Archive for December, 2011
Reading/Literary Highlights of 2011
I posted my Year in Reading of 2011 highlights over at tumblr. Feel free to check it out. May reading in 2012 be fruitful, entertaining, enriching, and enlightening!
Posted: December 31st, 2011 under Brooklyn, Links, Manhattan.
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TV Highlights of 2011
Like I noted last year (see here if you’re so inclined to see my 2010 list), my notable tv highlights of 2011 are likely much different than others since, for various reasons, I again drastically cut back on tv viewing and much like other people, my tv viewing seems to be more online these days [...]
Posted: December 31st, 2011 under Brooklyn.
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Merry Christmas 2011!
A Bensonhurst Christmas, in Brooklyn, NY, brought to you by a reindeer and Frosty. Merry Christmas to you all! (cross-posted over at sswslitinmotion.tumblr.com)
Posted: December 24th, 2011 under Brooklyn.
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Countdown to Christmas (2011)
It’s not quite feeling like winter the past couple of days. Oh well. From Time.com: “8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker” – good tips, actually. Funny thing about this time of year: people can get a little crazy about the religion thing; yes, it is a Christmas tree, not a “holiday tree” and, sure, [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2011 under Brooklyn.
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It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas (2011)
This cold spell is making it feel a lot like Christmas in the city. I am also in incredible denial that 2011 is about to end. Jimmy Fallon hosted “Saturday Night Live” last night. His appearance was (a) kind of funny, but there were a couple of pointless and not good sketches, and I didn’t [...]
Posted: December 18th, 2011 under Brooklyn.
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Dear Guy on Subway With the Chinese Newspaper: you don’t have to announce the station names in Spanish – we pay someone to mangle that already.
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Posted: December 10th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
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Pearl Harbor Day
Don’t forget: Pearl Harbor Day, a day that has lived in infamy. I thought that the NY Times’ editorial about the need to remember Pearl Harbor expressed notable thoughts. Remembering it will be harder, when the first generation that was there is passing away. The passing of Harry Morgan, actor who was on “Dragnet,” and [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2011 under Brooklyn, Honolulu.
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A NaNoWriMo 2011 recap
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has come and gone. As a follow up to a previous post on NaNoWriMo as I have been going through it: a recap! Yeah, I did it – I hit the 50k, ending the month at 55,364 words (well, according to the NaNoWriMo validator; I had bizarre footnotes that didn’t [...]
Posted: December 4th, 2011 under Brooklyn, Manhattan.
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