January 2012
6 posts
December 2011
6 posts
November 2011
4 posts
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October 2011
3 posts
The Boston Globe of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000 →
I have a perverse love of predictions of the far future from around the turn of the century. Looking Backward blew my mind when I read it in high school, and this is right up that alley.
September 2011
5 posts
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“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a...”
– Elizabeth Warren (via youmightfindyourself)
[this has been making its way around for a week or so as an image and article quote. As a MA voter, I’ll definitely be going for her over Scott ‘I Have a Truck’ Brown.]
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WatchTig Notaro’s excellent impressionist impression.
August 2011
7 posts
Five things I’ll be doing while you’re at Burning...
carefully stewarding my pallor
repeatedly watching Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on the TiVo
defecating indoors—copiously, often, and without queueing
not tongue-kissing a sweaty Java programmer in clown makeup named “Shanti”
wearing clothes—lots and lots of square, capitalist, heinous-body-covering clothes
This one mostly goes out to Devie, who is the only person I know personally...
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July 2011
7 posts
The Most Awkward 404 Error Page On The Internet →
It’s almost painful it’s so awkward, and it goes on for bloody EVER. Charming, this. Basically how I interact with all humans ever.
what are parents
a: i will never even insinuate to my parents that i know what sex is
r: seriously. esp lesbian sex. like what is that to parents anyway
a: what is a sex? who knows. nobody here knows.
r: what is a dildo? who knows. nobody here knows.
a: its for cleaning out this vase *fucks a bong with a dong*
WatchFlorence and the Machine performing Cosmic Love on the The Colbert Report
An incredible performance. Breathtaking.
June 2011
7 posts
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The Pentagon Papers →
The complete, unredacted version of the Pentagon Papers was released at noon today, The 40th anniversary of the original leak.
Complete with supplemental information and a lot of previously unavailable stuff.
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First Listen: Bon Iver, 'Bon Iver' →
Well, this has been on repeat for long enough for some opinions to happen.
I like it. I’m super glad he’s still making music as Bon Iver.
i can’t stop listening to that lead-off track, Perth. That riff is so insanely familiar to me, I know that I must have played it at some point while noodling around with an electric. He builds the song beautifully from it.
That last...
Letters of Note: The human race is incurably... →
A brilliant letter from H.L. Mencken to Charles Green Shaw that is rife with delightful, witty opinions and bon mots. e.g. - “If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself. I’ll regret it bitterly for about a month, and then settle down contentedly.”
- “Ecclesiastics seem to me to be simply men who get their livings by false pretenses. Like...
Not by the Direct Method.: I've always loved... →
jessnevins:
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by a flaming eye, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the Minas Tirith streets at dawn looking for a golden ring, angelhaired horsemen and darkeyed Gondorrim burning for the ancient
heavenly connection to the starry Girdle in the machin- ery of Eru,...
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May 2011
11 posts
