December 2011
I'm forcing Karl to listen to the first album by...
I can feel my shallow grasp on heteronormative behavior slowly slipping away.
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Cause of death: double-double animal style
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"He said that the bankers were not the bad guys in... →
If you have not read John Hodgman’s expert analysis on the particular derangement of millionaires, it’s well worth it.
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WatchThe Mountain Goats cover “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”
He breaks from the original lyrics once around the three minute mark. It makes the whole video.
"Beyond racial," he says, "it's profiling by the... →
No African Americans owned homes there until 2003, when mortgage officer Karen Watson purchased a house on ritzy Beverly Drive. “Guess who’s coming to dinner—and staying for awhile?” wrote the local paper, Park Cities People. According to the 2010 census, Highland Park is 94.4 percent white (PDF). In 2005, Highland Park High School students celebrating “thug day” and...
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“Spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and...”
– Nicholson Baker (via youmightfindyourself, The Anthologist is one of the best books I read this year)
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“That wasn’t even the last day. There were more. It was hard to believe, but this...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan’s pot-filled Disney World safari is the best thing the NYT published all year. It almost makes up for the hipster trend garbage. Almost.
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WatchSanta Election 2012. Vote Grumm.
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The Demands of Cold Blood →
jasencomstock:
When a crime reporter is told an outlandish account, his first obligation is to establish the facts. But when the story turns out to be far more shocking—a conspiracy, in fact, of appalling darkness—it can knock his sense of duty until it cracks.
This was excellent. It’s also the USA’s definition of justice.
What Comstock said.
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nebraska-admiral:
“Boxcar” by Jawbreaker
1, 2,...
"Fuck 'em." Shortest prayer in the world. →
—Gary Oldman
WatchHow Whiskey Stones Get Made, video by Galen Summer (via The Awl)
“This stubbornness of taste is one of the things, as I approach thirty, that I’m...”
– Ben Dolnick: “Taste Has Never Met Shame”
'An Open Letter to Writers of Open Letters' by... →
We need to have a talk, under the illusion of its taking place in private but actually for anyone to read. Also, the talk will be unilateral and you will never respond to it. Ready? It doesn’t matter, because I’m not listening to you!
The practice of writing open letters must stop. Sure, it was a creative epistolary form back in the days of the Bible, and was used effectively throughout history...
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Four Tet - “Moma”
Off the...
I haven't heard back
John: karl
John: why can't i interact with people with as much confidence as i do when interacting with cable companies
me: because cable companies are ethically-bankrupt demon spirits put on this earth to destroy us through frustration and bullshit. you can not hurt a cable company's feelings. you can not say the wrong thing at the wrong time.
me: hopefully that answers your question
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The Millions' Year in Reading 2011 →
I couldn’t tell you what the best book I read this year was, but these much more talented and capable people can, people like Jonathan Safran Foer, Jennifer Egan, and poet laureate Philip Levine.
Don’t let the overwhelming number of great books that you’ll never have time to read paralyze you!
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“And now we get to prematurely place behind us another quite troubling incident...”
– Choire Sicha nailed it