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Brooklyn Diners, Brokelyn-style
August 24, 2009 – 3:42 PM | 8 Comments

My piece for Brokelyn on top-five diner plates around the borough; great pix by their staff photog, too.   Stay tuned to Brooklyn Diners tonight for a review of the Emphasis in Bay Ridge.

It’s just a bill…
August 11, 2009 – 3:29 PM | 14 Comments

My piece for Monkey See on The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter, and the frustrations of being a currency nerd.   The short version: it’s a good book; I spend …

Getting Shirty: The TN Store
August 11, 2009 – 2:40 PM | 43 Comments
Getting Shirty: The TN Store

The Tomato Nation store is open at last!   Various types of tee and polo to choose from in the Tomato Nation flag design (art by Glark), plus baby outfits and “Better Red Than Dead” …

’80s Rewatch: You Make The Call
August 9, 2009 – 11:07 PM | 132 Comments
’80s Rewatch: You Make The Call

In the spirit of recent rewatches elsewhere around the interwebs — Wing’s 90210 coverage at Sling; Sepinwall’s of Band of Brothers, Sports Night, and others — I’ve decided to do my own.   The TN …

Support Local Biz: August 6, 2009
August 6, 2009 – 11:50 AM | 3 Comments
Support Local Biz: August 6, 2009

Reader Amalie is putting together a collection of plays and one-acts for performances affiliated with the Berkeley, CA Public Library — including a few of the Famous Ghost Monologues.   (Mary Charles McCormack, Mary Katherine …

“Yes, he says ‘moi‘”
August 1, 2009 – 8:20 PM | 17 Comments

Miss Alli addresses James Spader’s underthought character in Wall Street, and much much more.   It’s a great piece, and the various bigger-than-a-breadbox-sized objects she uses to describe Gekko’s cell phone crack me up, but …

Your Bill James quote du jour
July 30, 2009 – 10:15 AM | 2 Comments
Your Bill James quote <I>du jour</I>

From “Ellis, Richie and the Duke,” a comparison of various HoF and HoF-argued center fielders:
Ashburn had a good year with the bat, but he was playing for the Mets, and he couldn’t see the humor …

Silence Is The Enemy
June 1, 2009 – 9:07 AM | 4 Comments

Reader Scicurious asked me to pass word along of a blogosphere initiative to raise awareness of, and funds to fight, continuing sexual violence in Liberia.
To learn more and/or get involved via your own blog, visit …

Incomiiiiiing!
May 26, 2009 – 10:51 PM | 24 Comments

Welcome, new/temporary readers coming in from Kottke.org.   (And any other new readers, of course.)   Happy to have you, and hear your comments.   New readers and longtime companions, don’t forget to have a …

“Melo-prom-a”
May 14, 2009 – 3:49 PM | No Comment

My latest 90210 recap at SOAPnet:

Silver certainly won’t win again next year, since she uses the occasion to deliver a speech about how she’s had a hard year and she doesn’t know who she is …