January 2012
25 posts
VIVIAN GIRLS... →
Katy Goodman of the Vivian Girls designed a Choose Your Own Adventure style computer game while learning to code with Ruby. Says the game’s slogan: “Have you always wanted to come on tour with Vivian Girls? Now is your chance to see if you’ve got what it takes!”
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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?”
Watchfuture-x:
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