January 2012
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December 2011
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Recipe: Mother's Ruin Punch
For your holiday festivity needs.
Mother’s Ruin Punch 1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup chilled club soda
1 1/2 cups gin
1 1/2 cups fresh grapefruit juice, plus 3 thinly sliced grapefruit wheels, for garnish
3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
3/4 cup sweet vermouth (Blanco)
2 1/4 cups chilled Champagne or sparkling wine
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Hannah Gersen: Review: The Art of Fielding →
hannahgersen:
Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding would make the perfect graduation present. That’s not to imply that one will necessarily outgrow this novel, only that it is preoccupied with the sort of questions most of us first grapple with in early adulthood. What are my ambitions? Who are my friends?…
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Favorite Movies of 2011 (so far...)
My #1 favorite movie so far is Drive.
Other favorites so far are (in no particular order):
Young Adult
Shame
Midnight in Paris
Cedar Rapids
Moneyball
Bill Cunningham New York
The Artist
Take Shelter
Other good movies I liked, and would recommend, but wouldn’t call my “favorites”:
Melancholia
Source Code
Bridesmades
Super 8
Tree of Life
Contagion
The Trip
Movies...
Hannah Gersen: Review: Then Again →
hannahgersen:
(Photo by Annie Leibovitz)
In 1977, Dorothy Hall went to a screening to watch her daughter, Diane Keaton, star in a new Woody Allen film, Annie Hall. She wrote about the experience in her journal:
I only saw Diane, her mannerisms, expressions, dress, hair, etc, the total her. The story…
November 2011
8 posts
Hannah Gersen: Review: The Ecstasy of Influence →
hannahgersen:
For The New York Observer:
If Jonathan Lethem had gotten his way, his new book, The Ecstasy of Influence (Doubleday, 464 pages, $27.95), would be subtitled “Advertisements for Norman Mailer.” Both titles are borrowed from other writers: The Ecstasy of Influence is a play on literary…
October 2011
8 posts
MahiFX →
awesome. could just as easily be a promotion site for the Occupy Wall St movement.
mfdaniels:
Man oh man. SICK visualization for a foreign exchange brokerage.
Filed under: companies that understand the Internet for marketing.
Google: Not Doomed « Traffick: The Business of... →
mfdaniels:
That’s fair enough. But Facebook is a pretty specific enemy. And the problem comes when you assume that Facebook is doing so very well and that Google is doomed because Google doesn’t “get” what “Facebook gets” about a “social platform”.
And then Google’s Q3 results came out.
Without a dime of revenue from Google+, or a dime of revenue from the huge spike in advertiser-to-audience...
“The way to be interesting is to be interested. You’ve got to find what’s...”
– how to be interesting | russelldavies.typepad.com | Readability
“When software — or idea-ware for that matter — fails to be...”
– Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant I was at Amazon for about…
“Regis McKenna, a longtime Silicon Valley marketing executive to whom Mr. Jobs...”
– Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies at 56 | www.nytimes.com | Readability
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September 2011
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August 2011
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Watchhannahgersen:
This month marks my tenth year in New York City. To celebrate this milestone, I decided to make a little book called “Theories of New York”. It’s sixteen pages long, and each page has some insight or observation about NYC that has helped me, over the years, to get a handle on this city. Some of these “theories” are exaggerated, some are jokes, and some are rants. Some I came across...
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“1. No Church in the Wild (ft. Frank Ocean) - Thought the beat was kinda average...”
– BIG GHOST CHRONICLES: Ayo this P-Tone’s review for Watch The Throne namsayin…
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July 2011
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June 2011
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