Comments for Reading on the Subway

Comment on Spotted on the Subway: “Our Band Could Be Your Life” by Michael Azerrad by nickfranklin

nickfranklin — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:03:56 +0000

Thanks for the message, Eliza. All press inquiries to Brooklyn Public Library – including those by students – need to go through the Library’s communications department – mediainfo@brooklynpubliclibrary.org

Comment on Spotted on the Subway: “Our Band Could Be Your Life” by Michael Azerrad by nickfranklin

nickfranklin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:01:01 +0000

I love “Please Kill Me”. That’s a good point. The bands I find the most interesting are living out a story of conflict that is only somewhat resolved by coming together to play music.

Comment on Spotted on the Subway: “Our Band Could Be Your Life” by Michael Azerrad by emily

emily — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:39:44 +0000

love the photo. want more photos of readers.

Comment on Spotted on the Subway: “Our Band Could Be Your Life” by Michael Azerrad by jay grochalski

jay grochalski — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:00:04 +0000

…or a band that functions on disfunction, like The Ramones. All the same, a great book. Another great one is “Please Kill Me.” Read that again, and you’ll be digging through all of the old punk and proto-punk.

Comment on Wrestling for the City’s Soul by nickfranklin

nickfranklin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:23:51 +0000

I agree It’s a natural inclination to defy authority and the perceived control that planners and developers impose on our lives. That applies to so much more than urban planning, really.

Comment on Wrestling for the City’s Soul by jay grochalski

jay grochalski — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:06:24 +0000

it has always been, at least in my view of NYC, that there is a craving here for both. Two cultural pastimes in the city seem to be able to evoke memories of a time when the “neighborhood” thrived in NYC (the old “everyone hung out on the stoop” idea, or the occasional tale from Hell’s Kitchen that show up the Sunday Metro section of the Times), and the joy NYC denizens taken in their city having a prominent place on that National/World stage, i.e. the spectacle…or that fact that NYC simply exists as a spectacle outside the deeper contemplation of its own citizens.

still…the Jane Jacobs/Robert Moses battle is one of my favorites in NYC history. I tend to side with the community aspect, even though i’m loathe to be out amongst people and would rather watch them interact behind the smudge window of a dark bar on a sunny day.

Comment on ‘Fuel Dump’ Scharpling’s Twitter Novel… by Elise Abram

Elise Abram — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:32:45 +0000

I plan to begin tweeting my novel entitled “The Guardian” to RKLOGYprof on Twitter early June. The sci-fi novel follows an archaeologist and her crew as they find an artifact that is not of this world. The plan is to tweet in real time. The novel will play out over the summer as the events unfold on the site.

Comment on ‘Fuel Dump’ Scharpling’s Twitter Novel… by Elise Abram

Elise Abram — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:31:06 +0000

sorry. It will be tweeted on RKLOGYprof.

Comment on ‘Fuel Dump’ Scharpling’s Twitter Novel… by Elise Abram

Elise Abram — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:30:24 +0000

I plan to begin tweeting my novel entitled “The Guardian” to RLOGYprof on Twitter early June. The sci-fi novel follows an archaeologist and her crew as they find an artifact that is not of this world. The plan is to tweet in real time. The novel will play out over the summer as the events unfold on the site.

Comment on links for 2010-03-21 by Emily

Emily — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:59:30 +0000

Catholic school kids write history. I like.