November 2011
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Happy Valley
When boys on a high school team in Texas battered a cat with their baseball bats, put it in a bag, and ran over it with their pickup truck, killing it, because it had taken to hanging around and soiling the pitcher’s mound, the animal people were outraged and demanded that the players be kicked off the team. Such intense disapproval “bewildered” the youths and caused a backlash....
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Philanthroper.com →
Katha Pollitt approved microfinancing charity web site. Only decent thing I’ve seen on the Internet all day.
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“This is a criminal country, homey. When Europeans first came here, they got off...”
– RZA, quoted in Stop Smiling, 2006.
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That college football itself has become too big to... →
“….is not a new realization to anyone who has followed the sport’s consolidation into macro-conferences and boutique TV networks; that the response to it seems most likely to be vague righteousness and Santelli-style blame-shifting is disappointing, but also perhaps the most we could expect. The college football discourse was never designed to handle something this serious, and is as...
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McDonalds Revenue Rises →
In Europe, France, Russia and the U.K. posted the best results.
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Gary Shteyngart solving mysteries like Wikipedia... →
That’s why channels like HBO and Showtime have taken over to a big extent. The kind of stuff that used to appear in novel form now appears in The Wire or Breaking Bad. They deliver the narrative thrust that we need.
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74th Chorus
Marchesa Casati
Is a living doll
Pinned on my Frisco
Skid row hall
Her eyes are vast
Her skin is shiny
Blue veins
And wild red hair
Shoulders sweet & tiny
Love her
Love her
Sings the sea
Bluely
Moaning
In the Augustus John
de John
back ground.
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Frustration
Coverage increased and politicians ran for cover. Mayor Bloomberg, who had initially (and preposterously) portrayed the occupiers as a threat to the financial industry’s lower-income service workers, gingerly observed that some unspecified “people” are “very frustrated.” Though the Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, waffled when asked if he had any sympathy for Occupy Wall Street, Barack Obama...
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Reusing Words
thelifeguardlibrarian:
Don’t think you know everything, Father said, just because you’re good with words. They aren’t everything. I try to say the smallest amount possible. Instead of using them indiscriminately I try to conserve them. I’m the only one in this household who recycles them. I say the same thing over & over again, like “Who forgot to turn out the lights? Who forgot to clean up...
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Except for the one who tells you he went to...
“Now, there are clearly plainclothes police in the park; we see them; they all look something, you know, like a caricature from Doonesbury; they look like cops; they’re sort of 30 years old with baseball caps, telling you they’re students from Rollins College or something. But the big tip-off is they’re running around saying well, who do you think the leaders are? Where’s the core...
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All before the masthead
This week’s Time Out Chicago publishes a (cliche) rape joke on page 2.
Page 6 has the dismissive Occupy Wall Street article.
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We were the 71%
“Wow, Al Jorgensen hates George Bush! Welcome to the 71%, Al!”
Andrew Earles in Magnet Magazine, 2006.
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