August 2011
“In America there is so much pressure about work, work, work, that it gets into...”
– George Sanders (the actor, not the writer, via)
July 2011
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#44: How You Get Unstuck →
Sugar is a titan of love.
This is how you get unstuck, Stuck. You reach. Not so you can walk away from the daughter you loved, but so you can live the life that is yours—the one that includes the sad loss of your daughter, but is not arrested by it. The one that eventually leads you to a place in which you not only grieve her, but also feel lucky to have had the privilege of loving her. That place...
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“Sweet Thang” - Shuggie Otis
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How the internet created an age of rage - The... →
Deindividuation is what happens when we get behind the wheel of a car and feel moved to scream abuse at the woman in front who is slow in turning right. It is what motivates a responsible father in a football crowd to yell crude sexual hatred at the opposition or the referee. And it’s why under the cover of an alias or an avatar on a website or a blog – surrounded by virtual strangers –...
“I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent...”
– Groucho Marx (via popculturecooking)
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Missouri school district bans "Slaughterhouse... →
Those poor kids. Sarah Ockler’s “Twenty Boy Summer” was also banned.
Worse than both might be that Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak” was almost banned, all thanks to one (home-schooling!) ass named Wesley Scroggins. He described the whole lot of books as “soft pornography” in some op-ed piece, which seems like a funny way of describing the sexual...
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EmptyPlatitudes.com →
Vacation
While I’m gone, remember: Don’t get anyone pregnant. Parties are OK, but you have to clean up. I don’t want to find lube in the fridge again.
See ya next week.
“Do you want to know why Ayn Rand’s books sell so well? Because she writes the...”
– Patrick O’Connor, Ayn Rand’s editor
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"Accident" →
by Dave Eggers
You all get out of your cars. You are alone in yours, and there are three teenagers in theirs, an older Camaro in new condition. The accident was your fault, and you walk over to tell them this.
Walking to their car, which you have ruined, it occurs to you that if the three teenagers are angry teenagers, this encounter could be very unpleasant. You pulled into an intersection,...
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Andrew: There's a great study out today I saw in the releases about how you're more likely to be attacked by a lion after a full moon.
me: Fucking science.
Andrew: For real. Those bastards will study anything.
15-Year-Old Girl Viciously Torn Apart By Rabid... →
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“But is Miranda July the archenemy of seriousness? She has an affinity for...”
– Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding
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“The Room Got Heavy” - Yo La Tengo
"Semantic Infiltration" →
claytoncubitt:
“But what do we cut when we cut government, or public, spending? We don’t just cut the disbursement of funds. We cut what those funds purchase. And what do they purchase? They purchase goods and services. National parks. The U.S. Navy. Some slight assurance that our air, food, and pharmaceuticals won’t poison us. Public safety (not “government safety”). Education. Highways. Air...
