February 2011
The end of China's cheap denim dream - The... →
(via youmightfindyourself)
Sitting on a bale of denim in an idled factory, 24-year-old Wei Xiaofeng has a message for the West - the era of Chinese factories churning out dirt-cheap goods is over.
For years, her company, along with thousands of others in China, has helped British high street stores to offer cheaper and cheaper fashion - jeans that cost less than £10 or t-shirts for £3 - and...
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"All Eternals Deck" streaming on NPR →
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I'm on Goodreads →
Are you? Watch as I use the internet to guilt myself into reading more.
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Watch“Skywriting isn’t always positive.”
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There Ain't No Party Like a Dentist Party, Cause a... →
Dispatch 8 from Bianca, the covert Toronto escort with a day job:
As one of the drivers said to me recently, it’s important to get out in the real world, and prostitution is about “as real as it gets.” Services and money are exchanged as frankly as possible. There were a lot of elements about this I adopted almost alarmingly easily. The pseudo-monogamy, the sex with repulsive...
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What Your Favorite Classic Rock Band Says About... →
The Who: You own a Goldwing with a baby-changing station.
Ted Nugent: Your hair has at some point been caught in a ceiling fan, boat propeller, or lathe.
Deep Purple: Some part of a law named after a young girl applies to you.
David Bowie: There is still, somewhere, a Dig Dug or Zaxxon machine with your high score on it.
T-Rex: No matter how much you clean, there will always be trace...
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The Mountain Goats - Birth of Serpents
From All Eternals Deck (2011), as performed on The Late Show 2/23/11
Direct from John Darnielle’s Twitter:
“Any artist who is blase about being on TV, step aside and give us your space, because to us it is really, really hurt-our-faces-smiling fun.”
Very excited for this album, which I will probably go and buy...
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"Money pollution in Washington" - Bill McKibben →
What’s become clear is that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an organization formed in 1912, more than a century after the first local chamber came into being, is anything but a benign umbrella for American small businesses. Quite the opposite: it’s a hard-edged ideological shop. It was Glenn Beck, after all, who said of the chamber that “they are us,” and urged his viewers to send them money. (Beck...
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Public Service Announcements
You are awesome.
The “2008 Reserve de L’Estey, Médoc” from Trader Joe’s, which I think was $8, is much better than $8 French wine should be.
GRAH POLITICS
Lunch tomorrow is waffle bar. The toppings of the week: nutella and strawberries.
Who wants to get naked?
Straight Answers to Some Popular Rhetorical... →
Is there another word for synonym?
There are several, including alternate, alternative, equivalent, euphemism, and substitute, and that’s just in English.
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