March 2012
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February 2012
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“[T]he 19th Century United States used widely available free (or, you know,...”
– Matt Yglesias, “The Rent Is Too Damn High Now Available For Preorder,” Slate, February 28, 2012
Relevant to Sydney.
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The problem with Tom and Ann
naysayersspeak:
wonklife:
The problem with the Tom and Ann subplot in this season of Parks & Recreation is that it’s forcing viewers to confront the unpleasant fact that if they actually knew Tom Haverford in real life, they would hate him so, so, so much.
This is true.
Yuup.
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Our parents used to take care of us. Look at 'em...
toomanypronouns:
The Notorious B.I.G., “Things Done Changed,” Ready to Die (1994)
It’s how you can tell Big was a great writer; how much he managed to pack into these two lines. There’s pride: how bad must his generation be if their parents are scared of them? There’s fear: how bad must his generation be if even their parents are scared of them? But there’s disgust as...
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Top 100 Things in Music 2010
I was going through the 130+ unfinished posts in my draft folder, and found this complete list of the best moments in music from 2010. I have no idea why I never posted it — perhaps I was hoping to flesh it out with links or something? Anyway, there’s no point in wasting a perfectly good listicle, particularly not when it offers such a great chance for too-soon nostalgia. (Guys, remember...
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“The dumped Queensland state Labor candidate Peter Watson was making neo-Nazi...”
– Bridie Jabour and Daniel Hurst, “OK to be racist, says axed candidate,” Sydney Morning Herald, February 22, 2012
OK, this guy’s a prick; that’s pretty straight forward. Labor was right to disendorse him, and you’ve gotta wonder how they allowed him to be a candidate in...
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Melbourne things.
douglasmartini answered your question: Yo. Yo. HOLD UP. Melbourne, what the fuck is…
Melbourne’s coming up, with their fancy buildings being erected without Jonathan Bradley’s knowledge!
Damn straight. Who gave approval for this? I will fuck their shit up.
delshanky replied to your photo: Yo. Yo. HOLD UP. Melbourne, what the fuck is…
Surely that’s The Eureka Tower?
Apparently...
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“So this is where Rick Santorum stands now. He remains a contender because he...”
– americanreviewmag:
Jonathan Bradley is talking about 2011 comedy Cedar Rapids in today’s Blogbook for a reason, and it’s not just so he can make jokes about Rick Santorum’s sweater vests. He promises.
I like sweater vest jokes.
This is my latest American Review column, published last…...
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“Tyler is a clever but effortful rapper, working hard to squeeze jokes and ideas...”
– Kelefa Sanneh, “Where’s Earl?” The New Yorker, May 23, 2011
That OF article Kelefa Sanneh did was really great, though everyone at the time was distracted by the NEW YORKER FOUND EARL angle.
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“five words — “what might have been lost” — which signal the song’s shift from a...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones, “Into the Woods: The Bon Iver sound,” The New Yorker, January 12, 2009
From an unfinished thing I wrote about Bon Iver:
People who dislike Justin Vernon usually do a much better job of writing about him than people like me, who like him. I don’t think...
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Hey guys, check out my awesome new website →
naysayersspeak:
Our idea is to be “sport without soundbites”. We’re sick of reading the same articles in every outlet, about the same half a dozen players the media considers to be important. We’re sick of cowardly reporters protecting their access to clubs and players rather than writing insightful - and possible critical- articles about the game.
I’m not going to lie: it’s scary. There’s so...
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“If LCD Soundsystem were only responsible for three albums that are half-filler...”
– God bless you, Ian Cohen.
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“The dead have risen and they’re voting Republican!”
– Bart Simpson, 10, Springfield, U.S.A.
Josh Marshall denies the scandal:
I’m listening to Dylan Ratigan say silly things on TV about electoral reform on MSNBC. It’s sad.
Should we be really freaked out that there are ‘millions’ of dead people on the voting rolls nationwide?
Does anyone imagine...
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“According to Cornyetz, sampling can be linked to the productions of Japanese...”
– Jane C.H. Park, “Cibo Matto’s Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop,” East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (2005)
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“So we have become a society in which less-educated men have great difficulty...”
– Paul Krugman, “Money and Morals,” The New York Times, February 9, 2012
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“In the days before challenging Kevin Rudd for the prime ministership, Julia...”
– Peter Hartcher and Phillip Coorey, “Gillard used polling to trigger coup,” Sydney Morning Herald, February 15, 2012
If you’re not a member of the Labor Party caucus or a scholar of recent political history, I don’t see how any of these latest revelations about...
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douglasmartini asked: I think this is indicative of the way society treats women (ESPECIALLY women of color) with drug problems versus the way it treats men. How many male rock stars who struggle with addiction get ridiculed and turned into a punchline? Probably not enough of them. "Not everyone appreciates or respects that legacy.." seems like a fancy way to say, "People are justified when they make...
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“Not everyone appreciates or respects that legacy but it is substantial and will...”
– Bernard Zuel, “One of modern pop’s greatest voices falls silent but the echoes will last forever,” Sydney Morning Herald, February 13, 2012
This was from the news story on the front page of the Herald yesterday reporting Houston’s death. Am I alone in thinking those first...
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“But the truth is, Romney, in his way, has built his campaign around being a...”
– Maggie Haberman, “Mitt Romney 2012: Cartoon millionaire,” Politico, February 8, 2012
Mitt Romney is going to sell all of America’s assets, pay himself a big bonus, and then walk away as the whole thing goes bust?
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Not Martin Douglas!
douglasmartini replied to your post: Neckwear
Admission: I’m a huge fan of the full Windsor when wearing a suit. Underneath this blithely anarchic exterior is a person who secretly values order.
This is the worst day of my life.
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Neckwear
divingoffdocks replied to your post: Things.
Four-in-hand knot, only.
I hope I don’t antagonize any of my followers in saying this, but I don’t think I can ever entirely trust someone who ties a full Windsor. Who needs that much order? Those dudes are on some Mitt Romney shit.
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Things.
I have a new job. It’s a lot like my old job. I still do the same things. But now I do other things as well, and I go to an office, and wear a tie. Though the tie is by choice and mostly for reasons of swag.
So that’s pretty neat.
Today was my first day and we watched the Super Bowl. Oh rat race.
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gazzyd asked: Who else is talking intelligently about hip-hop, on tumblr or otherwise? Please advise.
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A thing I like about Parks & Rec
In American film and television, the Big City is always New York or Los Angeles. Cities in the flyover states, even ones with metro populations of one to two million, are considered podunk towns in the same way everywhere in the flyover states is considered a podunk town. This is probably because film and television people usually live in New York or Los Angeles, and conflate “smaller than...