Matthew Rosenberg

'Rasputin Was My Neighbor' And Other True Tales Of Time Travel

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:02:58 -0500

'Rasputin Was My Neighbor' And Other True Tales Of Time Travel:

There are people who live long enough to create a link — a one-generation link — to figures from what feels like a distant past, and their presence among us shrinks history. When “Long Ago” suddenly becomes “So I said to him …,” long ago jumps closer.

There are many examples of people who shrink history this way. The blogger Jason Kottke has been collecting examples. He calls them “human wormholes,” because these people help us leap across space/time. Here are my favorites.

Defender 90 with Mattracks

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:41:45 -0500

Defender 90 with Mattracks

"The city is a fantastic playground in 1976, ’77. My best friend and I crash gay discos. We wear our..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:00:05 -0500

“The city is a fantastic playground in 1976, ’77. My best friend and I crash gay discos. We wear our hair up because it is said that Son of Sam targets girls with long brown hair. We wear short shorts and halters and smoke Newports and eat Hostess cherry pies when we get the munchies. There is no need for school, no need to go home. I want to stay out forever.”

- Nancy Rommelmann - Dazed and Confused [via NY Times]

Air Force 1 Duckboot care of Undefeated. Ready to get back to...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:32:35 -0500

Air Force 1 Duckboot care of Undefeated. Ready to get back to NYC winter.

Back to the Future Billboard in LA

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:14:02 -0500

Back to the Future Billboard in LA

San Francisco at 10,000 Feet

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:16:44 -0500

San Francisco at 10,000 Feet

Born In New York

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:27:30 -0500

clayman:

“That’s the problem with being born in New York… You’ve got no New York to run away to.”

- from Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Poor Greg.

A mysterious triangular mosaic is set in the sidewalk in front...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:38:47 -0500

A mysterious triangular mosaic is set in the sidewalk in front of Village Cigars in the West Village at 110 Seventh Avenue South at Christopher Street. It reads: “Property of the Hess Estate Which Has Never Been Dedicated for Public Purpose.” This tiny piece of land is the result of a dispute between a former owner, the David Hess estate, of Philadelphia and NYC. Hess owned the Voorhis apartment building at that corner which had been condemned to build a subway line. The estate refused to surrender a remaining triangle, 500 square inches, the smallest piece of private property in the city. In 1938 they sold the plot to Village Cigars for $1,000. Cracked and worn, it remains a testimony to one small triumph over the city of New York…

[via New York Daily Photo]

"The only girl I ever loved took 20 minutes to download, but she was worth the wait. She never..."

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:32:17 -0500

“The only girl I ever loved took 20 minutes to download, but she was worth the wait. She never moves.”

- Cosmo Jarvis - The Royal Fuckup

"The grass roots they can generate is, frankly, concerning."

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:44:16 -0500

“The grass roots they can generate is, frankly, concerning.”

-
Cary Sherman, chairman and chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, said of the Internet community. [via A Clash of Media Worlds (and Generations)]

Office building lobby 1 by stevensiegel260 on Flickr.

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:22:15 -0500

Office building lobby 1 by stevensiegel260 on Flickr.

Officiallyrad: Getting a story + photo in the New York Times

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:35:40 -0500

Officiallyrad: Getting a story + photo in the New York Times

"It almost felt like gang warfare, the nerdiest gang warfare ever, but still, gang warfare."

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:45:47 -0500

“It almost felt like gang warfare, the nerdiest gang warfare ever, but still, gang warfare.”

- A choice quote by me in the New York Times Today. Check out the rest of the article online (In Tech, Starting Up By Failing) or better go buy a copy and frame it on your wall.

I just want a lover like any otherWhat do I getI only want a...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:33:49 -0500

I just want a lover like any other
What do I get
I only want a friend who will stay to the end
What do I get

"I used the privilege of MTV to go to a lot of Saturday Night Live shows. I was dating Chris Farley..."

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:08:54 -0500

“

I used the privilege of MTV to go to a lot of Saturday Night Live shows. I was dating Chris Farley and I was crazy about him. One time we were going to the Museum of Natural History to watch a shark movie. I was starstruck that I was on a date with him. It’s snowing like crazy, we were cutting through Central Park, and Chris kept falling. He kicked my feet from underneath me, and I did a face plant in the snow. We get up, we laugh. We get to the museum and everyone’s looking at me. I’m thinking it’s because I’m on a date with Chris. Then I looked in the mirror in the bathroom and all my makeup had run down my face, like Alice Cooper. I’m like, “Dude, why didn’t you tell me?” And he’s like, “I wanted you to look ugly so nobody else would go out with you.”

He jilted me for the most beautiful girl in the world, Laura Bagley. But every night I went out with Chris, he had women throw themselves at him. I don’t know any man that could scoop the poozle like Chris Farley.

”

- Karen Duffy (MTV VJ and the hot chick from Blank Check) [via I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution]

Photo

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:39:09 -0500

"Realize that a startup puts you on an emotional roller-coaster unlike anything you have ever..."

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:05:47 -0500

“Realize that a startup puts you on an emotional roller-coaster unlike anything you have ever experienced. You will flip rapidly from a day in which you are euphorically convinced you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only weeks away and you feel completely ruined, and back again. Over and over and over.”

- Marc Andreessen via Nihal

Photo

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:20:49 -0500

"When [neighborhoods] have an Asian sandwich shop, you have been gentrified."

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:30:00 -0500

“When [neighborhoods] have an Asian sandwich shop, you have been gentrified.”

- Eddie Haung [via The Layover]

Dustin Humphrey, Surf Photographer

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:45:06 -0500

Dustin Humphrey, Surf Photographer