February 2010
142 posts
“This is just a stopping-through place,” a busboy had told me on the day he quit....”
– Sayrafiezadeh, Said. “Appetite.” The New Yorker. March 1, 2010.
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Mary Lou Lord: About me and Kurt (what you don't... →
elsam:
leilacohan:
Oh my god, you guys, this shit is epic. Mary Lou Lord talks about Kurt Cobain in a lengthy (lengthy!) Facebook note.
Oh my god, this sprawling, rambling, amazing thing. How both weird and natural is it to read about Kurt Cobain in this fevered high-school girlish way of writing and loving?
We went upstairs and had one of the most insanely intense comversations about...
U-shaped Recovery
Brad: there is this thing that i could do
but its so boring
editing foreigners papers
me: listen to you
i'm trying to eat over here and you're talking about side cash for a major purchase
like
the way you're thinking about this mini van
i'm thinking about a sandwich
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If you are in the mood to read your Gchat logs, you should be doing something else instead.
Announcement
For the forseeable future, you can catch me multiple times a day at FishBowlNY, blogging about New York media, because why not.
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“Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par...”
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Some voices matter more than others
messianictime:
underneath the conservative popular base is the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other races and other colors, the unemployed and the unemployable. They exist outside the democratic process; their life is the most immediate and the most real need for ending intolerable conditions and institutions. Thus their opposition is revolutionary even...
"Time passed and, as it did, Lorrie Moore began to...
adrianeq:
However, doesn’t everyone hate to read something that feels jealous? Makes me kind of cringe…
Could you say a little more about what you mean by jealous?
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American Birds →
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Hi YM! Thanks for following!
Eyewitnesses are saying the plane that flew into an Austin building today was going “full-throttle.” But can you really tell if a plane is going full-throttle? Does an eyewitness to a plane crash ever say, “It looked like he was trying to slow down”? I’d imagine that any multiton airborne object looks like it’s going pretty fast. It’s not like you hear...
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Universal is fast-tracking a Kurt Cobain biopic. →
“Courtney Love is already on board as an exec producer.”
People are always complaining about shameless self-promoters, which is why I’m into shameful self-promotion. “I’m pretty awesome guys. Is this normal?”
psychobabble: Why We Love Narcissists (At First) →
Despite being self-absorbed, arrogant, entitled and exploitative, narcissists are also fascinating.
And not just from a clinical perspective; the research finds that we are strangely drawn to their self-centered personalities, their dominance and their hostility, their sensitivity and their…
die antwoord answer our questions →
By Pitchfork, the evil squatters of toddler-blogging.
Die Antwoord →
embody:
drinkyourjuice:
[via iwarnachild]
Guys. Die Antwoord has a tumblr.
Whatever, man.
I wonder if you can tell from my photos I'm...
