Re #NMAfail, this is the magazine business. No one ever finishes anything a month before deadline.
David Foster Wallace's "'The Pale King' is ... as much an absence as a presence, as much dark matter as solid mass." http://goo.gl/jFUkD
@metametasans ha! Yes, I did, eventually. Full power now.
@lisanjutras Oh, and Girls' "Lust for Life." More last-summery, but: http://youtu.be/SuoTjYYqe4c
@lisanjutras Every spring I seem to find myself listening to The Impossible Shapes' "Florida Silver Springs": http://youtu.be/jrkKgotgG7c
No, I don't think I'll be answering this call: twitpic.com/4g51ps
@theophani Congratulations on ditching the boss! Free at last.
@lisanjutras True! Silver lining!
The body-image politics of Toronto's apparent collective "EEEWW" at the Rob Ford cover makes me sad.
@WaxEBuildup @ivortossell I find your thresholds for fun distressingly low.
Physically capable people with both hands free who push wheelchair automatic door-opening buttons: WHY
@nonstopnicktv http://goo.gl/7fwYg
@kimpittaway Everyone should start every day with a tweet like that :)
That's from: http://goo.gl/6Kqyv Now *that's* how you do metaphor, folks. But seriously: screw the past.
"Like a shark [modernity] needs to move... It's the enemy of tradition, which is best preserved in the aspic of poverty and orthodoxy."
@kimpittaway Aw shucks. (I have no idea to what you're referring, but I'll take my compliments where I can get 'em!)
@kimpittaway Anything important is in Gmail, Google Docs and Dropbox. No backups needed.
@jkdegen In TO: Nicholas Hoare. Elsewhere: The Bookshelf in Guelph.
@balkissoon @lisanjutras 401 Richmond tenants get a discount! I buy all my stationery there.
@balkissoon I think I've seen Whitelines at @swipebooks. Maybe check if they have in stock.
@HeatherLeson Back atcha! Also: thanks for the drink. Collect on it next time you see me. #treason
Indoor tree with people listening to @mikeminer at #hhto @ Radiolaria http://instagr.am/p/CqG25/
@chantalbraganza @briandstdenis I am 100% in favour of product placement. Way less jarring to narrative than fakey "COLA" props.
@pomeranian99 Age 12, I wrote a letter to myself to open on my 25th birthday. Hung onto it for years—then lost it with about a year to go.
@sarahbarmak @ivortossell I noticed the Palestine thing too. But it's the "nations" of the world. So. Quebec? Basques? Cherokee?
@ivortossell .xxx: The Toronto Island of the Internet.
@sarahbarmak @NPsteve @emmamwoolley @lisanjutras That shirt has nothing to do with the serial comma! I agree the Serial Ampersand = madness.
@emmamwoolley Team Serial Comma!
@nickhunebrown I hate it when my barber asks me for input. *He's* the professional! Last time I just said "same thing, but less of it."
Too much news.
@sarahbarmak The most damaging discrimination, after all, is the kind dressed in meritocratic drag.
@sarahbarmak Is it possible you've suffered gender-based discrimination on the job without knowing it? Silent, insidious discrimination?
Facebook page > click: "Hide Post" > "Post has been marked as spam." What?Arg. Say what your effing buttons do, Facebook.
@briandstdenis It's true! Terrifying.
Actual humans backsliding horribly into the uncanny valley: http://goo.gl/Mm94f (via @nicomuhly)
m.guardian.co.uk http://j.mp/fq4VeA (via Instapaper)
Galliano outburst no surprise to Jewish Marais residents: "We hear what Galliano said, or versions of it, every day." j.mp/iclrIO
@emmamwoolley Make with the Xanderage! Damn the torpedoes.
@griffithgreene @ivortossell Awesome.
@boyreporter @maisonneuvemag Good idea anyway. Next time!
Yes. New Björk...album, sorta...this summer, comprising "music, live performance, installation, the internet, and apps." http://goo.gl/DP5fe
@timothycomeau Ha. Love this: "“This is so close to a Ryan Trecartin video.”
@briandstdenis @lisanjutras Yeah, given how dire most YT comment is, these are gold.
@shawnmicallef Challenge: accepted! Loser is exiled to Brantford.
@lisanjutras @shawnmicallef EG: "My best friend died in my arms from a car crash back in 71. This song was playing on the stereo"
@lisanjutras @shawnmicallef Recommend a) the Dylan cover (http://youtu.be/9FISHEO3gsM) b) the improbably funny YouTube comments thereon.
@alexbozikovic Well, as long as we're setting the bar so high :) IMO, the spectacular-5-storey-lantern:evil-darkened-cube ratio skews wrong.
@alexbozikovic Please do! Steal freely. I walk by the Four Seasons every day and it's a notable dead zone.
@ivortossell And separating Dundas and TLS = shenanigans. They are contiguous and intertwined. And the public throngs to both.
@ivortossell No, the opera house itself. One bland side and three hostile ones. Richmond's Heart of Darkness. I understand $ trouble, but.
@timfalconer Sure, I suppose it's possible to like both. (I mean, *I* don't, but I accept the possibility.)
@ivortossell @shawnmicallef @timfalconer Four Seasons = austere wasteland. YD Square = crowds of people. I'll take the latter any day.
