April 2011
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Rat Riddles
There was a gray rat looked at me with green eyes
out of a rathole.
“Hello, rat,” I said,
“Is there any chance for me
to get on to the language of rats?”
And the green eyes blinked at me,
Winked from a gray rat’s rathole.
“Come again,” I said,
“Slip me a couple of riddles;
there must be riddles among the rats.”
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“I long for the day when I am no longer obliged to earn so much money.”
– Gustav Mahler, 1891.
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Morrissey Memoir →
“I’ve reached the redrafting, trimming stage… and I just wonder if 660 pages are too much for people to bear,” said Moz. “And then I sit down and think, well, are six pages too much for people to bear? I really don’t know, so I’m trimming.”
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The Mountain Goats Dozen →
“Method Man’s verse on “Iron God Chamber” alone would justify the price of admission here, as it’s as dense and rich as anything he’s done since “Release Yo’ Delf,” but it’s only one highlight on an album that’s liberally sprinkled with smoky, summery moments. Very old-school, lovingly textured and quite generous with repeated...
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Me Neither
breakfastineurope:
still cant get over the fact that my girlfriend has never seen any of the original Star Wars films
ME
NEITHER
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alex ross has assembled a royal wedding fanfare →
youngmanhattanite:
Apologies to Dmitri Shostakovich, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Arne Mellnäs, Jan Morthenson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Wagner, Merzbow, Justin Bieber, and Magnus Lindberg.
Don’t apologize. Don’t explain the magnetic hum.
(via maura)
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My son the doctor
“Riches are merely a stepping stone, a means to the true end, and in no sense the real goal. The real determination of the Jew is to a higher cultural lane in the intellectual world. It is counted as a title of honor for the entire family to have someone in their midst, a professor, a scientist or a musician, who plays a role in the intellectual world, as if through his achievements he...
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To Andromeda
That country girl has witched your wishes, all dressed up in her country clothes and she hasn’t got the sense to hitch her rags above her ankles.
Sappho
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse...
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Oh, Trevor
IPO—an abbreviation for Initial Public Offering—tips its hat to the Loop, Chicago’s financial district, as well as to Executive Chef Trevor Hoyte’s initial offering of New Urban Cuisine. “My unique interpretation of Contemporary American flavors inspired me to create New Urban Cuisine. My vision is to redefine and create a new food culture in the Loop to bring intrigue and curiosity to the area,”...
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Concentration and self-pity
“You can stretch every glance out into a poem, every sigh into a novel. But to express a novel in a single gesture, a joy in a breath—such concentration can only be present in proportion to the absence of self-pity.
These pieces will only be understood by those who share the faith that music can say things which can only be expressed by music.”
Schoenberg’s introduction to Webern’s...
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Email not sent - Living Social offer
Hey. Did u see the groupon today? Hold on, let me C&P. Actually it was the Living Social. I can’t keep track. Okay, hold on:
You don’t just have skeletons in your closet — you have sweaters from eighth grade, tennis rackets, cat toys, college graduation garb, prom dresses, a tuba, and a library of Sweet Valley High books. It’s time for a serious spring cleaning. With...
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Email not sent - Lolla Lineup Revealed
Hey. I’m going to continue to pretend I never heard of Muse. For about another week. I earned that. But still, I don’t know Muse, Deadamus, A Perfect Circle, Cee Lo Green, although I like that name…..and I know elements of the name of the Nas band…. I can’t believe Eminem is still a draw/top draw? Must be the strength of his back catalog? It kind of puts in...
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Why I am a pacifist: the dangerous myth of the...
In 1942 the United States was “fighting Hitler” by doing— what? By battling the Japanese navy, by building big bombers, and by having big war parades. On June 13, with the Allied land assault on Europe still two years away, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City threw an enormous one. It went on for a full day. There were tanks, planes, and picturesque international costumes, but there were...
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Meditation →
Trungpa had his own problems, but he stressed to Ginsberg the importance of having a stable, regular meditation practice. You’re not looking to get high, you’re not looking to avoid getting low, you’re just putting your ass in a chair and breathing, and watching what’s happening — and whatever’s happening is the meditation. That turns out to be of more lasting benefit than grasping after states of...
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Placebo Effect →
Leary, Walter Pahnke, and Ram Dass, who was then still called Richard Alpert, got a bunch of seminary students together in a Boston chapel on Good Friday and gave some of them psilocybin extract while others got placebos. The idea was to test if the drug enhanced the spiritual experience. So within 20 minutes you had some people rolling around in the pews, talking to God, and other people sitting...
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2 for $2.22! →
“Enclosed in our vehicles, we hurdle from one sterile, impersonal location to the next sterile, impersonal location, and then on to the next. As forbiddingly huge trucks, loaded with the cargo of extinction, bear down on us, we grip the steering wheel — we know to stop is to risk death therefore we continue onward, believing we must drive and consume and drive and consume in order to...
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Krazy Fest →
When Connie asked me last night if I knew when Make Do and Mend, Bane, and Lemuria were sharing the same bill, with Frontier(s), I wish I’d know about this.
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Guilty Pleasures
One peculiarity of popular music, both in the 19th and the 20th century, is its blend of sentimentality and cynicism: the feelings evoked are accompanied by the scorn they engender when viewed from the outside. We are often at a lose to decide whether sentimentality is a vehicle for irony, or vice versa. Listeners may have been moved to tears by the music, but at the same time, as children of an...
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“I’m a writer
a poet
a genius
I know it
I don’t buy cheeba
I...”
– Beastie Boys
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Utterances from the H&M fitting room no one hears
They’re European, that’s why.
Dr. Zizmor couldn’t fix your earlobes.
It’ll be cuter when you accessorize it.
You know why? They’re cheap.
There’s this, like, premiere line of Zara, but they’re only in Europe. It sucks.
You know what it is? My top and bottom are different here.
I have bangs in my profile picture. Which you should know.
A...
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Bad Paintings of Barack Obama →
Still funny.
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Walmart in my neighborhood
“I don’t want [Walmart] in this neighborhood, and I wish they would hear us saying no,” said Erin Edwards, who works for North Side Anti-Hunger Network. “I’m all for job creation. But it would be wonderful for the people in this neighborhood to have small stores that can provide fresh produce and to be able to pay their employees well so they wouldn’t have to...
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