July 2008
...and this is how Kanye West actually blogs. →
Previously: I accuse Kanye to the of having a ghostblogger
Dunkin Donuts edged out Subway as the most... →
Yumm-o!
I'm assuming this was ghostwritten because it's... →
Oh, nm, Timbo (Timbaland) won't necessarily be... →
Oops!
ZOMG, millenials can't stop speaking in text-speak... →
-WSJ
“I don’t have any preferences. I could choose a team that offers me the...”
– Manny Ramirez would not be opposed to getting traded— traveling secretaries be forewarned.
Eric Ripert's "quest to build the perfect burger".... →
It includes trips to McDonalds and Burger King, some challah bread, and pickles not on the side of the plate.
“This is Steve Jobs. You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above...”
– Steve Jobs calling up a reporter for the ‘Times’ Joe Nocera, to clarify, off the record, what exactly the particulars are of his health.
Valleywag: CNBC edits Mark Zuckerberg to be... →
bream: Just passed a lady ripping open a plan b package as she walked back into the W hotel
bream: Rough night
/Film did a podcast with Kevin Smith mainly about... →
I listened to this this morning, and these guys are some serious nerds. It’s great.
Cahiers du cinéma
alexbalk:
David Cho really missed his calling.
LET’S MAKE SOMETHING REAL CLEAR.
I may have “made” this video, meaning I added a song to the video clip, but this video is by no means up to the standards of the previous David Cho videos that you have seen/tolerated watching as I barrage you with YouTube links over IM.
This video is ALL ALEX BALK’S IDEA, why he attached it...
Coconut Records - ‘West Coast’
This...
The second best bear video on Radar. →
WatchDavid Chang on Charlie Rose
This is an hour long, but it’s really very interesting— as most Charlie Rose interviews are. It also makes you, or at least me, really jealous of this awesome circle of friends that includes every single awesome chef in this city, who are all apparently really great people.
RE: Ssam Bar’s original incarnation
“It was a terrible terrible...
On my way out of the office, I was waiting for the...
Oh, come on. →
File under: Too insider-y
Buyer Beware or Korean Komplaining
For one reason or another, I haven’t gotten a long, uninterupted, decent night’s sleep for the last few days— no matter what time I go to bed I keep waking up at 7:30 at the latest, and there’s no real reason for that to be the case.
It’s not even 9am yet, and I can already feel that delirium, the kind where your thoughts only make it 75% of the way, and everything...
WatchThe Hills Season 4 Trailer
So many thoughts running through my head right now:
Where did they find all of these models to pose as love interests?
How does Doug have his own jet?
Who thought that putting Heidi’s sister on television was a good idea?
http://acontinuouslean.muxtape.com/ →
I imagine this is a good muxtape to listen to as background music if you’re trying to get a lot of stuff done. At least that’s my plan for today.
It kind of reminds me of those oldies mix cassette tapes that they used to sell at gas stations that my family would always, for some reason, buy on long car rides. The other things that we would get at gas stations on trips like that would...
Rapper DMX was arrested in a Phoenix mall. →
For those of you keeping track at home, that means he has been arrested the following days the last few months: May 7, May 9, June 23, June 27, July 2 and now July 19.
So, he’s prolific.
Flight of the Conchords - ‘Leggy...
Monitor110: A Post Mortem →
The link above is a really vivid and honest account by Roger Ehrenberg as to why his startup Monitor110 failed. Ehrenberg goes on in great detail how his internet company went from: great idea, to front page of the FT, to then lots of infighting over not-data based opinions resulting in an eventual failure of the company/product.
There’s a lot of general business principles and ideals that...
Killing time before dinner.
So I was on the Julia Allison team’s website Nonsociety, and the only real question I had was how this website plans to make money. Granted, it looks like there’s not too much spend on their part involved— Tumblr hosts the actual blogs, Vimeo serves the videos, aside from someone programming and cutting these videos, that seems like it’s the only real serious cost, but...
Swizz Beatz - ‘That Oprah’
This song,...
Digg Comments From When They Announced Heath...
jeffrubinjeffrubin:
(almost two years ago to the day)
While I will attempt to not compare him to Nicholson or “The Batman” joker, I just dont know if Ledger has that crazy and creepy side needed to play the joker. I will admit that I havnt seen too many of his movies, but the ones I have seen him in he doesnt play a creepy crazy guy completly off his rocker. -EdLesMann Please tell me this isn’t...
Alan Richman's list of the 5 best burgers in New... →
In no particular order:
Shake Shack
Big Nick’s
Blue Smoke
Burger Joint (Le Parker Meridien)
Peter Luger
There’s a bonus quote from Dave Chang in the story too.
I imagine it's Roy like the Canadian goalie...
My biggest problem with Jessica Roy— and I want to say that I actually somewhat empathize with her disillusionment of the bullshit that is New York media, even though it’s mostly her own fault for having this weird schema where she thought things were even more important than the people involved thought they were— is that she made the collosal mistake of assuming the...
Reblogging Someone Else Reblogging Balk
natashavc:
alexbalk:
but NO.
I am WAY SEXIER THAN BLAGG.
I will concede Neel though.
Pssshh..whatevs Mr. Undersharer… you almost lost to Cho because we figured he could bump n’ grind us better than you (but btwn Neel and Gessen we met our diversity quota) .
It’s an honor to have been considered to have been nominated.
“Jay-Z does it for the love. That’s different. When somebody does it for...”
– Timbaland explaining Jay’s drive, while also hinting at the possibility that he might be producing the whole record (I find it hard to believe he wouldn’t get at least one song from Justin Blaze or Phareezy, as well).
Sonically, it sounds awesome:
…some of the songs gonna sound...
