February 2012
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“The shows that came after are supposed to be “aspirational,” but [their...”
– Splitsider | Inside Clarissa Explains It All with Creator Mitchell Kriegman
I mean, you should probably just read this.
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“I wanted to create a character that would be Nickelodeon, so to speak. I had...”
– Splitsider | Inside Clarissa Explains It All with Creator Mitchell Kriegman
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“…the man now living in the Hamptons with his 14-year-old daughter (whom he...”
– Splitsider | Inside Clarissa Explains It All with Creator Mitchell Kriegman
Ahh what is this liquid coming out my eyeholes?!
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“When I die, I want to be tickled to death, eat too much, or be shot by a jealous...”
– My girl-cousins’ grandmother—theirs not mine, not the one we share—passed away this week. I remember one of them, at some point, telling me she’d said this, but I forgot about it until my cousin Claire posted it on Facebook earlier today. In the end, not one of these three things were...
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“When people ask me to explain the South, I usually don’t have an answer beyond...”
– Oxford American editor Marc Smirnoff’s dismantling of Garden & Gun is totally cutting, totally smart and totally overdue. It makes me proud to be a Southerner as well as an OA contributor.
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“I got a super angry hate mail the other day. According to this lady, she and her...”
– MTV Hive | Bon Rappetite Brings Hip-Hop Hilarity to the Kitchen
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“The idea for Rowan’s next project came when a friend approached his mother in an...”
– The New Yorker | Quentin Rowan, a.k.a. Q. R. Markham, Plagiarism Addict
This guy, man. This guy. [Shakes head/shakes fist/makes Marge Simpson noise]
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“Coming Soon: The Scoop on Poop. Opens May 26, 2012. Fish do it, frogs do it,...”
– FERNBANK MEMBERSHIP = TOTALLY WORTH IT
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“I agree with you that some details are crucial, while others are peripheral. I’d...”
– The Wag | YOU’RE A FUCKING IDIOT: A Critical Discourse on John D’Agata’s “The Lifespan of a Fact”
This whole dialog is very much worth reading; this is the part that gets most directly at what has really been stuck in my craw about Lifespan of a Fact, which you can...
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“Here’s my theory: some girls just want to go apeshit. They want to scream and...”
– The Paris Review + Hanson = omg
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“Favorite “Simpsons” Episode: There’s one where Lisa becomes...”
– Guest Lists: Sharon Van Etten | Features | Pitchfork
Ahem hem (pushes glasses up nose) those are actually two separate episodes—”Lisa the Vegetarian” and “Lisa the Tree Hugger”—which I only know because “Lisa the Vegetarian,” from season seven, is one of MY...
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“I know that there are amazing and talented editors at these magazines who would...”
– Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags (via thisisareallybadidea, via maura)
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“What effect does it have on a writer to be constantly confronted with facts that...”
– Salon | In defense of fact checking (via michelledean)
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Gmailing with my husband, a study in priorities
Joe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok
Joe: Earth is amazing!
Me: LL COOL J IS HOSTING THE GRAMMYS THIS SUNDAY NIGHT
Me: DO YOU THINK HE WILL SING DEEPEST BLUEST
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I was looking for a post some other Os Mutantes...
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“Every single person, it seems like, is dancing. There are clusters of pals in...”
– Grantland | Dropping the Bass: A Night With Skrillex
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“Ms. Bennett, when asked what statement Tumblr was making by bringing her and Mr....”
– NYTimes.com | Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself
It seems to me that a more effective way of “celebrat[ing] creativity and innovation” among one’s users would be making it easier for those users to find one another, not via “curation” but by, say, a search function...
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“After arriving in Stockholm to receive her Nobel, reporters at the airport asked...”
– Boston.com | Poland’s 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88
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“Sliced white bread as we know it today is the product of early twentieth-century...”
– The Believer | Atomic Bread Baking at Home
This is not just an article about the history of white bread in America; it is an excerpt from a whole entire book about the history of white bread in America. America!