December 2011
20 posts
At Detroit Food Bank, Founders Are Gone, but a... →
Four decades on, Focus: HOPE is still providing the poor of Detroit with food and other basics.
Shared from CHOW: The Best New Spirits of 2011 →
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on the plane! Woot!
Yo, Is This Racist? →
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Yo, this is my new fave tumblr. →
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The Street Just Out of Sight →
Ta-Nehisi Coates. I like his blog. I appreciate his thoughtfulness. You think he’d be my friend?
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Gossip, girl. →
Saint-Simon, the French memoir writer of the late 17th and 18th century, transcribed all the gossip he consumed, and did so with enough verve and wit to register in the minds of Flaubert and Proust. He enjoyed circulating information about the court of Louis XIV, and his scent for the kill is apparent in his writing. Here he is on the son of the king’s chief minister: “He was of average height,...