Penn Station is clogged with all the drunken, surly Santas and sloppy, slutty elves that NJT and LIRR can carry. They turned it into a bar.
Penn Station is clogged with all the drunken, surly Santas and sloppy, slutty elves that NJT and LIRR can carry. They turned it into a bar.
If it promises to find you, wherever you’re sleeping, and slit your throat, you can count on it. It will drink your milkshake. It is, in short, the greatest cinematic mustache of all time.
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Milkshake skull-drudgery: a category of moral failure the Naturalists never predicted.
There Will Be Beard: The Daniel Day-Lewis Facial Hair Correlation | Slideshows
Vermont rebuilt all the roads ruined by Irene in slightly more time than CL&P needed to restore power to CT. Almost. http://t.co/RHUC9y99
While many Americans have come to wonder whether the nation has lost the ability to fix its ailing infrastructure or do big things, “they haven’t been to Vermont.
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Vermont Rebounding From Hurricane Irene - NYTimes.com
In an age when even the smallest road-building project is inevitably managed like an iceberg, Vermont’s rebuilding efforts are showing a new way forward.
Starting off on the right foot to make great public spaces: Alex Garvin’s tour of mid-town Manhattan. http://t.co/Ukdthh8L
Starting off on the right foot to make great public spaces: Alex Garvin’s tour of mid-town Manhattan. Taking his class was one of the more painful parts of grad school—it was difficult to step out of studio where you get to make designs instead of define them, but the more distance I get from those afternoons in Hastings Hall and today, the more appreciation I have for what Garvin is trying to get everyone, not just architects, to understand about the public realm.
Treasuring Urban Oases: Alexander Garvin Looks at Public Spaces in New York
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(Source: The New York Times)
A concise explanation of the entwined problems of the Eurozone told through a careful selection of graphs:
The European Debt Crisis in Eight Graphs
I should probably read Ezra Klein’s blog more regularly, but I don’t find myself at the WaPo very often.
Beautiful afternoon for a walk on Bloomingdale (the place, not the store). Just picked up a bottle of Zacapa at Martin Bros. Thirsty?
Totally out of focus for the week—too bad I have bonus rounds both Saturday and Sunday.
