January 2012
2 posts
Wow, Don’t Go Back to School is in the Washington Post (in great company, I might add)! http://t.co/3yMduSJg h/t @dansinker
MT @kbarbarossa: watch @doctorow on the coming war on general computation. its important. http://t.co/Gpkkk6Eq [me: great talk+ Q&A]
November 2011
14 posts
Consensus overwhelming: ignore the trolls. Runner up, sweet dismissal. Promises from my sleeper-cell army to defend me = cherished.
Really liking http://t.co/AXrNvfSc today! http://t.co/I74poQrG
Don’t Go Back to School is @galleycat’s featured project of the week! http://t.co/8gbjARdf
I think the last time this many people marched across the B Bridge was 2003 blackout when everyone had to walk home.
n+1’s Occupy Gazette #2 is out bit.ly/tkTZNF including Rebecca Solnit, whose writing always makes me swoon
In Cambridge? Go hear @jeffsharlet at @PorterSqBooks at 7pm.
Astra Taylor’s account of the eviction http://t.co/bFP8welK
Amazing—Don’t Go Back to School is 50% funded in 5 days. Still a long way to go, but wow, thank you everyone! http://t.co/MOzxdrjt
Anyone out there have a copy of the Chronicle of Higher Ed this week? If so, save it for me? Thanks.
So far it’s an even split between people who want digital vs. print copies of Don’t Go Back to School. http://t.co/MOzxdrjt
thanks @picklesnumber1 @stfn42 and @josholalia !
Lovely post from @jomc about participating in my stranger interactionworkshop at @bmwgugglab last month. http://t.co/ARm569Uq
Can anyone explain to me what Auerbach means by ‘externalization’ as a literary device? #ifeelstupid
RT @red_lemonade: Red Lemonade Reading: @kiostark, Terese Svoboda and Dave Sterner at Southside Coffee 652 6th Ave BKLYN 7pm tonight!
October 2011
9 posts
snowing!
“It cannot be overstated that the youth raised on video games were also raised on fear & the specter of terror from all directions. ” c prev
RT @theingrid: GREAT Rant: Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit - @Gizmodo http://t.co/GyhB7bUu
Nap intervention: http://t.co/V65bDRVD
Yeah so it turns out we need a stroller. Suggestions? Lightweight is #1 criterion. Thank you. #sigh
Nika says “!Venceramos!” http://t.co/gk6RNdoW
RT @bre: Need 2make yrslf heard? MakerBot @mileslightwood’s MIC CHK printable clip, make a megaphone! http://t.co/fyveav2h #occupywallstreet
RT @tinkerkid: ‘We are all strangers here. We all belong here.’ (from a lovely piece by @debcha for #bordertown) : http://t.co/FS4gr6tt
baby screaming in pain all afternoon from her dip-tet vaccine. thank god she has only (as @theingrid puts it) the memory of an earthworm.
September 2011
8 posts
Wow, I’m on @Flavorwire’s list of best novels of the year, w/ some stellar companions like @emmastraub and @tejucole! http://t.co/I9Lk9YZ
Reminder, I’m reading at Sunny’s in Red Hook today, 3pm (I’m up first!). I will not be using my peewee herman voice.
i can tell by the look on @bre’s face when he’s putting something on the internet.
I’m reading this Sunday at 3pm, at Sunny’s in Red Hook (cosponsored by @bookcourt).
Book party was fun! Thanks to everyone who came out in the rain. http://t.co/YKWqXa5
editorial note: upcoming book party and reading →
My publisher, Red Lemonade is throwing a book party for Follow Me Down–everyone’s invited! Words, special Red Lemonade fizzys, and music.
Tuesday Sept 6
7PM The Bell House
149 7th Street,…
Poked through Leaves of Grass this morning. How could I have forgotten that Whitman wrote a poem about talking to strangers? (“For You”)
Love Gemma Seltzer’s book Speaking to Strangers, 100-word stories of stranger interactions in London http://t.co/5hVIwC6 #strangerstudies
August 2011
5 posts
Chris Woebken has some fantastic photos of boarded-up, battened-down NYC http://t.co/d43Hjdm
My daughter is already a rockstar nerd: http://t.co/8aa4Bok
Um, how do we bathe the baby? Anyone? Terrifying.
Also, I need to point out that this is the first time I’ve set foot in my own house since June 24. Completely surreal and great.
I just discovered a really serious dreadlock in progress in my hair. #motherhood
July 2011
3 posts
Thanks everyone for the flood of well-wishes for Nika!
RT @bre Best joke about us making a baby yet: RT @textfiles: HOW DID @KIOSTARK AND @BRE MAKE A BABY I CAN’T FIND THE MODEL ON THINGIVERSE
Happy birthday to the fabulous @r_nash!
June 2011
7 posts
RT @fitnr: Meet @strange_allure, the bot that retweets people asking about trending topics.
RT @laughingsquid: “Follow Me Down”, the debut novel by NYC author @KioStark, published by @red_lemonade using @cursr publishing platorm …
My mother: You got taller. Me, whispered: You got shorter.
You heard right, my @bre will be on the Colbert Report Wed night with a MakerBot!
A dreary day much improved by spectacular mixes from @douglaswolk.
Mesmerized by the swings & swoops of a massive crane I can see across the river in LIC. Something magic about machinery you can’t hear.
May 2011
16 posts
“Between the world and our idea of the world is a fascinating kink.” Finally reading How Buildings Learn (thx @cshirky!)
RT @bre Nice summary of the #7on7 show! [»and props for @jomc, too] http://onforb.es/lZNNFY