May 2012
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What's Wrong With Urban Outfitters? →
Related to last. Also.
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"There are nine galaxies for each of us. Each... →
Four things Choire regrets telling you. →
Today’s Awl newsletter is a thing of beauty.
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'I Was There': On Kurt Vonnegut →
William Deresiewicz rereads the first seven novels.
“The cruelest thing you can do to Kerouac,” Hanif Kureishi has a character say in The Buddha of Suburbia, “is reread him at thirty-eight.” If that was true, I wondered as I opened the first two volumes of the Library of America’s ongoing series of the complete novels, then what of Vonnegut at a decade older still? The two are linked, of course,...
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It’s not only deep thinking that requires a calm, attentive mind. It’s also empathy and compassion. Psychologists have long studied how people experience fear and react to physical threats, but it’s only recently that they’ve begun researching the sources of our nobler instincts. What they’re finding is that, as Antonio Damasio, the director of USC’s Brain and...
“‘Dad rock’ is an epithet used by snarky people looking to denigrate...”
– Today in excellent music reviews: the A.V. Club on “Heaven” by The Walkmen
"But what it's about, finally, is not feeling... →
Maria Bustillos and David Roth talk privilege, are excellent.
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“He taught people to commit. Like: “Don’t walk out there with one...”
– Bill Murray talks about Del Close, is a great interview subject
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STREAM/BUY WHITE LUNG'S NEW RECORD NOW →
There goes the last of my spending $$$.
"Capitalism wears many uniforms. But it’s designed... →
Steve Almond’s THE WEEK IN GREED continues to be excellent.
Who Charted? #77: Plant-Based Dick →
This is cracking my shit up. WC is a regularly good podcast, but Pete Holmes brings some psycho-guest magic.
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“Before, when your shift was done, you were finished. When the inbox was empty,...”
– Seth Godin
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USHER vs SANTIGOLD ABX - See Youth...
I’m 26 years old today. A lot of you are older than me, so this is old news, but some of you aren’t. In case you’re young and curious: nothing changes.
It’s like waking up in the morning. You open your eyes and you look at the clock that reads 7:25 and you think “I should get in the shower” but you don’t move. You open your eyes again and you look at the clock that reads 7:26 and you think “I...
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“There’s more than escapism going on here. Why do we seek out these hard places...”
– Lev Grossman is here to make us feel better about our guilty pleasure genre fiction.
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All the World is Staged →
IN SINGAPORE, match fixing grew into its own tightly governed enterprise. Based on extensive interviews with Eaton’s team and syndicate sources in Asia, this much is known: The syndicate is run by four bosses — led by a man named Dan Tan Seet Eng — whose legitimate businesses enable them to fund the payouts and travel expenses that fixers require to execute a scheme. Once the...
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WatchCan - “Little Star Of Bethlehem”
Listening to krautrock and drinking Sixpoint Apollo for the rest of the night. NO REGRETS POSSIBLE.
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A Letter to the People Who Wrote Letters to Each... →
Now disappointed that I didn’t join The Rumpus’ “Letters To Each Other”
Dear letter writers,
You have been coming to my house for weeks now, in trickles at first and then in floods as the deadline got closer. My mailman must be so confused; it’s been all Cooking Light and utility bills until now.
I took the first five of you to a coffee shop, and I fell in love with...
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Watch“What if you had to trade in your car for a pig with a saddle on it?” “Absolutely, that would be fantastic.” “Yeah, you’re right. That’d be awesome. Nevermind.”
