July 2011
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Jul 27th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 25th
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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.
Jul 25th
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Jul 23rd
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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)
Jul 15th
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a fine little look into the southern thing. →
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Jul 13th
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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? _________________________________________ +100. You win. TOTAL POINTS: 100.
Jul 13th
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WatchWatch
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. . (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...
Jul 12th
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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...
Jul 12th
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a-bagel asked: Who is this?
Jul 12th
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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.
Jul 2nd
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Jul 1st
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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…
Jul 1st
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