July 2012
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Can’t wait!
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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)
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