February 2012
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"Existential anxiety has become the central theme... →
“Checking Out” by Avi Steinberg in the Paris Review, a brief history of the naughty librarian. Who pitches this article? Really? I don’t know, but it’s kinda great.
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“Positive reinforcement is your enemy. Your Facebook friends, your Twitter...”
– Kenneth Jarecke, photographer
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john cage: some rules for students and teachers →
RULE SIX: Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.
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Start every day as a producer, not a consumer →
(via pieratt)
When you get up, you may start with a good routine like showering and eating, but as soon as you find yourself with some free time you probably get that urge to check Reddit, open that game you were playing, see what you’re missing on Facebook, etc.
Put all of this off until “later”. Start your first free moments of the day with thoughts of what you really want to do; those...
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Bill Callahan covers Leonard Cohen's "So Long... →
25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore by... →
3. If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they’re not looking for classics, they want the romance section.
5. If someone comes in and asks for a recommendation and you ask for the name of a book that they liked and they can’t think of one, the person is not really a reader. Recommend Nicholas Sparks.
9. No one buys self help books in a store where...
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The first time I've ever contacted tumblr support:...
Hi tumblr,
First, I want to say thank you for being a great platform. Loads of fun. My friends and I are addicts.
You added this new “highlighted posts” thing today. It’s cool. Great way to pull in some dollars, I’m sure. I was proud to use it to highlight the word “farts” to get some laughs.
Here is my question: do you store my credit card info? If so,...
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Farts
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The Devil in Greg Dark - Esquire (Feb. 2001) →
But that’s the thing with all the video work he’s been getting. It, like, comes to him. He was a pornographer, sure, maybe even the worst pornographer … but it’s not like he sits around plotting to direct Britney Spears, Mandy Moore, and Leslie Carter so that he can corrupt them and the little girls who idolize them. And it’s not like he has to worry about making...
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Watch“Reinvented curtains: they are made of pizza.”
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“We now live under the hybrid tyranny of middlebrow. No serious person believes...”
– Hari Kunzru, novelist, in The Observer
January 2012
“We’ve become the victims of our own success” →
Developers in the last half-century called it progress when they built homes and shopping malls far from city centers throughout the country, sounding the death knell for many downtowns. But now an alarmed cadre of public health experts say these expanded metropolitan areas have had a far more serious impact on the people who live there by creating vehicle-dependent environments that foster...
“Bob Dylan” is not his real name. The “Ramones” were not...”
– Don’t even need to read the rest of SPIN’s review.