Thursday Favorites is a group-written list—like a mix tape of things where everyone adds an entry. Okay, I’ll start. When you’re sitting on the patio pretending you don’t have to work the next day and the night is warm and long and your music is loud and the junebugs are buzzin’ and your [...]
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Biscuits
- “Please, Dave!”: Via Feministing, a vintage print ad letting you know what will happen to your marriage if you don’t take care of yourself down there. [LP | 4 ]
- Godfree’s hometown finally gets the credit it deserves: As just reported on KPCC, my hometown, Nutley, NJ, is credited as the birthplace of Valium.
Coincidence that America’s consummate homemaker, Martha Stewart, is also from Nutley?
[Scotty | 2 ] - Lunchtime edibles: A great article on saffron from 3QD; what is apparently Ben Wolfson’s favorite cooking blog. [Dave | # ]
- Amazon Women on the Moon: For your perusal, a multitude of B-movie title screenshots. Mostly because I wanted to make a biscuit. (via BoingBoing) [LP | 6 ]
- One state and the end of Zionism: Daniel Gavron’s idea, discussed at the end of this AmLeft post on the current massacre, has had me thinking all day. [Dave | 2 ]
- All dressed up: Okay, I can’t wait anymore — here’s the new site design burning a hole in my server. Sorry, Marleyfan, for taking away your favorite logo. [Dave | 19 ]
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- 3 Quarks Daily
- A History of New York
- Blognut
- Brooke Maury
- Brooklyn Skeptic
- I Wish God Were Alive to See This
- Is There No Sin in It?
- Lula Louise
- Margo, darling
- No Caption Needed
- Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
- Overheard in New York
- Regret the Error
- Robert’s Musings
- Speak, Peppery
- Steamboats Are Ruining Everything
- Strange Maps
- The Comics Curmudgeon
- The Edge of the American West
- The Girl Who Ate Everything
- The Weblog
- Unfogged
- What I Made for Dinner
- writermama
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- 1943 Guide to Hiring Women
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- The most important thing
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- ...but now I see
- The good fight
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- My own private ski school
- On nature, nests and Bryan's Brussels sprouts
- Thursday playlist: 29 was fine, I guess
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- Refusing collusion
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- Toughskins
- Murder, mayhem and music: part two
- Thursday playlist: murder, mayhem and very bad decisions
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- Thursday Playlist: The Breaks (Through, Down, Up, Out)
- With love on this special occasion
- The white hats, part II
- Just another manic Monday
- Dear Pandy: She never listens, what should I do?
- The great prostitution debate
- Fucked up... but in a good way?
- How to have heart surgery
- The magic of this broken world, part II
- Out of order
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- The white hats, part I
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- Idle thoughts on a working life
- Disarmingly decorative
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- Just the facts, ma'am
- The Welcome Home Band
- Stumbling into someone else's karaoke bar
- Stella and the sea creatures
- Thursday playlist: Country time, mostly
- I am breaking this one
- In a world where bits of information travel freely over vast networks of tubes...
- Gone bananas
- A valentine to my editor across the pond
- Thursday playlist: Songs we played most
- Overheard in LA
- Lost in Lost
- Consumed with love
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- Thursday open thread: Oscar edition
- High School Musical, Part XX
- The bottom line for everyone
- The few, the proud, the suicidal
- Defending Rudolph
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- The Ladies' Home Journal Predicts
- eDating adVentures
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- Stigmatic twins
- Firsts
- Her best client
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- A glutton on either coast
- Four legs good, two legs glad
- Year in review: The 2007 Whatsie awards
- Objectification of desire: part two
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- Straddling offense
- If your conscience is bothering you...
- BW's top 15 albums of 2007
- "Why We Write" #18: Wendy West
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- Twelve days of silent meditation
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- ... unless by "radical" you mean "really awesome."
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- The Apple of My Eye
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- Thursday playlist: I am still walking the line
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- Paul Franzoso, veteran
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- One day of junior high school in the mid-80s in Redmond, Washington
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- Falling for fall
- Ode to America's Pastime
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- Do you know what it means...