When transcendent existential enlightenment comes, I strongly suspect it will not arrive in the form of an email press release.
Stupid press release subject line of the day: "Research scientist explains what it means to be human."
@shawnmicallef @ivortossell I'd second the machines for living part, but please, all credit to Le Corbusier. Slurry tubes for all.
@theophani http://goo.gl/cpXVQ
@theophani Flavourless gum is a thing?
@boyreporter I knew I was forgetting a big one. Of course, TorStar seems more the natural buyer.
(If the deal was favourable, that is. Dunno. Yet.)
I am imagining the Torontoist-St. Joe's roll-up makes BlogTO investors itchy for an exit too. Transcon? Rogers?
Billie Holiday carried "Strange Fruit" the rest of her life "like an unexploded bomb": j.mp/hXZkWr
How time flies: http://howlonghasrobfordbeenmayor.com/
... b) journalistic spinelessness, backpeddling and scraping after *accurately characterizing the politics* of fringe tea-partiers. Yikes.
A multifaceted crisis for NPR: a) getting caught sucking up to a fake NGO that wants to influence coverage with $5 million...
NPR CEO is resigning because a *subordinate* is caught on tape saying the GOP is islamophobic. Which is, um, accurate. http://goo.gl/NjK8I
@emmamwoolley @scottdagostino Indeed. Whole thing stinks. Passive-agressive crypto-tweets are poor form.
(correction, only @UnionSt gone, not @dreahouston. Apologies)
...Tweet-heckling Xtra for info is fruitless. Employers never divulge reasons for termination. For good reasons.
I think Xtra's made a bad call firing @UnionSt and @dreahouston. And I'll admit being curious about the reasons. But:
Was just thinking MoJo's been doing great stuff lately. MT @NiemanLab: @MotherJones web traffic up 400%+ http://nie.mn/e7szwv
@racialicious Anyone watching Southland? Would be interested in R's take. Seems weird mix: substantial POC leads, but mad stereotyping too.
@annabelluz Dunno if its what "we" are calling it, but that's what it looked like to me...
@briandstdenis Rcent Toronto Life reboot takes similar cues. Less recently: new Chatelaine Logo. Maclean's resurrected 60s logo few yrs ago.
@briandstdenis BusinessWeek's redesign (which is impeccable, IMO) is very "now" but def. 60s-inflected. See spreads: http://goo.gl/mnJb7
@briandstdenis Sure, I like. It's a classic look for a reason. As with all these trends, there will be weak and strong implementations.
The 60s throwback-look trend continues with the NYTmag redesign, out this weekend: http://goo.gl/aSvBw
.@xintra re-storms @salon with essay on toxic celebrity, featuring Messrs. Sheen, Galliano, Rove, Ghaddafi: http://goo.gl/35aeW
@phillipadsmith Yeah, it seems weird that there wouldn't be alternatives, given that the two major players are Demand Media and Rogers.
Hey internet, is anyone working on open-source live-blogging software? à la Scribble/CoveritLive? (cc @phillipadsmith?) Google = nada.
Sun News logo (http://goo.gl/5AtOI) & Staples' Easy™ button ( http://goo.gl/m64Mn)
Just testing the default Wordpress install on Amazon CloudFormation. Works like a charm, 100% usage-based. Nifty.
@serial_consign Nice. I like the Cambodia location, too.
Naturally, there's a fake band name Twitter bot. ([at-symbol]potentialband)
@jordanclaire Both, of course. (As a middle-initial user, I should have grasped the significance of the J. Apologies to all parties.)
@serial_consign Allow me to suggest "Greg Smith and the Misanthropic Ectomorphs" for the fake band name files.
@navalang Yeah, like, what sociotechnological paradigms did *you* upend in the last year?
@navalang @briandstdenis Also born on this day: Steve Jobs. (oh, and happy birthday, Nav)
@xoxSNP @MissStaceyMay Re Franzen, reminds me of this DFW invu clip about "novel = phallus" (he hedges, though): goo.gl/14gfQ
@mcpalassio @ivortossell These wedding-attendance preparation disaster-tweets are making my day, if that makes you feel any better.
@briandstdenis iTunes. Like every four days, the updates. 10.5.4.3.56!
...I mean, renting out the ballroom at the Howard Johnson's for seven years would run about that much.
$42 million to house a temporary parliament for seven years seems...cheap, actually.
@VidyaKauri Smaller space, actually. (Hence the great file purge)
@VidyaKauri Same buildling! But different floor. But every move means plenty of paper to recycle.
Found: "Flippin' Harris", an anti "Common Sense Revolution" flipbook: http://twitpic.com/416jr4
@meganmcchesney @briandstdenis Need a hashtag. I'm thinking #purgethis
(Fair warning, these file-purge tweets could run for the next week as we prep office move... Sorry.)
Yet more file-purge fun: three print copies of short-lived Dose Magazine: http://twitpic.com/4167q4
More @thismagazine file-purge lulz: 1996 @pomeranian99 press release [PDF]: http://goo.gl/PPYlX (cc @natmagawards, @joyce_byrne)
Also: Jan. 1998 concert announcement—one Werner Frey would perform entire "Phantom" score on solo zither: http://twitpic.com/40v8kw