January 2012
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Call for Proposals for the 33 1/3 Series →
“The series – each volume of which focuses on one popular music album of the last several decades – started in September 2003 and has published 85 titles to date. Books in the series so far have taken a wide range of approaches, on subjects ranging from albums by the Kinks to James Brown, from Bob Dylan to Prince, from the Pixies to Public Enemy, and from the Beastie Boys to Celine Dion...
Now, you can call this class warfare all you want. But asking a billionaire to...
– President Obama, 2012 State of the Union address (via buchino)
President Obama’s State of the Union Address →
The New York Times offers up this interactive package — full transcript, video footage, fact checks, and analysis.
Lester Bangs on Interviewing
notionmag:
“Well basically I just started out to lead with the most insulting question I could think of. Because it seemed to me that the whole thing of interviewing as far as rock stars and that was just such a suck-up. It was groveling obeisance to people who weren’t that special, really. It’s just a guy, just another person, so what?”
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Behold, the first ever sketch of Stefon! (Ben Affleck, s34e07)
It may very well be true that another person is succeeding and you are not...
– Elissa Bassist, “How to Write Like a Funny Woman” on The Rumpus
Sometimes love is a terrible idea, except that it’s not an idea. Sometimes...
– Stephen Elliott in today’s Daily Rumpus email
In the novel, at least the reassuring nineteenth-century novel, one was always...
– Edmund White, “My Hustlers,” a short story from McSweeney’s Issue 18
December 2011
16 posts
I never viewed money as being ‘my money.’ I always saw it as...
– Louis CK posted a screenshot of his $1 million Paypal balance and explained where the money will go
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Then I hit 30 and desperately wanted to have children. The man I’d been with for...
– Arianna Huffington, accepting her Glamour Woman of the Year award tonight (via)
November 2011
11 posts
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[F. Scott Fitzgerald has] been the biggest influence on my career. You could...
– Blake Nelson, author of Girl, Paranoid Park, and other novels, interviewed in Rookie
This sounds so fucking 1972 or some shit, but I would sacrifice my own needs for...
– Bradford Cox interviewed in Rolling Stone
The Internet is a new kind of barometer for keeping track of exactly how old you...
– Edith Zimmerman in today’s New York Times column Dealing With Your Own Cultural Irrelevance (at Age 28)
October 2011
21 posts
I’ve been married for five years. To the same woman. I’ve wanted to divorce her...
– Rob Delaney in his VICE column I Am Suing Kim Kardashian (via)