February 2012
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“Watching a liturgy from such a gloomy and merciless author getting repurposed to...”
– Ned Beauman, on the use of Samuel Beckett’s “Fail better” as a business slogan. [via]
“As has been widely noted, [Rick Ross] sees no problem rhyming a word with...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones, writing “Rick Ross and the Life Style of a Boss” in The New Yorker.
I like the fact that:
1) The New Yorker (note how the article preceding the name of the publication is capped and ital’d in TNYer style) still calls lifestyle “life style.”
2) I...
January 2012
27 posts
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“At one point [during Sims’ First Avenue performance], a woman from the...”
– Uncle Con. The Current’s 7th Birthday Party at First Avenue
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“As a caution against reckless behavior, Gardner keeps his amputated toe from the...”
– Advanced dieting strategies from wrestler Rulon Gardner; New York Times, January 29, 2012
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
J murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
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“If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on...”
– David Ogilvy, on writing.
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The Ice Fishing Sessions (Opening Sequence: Draft)
Exterior, day.
Strong winds blow a dry snow across the desolate landscape of a frozen lake. Two or three lonely ice houses dot the far-off horizon.
In the center of the screen, through flying snow and ice that obscure most of the landscape, what appears to be a figure moving slowly toward the camera comes gradually into focus.
ENTER: A heavily bearded man (or woman) riding a double-decker...
The Ice Fishing Sessions →
This is a project that must somehow come to fruition.
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“There were potential benefits, and risks, with not having a corporeal coach.”
– New York Times writer Jere Longman, wryly paraphrasing running coach Terrence Mahon. Mahon is commenting on elite marathoner Ryan Hall’s training approach, which is guided only by God.
The most annoying part of the New York Times’ new “The One-Page Magazine” feature in their Sunday magazine is not how difficult it is to reference said generically named page. It is the section’s pandering reductiveness (and not in a cute way), exemplified by the use of bylines (18 of them on a single page) for 21-word items.
Goodbye forever.
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“The quieter sections of the ‘Waterworld’ soundtrack have this...”
– Profile of author Christopher Paolini, The New York Times Sunday Magazine
December 2011
12 posts
“He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”
– Noel Gallagher on Jack White.
I think it’s fair.
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2011: Some things that I liked! →
Cross-linking is so fucking taboo.
Every single person in this coffee shop is listening to Poliça separately, on their own headphones.
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“The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality.”
– Idiotic quote, Fyodor Dostoyevsky; The Brothers Karamazov
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“In a rare photo finish at the top of the Billboard charts, Michael Bublé’s...”
– The New York Times
November 2011
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Yo, Is This Hotdish? →
It’s completely unfair that tumblr won’t let you reblog an ask answer (WTF kind of sentence is that?).
Nonetheless, I recommend you get all of your hotdish-related questions answered ASAP.
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Little Brown Miscellanea: Alec Soth portrait... →
littlebrownmushroom:
Stacey, South Plains, Texas
Earlier this year we released a book entitled Conductors of the Moving World by Brad Zellar. Brad’s book raised $10,000 for Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief. Since then, Brad has suffered a number of setbacks. After multiple unexplained dizzy spells,…
The current bid is $3500. The current reward is immortality. (I’m not even...
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