May 2013
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“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone...”
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When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.
It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry...
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“It’s a credit to Cooper’s gifts as a performer, arranger, and composer that his...”
– My review of the wide-ranging new Eluvium double album Nightmare Ending is up at PopMatters. It’s excellent, and also makes a part of me suspect that Cooper is giving one last tour through the phases of his work so far before embarking on something new.
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SENSITIVE THUG: WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? WHO... →
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3lc3lc3lc:
What in the fuck was that Kanye? I told you to do some shit for the kids You can give me your muhfucking graduation ticket right now You will not walk across that stage, you won’t slide across that stage Muhfucka can’t pull you across that stage Kanye Who told you…
now compare basic analysis and statistics to in-depth analysis, such as this piece by 3lc3lc3lc. with this...
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nude wave: Goodbye, Dunder Mifflin: how I grew up... →
nudewave:
There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point?
I watched The Office for the first time with my old friend Heidi who told me she had started watching a show that made her think of me. This was right at the time the second season DVDs had been released and were on one of those really good sales at Target. She got the first two seasons and persuaded me to...
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“What people don’t understand is when we say “Teach men not to rape,” we’re not...”
– Kalitena on Facebook (via oldloveinyoungbodies)
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How the sweet blistering fuck am I hungover at 8:40 pm?
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battlestardidactica:
okay, this rob ford crack cocaine thing is just… god, i don’t even know, every time i think that he can’t top his past trainwrecks, he one-ups himself AGAIN in exciting creative homophobic & racist ways, but as everyone on my twitter feed is pointing out, the best part of all this appears to be that his (alleged) lawyer uses a hotmail address
I feel like there’s...
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“The way that we talk about ex-wives and ex-girlfriends is fucked. This is an...”
– a selection from Natalie Zina Walschots’s essay reflecting on the Lambesis arrest and story. I strongly suggest reading the whole thing; her own story is harrowing. (via nedraggett)
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guerrillamamamedicine:
ourcatastrophe:
it’s always horrifying when you put your finger on the thing that’s off about someone and it is that they have a political analysis where they should have a moral compass
it’s a realisation that usually happens in the worst possible circumstances
damn.
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I’d heard good things about For Professional Use Only; I still need to get around to playing Electronic Dream 2 (although who knows what exactly I’ve got), but the first one was great and, it turns out, one of my favourite albums ever to edit to. So I was looking forward to this one.
The version of Electronic Dream that I’ve got is 11 tracks in 35 minutes. There’s a...
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describe yourself in 3 television characters.
nudewave:
Jane Kerkovich-Williams (Happy Endings), Ellie Torres (Cougar Town), and the love child of April Ludgate and Leslie Knope (Parks and Rec). Literally these people in a scary way.
The other scary thing is that if you mix parts of Brad Kerkovich-Williams, Andy Torres, Ben Wyatt, and Andy Dwyer (much more Ben than Bert Macklin) you get me. No wonder we’re married.
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jonathanbogart:
queefito:
just think about when we’re all old and when you listen to the oldies station its going to be party rock anthem
And when you snarl in disgust and turn it off the young person in the car will look at you and wonder silently how you can hate something that speaks so thrillingly of a vanished past, that pulses with a language no longer spoken, that opens aching...
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alexwoodsaystoomuch:
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purepopfornowpeople:
I have music writers on my enemies list, who are yours? I tend to hate read their stuff.
Ian Cohen
Rober Christgau
Dave Marsh
agree with Cohen/Marsh (I like Christgau though! Know he gets a lot of hate around here). add Brent DiCrescenzo when he was still around, Ben Westhoff, Jim DeRogatis for sure. Nathan Rabin is really...
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Sometimes when you’re having a stressful, sleep deprived day and you haven’t really wanted to eat anything for… a while and you decide you just want Kraft Dinner because the nice hotdogs were on sale at No Frills and you’ve got some peas to put in the pasta as well, you then notice that you have, like, two slices of havarti left from that big pack you bought a while back...
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“When I first sat down with Mads Mikkelsen, he was talking less about doing this...”
– Bryan Fuller - Empire (via consultingasshole)
b/w My problem with the movies has always been that I just wasn’t on Hannibal’s side when he killed people, and the attempts at levity just did not work for me. But I loved the quick shots of the business cards and the organs being slapped around on...
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“The key to the vast majority of Underworld’s work as a trio and then as a duo is...”
– My review of Karl Hyde’s solo debut, the well worth investigating Edgeland, went up at PopMatters last Friday.
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piratemoggy:
imathers replied to your post: Hey this new Nexus 4 thing has a really big screen
re: asterisk: ME TOO
[this went on a bit- my * was *I am tragically committed to the idea of Clint winding himself up about Kate.]
IT’S JUST SO CLINT. He’s so… uh, ‘useless’ is too negative a word here and also innaccurate, as is ‘helpless’ but like. Incurably anxious? In this respect he is sort...
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“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.”
Anthony Hopkins
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“On November 7th, his administration gleefully voted at the UN for a renewed...”
– An email from Senator Rand Paul, on behalf of the National Association of Gun Rights • Decrying the Obama administration’s shadowy collaboration with the United Nations, aimed at a constitutional end-around abolishing the Second Amendment via international arms treaty. If you haven’t heard about...
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5 examples of how the languages we speak can... →
oyveyzqueer:
divineirony:
To say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. The language requires that you denote the side the uncle is on, whether he’s related by marriage or birth and, if it’s your father’s brother, whether he’s older or younger.
“All of this information is obligatory. Chinese doesn’t let me ignore it,” says Chen....
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thepoopqueen:
until native americans roll up into europe and start taking things at their leisure, you can’t tell me it goes both ways. until puerto rican doctors start sterilizing white women, you can’t tell me it goes both ways. until a white “swagged out” justin beiber lookin ass kid in a hoodie gets shot down for dressing like a thug, YOU CAN’T TELL ME IT GOES BOTH WAYS.
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“The was one thing [Sontag] said that I didn’t understand at all until many years...”
– Richard Hell (via michelledean)
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twiststreet:
constellation-funk:
The elites will become cogs in the machine. You will become a bright, silver, indestructible wrench that breaks it. You will become the creator of your own machine, and they will envy you your purity. And the money they inherited, they will give to you. And unlike them, you will have earned it. They will buy your art. They will pay you for your ideas. They will...
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“The news hook for that story is a study that doesn’t actually say what the story...”
– Slacktivist; as always, worth reading in full. 