February 2011
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Sleigh Bells, “Riot Rhythm”
Loving...
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“Cinema kills the very idea of identity. Today my mental image of myself is still...”
– Leonid Andreyev (1909), quoted in Yuri Tsivian, Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception, 1998.
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Doctor Atheist, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying...
When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s breath hovering over the waters, God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And it was evening and...
“The language of this resolution is unnecessary, redundant, and an attack on...”
– Mike Quigley’s statement on the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.” (via withoutanhaitch)
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The State of the Internet- A Comic →
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The Rahm Emanuel Debacle Continues... →
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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“Missing even one class can create a gap affecting your entire subsequent study...”
– my Japanese Bb class syllabus. I wonder if the profs or TAs who wrote this realized how bizarrely apocalyptic it sounds? Everyone falls behind occasionally in a language as distant from Indo-European as Japanese; it’s normal. Hardly “disastrous”…
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“It is easy to see how love overlaps with the language of Muscovite doctrine, of...”
– David MadFadyen, Yellow Crocodiles and Blue Oranges: Russian Animated Film Since World War Two, xvii.
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STEAMPUNK SARAH PALIN →
holy shit. I could not stop laughing when I saw this. Make sure to scroll down the page for actual juicy bits of the comic book, as well as her “trusty?” sidekick, ROBAMA!
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“It was ironic, if unsurprising, that the charge to bring photography to the...”
– Julian Stallabras, “Museum Photography and Museum Prose,” New Left Review, 65 Sept/Oct 2010, p. 102
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Current favorite song, thanks to Jenny!
Fever...
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Season 4, Episode 1 of "Skins"
Girl: Now we were just about to sing a song, weren't we? So what should we sing?
Kids: Rihanna! Lady Gaga! Beyonce!
Girl: Those are all people who can't really sing, don't really wear very many clothes, and get married far too young. What do we call those types of people?
Kids: Americans!
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“Here is how to turn down an extramural date so you won’t be asked again....”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, 175.
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Harper's (Fantasy) Superbowl Advertisements
Just read an INCREDIBLE round-table discussion in the February Harper’s. Unfortunately I can’t set up a link because one needs a subscription to see it. But basically, 2 Harper’s editors— Thomas Frank and Donovan Hohn— sit down with the Ad execs at four enormous Madison Ave agencies (who have done work for companies as huge as Coca-Cola, Nike, Target, Nissan,...
Should I Work For Free? Ultimate chart! →
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Hey there, subconscious
I can never fall asleep before a flight. So, tonight, in lieu of actually getting work done, I figured I would read through old dream journals. I’ve been keeping a dream journal pretty regularly for the past… oh, just about 4 years now. I’ve just finished writing in my 3rd journal, so I figured I’d calculate approximately how many dreams I write down per week (~1.36) and...
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WatchYES! Awesome. I loved Black Swan and still I think this is hilarious.
alicewatchesmovies:
This is the best. SNL of “Black Swan” with Jim Carrey.
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OkCupid: The Mathematics of Beauty →
Yes, it objectifies women. But the data is fascinating! However, I slightly disagree with their version of game theory at the bottom of the page. I think the truth lies in the subtle but potent distinction between “hot” and “beautiful”; “hot” essentially seems to imply an Otherness, while beautiful is societally driven and often pretty standard. Otherness is...
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Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception →
YES. Finally. Thanks Emmy!!
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“‘Well this’— she gestured at herself— ‘isn’t...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p. 73.
Way to tug on my heart strings, Dave. Will I ever finish this book? It’s good, so good I can’t keep reading it, I have to stop and catch my breath and do something not involving David Foster Wallace for a few hours. I’m like 100 pages in...