December 2009
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Lies of Morrissey - Uncyclopedia →
“The more you ignore me, the closer I get”
Truth: Morrissey comes closer to you at a constant speed whether or not you ignore him. It’s just more surprising if you ignore him.
“If there’s something you want to try, ask me I won’t say no, how could I?”
Truth: Morrissey won’t eat meat, even if you do want to try out a new recipe for a meat...
The Bitch is Back →
randomonium:
GQ names Ayn Rand the writer of the year and nails the problems in her Flinstonian writings and unoriginal followers.
In time, [the reader] begins to understand that his ordeal consists of two phases. There is the reading itself, which is one thing. And then there is the digesting, which is quite another. Overall, the experience eerily replicates that of devouring a family-size...
November 2009
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Timelines: Time travel in popular film and tv |... →
A beautiful if disorienting visualization. Woefully missing my favorite movie The Time Traveler’s Wife.
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Watchsteveagee:
I love Norm MacDonald so much! Norm reads off a list of things he’s thankful for this year.
I gotta find me some of this bread everyone’s talking about.
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Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
Let’s party...
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“Franco Moretti…wants to be ready for the deluge with new kinds of...”
– Print: Applying Quantitative Analysis to Classic Lit | Magazine
Moretti decided to test the idea that Victorian writers, through their choice of adjectives, might reveal their belief that moral qualities were indivisible from reality itself and that physical traits reflected a person’s virtue. So...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
The Offspring (14)
Sondre Lerche (10)
Lightspeed Champion (9)
Pavement (9)
Wilco (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“In typical “bling-bling” fashion, French President Nicolas Sarkozy...”
– The Wishes of Dead Literary Figures: To Honor or Not to Honor? | Carrie Battan | Big Think
Sarkozy wants to reinter Camus! Seems unnecessary. Lourmarin is more in tune with his legacy in any case.
In this it seems I’m in agreement with everyone save Sarkozy.
That Big Think article above...
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Talking about the differences between sweet...
Tim: There are lots of types of yams though
Kyle: Candied Yams
Tim: ...yeah
Kyle: Baked Yams
Kyle: Will-I-Yam
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“[TS Eliot] had exploded the traditional concept of form in ‘The Waste...”
– On Splitting Infinitives, Marriages - WSJ.com
More:
The long-awaited second volume of T.S. Eliot’s letters shows how the unromantic lures of the day job can trap a genius.
And
But even if he’d finally arrived as a big-time poet, Eliot had a problem. Poetry earned poetry money and...
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You’re gorgeous I’m pretty handsome...
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“As economists and medical researchers are fond of saying, the plural of anecdote...”
– Steven Pearlstein - Sebelius’s cave-in on mammograms is a setback for health-care reform - washingtonpost.com
Please consider the environment before printing...
So does this mean to please consider the trees that you’re killing by printing this email, or does it mean to consider your office environment, and all the sneaky, back-stabbing coworkers who might come across this sensitive email about donuts in the kitchen?
I prefer the second, but since I’ve started asking around I’ve gotten both answers.
So which is it?
A lightly edited healthcare news conversation.
Seth: Jesse Jackson: “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
Seth: greatest headline ever
Phillip: there was one better the other day
Phillip: Socialist Nightmare Might Make US Healthier.
Seth: oh man
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SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists... →
SPIEGEL: But why does Homer list all of those warriors and their ships if he knows that he can never name them all?
Semiotician Umberto Eco: Homer’s work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that. We have always been fascinated by infinite space, by the endless stars and by galaxies upon galaxies. How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
Will Smith (24)
The Smiths (22)
Elton John (15)
Taylor Swift (9)
Nat King Cole (9)
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Twilight: A Primer For Adults - Bonus Features -... →
You gotta read the whole cheat sheet, but here are some of my favorites:
Teenage vampires travel from high school to high school pretending to be incestuous siblings, because that is just a smart cover story.
Teenage vampires always sit in a semi-circle around their cafeteria lunch table facing away from each other, it just makes it easier to give everyone “fuck me” eyes.
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What’s killing the bats? - The Boston Globe →
Guys, something’s killing all the bats. It’s horrible. I’ve been following the story for awhile but the Boston Globe here has a nice article summing it all up.
Plus! Check this out:
The little brown bat, historically among the most common of North American bats, has been the hardest hit of the six species known to be afflicted with the baffling illness. The others are: the big...
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“As long as God’s problems with living in eternity mirror what our own...”
– Book Review: A Very Brief History of Eternity - WSJ.com
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“This week I’ve had two dreams about Tumblr and another about Twitter. I...”
– I think I’m gonna start wetting the bed.
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How to Write a Great Novel: Junot Diaz, Anne Rice,... →
JUNOT DÍAZ
“I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down,” says Junot Díaz. “As soon as I write it down, my mind rejects it.”
Juggling everything in his head has drawbacks, one of which is writing very slowly, he says. He threw out two earlier versions of his novel, “The Brief...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
Ash (42)
Elkland (13)
Elliott Smith (11)
Clipse (8)
David Bowie (4)
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“I’m Not Supposed to Like You...
“Healthcare reporting is a beat that notoriously leaves journalists disillusioned...”
– Gladwell for Dummies