January 2012
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“What’s strange is that crime has continued to fall during the recession. On May...”
– “Raise the Crime Rate.”
Your must-read of the day.
(via marathonpacks)
See also: The New Yorker’s “The Caging of America” by Adam Gopnik:
Zimring insists, plausibly, that he is offering a radical and optimistic rewriting of theories of what crime is and where criminals are,...
Watchrachael-maddux:
maura:
Donating to the Best Music Writing series is the functional equivalent of pre-ordering the 2012 edition of the book—which will collect 2011’s best pieces of criticism, reportage, and other media on music from publications of all types and from all corners of the globe. Why not do so today?
This is such a good point! If you think you might want to buy the book when...
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Will you eat at Lady Gaga's parents' restaurant?
popdust:
I mean, whatever they fed Stephani growing up seems to have done something. Do you think this restaurant will become an NYC landmark?
http://popdust.com/2012/01/25/joanne-trattoria-lady-gaga-parents-italian-restaurant/
Stefani!
katherine st asaph: listicle without commentary:... →
katherinestasaph:
“While living in NYC, Lana says she worked with people who are ‘fucked up in the head’ helping them get their lives together, get jobs, and ‘transition into being normal, functional members of society.”
Just so it’s clear, when I worked for a wannabe musician who invented a new identity, complete with a new and more genre-appropriate name, and who tried to build a...
“4. I have no idea what these songs are supposed to be about. The lyrics are...”
– Or, you could like, listen closer and think. It’s not that hard. I like Klosterman, but no music writer is ever anywhere near good when s/he tries to parse why others like an artist without doing the actual messy ethnographic work, or (much worse) to be a sportswriter/political wonk and predict an...
Oh hey everyone, if you go to a Wikipedia page and...
Also if you disable JavaScript. Anticlimactic.
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ironstring:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
alexandraerin:
ashleyfullstop:
sylviasybil:
alexandraerin:
fallingaparttocuttime:
no okay but here’s the thing about language.
it’s one thing to police spelling and grammar; it’s a douchebag thing to do, especially if you’re using it as a means of refuting an argument (“you spelled that word wrong, therefore…
and yet, I cannot abide some...
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lastbutnotleast replied to your post: Sure, they treated Mickey like the tin dog. But he was a pretty stand up guy, there with a tow-truck and a hand when it was needed. IIRC, less jealous than Rory (though he should’a been). He was cool about time travel & aliens. Race aside, how many dudes were there anywhere who could understand what it was like travelling with the doctor? Even Sarah ...
lastbutnotleast asked: Sure, they treated Mickey like the tin dog. But he was a pretty stand up guy, there with a tow-truck and a hand when it was needed. IIRC, less jealous than Rory (though he should'a been). He was cool about time travel & aliens. Race aside, how many dudes were there anywhere who could understand what it was like travelling with the doctor? Even Sarah Jane couldn't fully chill out and...
softcommunication asked: Regarding Martha - I think it was months actually, two and three months on both Human Nature and Blink. Granted, she was a servant to the casually racist human Doctor, scrubbing floors and shit while he puttered around, then a 1960s shop girl to support the Doctor financially (ummm, WHYEEE?) so suckfest all around. Then a year walking the earth. Poor Martha. Yeah, I'm still waiting for DW to...
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Also, holy shit, look at that “unpleasantly restrictive cage.” How did they get the rats in there? Did they stuff them in forcefully, while conscious? Did they sedate them, so the rats awoke trapped in a tiny plastic box with no memory of how they got there? It’s like a little rat Saw. If rats can feel bad for other rats, we’re really gonna regret science when the rats...
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Just let Tumblr import all my contacts and...
99% sure she’ll be reading this, so: hey girl.
Perplexing and/or disturbing searches that have...
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Completely independent of each other, my mother...
We’ve both lost like five pounds. Gonna make millions off this diet plan.
Thoughts via Spotify
1. For an artist who constantly gets called generic, it’s awfully hard to find anyone who actually sounds like KT Tunstall.
2. What would the lady version of Tom Petty be?
3. The lady version of Bruce Springsteen is Stevie Nicks.
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I was going to spend last New Year’s with my parents, the way we used to when I was little — just the three of us, snacks, sparkling apple cider, watching the ball drop on TV and me turning away and going ewwwww as my parents kissed. But a friend put together a big party, and I decided I wanted to go. “We can always spend New Year’s together next year,” I said to my...
December 2011
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I’m watching The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz, because David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade, and Jimmy Carr just dropped the following: “The Cosby Show was an innovative and different comedy, in that it didn’t contain any jokes and nothing funny ever happened.”
