December 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Watchdecameters:
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wild flag - romance
yep
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“oar is the funniest thing. just everything about oar. oar is so richly hilarious...”
– babydentures FUCKING GETS IT. (via kathbarbadoro)
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August 2011
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Adult fantasy author Lev Grossman on fan fiction... →
austinkleon:
Love what he says about fan fiction:
[Fan fiction] challenges just about everything we thought we knew about art and creativity…I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, but manipulating them and breaking their rules.”Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as...
“I would just add to that, if you live in one of the rich nations, you live...”
– Lierre Keith, Do We Need a Militant Movement to Save the Planet (and Ourselves)? (via cuntymint)
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Help Dani Zamora! →
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kathbarbadoro:
My buddy Dani from college just got deported after taking a wrong turn through a border checkpoint, despite living in the US for 11 years. He went to high school and college here, he has a Social Security number, a work permit, and a state issued ID. They detained him because he has the same name as some people with warrants, and while he has a clean criminal record, the...
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“DETROIT—After spending more than a century exploiting urban decay to create...”
– Artists Announce They’ve Found All The Beauty They Can In Urban Decay | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Yes it’s the Onion—and yes, it’s deconstructing and rebuilding narratives about Detroit! It shows that intense 50 page long critiques of a particular narrative (which is what I tend to...
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“Sometimes you have to look at the NY Times more like one of New York’s...”
– “Once you look at it like this, the biases in these types of stories become understandable and less frustrating. Still, if you’re going to call yourself the “New York” Times, you should try to focus on the citizens of “New York,” about 3/4 of whom live well beyond...
Blood Blister Sisters: fuck up / triumph mix →
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I went to another tUnE-yArDs show a couple of weeks ago and I was very much in love with Merrill Garbus again. “She’s so triumphant,” my friend Molly said. Yes! Triumphant. That is a word I hadn’t connected to Merrill Garbus before, but it fits her so well; it is a word that I think encompasses what I like about a lot of the music I listen to. Triumphant or exposed...
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July 2011
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“This was art acquired to teach a lesson, and there is also a lesson in the...”
– Joan Didion
The White Album, “The Getty”
Lost in Translation: The 50 Americanisms That... →
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nightline:
As collected by the BBC:
14. I caught myself saying “shopping cart” instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself. I’ve never lived nor been to the US either.
23. To put a list into alphabetical order is to “alphabetize it” - horrid!
36. Surely the most irritating is: “You do the Math.” Math? It’s MATHS.
#50 FTW.
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-----: Games played on Wild and Crazy Kids →
beckyontheinternet:
A game of “Human Battleship” which is played like the classic board game. When a player is hit, he or she would have a bucket of baked beans dumped on them.
Children would ride down a water slide, with a bucket attached to their head, and would also be wearing a backpack on their front…
June 2011
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“I want you to taste and smell me, want to be palpable, to get under your skin,...”
– RD Laing
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Rachel Monroe on Marion Milner's 'A Life of One's... →
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Relating really hard to most of this article and really want to read the book discussed in “2” now (even with the reservations about it discussed in “3” as WWJDS (What would Joan Didion say?) and the really important points made in “4”).
Some of that experimentation is through language, through the search for the right verbs and metaphors to translate her mind’s movement. It...
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May 2011
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“When anyone offers you something, including a new identity, you should always...”
– Lynda Barry, Cruddy (via believeinthefight)
