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Happy (Belated) Birthday to Us!
by Josh K-sky on Aug.07, 2010, under Uncategorized
We just marked our First Blogoversary. Big Josh showed up here on August 5th, 2009 with a review of Chew #1; his enthusiasm may have led directly to a TV deal.
Here’s to another year of humbuggery and wet blanketism, love and theft, the occasional great comment thread, and all the vampire dental anatomy the Internet needs. Thanks to our several faithful readers, and thank you Josh for having me aboard.
New Story on the Story Page
by Joshua Malbin on Aug.05, 2010, under Uncategorized
So it’s been more than six months since I posted a new story, I know. I’ve been working on a long revision. But I finally did have time to write a new one, and it’s now posted.
A Note from the Prospect Park Sonic Youth Concert
by Joshua Malbin on Aug.01, 2010, under Uncategorized
Yes, guy standing directly in front of me, bringing a pipe to a rock concert does make you a bit of a douchebag.
BUMPED: Reading
by Joshua Malbin on Jul.26, 2010, under Uncategorized
I’ll be reading for about 10 minutes as part of this multi-writer event in Greenpoint on August 12. It’s at Word Bookstore (7:30 – 8:30) then Shayz Lounge (8:30 – 10:30). 126 Franklin Street (Word) and 130 Franklin Street (Shayz Lounge). Come!
Cougar Town
by Josh K-sky on Jul.21, 2010, under Uncategorized
This interesting Ta-Nehisi Coates article got me thinking about another meaning for the term “leaker”.
I vaguely remembered learning about a 19th-century intentional community with a strong operating tenet of free love. Birth control was done by men holding in their ejaculation, a learnable practice. Men who weren’t as good at this as the others, according to one of my AmStud professors, were known as “leakers.”
A little googling and I refreshed myself that the practice is also known as coitus reservatus, the intentional community was (of course!) Oneida, and that another notable sex practice there was this: “Postmenopausal women were encouraged to introduce teenage males to sex, providing both with legitimate partners that rarely resulted in pregnancies. Furthermore, these women became religious role models for the young men.”
Beware, young bros at Pasadena’s Vertical Wine Bar. You might catch a nasty case of religious instruction.
You Forgot Zeppo
by Josh K-sky on Jul.11, 2010, under Politics, Uncategorized
In the introduction to A Companion to Marx’s Capital, available for download, David Harvey suggests that Marx is synthesizing from three intellectual traditions active in his day: English political economy, German critical philosophy, and French utopian socialism.
A long excerpt below the fold. (continue reading…)
Canteloupe > Watermelon > Honeydew
by Joshua Malbin on Jul.05, 2010, under Uncategorized
I am on vacation, doing important research of this nature.
Cleaning Out the Closet II
by Joshua Malbin on Jun.30, 2010, under Uncategorized
For all my class of ‘94 peeps, below the fold: The DS “Tape” – 95 (LICK).
I feel like the 94 tape is clearly the best of the three, but judge for yourselves.
Cleaning Out the Closet I
by Joshua Malbin on Jun.28, 2010, under Uncategorized
My parents are cleaning out their house to put it on the market, so I had to go and sort through all my old things. Among them were the Deep Springs mixtapes of 1994 and 1995. I realize that this is of limited interest, but ladies and gentlemen, below the fold I give you the Deep Springs Mixtape 1994 Playlist (with contributors in parens):