- After a long hiatus: The return of the short reviews
- Guns, germs, steel...and Oprah
- My friend the Satanvertible
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- Thursday open thread: Out now edition
- What I did on my summer vacation
- Dry
- I am, as it turns out, quite clean.
- Kanye, my brother?
- Gardening in the desert, late-summer 2007 edition
- Over the counter culture
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- Objectification of desire: part one
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- For you, twenty years later
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- And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow
- Adios to ghosts
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- Thursday playlist: Eyes open, eyes shut
- Hungary
- The problem with doctors
- Ten things to remember when chasing down a burglar
- SPAM key circa 1971
- Thursday playlist: 62 seconds
- When colonies collapse
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- Lone tree
- Ten ironies and truisms of the ER
- Who got served? Four soldiers’ stories
- Summer Sunday at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia Rivers
- Stella on a rainy island
- Thursday playlist: Getting it going edition
- The shirt of Nessus
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- Sex talk
- Berkshire weekend top 5
- WARNING! HARRY POTTER SPOILERS AHEAD
- Rome, part 2: La bella figura
- Would you rather ...
- A couple of things I did last week
- Hogwarts Square diary entry (no spoilers!)
- I was a teenage grown-up
- Rome, part 1: Voi siete qui
- A fear of ink
- Wired
- In memoriam: Captain Donald Taube (1942-2007)
- State of the United Kingdom
- Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, local politics and hope
- A special gift
- Hot air problem
- On aging
- Luck be a lady tomorrow
- Thursday open thread: Long Independence Day weekend edition
- I celebrate and sing America
- 96° of separation
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- Dear diary
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- Envisioning real dystopias
- Montreal honeymoon trail
- Population 79
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- South Philly through your arteries
- Space from above
- Morbid Monday
- English teeth
- My last patient
- Talk yurty to me
- Against certainty
- Monday open thread
- Missing the prom
- On seizing the Thursday
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- On not seizing the day
- The script, part 2
- Bang a gong
- Curiouser and curiouser
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- What can we do?
- Human nature
- The script, part 1
- Happy Memorial Day...
- The "communists" at my college were hypocrites, or, How sometimes a cigarette tastes oh-so-good
- Thursday open thread: Construction of masculinity edition
- When keeping it real goes wrong
- Four concerts, four nights
- Stella on the island
- I have measured out my life with Dodger Dogs
- What the future looks like
- This gun's for hire
- Left turn at the crossroad
- Three patients, four families
- Vignettes of discomfort
- A necessary end
- Do it clean
- Hubble bubble
- Come, come ye unbelievers
- Bad job
- Help wanted: Patsy
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- The Great Whatsit
- Day at the museum
- Thursday open thread: Actual open thread edition
- No pressure
- Check up
- Accidents
- The terrible truth about marijuana
- Thursday open thread: But when the man dances...
- Duuum-bah-duh-dum ...... daaah!
- A small thought in connection with televised tragedy
- "Muah!"
- I checked yes
- Driving with the enemy
- The War on Easter
- A few thoughts on Sol LeWitt
- Downtown scenes
- And lashings of ginger beer
- Thursday open thread
- Candy-colored clown
- Looking for the afikomen: More short reviews
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(20)
- Sumi masen
- No end to the things made out of human talk
- Jean Baudrillard: He's "real" dead
- Listening to Bach on the subway
- Live music roundup
- Tales from the office
- Be all you can be: South by Southwest
- Respecting believers
- Know your Idols
- Voices in the casserole
- More ludicrous than thou
- Objets mystérieux
- A fugitive piece on reading and writing, Part II
- A fugitive piece on reading and writing, Part I
- And the Oscar goes to...
