January 2012
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Seven Things the Internet* Thinks About...
1. “Increasingly, the process of novelisation goes hand in hand with a strait-jacketing of the material’s expressive potential. One gets so weary watching authors’ sensations and thoughts get novelized, set into the concrete of fiction, that perhaps it is best to avoid the novel as a medium of expression.”
2. ”I always feel like I’m lying when I write poems. Whatever idea I want...
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December 2011
3 posts
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November 2011
1 post
Ericapolis: Beyoncé groupthink →
ericapolis:
After reading this excellent Hairpin piece, friends and I brainstormed some new “Beyoncé songs re-imagined as undergraduate theses in women’s or gender studies”:
I Was Here: Records Left by Non-Literate Persons at the Fringe of the Ottoman Empire
1 + 1: The Cultural and Economic Status of…
Stupid reblog function cuts off the best one. (Hint: it’s about penis envy.)
September 2011
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“It is a curious fact of life in New York that even as the disparities between...”
– Protesters Are Gunning for Wall Street, With Faulty Aim - NYTimes.com
New York—still not catching up with Wisconsin.
August 2011
2 posts
May 2011
2 posts
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April 2011
1 post
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Tiny Homes By Increasing Square Footage
84 square feet - Olympia, WA
90 square feet - Manhattan (via Thought Catalog)
96 square feet - Sebastapol, CA
344 square feet - Hong Kong
??? square feet - ???
March 2011
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Scattered Trees' Sad Stormtroopers Video →
My friend Jason’s video is on BoingBoing!
Some haters in the comments say it’s inaccurate to have emo stormtroopers wield lightsabers while they make out with Queen Amidala, but I say, if General Grievous can do it, anyone can.
February 2011
2 posts
Pitchfork: Articles: Live Transmission →
Awesome, informative, looong article about how the passage of the Local Community Radio Act could encourage community engagement/musical diversity via low-power FM stations. I’m usually not that wonkish about these things, but maaaan, radio today sucks, unless you want to hear an endless stream of Katy Perry singles - often the same Katy Perry singles, played simultaneously on separate...
January 2011
8 posts
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“Hospitality, I think, markets itself wrong, all kindness and open arms to make...”
– Modern Hospitality by David Wheeler - The Morning News
Which greasy grey-haired man is creepier?
ericapolis:
Denethor or Bob?
This is a trick question! The real answer is 65-year-old Christian Bale.
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“Security at 24 Sussex was overhauled following a November 1995 attempted...”
– 24 Sussex Drive | Wikipedia
December 2010
5 posts
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I WANT ALL OF THESE →
Lit nerdage… fashion edition
The Urbane Tomboys | The New York Observer →
Also, this. While it’s definitely a ‘silly trend piece,’ it’s still always nice to be reminded how sexy sweatshirts and sneakers are. This is also one of the reasons I continue to watch 30 Rock even though almost every episode this season has been forgettable: one can forget (really!) that hot women look just as hot when their mouths are stuffed with breakfast pastry. I...
Tiger Beatdown › 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon →
How did I miss this one? (via)
November 2010
17 posts
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Unborn Baby Attempts Scene From the Movie Aliens «... →
I’ve always had some qualms about getting pregnant. This video doesn’t help.
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Fashion Prognostication
Special Agent / American Apparel Spokesmodel Dana Scully
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Damn You Auto Correct! →
STOP EVERYTHING this is my new favorite blog.
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What is up with avocados lately
First there was the hard, plasticky Dorian Gray avocado that never ripened or rotted in several weeks even after being cut open and exposed to air. Now the avocado in my salad tastes sugary as a melon. What is going on?
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“He had so often heard these things said that they did not strike him as...”
– This is my favorite passage of Madame Bovary. I think it applies to this discussion…
“One should be able to tone down, Zadie thought, those exaggerated speeches that mask lack of feeling - as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest Facebook wall...
circlingskeleton:
The part (in Zadie’s original article) about the imagined post of memorial struck extra hard with me, too. Mainly because I’ve experienced the real deal first hand, a… let’s say an acquaintance of mine in high school died, oh what, two years ago (wow), but his facebook page, to this day!, is still posted upon, with posts very similarly vague and lacking...
“I’m now in a long-distance relationship. Part of our thing is to trade...”
– Literary Writers and Social Media: A Response to Zadie Smith - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
This rebuttal to the Zadie Smith Facebook piece makes some good points, but the more personal concluding paragraphs are my favorite part.
circlingskeleton:
maviswillsaveus:
During my latest round of job-hunting, I noticed on craigslist that the Gap was hiring. “Oh god,” I thought, “remember when you had to work there in high school?” I was inspired to write this.
That post (and if you don’t read that blog, you should, cha) tangentially reminds me of the summer of ‘06, when I worked as a dishwasher/shrimp peeler at Ragin’...
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During my latest round of job-hunting, I noticed on craigslist that the Gap was hiring. “Oh god,” I thought, “remember when you had to work there in high school?” I was inspired to write this.
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“TBD: Growing up in Rockville, how important was riot grrrl to kids in your high...”
– Girls to the Front author Sara Marcus on riot grrrl, DIY feminism, and Rockville - Amanda Hess | TBD.com
“I think the best intellectual work comes from emotional response. Mine does,...”
– Run Away Fast As You Can | Pop Culture and Feelings
YES. Feelings are important. Read this blog!
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Five Thoughts
1. The fact that “ladies’ night” and “girls’ night” mean two totally different things might be expected to confuse foreign exchange students. (Free teen comedy subplots right here! Come and get ‘em!)
2. Commentary about what the Rally To Restore Sanity “meant” or what Stewart and Colbert were trying to “do” tends to disregard the...
October 2010
18 posts
“You braid into your music all these little things that you hope people will...”
– Rethinking the Process (Daedelus Interviewed) | MonsterFresh.com
Quite self-sufficient, isn’t he?
All sorts of awful sounds - rumblings, roarings, tappings - around the house today. The wind is also making the building shake. Blustery days in Chicago are no joke.
barthel:
perpetua:
Kimya Dawson tells the...