July 2012
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Jul 31st
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Jul 31st
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Jul 30th
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“But let’s not forget the foxes, lots and lots of foxes. There are foxes with...”
– Plush Life - The Bold Italic - San Francisco Lest you think my friend Jesse Hirsch is just a food writer, here for your consideration is a very colorful article about a Furry dance party.
Jul 30th
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Jul 29th
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Jul 29th
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Jul 28th
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Avery Edison's Internet Diary: Lateral thinking... →
aedison: Riddle: A boy and his father are in a car accident. When the boy arrives at the hospital, the surgeon on duty says “I cannot operate on this patient – he is my son”. How is this possible? Answer: The surgeon is Superman, and the boy’s real father. The dude in the car is a cuckold. No woman can resist Superman. Riddle: A ship’s ladder has rungs every 25cm. At low tide, eight rungs are...
Jul 28th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 27th
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Book Report: Fooling Houdini
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don’t understand anyone who isn’t fascinated by magic - the act of your own brain deceiving you, the secret societies, code of conduct, storied lore, socially awkward young men - basically, it’s everything I love in one place. And the fact that I have...
Jul 26th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 24th
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Jul 24th
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Jul 24th
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WatchWatch
You probably know that since May, I’ve been volunteering with Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue. In addition to fostering 4 dogs (and one on the way!) I’ve also taken over running the @Badassbk Twitter feed. Thanks to Greg Reitman for making this awesome video, featuring some of our dogs and the cool volunteers I’ve met through Badass. Adopting a dog nearly two years ago changed my...
Jul 23rd
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Jul 22nd
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“Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken In, sprinkled with ashes Pop...”
– excerpt from “Pop” by Barack Obama, spring 1981, Occidental College  http://www.salon.com/2012/07/17/obamas_inspector_javert/ (via salon) Never, ever write poetry. It will be used against you.
Jul 21st
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Jul 20th
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“Midnight screenings are big, hyped, advertiser-driven events that have become a...”
– alyssa rosenberg (via)
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“The rise of the online-only brand marks a new generation of e-commerce. For...”
– Death to Retail: The Rise of the Online-Only Brand - The Next Web (via culturelabagency)
Jul 19th
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Jul 18th
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Jul 18th
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Jul 17th
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Jul 16th
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“Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for the Short Story 1. Use the time of a total stranger...”
– Your MFA is obsolete. via advicetowriters.com (via kadrey)
Jul 15th
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Huff's Blog: If I don't know that you've had some... →
This feels right. stevehuff: I think this every time I watch Morning Joe on MSNBC and Mika Brzezinski jumps on her fitness/diet high horse. It’s infuriating. I’ve seen Mika Brzezinski on the news for decades. To the best of my knowledge she’s always been blonde, fit and beautiful. I can’t deal with someone like that lecturing…
Jul 15th
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Jul 14th
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“A third fell under the wheel (and this one was particularly heartbreaking to all...”
– Letter from the Pulitzer Fiction Jury: What Really Happened This Year : The New Yorker There was no fiction prize awarded in 2012. Bullshit, I say.
Jul 14th
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“Eventually my fellow New Yorkers started to feel more like teammates than...”
– I Used to Love Her, But I Had to Flee Her: On Leaving New York Yes, I’m still citing this Gawker piece. Deal with it.
Jul 13th
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“But you’re not an activist. You’re a Black man in America whose star is on the...”
– Thank You, Frank Ocean | Life Times From a beautiful, open letter to Frank Ocean.
Jul 13th
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Jul 12th
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Imagined Conversations
Guest: My, your home smells lovely.
Me: Thank you. My secret is Afghani takeout and failed attempts at housebreaking.
Jul 12th
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Inevitable Buzzfeed headlines.  →
inothernews: nedhepburn: 10 reasons why people read lists. 467 ways to spend $15M in venture capital funding on lists.   63 lists. 9 ways to present information in bullet or ordered numerical form.  14 listicles about digesting information in a particular fashion.  11 New Yorker articles you won’t read but we’ll break down for you in a linear, numbered way.  16 pictures of cats entirely...
Jul 11th
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2080s
citationneeded: 2082 All classified information held by the British Government about the Falklands War is to be released to the public.[citation needed] It is predicted that the average person will be able to live on the Moon. Link Can’t wait!
Jul 11th
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“Heat. This is what cities mean to me. You get off the train and walk out of the...”
– Don DeLillo, White Noise (via mllehazelwood)
Jul 10th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 9th