Newmark's Door

Ha.

Anyway, if you’re looking for leafy green quads and Gothic architecture, you’ve come to the wrong place, but if you’re into concrete and slit windows, take a look at Dayzin Dorm on the right, which sort of looks like a maximum security prison if you see it from the wrong angle -- not that anyone ever wants to leave. We’ve got wifi in the bathrooms and vending machines on every floor. One even sells toilet paper.

Over here is Kent Reade Library, which -- let me check my notes -- at one time, in the 1980s, had over 200,000 books. But books take up a lot of space, y’know, so they, um, deaccessioned a lot of them and installed new research facilities. Over 50 internet terminals in these alcoves. Printers if you can get one that’s working. The espresso bar is pretty awesome. The books are over there, I think.

The Velvet Underground, 1969. Via Justin Wehr, who writes:

By the time Velvet Underground's "What Goes On" (original version, 9-minute version) was through with me, my eyes were shut, my stomach was up with my lungs, and my tongue was out with my chin. I wiped the drool away and thought, "I didn't know music could do that."

By Bill Russell (with Alan Steinberg). Free online.

The story of Russell's friendship with Red Auerbach. The book badly needs a good editor. But Mr. Russell has a lot of interesting things to say. 

I'd quibble: you probably need an Ivy League professor to write something this dumb.

Most New Yorkers won’t notice, concerned as they are with water, electricity, and the rat menace, but on Thursday the New York Times op-ed page published one of its sillier paeans to mass immigration. In “Innovative Immigrants“, Harvard Business School professor Thomas McCraw argues that we should amnesty 12 million illegal aliens because Alexander Hamilton was born in St. Croix. Really. 

But funny.

"Bob Knight Sportscenter Top 10 Soundbites".

Bonus: "Top Ten Press Conference Coaching Rants".