Still got it. #gotemcoach
Ah, the circle of life.
The trailer for Bill Cunningham New York looks promising (no punctuation, though?). More of Bill on IRB here and here.
Lakers 101, Thunders 94. Tacos.
A nicely shot video on Scott Schuman, aka the Sartorialist. Via Kottke.
Alan Feuer explores New York’s subterranean tunnels, sewers and storm drains, glimpsing the city’s skeleton.
Crossing back into Manhattan, it occurs to me I’ve lived in New York City for 20 years but literally only seen its surface. What this trip has revealed: a wilderness below.There’s also a slide show. Previously on IRB (and closer to home): downtown L.A.’s underground tunnels 1 and 2.
“The marble-topped tables and the white wicker chairs were gone. They were replaced by cast-iron tables and severe folding chairs. The cafe was like a battleship stripped for action.”
—Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Carol Fisher Saller, of the University of Chicago press, on what’s most important in editing:
The manuscript does not have to be perfect because perfect isn’t possible. As I say in The Subversive Copy Editor, there’s no Platonic ideal for that document, one “correct” way for it to turn out, one perfect version hidden in the block of marble that it’s your job to discover by endless chipping away. It simply has to be the best you can make it in the time you’re given, free of true errors, rendered consistent in every way that the reader needs in order to understand and appreciate, and as close to your chosen style as is practical.Simple, but rarely easy.
