Genius

A Mulatto, An Albino, A Mosquito, My Libido

Ladies and gentlemen, the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain. They also rock Shaft, Psycho Killer and Teenage Dirtbag. When they played London's Royal Albert Hall in 2009, the sold-out crowd of 6,000 included 1,000 people who brought ukeleles to accompany them on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy." ... (read more)

2010/07/25

LemonYellow's Heather Anne Halpert is Back

Warning: In order to find this blog entry exciting, you must have been on the web for at least 81 Internet years (nine in human reckoning). A decade ago this July, the New York Times published a profile of Heather Anne Halpert, a charmingly offbeat writer sharing her stray thoughts and experiences on a blog. But nobody called them blogs back then, so reporter Katie Hafner had trouble explaining Halpert's site, which she described as an "intellectual layer cake." (If that name had caught on, ... (read more)

2009/03/30