1) Spindle had a great week last week with a strong February update that generated our highest single-day traffic spike yet, and the announcement of our first contest, “Play Ball” – which offers a $50 honorarium for the best baseball / stickball / cricket-related poetry, fiction and non-fiction from a New York City perspective — has been [...]
On Saturday, we signed Isaac up for another season of Little League baseball and I agreed to coach again. Last year it was non-competitive Tee Ball and it turned out to be a lot of fun, but this year we’ll be moving up to the Bantam level which is where things officially get competitive. Talking with the [...]
Random thoughts on tonight’s Republican Debate (live-blogging):
The format of the debate, with Brian Williams and Tim Russert asking specific questions with little follow-up or interaction from the other candidates makes things a little stilted. [ETA: This got better as the night wore on.] I was surprised and glad to see Ron Paul on the stage [...]
I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
–Hunter S. Thompson
People
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Oscar Bermeo
Bloomfieldguy
Tony Brown
Staceyann Chin
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Peter Dressel
Daphne Gottlieb
Charlie Huston
Bassey Ikpi
Mara Jebsen
Adam Karas
Brian A. Klems
Latino Pundit
Kevin MacDonald
Taylor Mali
Barack Obama
Alix Olson
Erech Overaker
Peter of the Earth
Matt Ruff
Maria Schneider
Matthew Charles Siegel
Ben Smith
Andrew Sullivan
F. Omar Telan
Rich Villar
Phil West
Places
Bar 13
Botanica
Bowery Poetry Club
Bronx Academy of [...]
{meme in which one takes the first line of the first post from each month and looks at it as a summary of the year. and is a little stunned at the results. NOTE: [My Vox] blog didn’t start until March so the first two months are from Comic Book Commentary.}
January: In the most glaring sign yet [...]
