July 2011
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Stand back and watch the human splendor. Really, that’s what it is. It’s like...
– Spencer Hall, capturing the essence of the Paul Finebaum Radio Network better in my interview with him than I ever could, I’m afraid.
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on the docket (the first)
MUSIC
—Album by Girls
Jan and Dean meets Elliott Smith
It’s not exactly a unique take to point out the cognitive dissonance between the sunny surf rock layers of Album and its melancholy subject matter, but it’s such a defining aspect of the album that you can’t ignore it. It’s an album of disillusioned late summer, when tans turn leathery, when flings turn into breakups, when warmth...
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But it’s a hot load of bullshit that [Nick] didn’t get a nomination, and you can...
– Amy Poehler to Hitfix re: Nick Offerman’s Emmy Snub (via popculturebrain)
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a fine little look into the southern thing. →
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Boone's Farm, please, I'm a lady.
annalsofonlinedating:
SUP BABY I DIDNT READ YOUR PROFILE CUZ I DONT LIKE READING. U WANNA GET SOME FRANZIA N TALK?
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+100. You win.
TOTAL POINTS: 100.
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Scene Stealers #2: “Lust For Life,” by Iggy Pop (from Trainspotting).
When you decide to give up the ghost, Everything else follows even in midst of wildest chaos.
—Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer.
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(Suite of the Week is a five-song playlist built around a theme to give you, dear reader, a soundtrack to the working week. This week’s theme: songs that help...
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Exoticism and The Wire
One of my odder prejudices is my instinctive distrust of the charitable, largely Christian drive to bring attention to various African causes, from Invisible Children to AIDS awareness. It’s always struck me as a bit of a convenient panacea, a penny of relief for a pound of emotional catharsis. The altruistic impulse in play here is distastefully Victorian for what seem to me obvious...
a-bagel asked: Who is this?
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40 literary terms you should know
nevver:
Aphorism
Apostrophe
Applicability
Bete noire
Bildungsroman
Bowdlerize
Byronic hero
Caesura
Death of the author
Denouement
Didactic
Epigraph
Epistolary
Fin de siecle
Foil
Hamartia
Heresy of paraphrase
Hubris
Humours
In medias res
Intertextuality
Irony
Literary agent hypothesis
Magic realism
Malapropism
Meiosis
Meta
Mise en scene
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In the haze of convalescence, surrounded by Remedios’ dusty dolls, Colonel...
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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Megan Amram: What I Imagine "Game Of Thrones" Is... →
meganamram:
The sun rises over a castle, a castle made of swords and pegasuses and gargoyles shaped like dongs. In the distance, 100 concubines have sex with their sisters and step-dads.
EDDARD STARK: I, Eddard Stark, am a warrior of the Dawn-Dune. I have bedded many lady-women in the dew of Beowulf’s…