Here's my question: is the 'fancy' coffee shop an adequate replacement for the classic diner? And also: in the current culture of food and high rents is it even possible to offer a restaurant where food is *not* the primary objected? How does one even conceive of a 'third-place' these days?

A perfect metaphor for Election Night 2016.

Voter fraud is a myth.

Heard this on WXNA during Tommy Womack's show. It's great.

"We had moved to New York City, in pursuit of what I still don’t know."

PLU on Fantasy Baseball. I have a cameo appearance.

See, we need Gawker after all.

The new super-villainy.

The episode that kind of started the audio revolution. And a snapshot of a rather difficult time in American economic history.

"Perhaps the target age group was wrong. According to Pendergrast, “millions of kids” called the hotline “just to see what happened.” Preteens, not young adults, may have been OK Soda’s ideal audience: what better way to waste time as a suburban sixth-grader in the pre-internet age than to call a weird hotline over and over? (As Coke discovered, this didn’t translate to sales.) These days, thirty-year-olds are more likely to remember OK Soda than forty-year-olds. For members of Generation Y, it was a chance to play dress-up as Generation X, which couldn’t be bothered to care."

The weird thing, Murphy says, is even the rich guys he speaks to know it. One of them, a Right to Rise donor, gave Murphy a hop from New York back to L.A. on his brand new Gulfstream. Murphy calls it a "G-a-lot," as in, "it was bigger than a G-V." Upon deplaning, "the hedge-fund zillionaire pulls me aside, and says, 'I paid $55 million for this, and the government gave me most of it in tax breaks. I don't know if people ask for things from Jeb. But here's what I want: Tell him to get rid of that shit.' Because even the guys in that world feel crappy about it. It was an interesting moment."

...

With just half a Marco beer in him, Murphy starts waxing philosophic. The game isn't as much fun as it used to be. Everything is so postmodern and meta that "nothing means anything, because everything is what the scam is.

This seems problematic.

[Face-palm]

This was a great show.

Thinking about Gillen

Final results My daughter wanted a fairy tree in her room that she could sit inside and read books, climb the branches, and also have a top si

A strange thing has happened since the release of

Today, Mike Francesa talked Star Wars, and it was glorious. A simple question about how many Star Wars movies George Lucas actually directed led to one of his producers attempting to explain the

See the child. He is pale, thin, halfseen in his diminution. His hair flashes white, betrays his Aryan blood. He is alone, the parents gone in the morning. It is nothing to him. He revels in their

Gentrification is threatening Nashville's soul.

Two guys, basking in the glory of sport. Also, a recap of the weirdest inning in baseball history.

This is great.

Michael Baumann writing for Grantland:

None of that mattered, though, because after realizing they couldn’t beat the bejeezus out of Utley, the Mets found a similarly pale and leathery replacement: the baseball.

After that initial burst of Dodgers scoring, the Mets stopped being the Mets and became the Hedge Fund Managers: They arrived in New York, immediately put up a bunch of crooked numbers, and would not stop no matter how much waste and ruin they left in their wake.

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The last 30 minutes of calls in this episode were classic. Includes: Sex Dwarf Alex from Toronto and a great peeper call

Audio web-projects. Of note: those that allow for easily shareable audio clips.

It's our choice, whether to hate something in our lives or to love every moment of them, even the parts that bring us pain. “At every moment, we are volunteers.”

Well, we had to keep a secret a little longer than we wanted to, but finally today, we have been able to announce our exclusive interview and cover story with Banksy, but also get to be on the ground…

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