February 2012
17 posts
“In the 20th century, the “Mitford sisters”—six daughters of David...”
– Though the prose could use some cleaning up, the Wikipedia entry on the Mitford family is excellent for the last three words of the above quotation alone.
Fuck stray code.
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"I don't even know Chuck." →
If you’re not from Minnesota, you might not know that there’s a modest little music club here called First Avenue. Or maybe the name of the club rouses some far-off memory drawn from glammy Prince movies or low-quality YouTube videos of The Replacements. (Or, if you’re like 20, from low-quality YouTube videos of Doomtree?)
Anyway, Andrea Swensson, now a writer for The Current, recently did an...
“The research shows that good deeds among men increase when presented with an...”
– Dr. Wendy Iredale talks about a study on selfless acts she co-authored for the British Journal of Psychology in Science Daily (via Freakonomics).
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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...
