History Eraser Button » Right now http://daryllang.com/blog Daryl Lang's blog about media, culture and transit Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:58:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Tribute in Light, 2009 http://daryllang.com/blog/2509 http://daryllang.com/blog/2509#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:55:27 +0000 Daryl Lang http://daryllang.com/blog/?p=2509

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]]> Two photos and a video shot tonight at the Brooklyn Heights promenade…

Sept11B

Sept11C

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]]> http://daryllang.com/blog/2509/feed 0 Election day http://daryllang.com/blog/902 http://daryllang.com/blog/902#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:09:20 +0000 Daryl Lang http://daryllang.com/blog/?p=902

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]]> My sense of things: New York (and my community in Brooklyn in particular) is more electrified about this election than any event in recent memory. The enthusiasm level is much higher than when the Giants were in the Super Bowl, for example.

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]]> http://daryllang.com/blog/902/feed 0 Facts! Figures! Charts! http://daryllang.com/blog/848 http://daryllang.com/blog/848#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:05:56 +0000 Daryl Lang http://daryllang.com/blog/?p=848

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]]> Right now I am a little obsessed with this graphic:

Link to more…

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]]> http://daryllang.com/blog/848/feed 1 Zeitgeist http://daryllang.com/blog/734 http://daryllang.com/blog/734#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:57:36 +0000 Daryl Lang http://daryllang.com/blog/?p=734

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]]> Here are the “trending topics” on Twitter at this moment:

  • DOW
  • Bailout
  • Wall Street
  • Republicans
  • Congress
  • Black Monday
  • Bush
  • Wachovia
  • GOP
  • Dems

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]]> http://daryllang.com/blog/734/feed 0 Palin? Really? http://daryllang.com/blog/600 http://daryllang.com/blog/600#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:44:29 +0000 Daryl Lang http://daryllang.com/blog/?p=600

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]]> Until now, I thought the Republicans were going to make this election about the military. Wrong. It’s about abortion.

(Related: I wrote a post on my work blog about photo coverage of Obama’s acceptance speech.)

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]]> http://daryllang.com/blog/600/feed 1 Mobile phone update http://daryllang.com/blog/259 http://daryllang.com/blog/259#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 14:46:35 +0000 Daryl Lang http://daryllang.com/blog/259

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]]> Happy National Train Day from Penn Station Baltimore.

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]]> http://daryllang.com/blog/259/feed 0 Mobile phone update http://daryllang.com/blog/238 http://daryllang.com/blog/238#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:13:16 +0000 Daryl Lang http://daryllang.com/blog/238

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]]> New Yankee Stadium, seen from old Yankee Stadium.

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Update: Yankees lost to Detroit 6-2.

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]]> http://daryllang.com/blog/238/feed 0 Geek rockers conquer the world http://daryllang.com/blog/229 http://daryllang.com/blog/229#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:00:49 +0000 Daryl Lang http://daryllang.com/blog/?p=229

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]]> Right now Flight of the Conchords has the number one album on iTunes.

Seriously? A quasi-fictitious novelty folk duo from New Zealand has the number one album? We knew them when!

My favorite thing about The Conchords’ HBO show is its use of weird, unglamorous New York locations… like Flushing Meadows, and the far Lower East Side, and wherever the heck this park is. After “Sex and The City,” HBO owed us big time.

Here’s a clip of The Conchords performance of “Sello Tape”… part of which takes place on an MTA bus:

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]]> http://daryllang.com/blog/229/feed 1 Irony, apathy are officially back http://daryllang.com/blog/201 http://daryllang.com/blog/201#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:00:21 +0000 Daryl Lang http://daryllang.com/blog/?p=201

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]]> Exhibit A: The geniuses who write copy for someecards.com:

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]]> http://daryllang.com/blog/201/feed 0 Mobile phone update http://daryllang.com/blog/163 http://daryllang.com/blog/163#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:46:39 +0000 Daryl Lang http://daryllang.com/blog/163

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]]> Daryl Lang’s day off.

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