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Bites: Toasting Away a Tradition, Emerson was a Nutcase, Dum Dum Girls, and More
CNN + Vice + Sub Pop? Free Williamsburg asks if “Wolf Blitzer is going to start wearing skinny jeans and doing blow with Terry Richardson at Market Hotel?” The Poe Toaster bailed? Ralph Waldo Emerson was a nutcase. Israel doesn’t want an American Jewish journalist hanging around How espresso is made by my favorite coffee shop/roasters, Intelligentsia Coffee Flavorpill reviews Patti Smith’s book, Just Kids. Pitchfork says Dum Dum Girls are “rising“ Heavy psych from France.
David Foster Wallace and Dan Brown walk into a classroom together…
I was thinking that the title would seem like the start of a really funny joke, but it is something that actually happened. Via The Faster Times: the two authors were in a creative writing workshop together at Amherst college. Can you even imagine the workshop comments they gave each other? That’s a pretty weird connection, but at this point, we are used to the “six degrees of David Foster Wallace” thing. However, what I find really dark here, is […]
Bites: Beer with ‘Bama, blue M&Ms, Gawker is Gold(man Sachs), Muumuu House is noted, fake local Starbucks protests, etc.
DRINKS AT OBAMA’S THIS THURSDAY. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is in charge of the beer run, taking orders. (Is anything else important today? Not really, but in case of boredom read on.) There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate M&Ms based on color and those who don’t. Always firmly in the latter group, I was forced briefly to question my firm stance upon learning that the food dye used in blue M&M’s can mend spinal […]