http://maura.com now with permalinks. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:17:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i took a bit of time to walk around soho and tribeca today, continuing my trend of hanging out in areas of new york city where i worked in my flush-with-hope post-college years. and this caused me to add to the ever-growing list of places that don't exist anymore, except ... http://maura.com/archives/104 did i really not post here at all during february? talk about a leap month, get it? get it??? not much to report; everything i've been doing lately could be summed up with the phrase "trying to shake the winter off my back." the next two months are going to be ... http://maura.com/archives/103 ok, it's eight days old by now, but i've been thinking about the ways that virginia heffernan's piece in last week's new york times magazine about friday night lights and how its chances for success have been doomed in large part by its "lack of franchising" drove me batty. to ... http://maura.com/archives/102 the poll is up. also: my ballot, me on radiohead, my mix. http://maura.com/archives/101 on the first day of 2008, i: • played wii for the first time ever, complete with grouchy-ass-lookin' mii. • slept in. way in. like 11 a.m. in which is really still 2 p.m. in to me since i concievably should be on EST still. • rode an old-time carousel. • stuck my ... http://maura.com/archives/100 not that i don't think the majority of this site's traffic is coming from idolator as opposed to the other way around, but i have to say i've been really happy with the song writeups i've been doing for my and jess' top 40 list of awesomeness, and the listmaking ... http://maura.com/archives/99 yesterday i went to a wedding where the music setup consisted of a dj and a percussionist; the percussionist had congas, bongos, a cowbell, and some windchimes, along with a snare. every so often he'd bust out the windchimes for maximum balladry, but really his setup had the overall effect ... http://maura.com/archives/98 i have a new neighborhood. the limited time i've spent in it is making me think that it's going to be pretty fun to live in, if even worse for my diet than my now-expired easy access to my favorite fancy grilled cheese sandwich. there's a brazilian buffet on the ... http://maura.com/archives/97 i do miss baseball season, although not enough to start watching yankees classics. (yet.) http://maura.com/archives/96 that a night is going to be a good one: when you walk in, the jellybean benitez remix of "the mexican" starts playing. and then when you get home, a hype machine search helps you realize that it's a remix of another track that you've never heard before, and that ... http://maura.com/archives/94