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Goldman Sachs Board Meeting

The Quarter Bar Baffler

Quarter Bar & Cafe on 20th st and 5ave in Park Slope is a smallish bar with a row of shallow, perpendicular booths along its back wall. I’ve sat in those booths many times enjoying typical bar booth confabs. Since my friend began working as barback, however, I’ve spent more time at the bar.
David Moo, [...]

3-6-1 Double Play

This Father’s Day weekend was exciting for a baseball fan. Since I’m so full of player stats, injuries, and prospects (I have a problem, I know) I cannot recall quite how many games were decided in extra innings or by one run, but suffice to say when that I had to get myself out of [...]

Letters from Iran

original letter from Iranian med student here. Translation below:
Hello,
It’s painful to watch what’s happening.
I don’t want anything to do with what has been said this far, as I neither have the strength nor the resilience to face all these unfathomable events.
I only want to speak about what I have witnessed. I am a medical student. [...]

Where the Internet shines

Will Obama’s silence and the Internet’s furor be the right mix to push Iran in the right direction – that direction not confused with the West?

It’s not business it’s personal

Son of legendary James Caan (the guy that gets shot up at the tollbooth in Godfather Part I) and one of the stars of the Ocean’s 11 trilogy has a book of photographs out. Found this via NotCot.org, you should definitely check that site out. Way better than this one

The Man in White: David Byrne

I didn’t love David Byrne’s show at Prospect Park, part of the Celebrate Brooklyn festival, but I did really admire him for it – admire him more for it would be more accurate.
The set list was perfectly crafted, starting with a few songs from the new album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, easing into [...]

Phil Jackson celebrates NBA Finals victory in style

Grabbed the picture off Cigar Aficionado’s site. They have terribly written article about how Red Auerbach, legendary coach of the Celtics and arguably superior to Phil Jackson (but thats a another post), and Phil Jackson are both championship cigar aficionados.
Anyway, how about that hat. Only Phil gets to wear that hat. It’s not even on [...]

The world doesn’t need anymore poems

Humanity has been lost to capitalism, commercialism, politics, ethics, volunteerism, postmodernism, sports, textbooks, genetics, and robotic surgery. I was drinking with a friend of mine earlier tonight. A girl I still probably think I’d like to be with, but my own indecision and uncertainity prevents anything of the sort. She is bright and probably could [...]

Black Metal Album Covers

David Byrne posted black metal album covers that he thinks are interesting or whatever.

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