Caine Blog

Another reminder of how the state in which I went to college - Minnesota - is so, so different from the cities I grew up in and live in now, Washington and New York respectively.  The following captures the deliberations of election judges as they attempt to discern the legality of particularly wonderful ballots.  Lizard [...]

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Fette Sau in Williamsburg is the kind of restaurant that always ends up being more expensive than you thought it would be.  Part of this is because of the restaurant’s style - you wait in line for your food, it’s carved onto a piece of paper, you sit on benches - and part of it [...]

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Going out on a limb here: Suckers will break out in 2009.  I feel so-so about saying these things, making these irresponsible predictions, but I think it just might happen.  They have the perfect sound for our terrifying times: weird orchestral howls, a singer who sings like the guy from Wolf Parade.  Slightly menacing pop.  [...]

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I need Twitter up in this piece.  Also, saw Suckers + Twi The Humble Feather last night.  Both solid.  Details forthcoming?  In 140 characters?

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Troy Patterson of Slate.
But first, a caveat: I don’t own a television, and I only watch Cops and Intervention online.  I don’t give a shit about Mad Men.  I know, I know, it’s so bold.  I know.
Anyway, Patterson writes like I’d kill to write, and his recent focus on sleazy shows (Tila Tequila, Real Housewives [...]

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Announcement time: I am now an assistant editor with the Onion AV Club New York and Decider.com, the latter of which doesn’t exist yet in New York but will soon.  Obviously I’m very excited to even have a job in these tough, tough times, so that’s about all that needs to be said on that [...]

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I’m growing tired - have been tired for some time, I suppose - of writers using their New York residency as a rhetorical device.  Maybe this was once acceptable, when being from the Upper West Side or the East Village had a concrete connotation, but increasingly the device feels like an amateurish way of bragging [...]

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You get what you pay for.  That’s what I’ve been told, and I never had any reason to disagree until I left college and started getting cool shit for free.  Sure, there was a college pub/venue that didn’t cost anything, but I always felt that my staggering tuition was an advance payment for, say, Enon [...]

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