February 2010
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January 2010
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“So I can hardly escape the demands of the throbbing networked intelligence, the...”
– —Stop the World: Interesting Times : The New Yorker (via veraville)
This whole thing is good, but I especially relate to the dreadful realization “that I’ll have to get a BlackBerry,” which I have come to over and over again in recent months and felt like a total crone about...
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NYT | "Fela!" on Broadway - Feeling Unsettled at a... →
I guess I could probably make some argument about how the discussion of Vampire Weekend’s uncomfortable treatment of African culture being privileged over two black men’s uncomfortable treatment of African culture indicates some kind of troublesome, latent racism, but it’s probably more just because Fela! isn’t piping through every American fourteen-year-old’s earbuds...
“I always have, ever since I was a child. There are so many subtle variations of...”
– Sylvia Plath on nose-picking. (via sayyes)
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Oh, so this is what we do now. →
Some fine soul over at Hipinions discovered what I was already well aware of, which is that if you do a Google Image search for my name, the first result that comes up is the most Godawful nerdburger-y photo imaginable. It was taken to accompany an “around campus” profile of me written for my college’s website sometime during my junior year, which focused on my many exciting...
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Is Indie Dead? :: Paste →
chainofknives:
Well, okay, everyone’s going to be beating this to death for the next 48 hours or so (in between juvenile jokes about the iPad name and whinging about the State of the Union address, I guess) — and after speed reading (look, it’s kind of boring and TL:DNR in parts), I think I’ve decided that Rachael Maddux thinks this topic is more important than it actually is — a complaint I had...
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ohnotheydidnt: Is "Indie" Dead? (REDICULOUSLY LONG... →
When the Internet runs out of ways to say “tl;dr,” y’all can blame it on me.
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The Onion | Man Who Enjoys Thing Informed He Is... →
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lol im a noob →
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30 Rok.
fuckyeahlizlemon:
uprightcitizens:
Wake up in the morning feelin like Liz Lemon Got my glasses I’m out the door, I’m gonna get my geek on Before I leave brush my teeth and maybe grab a snack ‘Cause when I leave for the day I ain’t comin back I’m talkin ‘bout hot dogs on the street, street Chattin it up with Pete, Pete Meeting with the network elite, ‘lite Sketch writing, yelling at Frank and...
“Just be that old man you know lives deep inside of you, who is going to take his...”
– —Pep talk (via youdonthavethis)
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littlepotato:
there is a specific sadness that surrounds me upon returning home. it is not overwhelming nor unbearable. rather, it feels like some sort of confusion, a surreal separation. like when you are walking and think that someone is behind you and you continue talking about whatever nonsense. mid-sentence, you turn to find that they are not right there. perhaps they are taking a picture...
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“the kid gloves with which the stuff on this list is treated is unheard of from a...”
– —kiss out the jams: razzin’ jop (via desnoise) (via piercethenight)
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'Just Kids': Punk Icon Patti Smith Looks Back →
perpetua:
Terri Gross’ interview with Patti Smith is excellent, especially the stuff early on where she’s just talking about the beginning of her friendship with the late Robert Mapplethorpe. The story about Mapplethorpe rescuing her from a bad date with a creepy science fiction writer is golden.
This interview pretty much single-handedly sold me on reading the book—the story about that date...
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The Year of Too Much Consensus →
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(the number of critics voting has crashed in the last few years).
Actually this isn’t true if you look at Glenn McDonald’s vote counts from his number-crunching:
2009: 696 voters 2008: 577 2007: 784 (pnj/idolator combined) 2006: 799 (pnj/idolator combined) 2005: 791 2004: 793 2003: 726 2002: 692 2001: 617 2000: 581!
Back up after a definite crash last year — which was only...
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“How did such a stylistically fluid and wildly praised crossover move emerge from...”
– —New York pazzandjop - Dirty Projectors, Solange Knowles, and the Perils of Music-Racism - page 1
I don’t know, you’ll have to read the rest of Maura’s essay to find out.
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This was a nice read, but my gosh, what pagination trickery! The last paragraph on the first page sets up...
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“Underneath everything else, all the plans and goals and hopes, that’s why...”
– —Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life
I just finished this book and I am kind of overwhelmed by its simplicity, or maybe just by the strange feeling of being swaddled and loved by a book rather than alienated and abused (yep, still on page 400 of Infinite Jest). I have a feeling this will all make much...
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