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J. Bennett Fitts

YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Loving this essay

Caitlin Flanagan on teen girl’s sexuality—mostly, its burning and unyielding....

One thing that the Boston Globe just dominates at is its...

MADE IT: New home edition

And she travels to Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Brick walls. One big, bright red wall. Red cabinets with...

ugh. mooooving. boxes. buried. stuff. blah.

Justine Kurland. xo

Charlotte Martin - The Dance She’s sort of awesome.

Confession: I am SO geeked out on this.

swell season, covering bob d. grace and thankfulness.

apollosraven: Happy Thanksgiving.

Going tomorrow for the first time since I moved to the city....

kettering: What up, more nostalgia. HOW CRAYONS ARE MADE. This blew my mind as a kid. I’m...

via scout Winter is here.

Ok so I really love Rachel Maddow

[A few weeks back, MSNBC talk-show host Rachel Maddow appeared on “The Colbert Report”...

Super down with the new song Springsteen wrote for Darren Aronofsky and the Wrestler (trailer a few...

Alone Together / NYM

Strange that I REALLY want this feather collar? My inner...

More on the movie tip, saw The Wrestler and Mickey Rourke is going to be up for/absolutely WIN an...

I’ll be back here in a month. Sigh.

alexbalk: “The bar-cafes? They’re finished. Twenty years...

Luc Sante is...

…a beautiful beautiful writer. His series on old New York/music remembrances is inching...

Have you seen my wig around?

Have you ever wanted to know what you would look like if...

Xmas comes early.

shirtdress: i was watching this exact clip not 6 hours ago and blogged this around the same...

via shirtdress.

File Under: Shabby, not too. [via]

Francis and the Lights - Striking xox to this today.

Movies that will actually be amazing: Thursday edition.

I wouldn’t kick Florian Bayer’s illustrations...

(via thewordunheard) I can die happy now.

North Sea Diary

[At that point, we began to capsize. It is surprising how easily you become disoriented. You...

My brain feels like the bassline of a Portishead song today. Woah.

A Walkmen primer. Primarily for Ajax.

SWOON. [via] …not kidding.

I can start my day now, kthanx. In other news, this could be the most cavalier performance...

I’m with Ramona on this one.

“Christina Hendricks as Joan on “Mad Men” (left) could...”
— Is Joan on ‘Mad Men’ too plump...

this is what i deserve for clicking on something called “margaret atwood dance party”

sun kil moon (as modest m)-tiny cities made of ashes L.A. looks like this right now.

Sometimes after a day like this you put on the [SDV] and just cruise. It doesn’t even matter...

srappy: via Lolitablog

<3 Katherine Wolkoff

themusic: My Brightest Diamond - Feeling Good :)

(via tylercoates) Tyler—are we both watching H&M...

Think I put the mp3 on here a gazillion years but too Sunday-ed to go back and look it up. But this...

Andrea Lee

[The gods of antiquity tossed saints and sinners, lovers and chimeras up into the heavens, making...

No surprise that now that tent cities are back, so are industry whispers of a Broadway Annie...

10ton: loszambos: an incentive to teach french to toddlers everywhere Aieeee!

So I’m feeling this song/band/mood lately.

Lhasa De Sela - De Cara a la Pared

Full on obsession: The Swedish blog Lolita, where a girl...

Laura Laine (via the great Britticisms)

Clarke Tolton. XO.

“Most girls don’t know what to do with what...”
— Jayne Mansfield

I pretty much want everything from Margaux Lange’s...

vruz: Nevermind Now 17 years old, Spencer Elden...

Times Square Kiss Tribute Goes Horribly,...

File under: will be missed.

“Writing fiction takes me out of time,” he explains. “I sit down and the clock will not exist for me...

“The internet is both wonderful and terrible. For instance,...”
— Theodore Dalyrmple in the New...

You’ll know it’s me from the 80s power jacket.

Suspended, 2008—Thomas Allen

It's Raining In Love by Richard...

My friend Shira sent this to me this weekend. Read the full thing here. if a girl likes me a lot...

I saw this at a screening/gathering tonight and I never usually say this for risk of it sounding...

FInished my first letter tonight of this great project...

Wow. 65 hand-drawn animators=one video. A little controversial given the influences, but at least...

via The Holgasnake

(via scout, who always has a good/unbowed eye)

One of the better things ever. This is the Bell Song (Delibes). If you’re a fast-forwarder,...

“Just remember what Ms. Kloosterman told the class in second...”
— Lorrie Moore,...

Simon Patterson, The Great Bear, 1992 (Tate Collection)

Hannah Whitaker is awesome.

What my brain looks like today. Not much else to say right...

Great photo show over at Women in Photography...

I Didn't Vote For Obama Today

Make a wish, everyone. Tomorrow is gigantic.

Last word on snail mail

Wowza. I’m going to get to everybody. Gives me something to do on trains and planes. ...

Good read for the fall: Girls like Us. Sheila Weller wrote about Carole and Joni and Carly like...

YES.

I got my first taker for a letter. I’m taking more, too.

The thing about letters

I stole a friend’s New Yorker this weekend (or he came to my door, bearing a pound of...

WISH LIST ITEM # 1…with documentaries! This is...

MIRANDA LEHMAN (via the always enlightening Rubin...

Let’s do this.

When the weather drops below 45 degrees, two things happen. My landlord finally turns on the heat...

“There is a way of walking in New York, midevening, in the big, blocky East Fifties, that...

Bon voyage, nuts. x

“It seemed very sad to see you going off in your new shoes...”
— Zelda to F. Scott in a letter,...

If you haven’t seen this, you must must must. It’s boggling (good way).

Cindy Crawford just modeled again in French Vogue after a...