Our Solemn Vow
To the new visitors who have discovered the Web Presence in the past few days, we promise you that — with the unfortunate exception of this sentence — you will never read the word “limn” on this website.
View ArticleCiao! LS.com Hiatus
Gentle readers, we are outta here. We’ll catch you on the far flip side of Labor DayMonday, Sept. 8, to be exactingand bid y’all Godspeed til then.
View ArticleComment Ca Va?
Some interesting vendettas scoops are popping up in the Below 14th comments this week. A few gems: 1) Regarding Patricia Yeo: “Anyone who has worked for Ms. Yeo knows that she is horrible and her...
View ArticleChristmas Holiday
With this post, LS.com is officially on Christmas holiday. We’ll return on December 30th and 31st with the Second Annual LS.com Lower East Side Awards to close out 2003. Until then, we bid ye glad...
View ArticleWest Coast Update
Coming to you this chilly morn from the glory that is Oakland, CA, fresh off some Sonoma wedding goodness this past weekend. On Wednesday: to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show and then a...
View ArticleSurf The Wave
Busy behind the scenes here this week at The Presence. In our absence, we suggest your surf JVG‘s new Kinja digest. According to the man himself, it “demonstrates, surely, the epitome of what Kinja was...
View ArticleBelow 14th: The End of an Era
Regular readers of Below 14th, the downtown food-and-drink sidebar that appears to the left of this space (and, indeed, on its very special own page), have perhaps noticed a relative pittance of posts...
View ArticleBelow 14th Benediction
It is sad, but telling, that Below 14th exits this world with a whimper, not a bang. Coming this afternoon, our fond farewell. Monday, something newand, we hopefun. Meantime, this space will resume...
View ArticleIt Takes A Villager
Some people dream of making it into the Talk of the Town. (Unlike a certain agent we know, our deflowering in that department came thanks to a particularly insipid quote several years back.) However, I...
View ArticleQuiet Period
We’re not dead, nor are we overconsumed with “another blog.” This space cries out for love, and love it shall have, as soon as we tidy the place up a bit. Please bear with us, as we bear with you.
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Found in the course of the redesign, LS.com as it looked in Sept 01, Jan 02, April 03, and just a few minutes ago.
View ArticleNew Digs
Despite the fact that I haven’t yet received the payout on my ALCS bet with Ken (for easy reference, Luger‘s number is 718-387-7400), it’s time for LS.com to cease its glorious run as a Red Sox blog...
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Krucoff: “Lockhart re-launches his eponymous blog only to link to his real estate blog, thereby invoking the ever popular marketing concept of cross self-promotion.” And a Googlewhack is born!
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JVG comments on the redesign “innovations” of LS.com. Among them: “Oppressive ‘headlines’ for posts eliminated, reducing need for ‘cleverness’ by a whopping 14%. Cutting edge c. 1995 “basic black”...
View ArticleThe Revenge of the Presence
Horribly quiet around these parts for February. Let’s get going again for March. This could be the biggest month in blog history; daren’t not miss it.
View ArticleZen
Gone zen here at LS.com for a moment to clear out the old. New goodies coming soon.
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The Way We Were
Finishing some long overdue cleanup around these parts, stumbled upon the above Webalizer traffic stats for LS.com back in the halcyon days of 2002-2003. Note the uptick starting in December 2002...
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The Fall Begins
Signs you haven’t posted to your blog in awhile: you do not recall the width for photos. (500px, for future reference. Above, final sunset of the summer from PNYC.) Been a little sleepy around LS.com...
View ArticleLS.com Vital Information Alert
Activity for this web presence happens these days at the LS.com Tumblr Outpost. Drop by. Seeking a trip down memory lane? Peruse the LS.com Archives or the Below 14th Archives. Other means of possible...
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Back to the Blog
[LS.com homepage, September 2001] I sat on the roof of my apartment building last week with my old friend Jonny Porkpie, talking to him about this idea I had to relaunch my personal blog. Jonny,...
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“YOU HAVEN’T BLOGGED IN FIVE DAYS!” reads the subject line of a charming email I just received from Elizabeth. Well, she’s right. Last Thursday and Friday kicked my ass at work, indicating I need to...
View ArticleWelcome 2015
A photo posted by Lockhart Steele (@lock) on Dec 12, 2014 at 8:27pm PST Last night, the wife and I rang in the new year at Kate Lee and Zach Seward‘s wedding at Liberty Warehouse in Red Hook. I’d...
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