February 2012
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In stories where characters align on simple axes of good or evil, the most...
– They Live, Jonathan Lethem
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hahaha nobody told me portlandia was racist
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Hate-watching Portlandia that I might more...
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Holy SHIT how did I only just now figure out the...
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Can we put a, like, ban on movies set after 1950 with nazis or diamonds as plot points?
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This Talking Is Only Bravado: There's an Aging... →
cordjefferson:
I’ve never felt more important than when I lived in New York. I was poor and my work was neither very good nor very well-read, and yet every day I’d wake up in my 10 by 10 room, its window looking out over my building’s rusted trashcans, and somehow think I’d achieved another great…
Gonna buy this man a drink some day. Even moving from DC to LA, I had that same feeling of...
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In honor of Groundhog Day
I spent almost five hours in the diviest bar I know, playing shuffleboard. I got there at 11 am and it was full of dive bar people, including Kevin, who had an eye patch. I think this counts as a success.
January 2012
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The Story of a Suicide
tylercoates:
I already posted a link to this article this morning, but I implore you to read Ian Parker’s piece about Tyler Clementi’s suicide and the impending trial of his roommate, Dharun Ravi. It took me about five hours to read it, not just because it was long but because I was at work and it was so upsetting that I couldn’t read it too long at a time. This is extremely powerful stuff and...
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