Dispatches from super bowl park from my dad.
I’m having some mixed feelings about Facebook’s IPO, seeing as how I am one-hundred millionth of its market cap (technically).
What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
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Bhagavad Gita (via hiredgoons) “I am the maker of rules/Dealing with Fools/I can cheat you blind.” Alan Parsons Project |
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated).
This might be the best thing I’ve ever read.
Is yelling/getting yelled at about Lana Del Ray a rite of passage I’m missing?
All I want to do is fit in.
There is a Schick Quattro all hovering over the Awl.
I’ll be under my desk until that SPOOKY FLOATING WOMEN’S RAZOR AND THE HEART IT RODE IN ON have declared their friendly intentions.
my roundup this morning:
The New York Times takes a look at the man leading the newly configured Department of Financial Services and notes that he’s doing the work traditionally done by the state’s attorney general. The lede: “Benjamin M. Lawsky is not the attorney general of New York State. But one could be forgiven for being confused.”
The story casts the Department of Financial Services, created by Governor Andrew Cuomo last year, as an extension of Cuomo’s attorney general operation—where Lawsky served as one of his top deputies—and suggests the second floor might be encroaching on the territory of New York’s current attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.
The story described them as “two boxers feeling each other out in an opening round.”
Trying to imagine where Cuomo is in this boxing metaphor is not easy: in Lawsky’s corner, for sure, but wearing a coach’s whistle, or gloves?
Actually, having a pissing match over who can put more financial criminals on trial is not the worst thing for the general public.
Though Cuomo is somewhat of a power-mad twat, int he?
