February 2012
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Every Wes Anderson Slow-Motion Shot, Set to Ja... →
pimperypays: ATTN ALL (ESPECIALLY MICHELLE AND LINDSAY)
Feb 10th
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“Well, my favorite band is Bad Brains. When I was younger I used to listen to a...”
– Lil Jon, February 2007
Feb 10th
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How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy... →
Maura’s piece not only is essential reading but also will in the future serve as a handy one-line dismissal of writing that fails one or more of these four metrics.
Feb 10th
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mikkipedia: It is impressive that the writing about LDR is so bad that even people who think she is terrible have to take issue with it. I really frequently wish people would take issue more often with bad writing that doesn’t necessarily contradict their opinions on the subject of that writing. But except in these extra-special cases that seems to have gone the way of copyediting.
Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Yo, Them's The Jams Right There (1992)
kfan: Need to give a very important shout-out to this book.  @siik is hands-down my favorite DJ. I’ve been listening to his music for YEARS—he has this passion for 90s r&b that thrills and delights me. And now he made a book about it! And it’s SO GREAT! He took the Billboard Hot 100 R&B chart from 1992, then went through the YouTube comments for each video, and curated memories that...
Feb 10th
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Puerto Rico lo hace mejor.
baddominicana: liquornspice: manifestfreedom: papertopen: tumblricans: OH MY GOD. BEST RECEIPT EVER. my spanish. mi gente. LOVE <3 *linguistgasm* lol you make me wanna type all dominican’ed out just for you.
Feb 10th
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mikkipedia: [Lana Del Rey’s] work is a lightning rod. For bad writing.
Feb 10th
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pterodactyls asked: Have any amusing Valentine's Day stories to tell us? If not: Presidents' Day? Leap Day? Tortilla Chip Day?
Feb 10th
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girlboymusic asked: Are Cheez Doodles better than Cheetos? Are the crunchy ones better than the puffed?
Feb 10th
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Reblog if you'll answer anything in your ask right...
isabelthespy: allecto: I’m incredibly bored, so why the hell not? do iiiiit this is true as a rule for me actually
Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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steverettger: I was able to read through the 9th Circuit’s Perry decision today and consequently found the best citation ever: High Tech Gays, et al v. Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office, et al 895 F.2d 563 (9th Cir. 1990) Mhm, that’s right: High Tech Gays v. DISCO. From the class definition in the underlying complaint: All gay persons who, since January 1982, have applied...
Feb 9th
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maura: sigh sigh
Feb 8th
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“The Michael Jackson cacophony is fascinating in that it is not about Jackson at...”
– James Baldwin on Michael Jackson, 1985 “Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated–in the main, abominably–because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.” (via jessethorn)
Feb 8th
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michelledean: basquecuisine: I’m meeting with Edward Orloff soon, and my writing was complimented by people like a former editor of FSG, Stephen Elliott… Say you don’t like my writing, but don’t say that I’m definitively a horrible writer because you don’t like it. Realize this is pretty unbecoming, but I just dislike the arrogance. Marie: It is my opinion that lots of my own writing...
Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Lana Del Rey’s tour is canceled to distance... →
lastbutnotleast: God, her management is the worst. After putting her on national TV before she was ready, they’re going to deny her opportunities to practice and become a better performer. Because it could hurt album sales… Am I reading it wrong or are they sacrificing her revenue stream for their own? No, you nailed it.
Feb 7th
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"But that’s what art does. Madonna’s religious... →
lastbutnotleast: barthel: Here is a thing I wrote a while back that you may find relevant today, especially given my decision to generally Keep My Mouth Shut About the Whole Thing. (Though see “heel.”) But just between us, isn’t flashing the middle finger something a JV cheerleader does in her facebook photos? Or am I becoming impossibly old? I never would have guessed that the young would...
Feb 6th
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Rapper Ja Rule, serving two years for gun... →
thenotes: The Queens-raised rap star says disgraced pol Alan Hevesi and corporate greed poster-boy Dennis Kozlowski took him under their wings.
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Gentrification in Black and White →
In December, the news arrived that the District’s population had increased by 16,000 people in a little over a year. The Post’s story called the change “remarkable” and spoke of “a turnaround in the city’s fortunes and image.” But it left me wondering: Who’s moving in? And who is leaving? From my view on Irving Street NW, I think I have a pretty...
Feb 6th
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Worst. RPG. Ever. →
It’s 1848. You are Lucy King, a 14-year-old slave in Kentucky. Will you find a path to freedom? This was produced by WNET Thirteen!
Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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milkeemountainmama: This started as a “side note” to another post, but i felt like it didn’t belong at that post when i was done, so here it is existing all by itself! there was a significant population of black and chican@ people (and I’m sure there were other races, but these are the two I am most aware of) who refused to serve during WW2 because segregation was still law of the land in the...
Feb 5th
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Roosevelt Island - Wikipedia, the free... →
1990: In the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, outside shots of the Renwick Ruins are used as the fictitious location for the Foot Clan’s secret hideout. A youth clan member informs the police at the end of the film to “check the east warehouses on Lairdman’s Island.” The name of the island is fictitious – it is a reference to Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, the...
Feb 3rd
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NYPD shoots and kills third person in a week. →
Feb 3rd
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Op-Docs: ‘El Wingador’  →
dayan: Wing Bowl 20 was this morning! Takeru Kobayashi won, setting an all-time record by eating 337 wings. (“In order to prepare for the event Kobayashi reportedly ate 200 wings per day in the days leading up to the event. He also ‘Tebow’d’ (sic) prior to the event.”) Much more coverage via Philadelphia sports radio station 94WIP here; for some context on this whole thing, Jason Fagone’s...
Feb 3rd
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“It is possible…to simply enjoy one thing more than another. Think of a person...”
– “On Preference, Briefly.” A pretty commonsensical (though far from exhaustive) response to the existence of Charles Murray’s terrible new book which seems purposefully designed to invent and inflame taste-and-class-based cultural differences under the rubric of “snobbery.” I’ll be so glad that day...
Feb 3rd
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“In a New York Review of Books article, Thomas R. Edwards describes [Raymond] Carver’s fictional world as a place where “people worry about whether their old cars will start, where unemployment or personal bankruptcy are present dangers, where a good time consists of smoking pot with the neighbors.”   [Poetry Foundation]
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