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“Portrait of Lunia Czechowska,” By Amedeo Modigliani (1919)

Jelly or Boston Creme? Which one of dese?

[Photo Credit: Nom-Food]

I missed the whole damn thing. Nothing but checked the score. I saw that the Yanks had a 4-0 lead, know that Rafael Soriano blew the save in the ninth and that scoring opportunities were squandered in the tenth and twelfth, and I know that the A’s won again.

Final Score: A’s 5, Yanks 4.

David Waldstein has the unsavory details.

That gives the home team a four-game sweep. The A’s won each game by one run and this is undoubtedly the high pernt of their season. Good for them. And lousy for the Yanks, a team that came into the weekend playing well and got their asses handed to them.

“You just can’t predict baseball,” as John likes to tell Suzyn.

Motherfuck it all.

Not the end of the world, of course, but this isn’t the sort of thing that’d make any fan pleased let alone this short-tempered Yankee fan.

Grrrfugginumble.

On Hall of Fame Sunday, the Yanks turn to their ace, C.C. Sabathia, to make things right.

No Jetes…

Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Alex Rodriguez DH
Raul Ibanez LF
Eric Chavez 3B
Jayson Nix SS
Dewayne Wise RF
Chris Stewart C

Never mind the heat: Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Photo Credit: Bob Langer/Chicago Daily News via It’s a Long Season]

Ya buggin’.

[Photo Credit: Zachary Schwaller]

Notice a pattern here? The Yanks lost another well-pitich, one-run game last night, this time 2-1. It’s their third straight loss in Oakland.

Okay, so that’s the frustrating part. Three losses. But good starting pitching, man. Really good. Sometimes, these things happen. Bartolo Colon goes for the A’s today–against the local boy, C.C. Sabathia–so we won’t dwell on what happened last night cause the Yanks will win today.

[Photo Credit: Kevin Cooley]

Two game losing streak? Nothing to worry about. But enough. Time for a win, ya hoid?

Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Mark Teixeira 1B
Raul Ibanez LF
Eric Chavez DH
Russell Martin C
Dewayne Wise RF

Never mind the late night–and the game starts at 9 eastern, so it won’t run too late: Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Lazy Saturday…

[Photo Via: Mr. A’s Bazaar]

Ivan Nova looks to rebound from a cruddy outing last Sunday against the Angels.

Late night action with the welcome announcing team of Ken Singleton and David Cone.

Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano DH
Nick Swisher RF
Andruw Jones LF
Jayson Nix 2B
Russell Martin C

Never mind the west coast weirdness: Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Photo Credit: Joel Zimmer]

Rain Pryor and Kelly Carlin talk about comedy and growing up funny.

[Photo Credit: Kelly Carlin]

This is a lousy-looking clip but the movie, Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography, is something you must see.

Our pal Mark Lamster on the New York Public Library:

Sometime last year, the New York Public Library (NYPL) retired its pneumatic-tube system, which had been used to request books for more than a century. This change was made without ceremony or fanfare; I learned of it unexpectedly, when I walked into the catalog room prepared to deliver a call slip to a clerk behind a large wooden desk, only to find a notice directing me elsewhere. For a few moments, I stood there, unmoored, before moving along as instructed. That pneumatic call system had changed little since the library’s open-ing in 1911. You still filled out a slip, and you still turned that slip over to a clerk, who would load it into a metal cartridge. With a slurpy shoomp, the cartridge would be driven by air pressure to a station down in the stacks, where another clerk would retrieve your book, which was then sent back up to the call desk by a dumbwaiter. In recent years, this procedure would take about 20 minutes. In decades past, I’m told, it was closer to five.

The passing of a steampunk relic might occasion a fit of nostalgia and no more—in New York, the cycle of life is accelerated, which is perhaps why we are so attentive to our history—but in this case, something greater seemed to be at stake. One could hardly contrive a more blatant metaphor for the uneasy shift, in the world of letters, from the physical to the digital. The very future of the book, and the printed word in general, is uncertain. We’re at a moment of profound change in the way we consume information, and that change is shaping the kinds of information we value. It is also shaping the spaces in which we consume information. How does one even begin to think about designing libraries in a time of rapidly developing technologies and shifting programs?

[Photo Credit: Cat’s Eye View @ MLP]

Such a drag about Brett Gardner. Not a surprise but a bummer for sure.

Groucho pimps goods over at How to Be a Retronaut.

Image Via This Isn’t Happiness.

Dig this! A series of fictitious dishes designed by my cousin Dinah.

[Photo Credit: Etsy]

Rock and fuggin Roll. Pictures by Bob Gruen over at Everyday I Show.

The Yanks are hot, they’ve got the best record in baseball, but…there’s always a but, right? But, no time to get complacent. And there’s always trouble lurking out west. They’ll play four in Oakland starting tonight. Nothing is easy. Keep in rollin’, fellas.

Never mind the late games: Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Photo Credit: Brad Mangin]

This looks promising.