January 2010
We just walked past a "famous" blogger on 23rd St...
Eventually he tied his shoelace at a streetcorner and pretended not to have noticed but I could TELL he was looking for us.
Bloggers: you can just yell “I read your blog” and anyone will think you’re talking about them especially if they write for Gawker.
Happy new decade!
December 2009
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Ten years ago, George W. Bush thought a Glamour...
A gem I just came across in Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side.
Happy new decade!
2009: Got Kissed on New Year's and Then Dumped on...
This year, I:
Got broken up with by one of my best friends
Discovered Ida Maria, my musical spirit animal
Obsessed over 2666; never finished 2666
Saw the Cobrasnake buying hair dye in Duane Reade and Tao Lin on subway platforms
Blogged about my mom at 23, and then she got on BONERPARTY
Got saved by the real Zadie Smith on the subway
Graduated in a funeral dress and coughed through the...
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“For centuries unjust laws banned marriage between blacks and whites or Indians...”
– Mexico City leads a progressive cause by approving gay marriage. Who would’ve thought.
SUPER PROUD.
"We create celebrities in large part to watch them... →
Aren’t We Enjoying All This Celebrity Death a Little Too Much? // Esquire
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“In a poll by The Associated Press and Stanford University, published this month,...”
– Global warming a tough sell for the human psyche // AP
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"This latest draft is so weak as to be... →
The Guardian live-blogs the end of Copenhagen/the world.
carey mulligan
believe the hype!
OH YEAH
brianlovesthis:
ferrrn:
I just remembered:
RUDO Y CURSI FOR BEST PICTURE!
Really? I mean, I guess the “I Want You To Want Me” music video secures its immortality forever, true.
no, not actually, but it was one of the year’s best. and it’s been forgotten!
Either that, or Adventureland
The movies I liked most this year got no cred. Adventureland was marketed wrong! Very few people got to realize it was awesome! Then again, we all remember (actually, I had forgotten until right now) when The Wackness got snubbed and I wrote about it on Flavorwire. Sigh.
OH YEAH
I just remembered:
RUDO Y CURSI FOR BEST PICTURE!
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peterfeld:
inothernews:
“If you think you are sick of Joe Lieberman now, just wait until you get sick.”—JIM SHEA, columnist, Hartford Courant (via the New York Times)
The Decade of the Skank, basically →
When did you first realize that you were a...
[Any variation on an answer is valid. Kind of like “the way you choose to answer the question IS the answer itself” ish. I’m working on an end of decade piece, and I’d love to see what you all think about about the problematic nature of the “hipster” label.
I’ve never tried this crowdsourcing thing, but Tumblr seems like the right place to start for this...
From "The Dark Art of Description" in The Iowa...
“‘Know thyself!’ A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development.
A caterpillar who wanted to know itself would never become a butterfly.”
— Andre Gide
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"Hipsters in vintage concert tees and Buddy Holly... →
Totally the right approach, guys! Yup. (Earlier)
Must watch!
The first time Howard Zinn’s now-classic book “A People’s History of the United States” appeared on TV was in “The Sopranos” on HBO, when Tony’s teenage son A.J. came home from school with a copy of the book and told his parents that, according to Zinn, Columbus was a slaveowner and murderer. Tony got mad, and replied, “In this house Columbus is a...
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“We kept reading in the news about economic... →
- Viktor Horsting to Vogue.com on the Viktor & Rolf S/S 10 collection.
TOTALLY THE RIGHT APPROACH, GUYS!
At least check out The Nation's prettttty awesome... →
This was a huge coup for me, you guys.
(with help from the best brother in the world, of course)
Not an endorsement of this opinion about Newsweek,...
Writes Charles Pierce, journalist, on a guest post for Eric Alterman’s blog at The Nation:
I have been fortunate enough to spend most of my career writing for magazines. I like to think I’ve got a pretty good bead on what the various critters who edit them are going for at any one time. But, for the life of me, I can’t figure out what Parson Meacham is trying to put together at...
In which Brit brilliantly articulates our...
britticisms:
The Aughts: Trying to Say The Things I Can’t Say
We talk about nothing, except for when we talk about Something, in which case our conversations only graze the surface. I don’t know if this is because we are uninformed, or that the subjects are too upsetting and complicated to warrant even an attempt at a thorough conversation.
Maybe not we; perhaps just me.
I think about...
dpdsprings:
Ugh, getting academic extensions is proving to be as challenging as I always assumed getting hair extensions might be.
Just grant them to yourself. In that scenario, one is much much easier than the other!
The AP Gets Into Social Media With Climate Change... →
Awesome:
The AP and other news orgs are joining forces next week, when Copenhagen will play host to the United Nations’ climate conference. Not only will this information conglomerate — which includes news agencies like the Netherlands’ ANP, the Canadian Press, APcom of Italy, Germany’s dpa, RIA from Russia and Agence France-Presse — have a name, The Climate Pool, but...
Yes, I also have better things to do than Tumbl about it. Now I feel dirty.
ALSO
(Unless I removed it from the tumblr “re-blog” chain, the attribution is still there, as far as I’m concerned. All one did was type two words into google. It was a fascinating result. But do we have to assault someone’s personality and attack their outlook on the world and the ways in which they’re failing themselves?! Couldn’t it just have been a friendly...