April 2011
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Escalators →
“In a series of four different studies, the authors found consistent support for their predictions. In the first study they found that twice as many mall shoppers who had just ridden an up escalator contributed to the Salvation Army than shoppers who had just ridden the down escalator. In a second study, participants who had been taken up a short flight of stairs to an auditorium stage to...
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A brief history of the San Francisco Irish coffee →
I love that the story is intertwined with characters from City Hall, 1940s Hollywood, and a stormy, remote seaport in Ireland.
P.S. The article’s main story about the Buena Vista Cafe hoarding glasses recently got semi-resolved, so you can just skip the pure San Francisco melodrama/indignation (we do it so well) and get to the good part in the middle.
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A Case of the Tuesdays Playlist
Texico Bitches - Broken Social Scene
I Love You Always Forever (Donna Lewis Cover) - Jukebox the Ghost
Gimme Sympathy (Acoustic) - Metric
This is the Life - Two Door Cinema Club
Helena Beat - Foster the People
Your Surrender - Neon Trees
Sober - Pink
How I Roll - Britney
J’ai Claqué La Porte - Chromeo
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Aaron Sorkin is my god →
Aaron Sorkin cameos on 30 Rock.
Yes, there is a Studio 60 reference.
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“The encounters often start with a question about Haruki Murakami or Roberto...”
– “Love In Bookstores“ by Emma Straub (Slate)
Oops, you guys totally found me out. Now strip?
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“Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at crumbled...”
– Haruki Murakami
Excerpt from “UFO in Kushiro.” Murakami published a collection of stories set in the aftermath of the 1995 Kobe earthquake titled After the Quake. It’s been on my list, and now seemed like a good time to read it.
The rest of the story is here.
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