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Feb 21 Nabokov's Nose commented on Close to Heaven: Nation’s Oldest Mall Transformed into Micro-Apartments.

This is in Providence, my old home town. It closed a few years ago and has lain fallow ever since. I'm glad to find they're doing something with it.

Feb 14 Nabokov's Nose commented on "Prisons Are Like Nursing Homes—You Need Occupancy to Be High".

Hey Brendan. Let me also direct you to the eye-opening (and award-winning) 8-part series from the Times-Pic last year, Louisiana Incarcerated.

http://www.nola.com/prisons

Jan 25 Nabokov's Nose commented on Strokes Release New Song, "One Way Trigger".

Uh-oh, clearly this is 45 RPM, when to should be 33.

Dec 19, 2011 Nabokov's Nose commented on Time to Mandate Children-Free Driving?.

My favorite part of the NTSB recommendation is the exemption for hands-free phone devices *installed by the manufacturers*. Even though that's nonsensical.

Dec 9, 2011 Nabokov's Nose commented on Buttsex-Obsessed Jesus Wizard Rick Santorum Says "Science should get out of politics".

Rick Santorum should get out of politics.

Nov 28, 2011 Nabokov's Nose commented on Love Letter to the Shotgun House: A Seattle Artist and Architect at Prospect 2 in New Orleans.

I'm moving to New Orleans at the end of December. This visit is going into the calendar for January. Thanks Jen.

Nov 11, 2011 Nabokov's Nose commented on Why Students Have an Iron-Clad Justification for Shouting, "Banks Got Bailed Out, We Got Sold Out!".

That's @53, correction.

Nov 11, 2011 Nabokov's Nose commented on Why Students Have an Iron-Clad Justification for Shouting, "Banks Got Bailed Out, We Got Sold Out!".

@52 Except that GSEs were only responsible for a sliver of the housing collapse. Greed took care of the rest.

http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/11/0…

Which of course not to say that it wasn't to some degree Clinton-era errors that bears blame for the catastrophe. But the effect is hardly as large you make it seem.

I think the broader point people are making here -- and the point of the post -- is that the banks and bankers responsible were not subject to the full negative force of the market. Their bad behavior went largely unpunished in the name of the "greater good," which, to the market, is the good of the wealthy.

Also, please find me any low-level crappy office job pushing papers or answering phones that requires less than a B.A. They might exist, but there aren't many.

Nov 8, 2011 Nabokov's Nose commented on A Gay In the Life.

Ha, this was one of my professors. Go Dominick.

Oct 7, 2011 Nabokov's Nose commented on Habibi Is the Best Comic Book of 2011.

Paul, how does it compare to Blankets? I know some people really loved that book, and while I'll admit the art was gorgeous, I found the story grating and indulgent.