Anatomy of the city
On the subway today trying to explain the MTA map to the curious kid. Looking at it anew, I noticed — not that I shared this with him — yeah, it does look like a shlong, doesn’t it? All in all it was a nice visit to the Upper East Urethra but I’m glad to [...]
OED WotY FAIL
The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen “unfriend” as its word of the year.
Problem: The term is de-friend, not unfriend. I have de-friended numerous people over the years. Twitter is a different matter — on Twitter you follow, and then when the person starts spouting a bunch of Fox News garbage you unfollow. But on Facebook [...]
Paper doing the white man’s overbite
I find it difficult to get excited over Esquire’s “Augmented Reality Issue,” out next week. As a veteran of magazines — a casualty of them, actually — I have to say that this kind of thing is just dead wrong. You get a magazine with a glyph on the front that you hold up to [...]
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