Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24
January 24th, 2010 at 1:00 am ET- Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces (homage to Schoenberg) spellbinding!! More of this, please! @nyphil #
- Today's NYC snapshot: out the third-tier window, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center http://yfrog.com/audncj #
- good Sunday morning everybody: strong coffee, Greek honey cookies, and "Monarch of the Glen" via Netflix streaming video (@mcgregormt ) #
- Designing the Swiss anti-minarets propaganda poster (NYT): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/arts/design/17abroad.html #
- http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/reviews/01-2010/ruddigore_24208.html heading to City Ctr to see NY Gilbert/Sullivan's Ruddigore #
- Au Bon Pain mobbed by slow-moving elderly Gilbert & Sullivan fans 30m before curtain #adorable http://yfrog.com/au39ssrj #
- OK, end of Act I: maid tried to marry for $, then title, settles for scheming sailor; ex-cursed baron marries madwoman. About par for G&S #
- Man greeting friend across crowded theater lobby by booming "Hail to thee, blithe spirit!" America needs more of this. #
- I just ousted @sbest2048 as the mayor of Food Emporium- TriBeCa on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/4AIV6w #
- Check out "Let's Save Michigan" (letssavemichigan.com), a livable cities initiative of the MI Municipal League @letssavemich #urbanism #
- Spanish MP's photo used by FBI for Osama bin Laden poster http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8463657.stm #
- Post Apocalypse: Inside the Messy Collapse of a Great Newspaper (TNR on the Wash Post) http://bit.ly/702Iys #
- Wes Clark considering run for AR-2 (Vic Snyder seat)? http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/01/19/wesley_clark_considering_bid.html #
- Oakland proposes 17-mile "complete street" w/BRT crossing entire city http://bit.ly/89usy7 (via @planetizen) #urbanism #
- "All You Need Is Love" sung by people in 156 countries (via @dailydish) http://bit.ly/6EaqwM #
- RT (via @swansburg)Just guessing, are the folks at the Yale admissions office really really into Glee? http://bit.ly/4WywOQ #
- Orthodox Judaism begins engaging with gay rights issue (via Slate): http://bit.ly/83VcTs #
- "Yale: The Musical" is officially a Thing – it hits the Wash Post http://bit.ly/6agQBz (good catch @dcmichaelrose) #
- Tried ordering groceries from Amazon. Works as advertised (+ free shipping w/Prime) but feels RIDIC http://yfrog.com/3npfpfj #
- @lauraolin what I worry about is your email gland in reply to lauraolin #
- What I'm not having for dinner: http://yfrog.com/3ngtwtj #
- Just called 311 after seeing car drive over open manhole on 7 Av. Polite, but said DOT may take 2wks to respond. Gd luck w that #ohnycmynyc #
- wants to take theatre course from @AlliHouseworth in reply to AlliHouseworth #
- Shipped tog from Amazon: J Lanier's manifesto, and btl of hair gel. Amzn logistics is either really inefficient, or Most Efficient Ever. #
- (mmkay, nobody panic, but… the Foursquare server seems to be offline. #ISAIDDONTPANIC) #
- affectionate obituary tribute to the beloved Kate McGarrigle (LAT) http://bit.ly/78X1uG #
- Wish this were a judicial body responsible for adjudicating arts funding disputes, not a condo tower http://yfrog.com/4g9staj #
- Loretta's – new cafe in Boerum Hill http://yfrog.com/au388tj #
- At Hank's Saloon, Boerum Hill. 45.001% New Brooklyn metrosexuals, 44.999% drunks/rowdies, 10.000% "other." Happy to be the swing vote. #
- With @JohnMcArdle (@ Hank's Saloon) http://4sq.com/5G4vvB #
- Enjoying @CitizeNYC political podcast "Two Beers In" on the way to work – very listenable/conversational (and a bit arch!) #
- Long Island Index 2010 growth planning report out today: release http://bit.ly/6MUKIe, details http://bit.ly/7lAMBK #urbanism #
- Uh oh: corp campaign finance limits overturned by Sup Ct http://bit.ly/4Q3hDM #
- What's all the fuss about re "NYT to charge (cautiously) its heavy online users"? http://bit.ly/6KvMCx Where else should the $ come from? #
- For Supreme Court news, now following: @SCOTUSblog http://bit.ly/5iWeVn (h/t @sethdmichaels) #
- #tivo RT @AllisonRockey: at least the SCOTUS ruling came early in the day… Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, I expect comedic genius tonight #
- at 1:08- "My inspiration in life is a man I met in Nigeria called Ben Kenobi." (Also, Fresh Prince.) RT @lauraolin: http://bit.ly/8moRsn #
- Tefillin mistaken for bomb, US Airways jet makes emergency landing? #umHELLO http://bit.ly/5Ej814 (via @ERandolSchoenberg) #
- Randomly cool thing about working here: ticketing system that cheerily reports if your ticket number is prime! (thanks, @DanSlimmon) #
- Lawrence Lessig on the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. It's time for reform! Pls RT. http://bit.ly/5htaPc #
- Sup Ct Citizens United decision: all the opinions in easy-access layout (from Cornell/LII) http://bit.ly/70hBQt #
- Mike Lydon photoblogs his bike commute, Brooklyn Heights to NoLIta (via @planetizen) http://bit.ly/5nqGWn #
- Tks to Tebaya http://bit.ly/3×5gQA chicken wings reclassified from "inedible" to "delicious." It's like I just had my 1st taste of tomacco. #
- Chase just sent me an email to apologize for not sending me an email in December. Isn't that a little much? #
- Text of Sec of State Hillary Clinton's Newseum address on Internet freedom: http://bit.ly/6XYjuG #
- iTablet concept rendering (via @jmassengale) http://bit.ly/4y0HHR. // Personally I'm betting more on this design: http://bit.ly/119nH #
- Ok, I confess — having a drink w/ college classmates 22 yrs after *is* fun! #
- Today's NYC snapshot: holiday stars coming down along Nassau St http://yfrog.com/4gfblxj #
- Heading to Benihana, @MichaelPutterman birthday… we're going retro (repeating 1982 birthday except with more fabulous cocktails) #
- Benihana was fun, although I didn't know "Romeo" and "Carlos" were Japanese names #
- Watching A Place in the Sun, have to pause it. M Clift and pregnant gfriend in rowboat on deserted lake. Wonder what happens next? #obvious #
- My coat closet now smells like Benihana! #
- Dutchess County road trip! #
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