- Bookshelf Etiquette – Paper Cuts – Books – New York Times Blog
“Bookshelves are not for displaying books you’ve read. Rather, the books on your shelves are there to convey the type of person you would like to be.” –Ezra Klein (blog books home nyt )
- Selling Lauren Conrad – WSJ.com
She declined to move to an inside table. Instead, she looked left and right before taking quick bites of her egg whites. “No one eats pretty,” she said.. As she recorded which accessories the models would wear, she called out, “How do you spell ‘beret’?” (celebrity fashion media reality television wsj )
- The L Magazine: The Anxiety of the Middle Class New Yorker By Adam Bonislawski
intending to make great gobs of money on Wall Street is one thing. To come to New York intending to eke out a quiet existence in some more moderately remunerative field (say, journalism) is quite another. (class essay nyc realestate )
- The Urbane Tomboys | The New York Observer
“I know guys who love that, who love girls who are like one of the guys… I never was that into that, because I don?t think that the guys in general are that cool… I don’t really like myself, so for a girl to be like me just isn’t something I want (fashion hipsters nyc sex )
- http://landscape.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-delicious-is-changing-academic.html
As Hannah Arendt understood, the modern democratic state happened when people in public spaces began interacting, and thus began taking action together… Today, Del.icio.us does for the internet what open-air markets did for medieval society. (academic blog collaboration del.icio.us social web2.0 )
- In the Wake of a Crane Collapse, a Home Skewered by a Beam – New York Times
A bottle of Beaujolais was cut in half and splattered on the floor… “Two inches one way, it hits the gas stove. Two inches the other way, the boiler line… Either way, the building could have exploded. It’s almost as if the house fought back.” (article nyc nyt )
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