January 2010
"One year, the Salingers forgot to buy Halloween... →
Salinger’s neighbors in Cornish, N.H. share their memories.
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"Not only does Meryl hold the title of the... →
thisrecording:
qichen zhang on meryl streep
Yes! An answer for my love/hate for Meryl.
America's Secret Afghan Prisions.
In the past few years Pashtun villagers in Afghanistan’s rugged heartland have begun to lose faith in the American project. Many of them can point to the precise moment of this transformation, and it usually took place in the dead of night, when most of the country was fast asleep. In its attempt to stamp out the growing Taliban insurgency and Al Qaeda, the US military has been arresting...
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Franny.
“I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”
She paused, and suddenly picked up her glass of milk and brought it to her lips.
“I knew it,” she said, setting it down. “That’s something new. My teeth go funny on me. ...
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Howard Zinn's [depressing] contribution to The...
“I’ve been searching hard for a highlight. The only thing that comes close is some of Obama’s rhetoric; I don’t see any kind of a highlight in his actions and policies. As far as disappointments, I wasn’t terribly disappointed because I didn’t expect that much. I expected him to be a traditional Democratic president. On foreign policy, that’s hardly any...
Bathtime in Clerkenwell - The Real Tuesday Weld
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First review of the new play my boyfriend wrote!
Offoffonline.com:
The third piece, entitled “Song Five, Circle Two,” is starkly different in tone from the other pieces. It is an abstract work, centering around sensual subject matter. The lead performer, Leilani Drakeford, is brilliant in her recitations of the imagistic text.
The work is a kind of poetry in its own right, both in text and physicality. The performers from the preceding plays...
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Waiting for the Apple Tablet, with Joel Johnson →
So this is the best thing I’ve read all week!
I feel like this is a ‘mood ring’ piece—you can read it at different times of the day or the year and whatever ‘meaning’ it has for you will change depending on how you’re feeling about the world that day. So far, on multiple readings, it has already seemed like a profoundly depressing piece AND a wonderfully...
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“It’s the strangest thing in the universe! Who are these people?!”
– My mom, on getting new Twitter followers for an account she has never updated and only ever created so that she could help Ashton, her one celebrity crush, reach a million followers.
“Put a Bangle On Instead”: The Pi Phi Plastics,... →
If I had a band, I’d name it “Ribbon Overkill.”
[Dan is killing it with this story.]
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The week of infinite sahdness.
#h8
#haiti
#heidi
#hugs
#hangovers
#healthcare
#h-airamerica
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Memo to Geithner
Never again get caught looking down, putting your hand on your face, pursing your lips, frowning, or looking anything but casually content, and especially not looking down while you have your hand on your face, because it’s not doing you any favors. Don’t you realize we can all use those photos and they totally help editors to help writers to prove the point about how you should be...
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"I will donate $1 to Haiti for every...
I used to think that the restaurants/brands/GAP outlets who promised to donate 10 cents of every dollar purchased were great, until I realized they were terrible. It’s like, just do it the Sandra Bullock way, you know? Just because you’re not the IMF doesn’t mean you’re not also giving a form of “conditional aid.”
And yet! Now I’m pretty sure I now get...
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"Mr. Garber fits the role as neatly as those silk... →
In today’s culture, celebrity increasingly looks to be about as much fun as a lifelong trip to the dentist. “Present Laughter” whisks us back to a more innocent past, when the trials of fame could still be negotiated with grace and style.
Word. Such a ‘fun romp!’
Conan for Treasury Secretary // The Nation →
NBC’s Jay Leno/Conan O’Brien saga has started to display the same structural shape—that is, high-handed corporate incompetence in which all nasty consequences are relentlessly shifted onto workers below the perpetrator in the pecking order—that has characterized our nation’s financial crisis.
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tylercoates:
All of the girls in my department were just pulled into an impromptu meeting with one of the managers and were told that there’s a new informal addendum to the dress code: “If you wouldn’t wear it without leggings, don’t wear it with leggings.”
I, on the other hand, will continue to wear it without leggings until I’m instructed otherwise.
HUH? Someone call the ACLU!
True story:...
On banishing the word "looting" in times of... →
Or not. Read this instead, it’s actually important.
When the Media is the Disaster:
Imagine, reader, that your city is shattered by a disaster. Your home no longer exists, and you spent what cash was in your pockets days ago. Your credit cards are meaningless because there is no longer any power to run credit-card charges. Actually, there are no longer any storekeepers, any banks, any...
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That wasn't a rhetorical open question!
Somebody answer me :(
When you're about to hit "enter" on a post that...
There’s a huge difference between writing “Lindsey Lohan is such a slag” and “BloggerXYZ is such a slag, and a bad writer at that” because BloggerXYZ has closely-monitored google alerts and free time and probably already reads you. Not to say that celebrities don’t have feelings or anything—but at least they profit from the publicity, even if it’s...
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Shocker: US Mercenaries Set Sights on Haiti // The... →
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My lack of excitement for the Coachella 2k10 lineup further proves that my music tastes will likely stay stuck in “supporting acts during Coachella 2005 lineup” for the rest of my life.
Instapaper's Kindle feature dramatically improved →
marco:
I’m very happy to announce the result of a lot of work that dramatically improves the Kindle edition of Instapaper: periodical formatting.
One of my favorite things about life right now is reading my Instapaper list on the kindle.
I wonder what Fergie and Josh Duhamel's...
The banality&batshitcrazy combination puts them on top of my fantasy eavesdrop list
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"It’s worth considering the different incentives... →
MLK wrote an annual civil rights audit for The... →
“Let Justice Roll Down,” 1963
“porque es ‘lady gaga’ tan famosa?”
– mi madre
So is Inglorious Basterds going to win everything...
Nope! Bummer.
Expect some typical ‘this-sucks-but-yeah-I-know-it-always-does-and-yet-I-still-watch’ angry liveblogging anyway
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"The battery charges quickly, which is more than I... →
tumblarrassed
is this a thing? it should be.