by Adam | Wednesday 29 September 2010
I've usually got back excuses for being out of touch. I'm moving apartments this week so there's a good one. Also, after reading this pretentious essay by Gary Shteyngart, I'm tempted not to get internet or cable in my new...
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by Adam | Monday 27 September 2010
I was pleased to find, among the spam-laden bots that leave ads all over my well-kempt site, that Christina Hendricks (of Mad Men fame) is now a reader of TFR. She left a comment on a post written in...
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by Adam | Thursday 23 September 2010
Shoutout to TFR friend Paul for sending this little nugget my way:...
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by Adam | Monday 20 September 2010
The only book of poetry to escape the Brooklyn tornado(!) unscathed was Leonard Cohen's first book, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He wrote it when he was 22. It's frustratingly brilliant and, despite being set beneath a (newly) leaky window,...
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by Adam | Wednesday 15 September 2010
Editor's Note: I stumbled upon some older (circa 2006) navel-gazing and thought it deserved its moment. For the classic Dream Shake, see 0:03 & 0:40 of the below video. The one above is a hybrid. At that young age...
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by Adam | Friday 10 September 2010
Let your own internal detection system gauge the merits of this provocation by the late David Foster Wallace: Are you up for a thought experiment? What if we chose to regard the 2,973 innocents killed in the atrocities of 9/11...
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by Adam | Thursday 2 September 2010
I owe you two parts Turkey and three parts Dubai. Don't let me off the hook. Unfortunately, I've got more pressing matters right now...like the mini-biographies I'm working on. Here's another bit: My paternal grandfather, who never seemed to smile...
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