March 2011
51 posts
“If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the...”
– Joe Bageant
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
– Herbert Simon
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty...
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“And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are...”
– “Changes” - David Bowie
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“I wanted to write about aspects of human behavior that sicken me, but I never...”
– David Sedaris
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“I don’t think there can be any doubt that for both technological and...”
– Simon Frith, “What is Bad Music?”
From Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate, a collection of essays on the idea of labeling music as “bad” or “good” and what we’re really saying when we say that Ke$ha* sucks.
*or any** musician we don’t like…
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“In trying to interpret Los Angeles, Mr. Oppenheim goes into an extensive...”
– Times’ reporter Tom Treanor, in a column published March 15, 1941. (via latimes)
UM, WHAT?
When I put my name into fuckyeahnouns a picture of 18 year old me in a club in BOSTON comes up. WHAT IN THE WHAT?! I have been in a club in Boston ONE TIME. The picture is a not tagged picture of me from a friend’s freshman year roomie’s Facebook album.
JUST THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF THE-INTERNET-IS-WEIRDING-ME-OUT MOMENTS
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Notorious B.I.G. - “Big Poppa”
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WitStream: Let's solve this women-in-comedy... →
witstream:
A couple of weeks ago, the South by Southwest Festival got into hot water for booking only one female comic out of 31 performers. This from an organization that prides itself on diversity. Organizers quickly apologized, pointing out that not many female comedians had submitted, and they tacked a…
Read this. Holler at my funny ladies.
“Parentheses may also be nested (with one set (such as this) inside another set)....”
– Parentheses (via azspot)
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http://www.trntbl.me/huggle →
How did I not know about trntbl? It takes all the songs you’ve posted on your Tumblr and puts them all on one page where you can listen to them as you damn well please.
sa-weet.
