Here’s the plan for this year’s Whatsies — our way of looking back on the TGW’s 2007 daily doses. Anyone who reads this site (contributors, commenters, lurkers) is welcome to nominate a favorite post from 2007. All you have to do is invent an idiosyncratic category for your nominee and write a introduction of 30 [...]
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Thursday playlist: YouTube for 6th graders edition
Our guest curator, Molly, attends middle school in lower Manhattan. An expert in Web-surfing, she considers YouTube just one of the places to find cool things. The following is the product of two years’ worth of careful YouTube analysis. These are the links every person on the planet should know. 1. Muffins At first, you [...]
After a long hiatus: The return of the short reviews
Linda Thompson, Versatile Heart (Rounder, 2007) The death knell of the “album” is ringing out all over the land. With sales drastically plummeting, the long player (digital or analog) is going the way of the 78 rpm. Occasionally, though, a dying form will cough up a gem as it heads to extinction. Thompson’s first release [...]
Thursday open thread: Long Independence Day weekend edition
Pretend you don’t have to go to work today. Pretend you’re still celebrating with Trixie:
Thursday open thread: Actual open thread edition
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Looking for the afikomen: More short reviews
How is this blog different from all other blogs? We’ve got short reviews, no more than 100 words, no chametz. Apostle of Hustle, National Anthem of Nowhere Yet another band in the Broken Social Scene constellation, Apostle of Hustle is led by BSS guitarist Andrew Whiteman. For National Anthem of Nowhere, Whiteman has written a [...]
But not a single giant strawberry: More short reviews
One hundred words or fewer, words of one or two letters don’t count. This time with a strong West Coast flava, focused on local products: movies, TV, and kooky theology. Dexter (Showtime, avail. on demand) This fall, posters appeared on the subway advertising Dexter, “a man who takes life. Seriously.” Michael C. Hall plays the [...]
Year in review: The best of TGW 2006
With close to 300 posts to choose from, our readers and contributors have cast their votes. In some categories the winners were clear; in some, multiple-way ties were the order of the day, and we’ve no choice but to list more than three. If you’re new to The Great Whatsit, use the links below as a [...]
2006 Whatsies: The official ballot
Looking back on TGW’s first year of its reincarnation as a group blog, we’re excited to announce nomination categories for the first annual Whatsie Awards. Readers, contributors, lurkers, even occasional passers-by this week are politely requested to submit their favorites (limit two per category) to nominations@greatwhatsit.com by 8 pm Eastern time, Sunday, January 14. Just [...]
