Jody Rosen
@jodyrosen
Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY.
I'm also sad to see France go but Spain were magnificent. As for white supremacists, not sure they're on board with this Spanish side
Get this but fwiw "cover" is a recent development, historically; in earlier eras, songs often written gender-neutral & even when not, understood to be open to interpretation What is a cover? An homage to a sacrosanct original recording? Or a singer's attempt to inhabit a song, however they see fit?
Assuming that she has keyboard clicks & haptics toggled off in her iPhone settings, “Margaret Qualley quietly wipes traces of Jack Antonoff from social media” is an understatement. She did it silently
"Wonderwall" = dreck. Typifies Oasis' turgid sound & Britpop's dreary double nostalgia (for imperial grandeur & Beatles 60s) Fascinating tho how song works as WC anthem, adding 3rd nostalgia layer ("90s!") while literalizing gobbledygook lyric: "wonderwalls" of players & fans serenading each other
Greatest Belgian victory on U.S. soil since Simenon sold tens of millions of novels in English translation
What’s more this line of argument filtered across the Atlantic to literal Nazis, whose crackdown on “decadent” American music sought to suppress the influence of Jewish Tin Pan Alley & Black jazz. Quote below is from the German journal MELOS in 1930, three yrs before Hitler’s rise to Chancellorship
Still not over the fact that Tillman's free kick—which dipped nicely enough but was a slow, soft blooper that a high school keeper could have saved; Vasilj simply missed it—is being hailed far/wide as a worldie. Like what
Some of us had to Google Buc-ee's and it turns out it's part/parcel of the whole eating fast food in your car thing
Still thinking about this. Ball is lofted out of the back by Timber; Mazraoui rises for the header in the center circle, misses it, & is yards behind as Summerville races towards the box. Mazraoui's chase-down & clean tackle is otherworldly. Best play of the tournament!
If I'm reading these maps right, that patch of Dan Goldman purple in Red Hook represents votes cast by residents of the Red Hook Houses—just 64 votes total. 6,000 ppl live in the Red Hook Houses. It's BK's largest public housing project, 2nd largest in NYC. Candidates & canvassers have to do better!
Cf. this much later (1885 or 1887) work, La Seine et le pont du chemin de fer d'Argenteuil. Caillebotte in a classically Impressionist mode w/loose brushwork etc. Winking back, maybe, at the Pont de L'Europe paintings—those "X"-shaped trusses—& at his pal Monet who famously painted the same bridge?
Digging this curious (unfinished, possibly?) Caillebotte from 1872. New to me. Interesting to see GC playing around with railway bridges, thresholds, barriers, trains, tracks, a few years before his masterpieces Le Pont de l’Europe (1876) & Sur le Pont de l’Europe (1876-77)
Is it antisemitic when a Jew casts a primary vote for another Jew? If so I'm a RABID ANTISEMITE. Mazel tov, Brad Lander
Caught a glimpse of this barge from a Red Hook rooftop & snapped this (crappy) pic. Apparently moored in the channel, just off of Erie Basin. Anyone know what this boat is/what purpose it serves? Vertical thingamabobs on the deck look like power plant infrastructure? Also like fusilli pasta
No accident this is happening in Mamdani's NYC. Amazing to have a mayor who understands what makes the city great & is so imaginative in meeting its needs. Casts a harsh light on previous leaders. Those fuckers hate streets, spontaneity, joy. A Cipriani gala w/strict security—that's their New York
Also: the guerrilla watch party explosion is the greatest. Vernacular NYC street culture at its most idyllic. The city Bloomberg tried to kill