBC online: a watermelon vendor in Allahabad,...
May 1st
Apr
I review a perfect book!
Apr 25th
Blow Her Away With This!
Apr 19th
“Do you have one that’s not so risqué?”
Apr 10th
Schwartzberg Blogs Again!
Apr 10th
I Write About Pigs' Feet
Apr 8th
Tales of Rabbi Shmelke of Gowanus
When Rabbi Shmelke was a little boy, a local peasant gave him a toy soldier that he became very...
Apr 6th
MLK, Jr.'s 1967 Speech on Vietnam
Apr 4th
Listen
“Let Me Die in my Footsteps,” sung by Happy Traum, from the Broadside Box Set. Sound...
Apr 4th
Watch
Apr 3rd
This week's Observer haiku
DELICATE HAIKU DO NOT THRIVE UNDER DEADLINE: NO HAIKU THIS WEEK
Apr 2nd
Buñuelos in the Observer
Apr 2nd
SWINE!
Apr 1st
Mar
Schwartzberg Blogs!
Mar 28th
Book Review!
Mar 28th
Recorded in Smoke
Mar 28th
From "The Post-Office Girl" by Stefan...
The stranger angrily ground out his cigarette in the ashtray. His face had suddenly darkened....
Mar 27th
Limerick!
“An oculist named Henry Chisolm Used often to polish his prism—” (The balance is left...
Mar 27th
Stefan Zweig (r.). Click through the picture for a link to...
Mar 26th
Click the photo to read about Linotype!
Mar 26th
This is from garfieldminusgarfield, one of the great works...
Mar 26th
Limerick!
A lecherous fellow named Powth used to drink from his sommelier’s mouth. The sommelier’s...
Mar 26th
Photos Never Lie
Mar 25th
Limerick!
A lucky young man of Bombay found a girl who would come but not stay. He’d fuck, fuck, and...
Mar 25th
“But when you get blue
and you’ve lost all your...”
— Tom Waits, “Lucky...
— Tom Waits, “Lucky...
Mar 25th
Limerick!
A fisherman born in Gstaad used to catch quite a lot with his rod: A westerly breeze, a social...
Mar 24th
The Ballad of Alex Matthews & Lily Daw
Mar 24th
"God Loves My Country"
Mar 23rd
The man who discriminates fails to...
Mar 21st
Presence du Futur
Mar 19th
Watch
He sure does!
Mar 18th
Watch
In Ireland this year, St. Patrick’s Day was moved back two days lest it conflict with Holy...
Mar 18th
“Neither from itself nor from another,
Nor from both,
Nor...”
— Nagarjuna
— Nagarjuna
Mar 18th
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Mar 17th
Book Review
Mar 15th
“In Lu there was a man named Shu-shan No-Toes who had had his...”
— Chuang-tzu
— Chuang-tzu
Mar 14th
Tales of Rabbi Shmelke of Gowanus
The fame of Rabbi Shmelke’s generosity to travelers was so great that the Prophet Elijah once...
Mar 13th
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This is me falling down in 1994.
Mar 12th
Tales of Rabbi Shmelke of Gowanus
It is told that Rabbi Shmelke’s vision of the upper realms was so great, that there was no vice...
Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
This morning's question:
What was the woman in a burqa on the R train this morning listening to on her iPod? My guess is Mary...
Mar 11th
New Prohibition
Please be advised: you may never use the expression “children of all ages” if you mean...
Mar 10th
Balthrop, Alabama, is a highly musical town!
Mar 10th
Manuel with a Jetpack
Mar 10th