January 2012
The Name '3 Musketeers' Used to Make Sense
mentalflossr:
These are our two favorite pieces of trivia:
1. John Tyler’s grandsons are still alive.
2. The 3 Musketeers originally included three smaller bars: one vanilla, one chocolate and one strawberry. When the ingredients became too costly during World War II, the 3 Musketeers became a single chocolate bar.
Now that the whole world knows about the first, it’s time to work on spreading...
The 20 Worst Songs Of The '90s →
imremembering:
Source: Buzzfeed
Agree/disagree? Any additions?
Tyler Coates: Jesse's Clause →
tylercoates:
You are likely to run into a celebrity if you live in New York. They’re just like us, after all — they like to drink at bars, they pick up their prescriptions at Duane Reade, and sometimes they ride the subway because we all actually have inflated ideas of how people spend the disposable income we…
December 2011
Home Is Where the Dog Is: 2:15p On the road...or a... →
adamgoldbergasunwittingkerouac:
Specifically one in front of Time Warner in Brookkyn where we are dropping off the cable box. Much like Hopper’s character in Easy Rider. After a one hour standoff with movers who want to charge us three times the quote. A torrent of rage is is unbridled from me, pent up after yesterday’s debacle…
THE KENTUCKY DERBY IS DECADENT AND DEPRAVED by... →
criminalwisdom:
I shook my head and said nothing; just stared at him for a moment, trying to look grim. “There’s going to be trouble,” I said. “My assignment is to take pictures of the riot.”
“What riot?”
I hesitated, twirling the ice in my drink. “At the track. On Derby Day. The Black Panthers.” I stared at him again. “Don’t you read the newspapers?”
The grin on his face had collapsed....
