March 2012
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Pop Quiz: Can you spot anything unusual about the... →
circumswoop:
”I wish all who had a hand in this blighted production the very best in their professional and personal lives, but speaking as a woman who spent several years as a stripper (and a brief fraction of her life as a lesbian, though those two periods didn’t overlap), I have to admit that this play was pretty awful.”
February 2012
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Squirrels Ate the Internet, Oh Well →
benwise:
Woke up to no Internet today. Unplugged, replugged, rebooted and whatnot before actually CALLING Time Warner, who informed me that it was a neighborhood outage. Sure enough, when I walked the dog 10 minutes later I spotted three TWC service trucks on the next block. So into the world I ventured - gym, bookstore, brunch - and upon returning to the ‘hood I passed the service trucks and...
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Tumblr is Wrong for Censoring Eating Disorder... →
philolzophy:
It’s still okay to have a racist blog on Tumblr. It’s still okay to have a blog where you take pictures of people eating and call them fat. In essence, it’s okay to have the kind of blog that causes someone to degenerate into the mental state where they might get an eating disorder, but once they get one we’ll sweep them under the rug unless they only talk about their disease in a...
"That's why the newsroom at the Times is often... →
The Brooklyn Bear Attack of 1932 →
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Attn: Conde Nast marketing department
“…the New Yorker, as homo-friendly a magazine as you could wish for…”
From the studio who brought you "The Godfather...
“Paramount says the son of The Godfather author Mario Puzo is tarnishing the legacy of the studio’s films by attempting to publish a new sequel to the original novel. So it’s suing the Puzo estate in U.S. District Court in New York to stop publication of The Family Corleone later this year.”
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Readings I've Attended →
tinyvolcanicmoon:
1). When I asked Lydia Davis why she chose to translate the title of Proust’s book as “Swann’s Way,” and what her thoughts were on the conversation behind different translations of the title, specifically, she gave me a blank, somewhat angry look and said “That’s just its title.”
A quick note re: Franzen on Wharton →
magicmolly:
I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen’s essay on Edith Wharton, because I’m glad whenever anyone pays homage to the most heartbreaking novelist of all time. But I question the premise of the piece, which is that modern perceptions of Wharton’s character unfairly obstruct the enjoyment of her work. …
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Edith Wharton was a prude? We don't suppose you've... →
mcnallyjackson:
laphamsquarterly:
Hi there, Jonathan Franzen. We hope you are having a lovely Tuesday. So you say Edith Wharton was a prude, confined largely to a sexless marriage, hemmed in by plainness and haunted to write about the very beauty and passion that was lacking in her own life?
But have you read her porn?…
Heavens!
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“She’s like a Page 3 girl,” Ms. Neophitou said,... →
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Q: Who is Michiko Kakutani's favorite athlete?
wrongthinking:
A: JEREMY LIMN
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Whitney Houston, “I’m Every...
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Mitt Romney didn't like my Pinterest page. →
spiegelman:
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“When I began, I knew more or less what was possible with what was available...”
– William Gibson
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He's still got it. ("It.")
David: brb i have to shower
Choire: OMG ME TOO
Choire: WE'RE BASICALLY SHOWERING TOGETHER
David: ...
David: nope!
"Police swooped on a town centre after a 999 call... →
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Top Ten Google Results for... →
langer:
10) “Full disclosure: When I was a teenager, I saw Rilo Kiley perform three times.”
9) “Full disclosure: I like The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms a lot.”
8) “Full disclosure: My tummy is a temperamental diva.”
7) “Full disclosure: I have several Soulja Boy songs on [my iPod]”
6) “Full…
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ON 'SMASH' AND THE DELICATE BALANCING ACT OF THE... →
dietcock:
There are a lot of things not to like about last night’s pilot episode of SMASH (as perceptively noted by Tumblr’s own esteemed Richard Rushfield, and recapped better than humanly possible by Rachel Shukert over at Vulture), but the thing that struck me the most was a…
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We acept the Internet we think we deserve. →
maesaslaw:
This week’s most spectacular social media fight has already begun to fade, and as it stands it’s delightfully simple, for once. I mean the Susan G Komen Foundation / Planned Parenthood de-funding and re-funding and the hundreds of thousands of people who appeared, briefly, to take women’s health…
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January 2012
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Your "cheer up" of the day.
GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator
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