Awesome:- Having amazing friends who listen to my bitching and incoherent rambling no matter what- Watching Genji raw and actually understanding a lot of it, because damn if that's not a shit-ton of keigo and outdated language. Can't get raws past 6 though, my torrent proxy skills are failing me.- N...

Too much sleep last night, and how often do I get to say that? I'm groggy, but from sleep, not insomnia. Days off, I end up with all this random crap, instead of actual journal entries. Day like these, my journal entries must consist of the random crap that floats through my days, or they will consi...

We can't expect many new skyscrapers to break ground in NYC for a while, so for some rendering porn, we head to...Boston ? Check out One Congress Street, a four-million-square-foot office/residential/retail development designed by Cook + Fox set to enter the public review process. Writes the Archpap...

One week after this blog unveiled its first poll (See my post of Feb. 26, 2009: first blog poll.), I thank each of the dozen or so readers (as of yesterday) who took a moment or two to answer. The question was “If you reviewed bills submitted by law firms over the past six months, what do you esti...

Interesting exchange over at the Da'as Torah Blog discussing a teshuva of Rav Moshe on the views cited in a sefer on Chumash attributed to Rav Yehuda Hachasid: Dov said... "Your assertion needs to be documented" Prof. Marc Shapiro has written extensively on this topic in several postings on the Sefo...

1. I never really cooked at home before I got married, but now, I do, and Bong and Kara love whatever I cook, and that’s what’s most important to me 2. I love kissing and cuddling, so whatever chance I get to kiss and cuddle my children, I grab it. And yes, I LOVE doing this too with Bong. 3. I ...

Si te gusta el buen pop independiente made in spain tendrás al Contemporanea como una de esas citas anuales ineludibles, como una final de un mundial de fútbol para un amante del deporte rey. Un festival que se caracteriza por traernos año a año la mejor alineación posible a un módico precio, ...

This is the face of a newly minted 40-year-old (with wet hair), pissed that time has flown so, so, so quickly. Didn't I just turn 21? Just realize what I was going to be when I grew up? Re-meet my......

Putting a neat little bow on the real estate boom that was, brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman and our friend Jonathan Miller of appraisal firm Miller Samuel have issued three reports covering the past decade. The 1999-2008 reports cover Manhattan co-ops and condos, the Manhattan townhouse market ...

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual milk crate contains Blessure Grave a...