- On intubation
- Little ditty
- Drive-bys
- Chairs, coffee and a trip to the city
- Game, set, match
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(20)
- Older: a confession
- Oscars, the Grouch
- Our deli best
- Sweet peas
- Tales from the office
- End comment
- Socrates, yo
- Primetime Britney
- Physics is phun
- 36 hours: Distraction, New York
- Uncle Scotty's stages of love
- Notes toward prolegomena to any future consideration of Mitt Romney's Mormonism
- Schvitz
- Team America
- On falling snow
- Identity in a state of conflict
- Frogs and mice making nice
- Future perfect
- Discovering Callas
- Let's not don't fear the reaper
- ►January
(17)
- Town crier
- Boring things
- Collective joy: Record Club hits 100
- American dream, part two
- Dispatch from Sundance (2007)
- Cold snap
- Quest for fire
- She bought the furniture at Sears
- But not a single giant strawberry: More short reviews
- Sr.'s movie club
- American dream
- Now I'm a seasick sailor
- Sounds: BW's top 13 of 2006
- And on the first day ...
- Ode to Joy
- The resolution post
- Rising up through the talons of the tiger
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- Stella's treasure chest
- Tales from the office
- A Redneck Riviera Xmas
- Hermie on holiday
- Best Music Videos of 2006
- My girlfriend is Vietnamese
- Tuesday disappointment: Failed arts and crafts
- Bike service
- My friend the spy, Part V
- TGW family reunion
- Post haste
- The Great Whatsit Holiday Special
- Another break in the schedule: More short reviews
- I want an atheist for Christmas
- Who will buy this wonderful feeling
- Tales from the office
- Slapshot
- A discrete search for the bourgeoisie
- There's a light in the wings, hits the system of strings
- Take a letter, Miss Jones
- ►November
(21)
- Yeah I got busted
- Girls gone mild
- Junk
- My friend the spy, Part IV
- Thanksgiving: A manifesto, a menu, and a recipe for mincemeat
- Thanksgiving blues
- Dealing with divorce: a child’s guide
- The leaves keep turning
- Movin' on up
- Pleasurable things
- Easily distracted: Short reviews
- And it's only a dollar
- Tears for Mary Wollstonecraft
- Miracle bra
- Tales from the office
- A journal of hope
- East meets West: A haiku extravaganza
- Take the wrong plane, Jane
- Disappointing things
- Lots of things are more interesting than working
- Those men inside my brain
- ►October
(20)
- My friend the spy, Part III
- We're back from Amsterdam
- The jig is up
- …All The Go Inbetweens
- My friend the spy, Part II
- Happycakes, part 1
- Home
- Tales from the office
- A triangle has three sides
- My friend the spy, Part I
- Last century a mix tape saved my life
- The pen of reality
- How did I get here? (Part One)
- West coast falls off the whatsit map (for a day)...
- Columbus Day
- One, two, buckle my shoe
- Substitute
- Conventional wisdom
- My own private Jesus camp
- Aliens I have known and loved
- ►September
(20)
- Monkey moms
- Tales from the office
- My left hand
- Breaking up is… hard to doooooooo…
- On being a musician
- Till death do us part
- Monkey suit not included
- The church of manlove
- Six more degrees of GW nation
- Camping with the Northeast Corridor Social Club
- The Bowie factor
- Farrell's turning off the Fawcett
- Not in my nature
- Not afraid (but the ass-beating shall remain strictly metaphorical, thank you very much)
- Five years on: The things I can't forget
- Stella's SoHo shopping secrets
- Tales from the office
- How we roll
- Summer soundtracks, part three: End of the evening
- Lydia, oh Lydia
- ►August
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- Various cults
- Found
- Poetic lie-sense
- A few weekend discoveries
- Summer soundtracks, part two: Driving
- Stella at the races
- Farrell Fawcett's six degrees of separation
- Strip maul
- City stories
- Summer soundtracks, part one
- Shopping for change
- Tales from the office
- Life and death in the long tail of music
- I just flew in from the coast
- Burn this post, part two
- The Archers
- In the same danger with himselfe
- The last resort
- The story of my experiments with nicotine
- Disaparrishing act
- Burn this post, part one
- Twenty two
- Of plagues and pompoms
- The distance between numbers and sensation: Arraigning the heat index
- Tracy / Mary / Wendy...
- Much too fast to take that test
- Great Whatsit redux
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