http://turalura.com No more secondhand God. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:40:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   The Loved One says: Go Phillies. It's just f*ckin South Brooklyn anyway. http://turalura.com/2008/10/29/phillies-win-the-world-series/ I remember the guy who gave me my first Birthday Party tape in 1988, a guy who liked me and hung around the disreputable biker bar where I worked, hoping I would sleep with him, which I didn't. He made a bunch of great tapes that were later stolen from ... http://turalura.com/2008/10/20/dig-yourself/   The NY Post is apparently chuffed* that Warhol collaborator and part-time Superstar Brigid Berlin (also know as Polk for her amusing habit of poking shots of speed into her hapless cohorts in the 60s, and daughter of Hearst magnate Richard Berlin and his society wife Honey- only in NYC, my ... http://turalura.com/2008/10/16/legendary-awesomeness/ So I should have written about this ages and ages ago, but now will just have to do. It's So You is 35 interesting, articulate women talking about their relationships and experiences with personal style, beauty and fashion. One of them is Jennifer Blowdryer, writer and underground style icon, who ... http://turalura.com/2008/10/10/its-so-you/ Ever wondered what was behind the imposing urban facade of 190 Bowery? NY Magazine has this slideshow accompanying their article claiming that photographer Jay Maisel pulled off "the greatest real estate coup of all time"* when he bought the former Germania Bank building for $102,000 in 1966. For years I was ... http://turalura.com/2008/09/23/inside-190-bowery/ Perhaps it's a Northeast-centric sort of thing, but I love concord grapes. Something about the dichotomy between the sweet, intense grapey-ness inside the skin and the sour slippery-coolness of the fruit. I love their black skins, I love teasing out the big, easy-to-spit seeds. They remind me of other ... http://turalura.com/2008/09/20/september-indulgence-concord-grapes/ Listening to you tonight at the RNC, I was struck by something you said. Referring to the Republican position on reproductive choice, you intoned (and I do paraphrase), "We believe that the sanctity of life begins at conception." Yes, Mr. Huckabee, ain't it the truth. Begins at conception, ends at birth. ... http://turalura.com/2008/09/03/dear-mr-obama/ You probably weren't paying real close attention to the music that was performed at the DNC on Tuesday, but the tremendous, just-on-the-verge-of-blowing-up-huge Alejandro Escovedo played "People (We Only Gonna Live So Long)" from his new album Real Animal, a great documentary story-telling epic about the old days of the late ... http://turalura.com/2008/08/28/alejandro-arrives-at-the-dnc/ Here's the Turalura Hanging Kicks Tshirt. What do you know about the Hanging Kicks? When I was a little kid and I saw a pair of sneakers hanging over a lamppost, I assumed that this was something bullies do: steal other kids' kicks and then throw them up there so the ... http://turalura.com/2008/06/23/hanging-kicks/ 3 months is too stupid long between posts, and I've been having so many amusing thoughts. So just pretend with me that it's March 21, and let's do this spring thing together. First of all, trees. Amazing, no? Trees go through the entire life cycle every year, dormancy, budding, sex, work, ... http://turalura.com/2008/06/15/tardy-spring-things/