February 2011
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Masturbation Rings
In some countries adolescent boys used to be advised that jerking off would make hair grow on their palms. At that time in Germany we were informed that excessive masturbation produced dark circles under the eyes. I used to look at myself in the mirror in the morning, see the deep-purple rings under my eyes, and realize that the whole word was going to know I was beating the flesh.  Rings under...
Feb 1st
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Terrorism Underwriter →
This position will underwrite Terrorism .
Feb 1st
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January 2011
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Jan 31st
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“We are the people who sleep. The people who make history are far more common....”
– from Frontier of Dawn.
Jan 30th
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Reading L.A. →
Great year-long Los Angeles reading list.  
Jan 29th
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“The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of...”
– Joni Mitchell, on the creation of her 1971 album, Blue (via hoodjungle)
Jan 20th
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Old Goths of Germany
The old Goths of Germany, who used to debate matters of importance to their State twice, once when drunk, and once when sober — sober that they might not be deficient in formality — drunk lest they should be destitute of vigor.  E.A. Poe
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Ahem: Stray Thoughts On Coughing During A Keith... →
The pianist Keith Jarrett recently played a solo show at Carnegie Hall. People coughed and took photographs; Jarrett stopped the show in objection and walked off…… So I predict that the  immoveable objects that are Keith Jarrett concerts will continue to meet the unstoppable forces that are audiences coughing during winter. What, then, is to be done? ...
Jan 19th
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What I wanted to say to the guys who wouldn't shut...
I wish the other bloggers were on this train.
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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WatchWatch
NSFWW/OPS: Devendra Banhart’s Love In: The Folk Hero Gets Frisky in Lisa Eisner’s Short Film for Oliver Peoples. For me, this might rescue Oliver Peoples from American Psycho. Not sure what it does for Devendra Banhart.
Jan 18th
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ListenThe Forms - Fire to the Ground At first thought...
Jan 17th
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The existing code tells female employees how to... →
“People made fun of UBS,” Kern told Swiss weekly Sonntag. “But it didn’t cause any damage to our reputation.” Anyone else read that as Susan Sontag?
Jan 17th
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Day We have a dream that everyone will invest in their future! The stock market is closed on January 17 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., so remember to make your funding requests and edits to your Automatic Investment Plan by 5 PM ET on Friday, January 14, for availability on Tuesday, January 18. For a complete list of all market holidays, see ShareBuilder’s...
Jan 17th
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“People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in the...”
– Woody Allen. Shit. May be time to start expressing existential anxiety in the Pauline idiom.
Jan 16th
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From Style Wars
Jan 15th
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Wealthy Jew Marries Cousin
“…there were many stories about Miriam’s origins and previous life…some of which had a probable air, while others were evidently wild and romantic fables. We cite a few, leaving the reader to designate them either under the probable or romantic head.  It was said, for example, that Miriam was the daughter and heiress of a great Jewish banker (an idea perhaps suggested by a...
Jan 15th
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“No man who’s got anything to do in the world can afford to take advice.”
– Whitman to Traubel, May 14, 1888. 
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CALL FOR ARTISTS: "American Wasteland: Bleak Tales... →
Jan 13th
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Listensomuchsass: Brett Dennen - San Francisco
Jan 13th
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Wednesday
Sound of her foot makings its way wiggling  through the silk of a stocking I am so incredibly bored like that puppy  you bend down to  pet, starts peeing all over the floor thoughts are orange and turquoise can’t help but run my hands all over the table people eating popcorn resemble praying mantises period finish canning  the peaches scream at the...
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Songs of Vagabonds, Misfits and Sinners: By Ken... →
…..just take the second story in the collection as a good example, “Job in Williamsburg,” in which a long-suffering Spanish janitor learns to paint in a lush Renaissance style in honor of his pious, dead mother, just to have his work ridiculed by cackling hipsters at a Brooklyn group exhibition, only to find out that no less than the Museum of Modern Art ended up buying one of...
Jan 7th
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Listening, Party For Two: Charlie Parker, 'Donna... →
An instance of the “introduce high art to barbarians” journalistic thing. The jazz critic plays jazz hits for his boss, the barbarian. Her reaction to hearing Donna Lee…  Boss Lady: At the risk of offending the jazz gods, I’m going to describe this as two geese having a merry time of it as they cavort around a pond. …is the same as my reaction. Only I view it as a...
Jan 7th
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“We shoot only from the angles that help us tell the story. When somebody turns...”
– Billy Wilder
Jan 7th