December 2011
24 posts
“Honorable Mentions: … Justin Bieber’s Instagram feed (srsly)”
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The Year That Was - The Morning News
ilu jenna
Prolly 50 percent of the texts I send (aka A LOT) are screencaps of Bieber’s Instagram feed. ITS THAT GOOD.
“It used to pretty much be Spanish, Polish and Italian people here when I was growing up,” said a squatly built middle-aged racquetball player who did not wish to be named but was called Beyonce by his teammates. →
nytimes.com
brb, scourin the mccarren racquetball courts for my soulmate
(thx becca, girl u know me so well)
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Essentially, I incorporated into my daily life the sense that I might find myself up against a wall or on the ground with an officer’s gun at my head. For a black man in his 20s like me, it’s just a fact of life in New York. →
nytimes.com
Missed this when it first came out but its a must-read of 2011 if there ever was one. via Young, Black and Frisked by the NYPD
Longreads: New York Times Writer Jenna Wortham: My Top Longreads of 2011 →
longreads.tumblr.com
Jenna Wortham is a technology reporter at The New York Times. In her spare time she makes zines and stalks former America’s Next Top Model contestants in Brooklyn. She can be found on Twitter and Tumblr.
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Throwing my two cents in for the year!
4 OUT OF 5: JENNA WORTHAM ON NEW YORK →
blackbookmag.com
BlackBook featured some of my fave local picks!
So who buys a tree in the middle of the night? "Um, drunks," said Tim Romp, 14, who each year since birth has left home in Salisbury, Vt., with his parents, Patti and Billy Romp, to live out of a small camper between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve and sell trees in New York. →
articles.latimes.com
This was me on Saturday night! And I couldn’t be happier with my boozy baby Christmas tree. (via fatmanatee)