English people, please explain why not a single audience member booed? I am as baffled by this as I am by the...
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imathers asked: I was joking! The phrasing seemed funny to me. But, you know, drunk. I assumed you loved it.
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imathers asked: I guess the short answer is, it's kind of GPOY for me too? For some reason, Tusk is really the only record I've heard where I can identify with Stevie's songs as well as liking them. And thank you for singlehandedly making posting that question thing worthwhile.
Massive 1,100+ year old Maya site discovered in... →
jonathanbogart:
furtherfromage:
blake500:
This. Is. Too. Cool:
“Archaeological zone 9UN367 at Track Rock Gap, near Georgia’s highest mountain, Brasstown Bald, is a half mile (800 m) square and rises 700 feet (213 m) in elevation up a steep mountainside. Visible are at least 154 stone masonry walls for agricultural terraces, plus evidence of a sophisticated irrigation system and ruins of...
Xmas Xast-offs
cureforbedbugs:
A few tracks that I couldn’t bring myself to actually put on the mix:
Hanson - Everybody Knows the Claus Reminds me of Calvin’s observation upon listening to “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”: “Santa: kindly old elf, or CIA spook?” That is to say, PANOPTICLAUS KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE AT ALL TIMES. Didn’t realize that the one I put on is a Motown staple (eh, contemporary enough) but it...
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Reasons to say 'fuck you' to the Salvation Army. →
kiriamaya:
strawberryfaerie:
“The Salvation Army has refused assistance to gay couples unless they break up and “go straight”, Muslim families who refuse to attend “Christian Bible classes”, kids who can’t prove their immigration status, and more.”
Admittedly, i only skimmed the article, but this quote alone should give you a pretty good idea of how awful they are.
EDIT: I also just...
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cureforbedbugs replied to your post: I ended up getting embarrassingly drunk at the…
Uh, y’all rocked out to some Fleetwood Mac?
No, there was no Fleetwood Mac on the jukebox! I actually do remember him being like, “I know you totally love Fleetwood Mac, but there’s none on the jukebox, so we need to pick something else” and then us going over and making fun of how there...
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I ended up getting embarrassingly drunk at the company Christmas party a couple nights ago; I haven’t done much drinking over the past year, and I made the mistake of ordering drinks like I have, and a little while after I realized I was too drunk, someone offered to get me a glass of wine, and without thinking I said yes. One of the few things I remember about the end of the night is a...
cureforbedbugs asked: We would probably have a one-week no-sleep Hanson slumber party and then get exhausted and retreat to headphones and moping (not "mopey") music for the remaining year, occasionally pausing to discuss an Ashlee Simpson lyric.
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Tell me what you think being married to me would...
isabelthespy:
noorcissistic:
wander—lust:
al-muminun:
yes? lol
DO IT. I dare you.
do it do it do it
not gonna lie i’m curious as to what this would turn up
Oh shit me too.
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1. Stevie Nicks, “Somebody Stand By...
Beyoncé, Gaga, Heterosexism, Feminism and Other...
isabelthespy:
but that’s kind of a different question, and i agree with you that it’s reductive to cherry pick songs, do a women’s studies 101 close read of the lyrics, and say, VOILA, I HAVE DISCOVERED SEXISM. (was that mean? sorry) (…not really sorry). i mean, hell, even within a song — i’ve had this conversation about single ladies, people being like “OH, PUT A RING ON ‘IT,’ WAY TO REDUCE...
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JAKE CLELAND: 52 Albums: #37 →
cureforbedbugs:
jakec:
The first album in this series to actually make me feel worse for having listened to it.
Calling your debut album “Autobiography” is a pretty clear statement of intent, doing away with the implicitness that songwriters write what they know and directly opposing the plausible…
Just about all of this is deeply, deeply wrong — about Ashlee’s motivations (and those of her...
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softcommunication replied to your post: bmichael replied to your post:…
Yes, Bennie. it seemed like that detail was more important to how the other non-POC characters perceived him and not particularly relevant to how he perceived himself. Which uh, NO, that’s not how it works. It read false.
Hmm. That’s a good point. I only remember three mentions of Bennie being of color: his...
bmichael replied to your post: therichgirlsareweeping replied to your post:…
you folks are 100% wrong, but whatevsevsesrvsaeopj’lm ,‹3q3
Well, convince me!
unbornwhiskey replied to your post: therichgirlsareweeping replied to your post:…
Also, also the footnotes in the boring dude’s magazine piece? The footnotes that inform NOTHING except how shitty and boring this dude is and how...