January 2012
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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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...
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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“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)
Jan 26th
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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.
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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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?”
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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WatchWatch
future-x: Behold, the first ever sketch of Stefon! (Ben Affleck, s34e07)
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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“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
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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“Sometimes love is a terrible idea, except that it’s not an idea. Sometimes...”
– Stephen Elliott in today’s Daily Rumpus email
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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“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
Jan 4th
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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“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
Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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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)
Dec 5th
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November 2011
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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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
Nov 17th
“This sounds so fucking 1972 or some shit, but I would sacrifice my own needs for...”
– Bradford Cox interviewed in Rolling Stone
Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
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Nov 15th
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“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)
Nov 10th
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Nov 8th
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Nov 1st
October 2011
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“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)
Oct 31st
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Oct 31st
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Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 25th
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